Fellowship Alumni
Discover the ongoing impact of our Infectious Diseases Fellowship through the accomplishments of our alumni. Learn about their current positions and the innovative research projects they pursued as fellows.
2025 Graduates
Melissa Day – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s
Project: Caregiver Adverse Childhood Experiences and Pediatric Infection-Related Outcomes
Danielle Fayad* – Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA
Project: Influenza Vaccination in Pregnancy and Placental Transfer of Antibodies
Hannah Bahakel – Clinical Immunodeficiency Fellow, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children’s
Project: High Dose versus Standard Dose Flu Vaccine in Pediatric BMT
2024 Graduates
Maria Deza Leon* – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO
Project: Epidemiology of RSV infections in a birth cohort of healthy children
Andrew Cox – Associate Director, Center for Infectious Disease and Immunology, RGH Research Institute, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY
Project: KLF2 determines susceptibility of T Cells to immunoregulatory NK cells
Catherine Murphy – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and UMass Chan, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA
Project: Antibiotics and VRE colonization pediatric HSCT
2023 Graduates
Nina Prasanphanich – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s
Project: Term pregnancy decidual natural killer cells use granulysin to clear bacterial infection
Zheyi Teoh* – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Project: Burden of Respiratory Viruses in Children Less Than 2 Years Old in a Community-based Longitudinal US Birth Cohort
2021 Graduates
Nadim Khalil* – Medical Lead, Infection Prevention and Control, London Health Sciences Centre Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario, London, ON
Project: Risk factors and outcomes of pediatric bloodstream infections by genotypically resistant AmpC and ESBL Enterobacteriaceae
Hilary Miller-Handley – Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Project: Tacrolimus exposure windows responsible for Listeria monocytogenes infection susceptibility
*J-1 visa holders during fellowship
