IDSA, SHEA and PIDS Announce 2020-2021 LEAP Fellowship Awardees
IDSA, SHEA and PIDS are pleased to announce the 2021 awardees of the Leadership in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship. Now in its second iteration, the LEAP Fellowship is a $100,000 training grant competitively awarded to four promising young infectious diseases physicians. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this fellowship aims to foster the next generation of Infectious diseases leaders in public health, hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship and give them the hands-on experience they’ll need to lead and collaborate across these health care disciplines.
Awardees
2020-2021 Fellows
Daniel Dodson, M.D. (Pediatric ID), University of Colorado
LEAP Fellowship Project: Improving assessment and implementation of antibiotic stewardship: a partnership between state public health, academic medicine, and community hospitals.
Partner Health Department: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Sophie Katz, M.D. (Pediatric ID), Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Leap Fellowship Project: Creating a Sustainable and Scalable Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention in a High-Prescribing State: Development of Provider Feedback Reports and Academic Detailing Strategies through User Centered Design.
Partner Health Department: Tennessee Department of Health
Do Young Kim, M.D. (Adult ID), Rush University Medical Center
LEAP Fellowship Project: Checking Live Virus to Ascertain Time to Clearance of Viable Virus in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia (CLEARANCE)
Partner Health Department: Chicago Department of Public Health
Angela “Holly” Villamagna, M.D. (Adult ID), Oregon Health and Science University
Leap Fellowship Project: Beyond coronavirus: establishing best practice guidance and assessing acceptability of international travel screening in Oregon acute care hospitals.
Partner Health Department: Oregon Health Authority
The LEAP Fellowship will start in July 1, 2020 and last one year. The fellowship is for early career infectious diseases physicians - those in their second or third year of fellowship or up to two years post-fellowship. For those interested in future years of the LEAP Fellowship, please visit https://IDSociety.org/LEAPFellowship.