Welcome to the Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Welcome to Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital's Infectious Diseases Fellowship. We are excited to offer you a glimpse into our fellowship experience!

We are a collaborative team of clinicians, teachers, mentors, and clinical researchers dedicated to guiding students, residents, and our fellows through the field of infectious diseases. We are passionate about many facets of infectious diseases, from antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention to HIV disease management and global ID.

Our faculty consists of nine ID clinicians and one ID pharmacist, all of whom have interesting and varied backgrounds in the field. We practice in a 548-bed hospital, where we maintain a very active ID case load with intriguing cases daily, including HIV and opportunistic infections, oncologic infections, and fungal, parasitic, and viral infections. We have a dedicated Fellow rounding service in addition to two other rounding services. This structure provides our fellows with the unique opportunity to see an optimal case load of engaging clinical patients, allowing ample time to learn from faculty and to teach residents and medical students. We take pride in our exceptional Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention programs, which are led by two clinical faculty members and our ID pharmacist. Additionally, we regularly interact with and receive support from an excellent clinical microbiology and pathology department.

Our first-year fellow rotates through Microbiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Infection Prevention, spending three months engaging in clinical research guided by faculty mentors, including independent research and quality improvement projects. The second-year fellow has unique opportunities to spend one month at Henry Ford Health in the ID Solid Organ Transplant service, as well as one month with Karmanos/Wayne State University working with the Bone Marrow Transplant team. Additionally, at Wayne State University, the second-year fellow will spend two weeks at the Detroit Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic and Tuberculosis Clinic. Our fellows are offered a funded elective month in Nepal, learning in an Academic Teaching Hospital and a world-renowned Travel Medicine Hospital.

We prioritize evidence-based learning and protect our fellows' time for five hours of dedicated lectures weekly throughout both years, including:

• ID case conference (weekly, shared with Southeast Michigan ID programs),
• Microbiology rounds (weekly, lead by our Microbiologist and lead Pathologist),
• Infectious Diseases Faculty Lectures (weekly)
• ID Board Review (one to two times monthly with weekly virtual contact)
• TB Case Conference (monthly)
• Internal Medicine/ID Conference (once monthly)

In the first year of training, our fellows present one IM/ID conference; in their second year, they deliver one Grand Rounds lecture. Our fellows are active researchers, presenting regularly at either SHEA or IDSA and occasionally at ASTMH or another conference of their choice (e.g., CROI, ISTM). Above all, we take pride in the enjoyable learning environment and healthy work-life balance our fellows experience. We share in a collaborative ID community of faculty, nurses, support staff, fellows, and pharmacists.

Our fellows are active researchers, presenting at either SHEA and/or IDSA regularly and occasionally at ASTMH or another conference of their choice (ex. CROI, ISTM)

Above all, we are proud of the enjoyable learning environment and healthy life-work balance our fellows experience. We share in a happy ID community of faculty, nurses and support staff, fellows, pharmacists.

Program Director: Holly Murphy, MD, MPH

Associate Program Director: Neelay Kothari, MD, MPH

Program Coordinator: Olivia Bucciarelli