Education

Medical Microbiology Fellowship

This ACGME-accredited one year Joint Medical Microbiology Fellowship offers extensive clinical and laboratory experience in a university clinical microbiology laboratory (University of Chicago) and a multi-hospital community microbiology laboratory (Endeavor Health). Fellows gain hands-on experience in all areas of microbiology, serology, and healthcare epidemiology through a series of structured bench rotations, conferences, and independent research as well as laboratory management experience. Trainees who successfully complete the program are eligible for subspecialty certification in Medical Microbiology through the American Board of Pathology (ABP).

Fellows obtain their training rotating thorough microbiology, immunology, and molecular laboratories at University of Chicago and Endeavor Health (Evanston Hospital) and the Illinois and Chicago Departments of Public Health.

Fellowship Director

Vera Tesic, MD

Professor of Pathology

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Applicants must hold an M.D. degree (or foreign equivalent with ECFMG certification), be board eligible or board certified in AP/CP or CP, or have completed one year of clinical infectious diseases training after board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, or both. Applicants must be eligible for an Illinois State medical license.

Commensurate with level of training.

Submit an application form, including all materials detailed on the form to the University of Chicago Fellowship Medical Education Analyst Yinka Ogunbekun (adeyinka.ogunbekun@bsd.uchicago.edu) and the Endeavor Health Residency and Fellowships Program Manager Kate Seyfarth (pathologyresidency@northshore.org).

2025-2026: Open for applications
2026-2027: Open for applications
2027-2028: Open for applications

Fellows	Fellowship Years	Post-Training Position
Angelica Moran, MD	2022-2023	Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Do Young Kim, MD	2021-2022	Chicago Department of Health Chicago, IL
Seunghyug (Dan) Kwon, MD	2020-2021	Associate Medical Director Quest Diagnostics West Hills, CA
Anna Plourde MD	2019-2020	Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Microbiology, Dept of Pathology SUNY Downstate Brooklyn, NY
Dennise Otero Espinal, MD	2018-2019	Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Hempstead, New York
Sumanth Gandra, MD	2017-2018	Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine Washington University
Rohit Singh, MD	2016-2017	Allied Hospital Pathologists Fort Wayne, IN
Dena Shibib, DO	2014-2016	Assistant Professor University of Oklahoma Norman, OK
Angella Charnot-Katsikas, MD	2011-2013	Assistant Professor University of Chicago Chicago, IL