Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment
Anthony K. Leung, DO, FACP, FIDSA, FASCP, Chair
Dr. Leung currently practices at The Cleveland Clinic, after fifteen years with Summa Health. Dr. Leung is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Medical Microbiology. He has been actively involved in medical education in his career and is a professor in internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Dr. Leung obtained his undergraduate degree in microbiology from Washington State University; and medical degree from Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He relocated with his family to the Akron area in 2006 after training with the Cleveland Clinic.
As of March 2024, Dr. Leung reported the following ongoing external relationships:
Dr. Leung reported service as an item-writer for the American Board of Pathology.
Nitin Bhanot, MD
Dr. Bhanot is the Division Director of Infectious Disease and the Program Director of the Infectious Disease-Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), Pittsburgh, Pennylvania. He is as Associate Professor of Medicine at the Drexel University College of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Dr. Bhanot received his medical degree from Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College in Karnataka, India and completed residency and fellowship training at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. He has a master’s degree in public health from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine, and a master’s degree in medical management for physicians from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As of July 2023, Dr. Bhanot reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dana Blyth, MD
Dr Blyth is the Program Director for the Infectious Disease (ID) fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.She also currently serves as the Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Medical Education Community of Practice IDWeek Workgroup, an educator for the Faculty Development Outreach and Certification for the Uniformed Services (FOCUS) program, and the secretary for the Greater Washington Infectious Diseases Society.
She completed her medical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, prior to her residency, chief resident year, and ID fellowship at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.
As of July 2023, Dr. Blyth reported the following ongoing external relationships:
Dr. Blyth serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Infectious Diseases Appeals Board, without compensation
- The Infectious Diseases Society of America, Medical Education Community of Practice IDWeek Chair, without compensation
Christina M. Coyle, MD
Dr. Coyle is Professor of Clinical Medicine, specializing in infectious diseases, at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 2007, she became the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development. Dr. Coyle is board certified in Infectious Disease and has special expertise in parasitology.
Dr. Coyle is recognized as an expert in the larval tapeworms, Echinococcus, and in neurocysticercosis. She has co-authored chapters and articles on these and many other tropical diseases. She has run an active tropical medicine clinic in the United States since 2006. In 2007, she became a site director for GeoSentinel, the global surveillance network of the International Society of Travel Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control. She also functions in the Infectious Disease Society of America and American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM&H) panel on guidelines for neurocysticercosis. In addition, she co-directs the annual ASTM&H Update Course since 2008, which provides clinically relevant education in the field of tropical medicine and parasitology, in order to reduce global health disparities.
Dr. Coyle is a deeply committed educator. Since her faculty appointment at Einstein in 1995, she has served in many different roles in medical education and has been the recipient of almost every teaching award at Einstein. In 2007, she was appointed Course Director of Parasitology and Global Medicine Course in the second-year medical student curriculum, the only free-standing tropical medicine course at a U.S. medical school. Dr. Coyle is a much-sought-after teacher and lectures frequently at other medical schools in New York City. As of 2010, she also lectures in the parasitology section of the microbiology course at Columbia Medical School in New York City. She is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Board Exam Committee.
Dr. Coyle is a graduate of Adelphi University and earned her medical degree at State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center. She completed her residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and also holds a master of clinical research degree from Einstein.
As of August 2023, Dr. Coyle reported no ongoing external relationships.
Christian A. Rojas Moreno, MD
Dr. Rojas Moreno is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. Moreno is passionate about medical education and serves as the Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Rojas Moreno received his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción in Paraguay, completed internal medicine residency at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and infectious diseases fellowship training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
As of May 2024, Dr. Rojas Moreno reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Rojas Moreno serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- American College of Physicians, Governor’s Council Member and Education Committee Member, without compensation.
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, MedEd Community of Practice Member, without compensation.
Traditional, 10-Year MOC Exam
Randall S. Edson, MD, Chair
Dr. Edson is currently the Internal Medicine Program Director at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California and also Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Previously, Dr. Edson was Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and had a 32-year career as an infectious diseases clinician and internal medicine clinician/educator. While at Mayo, Dr. Edson served as Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and was a Senior Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. In 2013, he was a recipient of the Distinguished Mayo Clinician award.
Dr. Edson currently serves on the Governor's Advisory Board for the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is Program Chair for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the All California Chapter of the ACP. Dr. Edson is Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Infectious Disease Board Exam Committee. He previously served on the ABIM Internal Medicine Exam Committee. He was awarded mastership in the American College of Physicians in April 2013.
Dr. Edson received a bachelor's degree in music history at Yale College and a master's degree in music from the Yale School of Music. He attended medical school at the University of Iowa and completed internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship training at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.
As of July 2023, Dr. Edson reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Edson serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The American College of Physicians, Northern California Chapter, Governor’s Council, without compensation
John W. Baddley, MD
Dr. Baddley is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Baddley serves as Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases in the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute and as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Birmingham VA Medical Center.
Dr. Baddley is board certified in Infectious Disease. He serves as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Board Exam Committee. Dr. Baddley's research interests include the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections; transplant infectious diseases; and infections associated with biologic therapies. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers, chapters and reviews. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Baddley received his medical degree from Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine, New Orleans. He completed an internship and residency at LSU Medical Center, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he served as Chief Infectious Diseases Fellow.
As of July 2023, Dr. Baddley reported the following external relationships:
Attendance at investigators’ meetings, with compensation for travel expenses from the following companies:
- Scynexis, for the ibrexafungerp clinical trial meeting
Service on data and safety monitoring boards for the following companies, with honoraria:
- Eli Lilly & Company, advising on data and safety for a clinical trial, receiving honoraria
- Horizon Therapeutics, advising on data and safety for a clinical trial, receiving honoraria
Work as an author or editor for the following companies, with compensation as listed:
- The Infectious Diseases Society of America, interim editor-in-chief
- UpToDate, receiving compensation as an editor
Dr. Baddley serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, committee member, without compensation
- Transplant Infectious Diseases, president-elect, without compensation
Kimberly Hanson, MD
Dr. Hanson is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology. She is Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases and Immunocompromised Host Service at the University of Utah and Section Head for Clinical Microbiology within ARUP Laboratories.
Previously, Dr. Hanson was a faculty member and Associate Director of the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center.
Dr. Hanson is board certified in both Infectious Disease and Medical Microbiology. She serves as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Board Exam Committee.
Dr. Hanson received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. She completed internal medicine training and was chief medical resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She then completed adult infectious diseases and medical microbiology fellowships at Duke University, followed by a master’s degree in health sciences from the same institution.
As of March 2024, Dr. Hanson reported the following external relationships:
Receiving compensation from the following companies as listed:
- HealthTrackRx, for consulting for a diagnostics company
Work as an author or editor for the following companies, with compensation as listed:
- The American Society for Microbiology, receiving compensation as editor
- The Infectious Diseases Society of America, receiving compensation as associate editor for Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- UpToDate®, receiving compensation as editor
Dr. Hanson serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group, Steering Committee, member; Diagnostics Committee, member; principal investigator on investigator-initiated research, receiving salary support
- CARB-X [Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator], advisor, receiving honoraria
- The Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute, Subcommittee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing, without compensation
- The Infectious Diseases Society of America, Diagnostics Policy Task Force, member, without compensation
Costi Sifri, MD
Dr. Sifri is the Director of Hospital Epidemiology/Infection Prevention and Control for UVA Health, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. He joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 2004 with a clinical and research focus on healthcare-associated pathogens. In 2006, he also founded the UVA Immunocompromised Infectious Disease Program.
Dr. Sifri's research interests include the exploration of the molecular epidemiology of multidrug resistant organisms Gram negative bacteria, molecular mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis and host defense, and the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, including in compromised hosts.
As the Director of Hospital Epidemiology, he led efforts to reduce transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens, supervised infection prevention education and quality improvement efforts, and responded to high consequence emerging pathogens, including carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Ebola virus, and COVID-19. He has co-authored over 125 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, mentored numerous students and trainees, and received many teaching and clinical awards.
Dr. Sifri received his medical degree from the University of Rochester, completed medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a clinical and research fellow in infectious diseases and microbiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital.
As of July 2023, Dr. Sifri reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Sifri serves in significant roles with the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Guidelines Committee, member; Public Policy and Government Affairs Committee, member; IDWeek Planning Committee, member, without compensation
Col. Roseanne A. Ressner, DO, FIDSA, FACP
Dr. Ressner is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In 2022, she assumed the role of Senior Medical Advisor at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research while remaining clinically active as an infectious disease staff physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). Dr. Ressner previously served as the WRNNMC Chair of Infection Control and Prevention and as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Director. Other leadership roles include Interim and Assistant Chief for the WRNMMC Department of Medicine, four years as the Program Director for the combined Army and Navy National Capital Consortium Infectious Disease Fellowship program and Assistant Chief for the WRNMMC Infectious Disease Service. She has also served on the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA®) Item-Writing Task Force.
Dr. Ressner received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Brooke Army Medical Center and maintains certifications in both fields.
As of August 2023, Dr. Ressner reported no ongoing external relationships.
Stephen C. Threlkeld, MD
Dr. Threlkeld is board certified in Infectious Disease and has been Managing Partner of an infectious disease group practice for the past 20 years. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. He also serves as epidemiologist and Infectious Disease Director of the Baptist Memorial Hospital Heart Lung Transplant Program, as well as co-Chair of the Infection Control Committee and Chairman of the System Antibiotic Stewardship Committee at Baptist Memorial Hospital. He is a member of the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium and a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America.
He has previously served as Chief of Staff, Department of Medicine Chairman, Formulary Committee Chairman, and as a member of the Metropolitan Board of Directors at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Currently, Dr. Threlkeld serves as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Board Exam Committee.
He received his undergraduate degree at Rhodes College and attended the University of Alabama medical school in Birmingham (UAB). He completed internal medicine residency and a Chief Medical Resident year at UAB. He then completed a fellowship in infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and received the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society Edward H. Kass Award for Clinical Excellence.
As of April 2024, Dr. Threlkeld reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Threlkeld serves in significant roles with the following organization, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:
- The Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, epidemiologist; Medical Director of Infectious Disease; Baptist Cardiac Transplant Program, member, receiving compensation for transplant committee weekly meetings; Credentials Committee, chair; System Antibiotic Stewardship Committee, chair; System Infection Prevention Committee, chair