Fellowship Alumni

Name	Graduating Year/ Training Notes	Prior Training	Career Leadership Positions
Yvonne Bryson, MD	1974	Residency: UCSD MD: University of Texas Southwestern	UCLA Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Director, Los Angeles Brazil AIDS Consortium
Margaret Keller. MD	1976	Residency: UCSD MD: Albert Einstein	Harbor-UCLA Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Director, Program for Pediatric HIV *Chair, Bioethics Committee
Stephen Spector, MD	1980	Residency: UCSF MD: Tufts University	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UCSD Vice Chairman for Research, UCSD Department of Pediatrics Senior Advisor, William J. Clinton Foundation, Pediatric HIV/AIDS Initiative Senior Advisor, President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Principle Investigator & Chair Pediatric Executive Committee, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) WHO Interagency Task Team (IATT), Paediatric HIV Working Group WHO IATT, Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) Scientific Leadership Group
Richard Straube, MD MSc	1982 Joint Adult and Pediatric ID Fellowship MSc, Clinical Trial Design	MSc: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Residency: University of Chicago MD: University of Chicago	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Centocor, Inc. Director of Clinical Investigations Ohmeda Pharmaceticals INO Therapeutics Founding Chief Medical Officer Stealth Peptides, Inc. Soligenix *Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Russ Van Dyke, MD	1983	Residency: UCSD MD: Medical College of Wisconsin	Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana) *Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Wayne Dankner, MD	1987	Residency: Stanford University MD: New York Medical College	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego PAREXEL International Global Therapeutic Area Lead for Infectious Diseases & Pediatrics Atox Bio Chief Medical Officer
Norm Waecker, MD	1989	Residency: Naval Medical Center San Diego MD: Rutgers New Jersey	Naval Medical Center San Diego Residency Program Director, Navy Outpatient Medical Director, Navy
Nectar Aintablian, MD	1994	Residency: University of Buffalo MD: American University of Beirut	Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (Tallahassee, Florida)
Douglas Pratt, MD MS MPH	1994	Residency: University of Hawaii MPH: University of Hawaii MS: Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology, University of Hawaii MD: University of Hawai	Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Maryland) *Branch Chief, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research/Office of Vaccines Research and Review/Division of Vaccines and Related Product Applications
Robert Reid, MD	1997	Residency: SUNY Brooklyn MD: Instituto Technologico De Santo Domingo	Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital (Hollywood, Florida)
Rolando Viani, MD MSc	1998 *MSc, Tropical Medicine	MSc: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Residency: SUNY Brooklyn MD: Cayetano Heredia University	UCSF Director, Pediatric Special Services- Fresnoᵻ UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego AbbVie Biopharmaceutics Associate Medical Director, Global ID Developmentᵻ Cidara Therapeutics *Medical Director, Clinical Development
John Leake, MD MPH	2000 *CDC EIS Training	Residency: UCSD MPH: UCLA MD: UCSD	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Quest Diagnostics *Medical Director, Infectious Diseases
Akihiko Saitoh, MD PhD	2003	Research Fellow: Harbor UCLA, Allergy & Immunology Residency: USC Residency: St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo PhD: Niigata University MD: Niigata University	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego National Research Institute for Child Health and Development (Tokyo, Japan) Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases Niigata University (Niigata, Japan) Professor and Chair of Pediatrics *Vice Dean, School of Medicine
George Liu, MD PhD	2004 T32 Research Fellowship Howard Hughes Fellowship Grant	Residency: UC Davis PhD: Cambridge MD: UCSD	UCLA/Cedars Sinai Medical Center Associate director, Infectious and Immunologic Diseases Research Center, Cedars-Sinai UCSD/RCHSD Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UCSD
Adriana Tremoulet, MD MAS	2006 *MAS Degree	MAS: UCSD Residency: Cedars Sinai MD: UCLA	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego *Associate Director, Kawasaki Disease Research Center, UCSD
John Arnold, MD	2006	Residency: Naval Medical Center San Diego MD: USUHS	Naval Medical Center San Diego IRB Chair, Navyᵻ Residency Program Director, Navyᵻ *Department Chair, Navyᵻ
Walter Dehority, MD MS	2008 *MS, Epidemiology	MS: University of London Residency: University of New Mexico MD: UCSF SOM	University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Associate Residency Program Director, UMNᵻ Human Research Review Committee Chair *Chair, New Mexico Immunization Practice Advisory Council
Eric Stern, MD	2009 *CDC EIS Training	Residency: UCSD MD: Boston University	Georgetown University (Washington DC)
Chris Cannavino, MD	2009 *Combined Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship	Residency: UCSD MD: UCSD	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Clerkship Director, UCSD SOM Director, Pediatric Medical Student Education, UCSD SOM Associate Director, UCSD Pediatric Residency Program Fellowship Director, UCSD Pediatric Infectious Diseases Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, RHCSD Associate Director, Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion Director, UCSD Center for Mentorship in Medicine Director, UCSD Master Clinician Program
Amaran Moodley, MD	2012 *Postgraduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases	Postgraduate Diploma: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Residency: Cleveland Clinic MD: University of Cape Town South Africa	Blank Children’s Hospital (Des Moines, Iowa) UCSD/RCHSD *Outpatient Medical Director, UCSD Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Juan Chaparro, MD	2014 *Clinical Informatics Fellowship	Residency: St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University MD: USC	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)
Lauge Farnaes, MD PhD	2018 *Combined Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology Fellowship	Residency: UCSD PhD: UCSD MD: UCSD	UCSD/Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego *Medical Director, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Nanda Ramchandar, MD	2021	Residency: Naval Medical Center San Diego MD: Tulane University	Current Fellow
Leslie Chiang, MD	2022	Residency: UCSD MD: Washington University, St. Louis	Current Fellow

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