First Year Fellows
Sara Khan, MD
Medical School: Aga Khan University
Residency: University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Favorite Antimicrobial?
Zosyn, enough said
Jordan Pennington, MD
Medical School: University of South Carolina
Residency: University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Favorite Antimicrobial?
My favorite antibiotic is doxycycline, it’s an oral option that covers so many organisms, from tick borne illnesses to MRSA. Definitely what I want to have on hand in an apocalypse.
Hunter Pool, MD
Medical School: University of Arkansas
Residency: UIC Peoria
Adult/Peds Combined Program
Favorite Antimicrobial?
My favorite antibiotic is cefidericol. Such a fun name (Fetroja), and its mechanism of action is super cool! And it treats our MDROs.
Saliba Wehbe, MD
Medical School: Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences
Residency: American University of Beirut
Favorite Antimicrobial?
Doxycycline. A cheap, oral antibiotic that cleans up atypicals, acne, and a sizeable share of zoonoses, then casually stars in sexual health for chlamydia treatment and doxy‑PEP. Serious enough for any ID service, but just spiteful enough to sunburn you as a reminder.
Second Year Fellows
Sean Conley, DO
Medical School: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Cleveland Clinic Florida
Favorite Antimicrobial?
Going against the grain a bit here by choosing a non-antibacterial, but I’d have to say quinine. Not for its robust clinical use (you’re more likely to encounter it in your gin and tonic nowadays) but for its fascinating history. From its discovery in cinchona bark in South America (isolated before penicillin might I add) to the ways it shaped geopolitics during the colonial era, it really is an incredible drug.
Allison Giuffre, MD
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine – Rockford
Residency: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Favorite Antimicrobial?
Doxycycline, Broad-spectrum, orally available, and a champion against everything from rickettsial disease to MRSA. It also once saved my dog from a tick-borne illness, so it’s personal.
Philip Jurasinski, DO
Medical School: Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Adult/Peds Combined Program
Favorite Antimicrobial?
The most baller antimicrobial is cefepime! Fun to say and spell, gobbles up the gram positives and negatives, eats up AmpC producers, punches out Pseudomonas, and is the go-to for empiric coverage for febrile neutropenia!
Ian Motie, MD
Medical School: Florida State University College of Medicine
Residency: Florida State University
Favorite Antimicrobial?
I have to go with ceftriaxone as my favorite. It’s the middle child of the cephalosporins, and while some might call it overrated, I’d say it is for all the right reasons.