2023–2024 Infectious Disease Fellows

Sara Brenner, M.D. | 1st Year Fellow

Renato Bobadilla-Leon, M.D. | 1st Year Fellow

Benjamin Redpath, M.D. | 1st Year Fellow

Thomas Smith, D.O. | 1st Year Fellow

Adriana Giuliani, M.D. | 2nd Year Fellow

Adriana Giuliani, MD is from West Lafayette, IN. She graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a Med/Peds residency at University of Illinois in Chicago. Her career interests include trends and implications of antimicrobial resistance and in emerging infections. Adriana's hobbies are playing board games, taking gym classes, taking care of her cats and hiking in parks. Adriana is a combined adult/pediatric ID Fellow.

Edward Hill, M.D. | 2nd Year Fellow

Edward Hill, M.D. is from Oakland, CA. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed a residency at University of California, San Diego. His career interests include HIV, hepatitis viruses, herpes viruses, H. pylori, and mycobacteria. Edward's hobbies are running, backpacking and hiking, ultimate Frisbee, disc golf, tennis, podcasts, mindful meditation, and spending time with his brother, Nate.

Daniel Ho, M.D. | 2nd Year Fellow

Daniel Ho, MD is from Westminster, CA. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and completed a residency at University of California, Davis. His career interests include travel ID, global health, and infections in immunocompromised hosts. His hobbies are traveling, eating different cuisines, playing video games, hiking and walking his dog.

Jehanzaeb Jang (JJ) Khan, M.D. | 2nd Year Fellow

Jehanzaeb Jang (JJ) Khan, M.D. is from Lahore, Pakistan. He graduated from Aga Khan University and completed a residency at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. His career interests include critical care ID, healthcare disparities, and medical education. His hobbies are hiking, soccer, and going to concerts and movies.

Lily Ostrer, M.D. | 2nd Year Fellow

Lily Ostrer, M.D. is from New York City, NY. She graduated from the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed a residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami. Her career interests include HIV medicine, injection-related infections, pediatric ID, epidemiology, and health equity. Lily's hobbies include bike riding, spending time in nature and community organizing. Lily is a combined adult/pediatric ID Fellow.

Morgan Birabaharan, M.D. | 3rd Year Fellow

Morgan Birabaharan, M.D., is from Reading, PA. He received his MD from Hofstra Northwell. After medical school, Morgan joined the ABIM research pathway at UC San Diego. His career interests are the development of microbiota-derived therapies against drug-resistant infections.

Elizabeth Hastie, M.D. | 3rd Year Fellow

Elizabeth (Lizzy) Hastie, M.D., grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied physics during undergrad at the University of Colorado Boulder. She then moved to Atlanta where she attended medical school at Emory University. She completed her internal medicine residency at UC San Diego and stayed for an additional year as a Chief Medical Resident. During residency, she pursued research in HIV and CMV. Dr. Hastie is thrilled to be joining the UC San Diego ID department and is interesting in pursuing a career in HIV medicine. She is also passionate about medical education and hopes to remain in an academic setting.

Brady Page, M.D., M.P.H. | 3rd Year Fellow

Brady Page, M.D., M.P.H. graduated from UC Berkeley before receiving his MD and MPH&TM from Tulane University, where he was a Ben Kean Fellow in Papua New Guinea, a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow in Brazil, and a CDC Fellow in Atlanta. His Internal Medicine residency was completed at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he continued to work on several projects in Papua New Guinea before completing a Critical Care fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Page is interested in the epidemiology of outbreak-prone infections associated with critical illness and the challenges presented by the clinical management of these diseases in under accessed or underresourced settings. As an ID fellow at UC San Diego, his research has been focused on understanding and mitigating hemodynamic compromise and multiorgan failure in individuals with severe Lassa fever in Sierra Leone. Dr. Page hopes to build on his relationships with clinical and research colleagues overseas to establish healthy, empowering, professional relationships between institutions in the US and abroad.

Sean HP Jung (Hansang Park), M.D., M.P.H. | 3rd Year Fellow

Sean HP Jung (Hansang Park) is a clinical fellow in the research track at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He graduated from Yonsei University and the Catholic University of Korea Medical School. Before joining UCSD, Sean received medical training in the New York Medical College—Metropolitan Program. During his residency, he completed a Master of Public Health degree at the University of California Berkeley, with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics. With his prior experiences in the MERS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, he became a huge advocate of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research as a consequence of novel pathogens. His main interests are novel approaches to fight AMR, including drug repositioning/repurposing, augmentation of host innate immunity, diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections. Sean spends his free time hiking, swimming, and watching MLB and NFL games. He also enjoys traveling with his wife, visiting national parks and wineries, and exploring new cities and restaurants. 

Michael Doud, M.D., M.P.H. | 4th Year Fellow

Michael Doud, M.D., Ph.D., grew up in the Chicago suburbs before studying chemical engineering at the University of Michigan. He then spent two years as a research technician at Harvard Medical School, working in Dr. Timothy Springer's lab to determine the protein structure of a malaria vaccine target antigen. Dr. Doud moved to Seattle and completed combined MD/PhD training at the University of Washington, where he developed genomics technologies to study influenza virus evolution in Dr. Jesse Bloom's lab. He completed internal medicine residency at UC San Diego. He has broad interests in basic science and infectious disease, including specific interests in bacteria biology and engineering therapeutic phages to treat antibiotic resistant infections.