New Pediatrics Fellows and Subspecialty Residents (2020 - 2021)

Welcome to our newest group of fellows and subspecialty residents to the Department of Pediatrics! The Duke Department of Pediatrics fellowship programs are designed to provide outstanding training to prepare our fellows to excel as superb clinicians, skilled researchers, excellent teachers and advocates within their subspecialty field of pediatrics. The department currently trains fellows in a wide variety of fellowship programs. These programs combine self-directed learning within the context of a large variety of clinical settings, didactic instruction, top-notch research, and faculty mentoring. Each program offers a variety of experiences for interested fellows, including a focus on clinical expertise, specialized clinical training, teaching proficiency, along with clinical, translational and basic science research opportunities, exposure to quality improvement, and work within interprofessional teams.

Allergy and Immunology

Pooja Purswani, MD
Residency: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL

Alex Wonnaparhown, MD
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at UCLA

Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Vanessa Fabrizio, MD
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Cardiology

Katie Wood, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

BriAnna Souder, MD
Residency: Texas Children's Hospital

Child Abuse and Neglect

Mya Sendak, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

Critical Care Medicine

Michelle DeRusso, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

Jordan Pung, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

Heather Slusser, MD
Residency: East Carolina University

Endocrinology

Grace Hendrix, MD
Residency: Medical College of Wisconsin

Hematology-Oncology

Jonathan Bardahl, MD
Residency: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Brian Guedes, MD
Residency: University of Florida, Gainesville

Zach Wilson, MD
Residency: Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Hospice Palliative Care

Abby Chilsen, MD
Residency: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hospital Medicine

Laura Hampton, MD
Residency: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Infant Complex Care

Elizabeth Heyward, MD
Residency: TBA

Infectious Diseases

Angelique Boutzoukas, MD
Residency: Nationwide Children's

Ganga Moorthy, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Aaron Adams, MD
Residency: Madigan Army Medical Center

Candy Chan Poon, MD
Residency: Jackson Memorial Hospital

Ryan Kilpatrick, MD
Residency: Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center

Nephrology

Rachel Cason, MD
Residency: Duke University Medical Center

Mital Patel, MD
Residency: UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Neurology

Lauren Chamberlain, Do
MD: Philadelphia College

Kayli Kishel, MD
MD: Florida State University

Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine

Nicholas Fitzpatrick, MD
Residency: Medical University of South Carolina

Rheumatology

Lauren Covert, MD
Residency: University of California - San Diego

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