Welcome to our Infectious Diseases Fellowship Website
The combined Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) and Cook County Health (CCH) Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program provides a two-year curriculum with an optional third year of training that is dedicated to training successful Infectious Diseases physicians with the essential building blocks for any desired career path in the field. We have more than 40 faculty who specialize in 12 areas of divisional expertise and are world leaders in HIV, Transplant ID and healthcare epidemiology research. We’re also excited to announce we have become 1 of 11 programs in the country to offer a new joint ID/EIS fellowship opportunity, for fellows to train on ID for 2 years, followed by 2 years of EIS (Epidemiology Intelligence Service) training. Situated in the amazing city of Chicago, fellows can enjoy all of our program advantages and explore all that the city has to offer.
Thank you for your interest in our program! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@RushCCH_ID) and Instagram (@rushcchid)!
A Message from the Chiefs
Rush partners with CDC and IDSA for the new ID/EIS Fellowship!
We are grateful and excited to be recognized by the CDC as one of the 11 programs nationwide uniquely equipped to train the next generation of public-health-focused ID physicians. More information here…
ID Fellows!


We welcome our new Infectious Disease Fellows!
We are thrilled and excited to welcome the new fellows on July 1st! As a welcome to the 2024 class, we planned to have lunch in Room 500 at Rush for our division and incoming fellows to enjoy. We also anticipate further activities as a way to get to know each other better. (such as Whirley ball, escape room, etc. )

Fellow Class 2024!
IDWeek 2021
- Haseeba Khan, Christy Varughese, Hemil Gonzalez. Month Long Fungemia due to Candida auris Endocarditis. Published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, Volume 8, Issue Supplement_1, November 2021, Page S443. https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/8/Supplement_1/S443/6450557
- James Wilson, Gregory Huhn. Intact Sense of Taste and Smell During COVID-19 Infection is Associated with Absence of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Antibody Responses within 3 Months of Symptomatic Illness. Published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, Volume 8, Issue Supplement_1, November 2021, Page S88. https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/8/Supplement_1/S88/6449636
Fellow Publications and Presentations
Recent Publications:
- Kim DY, Lin MY, Jennings C, Li H, Jung JH, Moore NM, Ghinai I, Black SR, Zaccaro DJ, Brofman J, Hayden MK; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. Duration of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 shedding among patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Clin Infect Dis. 2022 May 24:ciac405. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac405. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35607802; PMCID: PMC9213867.
- Santos Abigail C, Varughese Christy A, Shankaran Shivanjeli. Something Odd and Something New: A Case of Shewanella putrefaciens Peritonitis and Bacteremia Treated with Intraperitoneal Cefepime. Private Practice Infectious Disease. 2021; 1(2):6.
- Bhaimia E, Jung JH, Chan EL, Shah NN, Santos CAQ. Breakthrough Hepatitis B Virus Infection in a Liver Transplant Recipient on Lamivudine Prophylaxis for Donor Hepatitis B Core Antibody Seropositivity: A Review of Practices to Prevent De Novo Hepatitis B Virus Infection After Transplant. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). 2021;18(1):22-25. Published 2021 Aug 30. doi:10.1002/cld.1102
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Jenille Wallace, Hemil Gonzalez, Reshma Rajan, Srinivas D. Narasipura. Anti-HIV Drugs Cause Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Monocyte-Derived Macrophages. American Society of Microbiology; April 2022 Volume 66 Issue 4 e01941-2.
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Sansom SE, Logan LK, Green SJ, Moore NM, Hayden MK. Whole-genome sequencing for neonatal intensive care unit outbreak investigations: Insight and lessons learned. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2021;1(1), E2. doi:10.1017/ash.2021.161
Recent Presentations:
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Christopher Szewcyzk, Hemil Gonzalez. A Severe Case of Lupus Cerebritis. Poster presentation accepted at the AAN Summer Conference on July 15-16, 2022, in San Francisco, CA.
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Sansom SE, Lin M, Schoeny M, Fukuda C, Shimasaki T, Dangana T, Moore N, Yelin R, Rhee Y, Tabith L, Sheng J, Cornejo Cisneros E, Murray J, Chang K, Lolans K, Ariston M, Rotunno W, Ramos H, Li H, Aboushaala K, Iwai N, Bassis B, Bell P, Young V, Hayden MK, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Admission and Discharge Sampling Underestimates Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) Acquisitions in an Intensive Care Unit. SHEA Spring 2021. April 16, 2021.
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SHEA Spring 2021. “SHEA’s Role in Leadership during COVID-19.” Virtual conference, April 13-16, 2021. Invited opening plenary speaker.
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6th International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections: Decennial Day. “Attacking healthcare transmission of AMR on multiple fronts: antibiotics, the microbiome, and containment.” Virtual conference, April 12, 2021. Invited symposium speaker.
How to apply
Positions are currently available for five first-year fellows. Find full details and begin your application