Harbor-UCLA
Harbor-UCLA

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship

LocationLiu Research Center
1124 W Carson Street
RB-3, 2nd Floor
Torrance, CA 90502
Contact Linda Morrison
(323) 457-1902
EmailLinda Morrison
lmorrison@lundquist.org

Overview

Our Division aims to provide outstanding patient care and contribute to our specialty by training the next generation of pediatric infectious disease specialists and leaders, contributing useful research, and participating in regional and national service activities.

The goal of our three-year Fellowship program is to train competent ID specialists through a broad-based experience in research, teaching and clinical infectious diseases. The particulars of the curriculum and research opportunities are tailored to the Fellow’s individual interests and expectations for success beyond Fellowship.

Harbor-UCLA is a level I trauma center within the Los Angles County Department of Health Services system and has a long and distinguished history of serving the underserved. Our southern California location provides tremendous exposure to a variety of immigrant and through-traveler populations enabling diverse infectious disease clinical and research opportunities.

Leadership

Kenneth Zangwill, MD Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease Director, Infection Prevention and Control Director, Pediatric ID Fellowship Program Harbor-UCLA Medical Center The Lundquist Institute Profile
National Library of Medicine Profile

Research

My research areas have varied as I try to focus on issues of timely interest to the ID community and/or are related to developing pediatric infectious disease policy and practice at the national level. For >20 years, I was PI or co-PI on scores of phase II-IV vaccine studies funded by NIH. CDC, and industry. I continue some vaccine-related work, but more recently have focused on 1) large scale antimicrobial stewardship implementation work (through 30 California NICUs currently), 2) cohort studies of non-tuberculous disease in adults, 3) use of whole genome sequencing for mycobacterial disease, 4) clinical epidemiology and management of resistant urinary tract infection in children, 5) clinical and cost effectiveness of practical ID topics (diagnostic methods for Clostridium difficile infection, management strategies for neonates at risk for sepsis, dental practice antibiotic overuse, and 6) evaluations of various modern interventions to prevent healthcare-associated infection.

Clinical/Administrative

I serve as Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Harbor and am active on the inpatient general pediatrics and infectious disease services.

Contributions to our Specialty

I recently rotated off the AAP Section on Infectious Diseases for which I served as Chair, and also as a member of the Advisory Committee on Infectious Disease (Red Book). I have served our Pediatric Infectious Disease Society on several committees and am a member of the Pediatric Leadership Council at SHEA involved on its writing committee for various topics related to NICU-based infection prevention. I also recently completely a three year stint as an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Study Section member and have and/or continue to participate as a member of numerous Special Emphasis and other Review Panels for CDC, NIH, and internationally.

Background

I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D. from Pennsylvania State University, completed residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for two years at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control followed by ID fellowship at Harbor. Non-fiction books and piano playing take up a big portion of my time when I’m not busy trying to understand my teenage daughters’ behavior!

Faculty

Brad Ackerson, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Clinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Infectious Disease SpecialistKaiser Permanente Harbor City
Research Interests: Clinical infectious diseases and population-based vaccine safety research.
Felice Adler-Shohet, MD Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 
Jag Batra, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics University of California, IrvineClinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease and HIV Center Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach
Michael Bolaris, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Clinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center National Library of Medicine Profile
Shom Dasgupta, MD Clinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Senior Physician and Medical Director, Tuberculosis Control ProgramLA County Department of Public Health
Holly Huse, PhDDirector, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Chrisanna Mink, MD Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Clinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Masters, Health Journalism
Research Interests: Travel medicine, regulatory infectious diseases, clinical infectious diseases of international adoptees and health journalism.
Victor K. Wong, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Clinical Instructor Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Infectious Disease Specialist Kaiser Permanente Downey
Research Interests: Clinical infectious diseases.
Sylvia Yeh, MD Professor of PediatricsDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Director, Pediatric Residency Program Harbor-UCLA Medical Center The Lundquist Institute Profile National Library of Medicine Profile Research Interests: Clinical evaluation, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of vaccine to at-risk community- and hospital-based populations. Survey studies of vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and practice. development and effectiveness.

Clinical Experience

At Harbor-UCLA we have a broad-based clinical rotational experience. We firmly believe that exposure to a variety of venues, approaches, and attendings is an important learning concept. That is, the more exposure to experienced critical thinking from those with differing backgrounds, served populations, and day-to-day clinical work, the better. So, in addition to Harbor-based and outside clinical work detailed below, our conference schedule is enhanced with pediatric “Intracity Rounds”, an event with didactics and case-based learning,  over dinner, with other pediatric infectious disease programs in Los Angeles. Occurring quarterly, interesting cases are presented, providing a special learning opportunity with many other different Faculty and trainees. Our Fellows also participate in a similar intracity conference that considers adult infectious disease cases.

We also prioritize and actively engage in many teaching opportunities for other staff at Harbor-UCLA. Our Division is proud to have received the Harbor-UCLA Department of Pediatrics Outstanding Faculty and/or Fellow Teaching Award in 1997, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018.

Inpatient Experience

Over the 3-year Fellowship, Fellows have clinical experiences for 12 months, as required by the American Board of Pediatrics. Inpatient rotations at Harbor-UCLA are supplemented with experience at other locations. These include Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (for more exposure to transplant-related infectious diseases).

Outpatient and Public Health Experience

Fellows attends regular general ID and HIV clinics at Harbor-UCLA. In addition, outpatient clinic rotations at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (immunology) and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (STD, Tuberculosis, Leprosy) provide further depth and learning in a variety of populations.

Infection Prevention and Control

Dr. Zangwill is the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Harbor-UCLA. As such, the Fellows have ongoing real-world learning and active involvement with the principles of IPC, disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and policy development. This is supplemented by participation in IPC committee meetings, and an opportunity to attend various working Task Forces related to prevention of catheter-associated UTI, central line-associated blood stream infection, and hand hygiene.

Antibmicrobial Stewardship

Dr. Adler-Shohet is Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. Fellows play an active role in stewardship rounds throughout the hospital and work also with stewardship pharmacists, a major quality improvement activity.

Clinical Microbiology

Fellows rotate through the Harbor-UCLA Clinical Microbiology laboratory for routine and specialized education. As well, we have a rotation through the Orange County (California) Department of Public Health laboratory for exposure to processes related to more obscure pathogens and agents of bioterrorism.

Research Opportunities

We believe that the Fellow must be actively engaged in all aspects of a given research endeavor – with close Faculty guidance – including project conception, administrative tasks, (e.g., IRB submission), project implementation and completion, collaboration with other institutions as necessary, presentations, and manuscript preparation and submission. We believe this is necessary to fully appreciate and critically utilize the scientific literature that supports our specialty’s practices. As such, we work to craft a research experience that reflects the individual Fellow’s interests as much as possible. You will not simply be thrown into someone’s pet project as a worker bee.

Our divisional research encompasses a variety of areas often in collaboration with other institutions. In the past, we had longstanding funding through NIH, CDC, and industry. The division has received funding and/or collaborate with AHRQ, CDC, NIH CTSI, and DoD. Recently, our research areas include a large statewide antimicrobial stewardship intervention program in NICUs with clinical, sociocultural, epidemiologic, and cost-effectiveness components, clinical epidemiology (eg, non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in adults, resistant Enterobacterales UTI among underserved children), clinical/cost-effectiveness evaluations (e.g. genome sequencing in tuberculosis care, MIC determination methods, dental prophylaxis, post-operative care, management of newborns exposed to chorioamnionitis), antimicrobial stewardship in various clinical areas, domains, and populations, and infection prevention intervention evaluations.

We are also fortunate to have a seamless and integrated relationship with The Lundquist Institute, one of the largest biomedical research institutes in the country. As well, our group has research-related educational resources available through the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Lundquist. These relationships provide a tremendous trove of educational and training opportunities to our Fellows. For example, we have had Fellows in the CTSI Master of Science in Clinical Research program during Fellowship.

Conferences & Seminars

Required Conferences
Peds ID Divisional Clinical Conference Weekly
ID Journal Club Monthly
Chest ID Conference Monthly
Pediatric-Adult ID Case Conference Weekly
Intracity ID Conference Quarterly
ID Didactics Semi-weekly
HIV Medicine Conference Semi-monthly
Additional Opportunities
Pediatric ER Conference Weekly
Pediatric Grand Rounds Weekly
Pediatric Case Conference Weekly
Schwartz Rounds Monthly
Lundquist Presidential Monthly
Lecture Series Monthly
Renal Transplant Case Conference Monthly

Fellows

Keiko Yoshioka, DO

Information for Applicants

How to Apply:

We accept applications from either graduates or upcoming graduates of U.S. ACGME-accredited pediatric residency programs. Applications are accepted via ERAS (Electronic Residency Application System).

For additional questions, please contact our Fellowship Administrator Linda Morrison at lmorrison@lundquist.org

Benefits

Competitive salary & health, dental, life, and disability insurance options. Generous allowance for CME travel and Reimbursement for DEA registration

For salary and benefits, visit the institutional website.

Wellness

Life in Sunny Southern California
Harbor-UCLA is located in Torrance, California (in Los Angeles county) which is a culturally diverse and vibrant city with beaches, desert, and mountains in close vicinity.

Check out this site for the wealth of fun opportunities in Los Angeles, here.

Art and Culture
World famous art galleries, museums, historical venues (The Getty, LA County Museum of Art, Huntington Library and Art Museum, Natural History Museum of LA County, La Brea Tar Pits, The Queen Mary, Griffith Observatory, Historic Olvera Street)

Music and drama venues: (Dolby theatre, Pantages, Greek Theatre, Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall)

Amusement parks: Disneyland, Universal Studios, Hollywood, Sea World, Legoland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Aquarium of the Pacific

Foodies: Restaurants representing the diversity of our population, farm-to-table restaurants, local farms, wine producing regions (Malibu, Temecula Valley, San Diego)

Sports
Home to several prominent professional and college teams in all major sports.

Outdoor Activities
More than 80 miles of pristine beach
Winter skiing and snowboarding within a 2 hour drive
Hiking, biking, golfing, national parks (Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley National Park, Channel Islands National Park)

Fellow Alumni

Fellow

YAMAUCHI Terry Peds ID, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
KELLER Margaret Former Professor Emeritus, Peds ID, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
MURRAY Dennis L. Former Chief, Peds ID, Georgia Regents Health System
KIM Kwang Sik Former Chief, Peds ID, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
BORK Jane Chief, Peds ID, Loma Linda University
DENGROVE Joan Community ID
MCGEARY Scott Community ID
CHEUNG Ambrose  Global Medical Head of the PMED & IBB Franchise, Sanofi Pasteur
GREENBERG David VP, US Scientific and Medical Affairs, Sanofi Pasteur
LIEBERMAN Jay VP, Clinical Development, Meissa Vaccines
JELONEK Marie Kaiser Permanente ID
ALDROVANDI Grace Chief, Peds ID, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
LITAM (Mondok) Aurora Community ID
BUI Hong Dang (Rose) Community ID
CHIU Susan Peds ID, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
DEVILLE Jaime Peds ID, David Geffen School of Medicine
CHEY Myong Community ID
HUANG Hai-Feng Kaiser Permanente ID
WONG (Chang) Emily Northridge Pediatrics, Charlottesville, VA
LE Thuan Community ID
PURDY Kenneth Kaiser Permanente ID
BATRA Jagmohan Chief, Peds ID Miller Children’s Hospital
VIJAYAN Vini Peds ID, Valley Children’s Hospital
BOLARIS Mike Chief Peds ID, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center
NGUYEN Diana Peds ID, Univ of Texas, Medical Branch
DASGUPTA Shom Tuberculosis Control Program, LA County Department of Public Health
CHAWLA, Rachit St. John’s Community Health system
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