Infectious Disease Fellowship

The goal of the fellowship program is to train a group of well-rounded and compassionate physicians who are driven to learn and become excellent clinicians using problem-based learning as a guide.

Infectious Disease Fellowship

The goal of the fellowship program is to train a group of well-rounded and compassionate physicians who are driven to learn and become excellent clinicians using problem-based learning as a guide.

Director:

Naaz Fatteh MD, MPH

Coordinator:

Katrina Tucker

Phone:

954-468-8906

Email:

IDFellowship@
browardhealth.org

Welcome from Program Director

Program Highlights

About the Program Location

Curriculum

Training Blocks and Sites

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Following are detailed descriptions of the rotation for each post-graduate year of training in the Infectious Disease program.

Rotation Descriptions

INFECTIOUS DISEASE ROTATIONS

Transplant Rotation

The Transplant Infectious Disease rotation provides infectious disease fellows with the opportunity to observe the outpatient management of post-solid organ transplant patients experiencing infectious disease complications. Additionally, the clinic assesses patients prior to transplantation, focusing on comprehensive screening evaluations, pre-transplant vaccinations, prophylaxis, and risk reduction strategies.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

The Infectious Disease rotation offers fellows the opportunity to manage all aspects of infectious diseases while studying their pathogens, prevention, transmission, and treatment in children. This includes a focus on diseases caused by bacteria, mycobacteria, parasites, and viruses.

Public Health (TB Clinic)

The Tuberculosis Clinic provides infectious disease fellows with the opportunity to observe the evaluation and management of patients with both latent and active TB infections.

General Infectious Disease

All Infectious Disease fellows participate in a 24-month continuity clinic experience. Fellows are assigned to one or more designated clinic sites, with the clinic held one half-day per week. Each fellow is paired with an on-site faculty mentor who provides direct supervision and guidance.

The continuity clinic experience involves evaluating and managing patients with a wide range of infectious disease conditions. Many patients are hospital follow-ups, often receiving outpatient antibiotic therapy, while others are outpatient referrals for consultation when infectious diseases are part of the differential diagnosis.

Ambulatory Clinic - HIV Continuity Care Clinic

The trainees participate in an Infectious Diseases continuity clinic. This outpatient clinic offers longitudinal care for patients with HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, allowing fellows to observe disease progression and therapeutic outcomes over time. This experience spans a minimum of 24 months and includes the ongoing management of HIV-infected patients.

Program Leadership

Assistant Program Director

Andrew Ryan Martin, MD

Dr. Martin is Board Certified in Infectious Diseases and has been practicing Infectious Diseases in the South Florida community for 12 years. His training was at Medical School Universidad del Norte - Barranquilla, Colombia Medical School, followed by Internal Medicine Residency training at St. Vincent Hospital Carmel, Indiana and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Michigan Health System.

He has been actively involved as an associate professor in the Broward Health North Internal Medicine and HCA Internal Medicine Residency Programs. Clinically his interests include prosthetic joint infections, endocarditis, and diagnosis and management of viral including HIV related opportunistic infections. He enjoys spending his free time playing golf, soccer, and going to the beach with his wife and three children.

Assistant Program Director

Indulekha N. Gopal MD

Dr. Indulekha N. Gopal is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases with over two decades of clinical experience. She completed her Infectious Disease fellowship at Duke University and her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Tennessee. At Broward Health North, Dr. Gopal serves as the Medical Director of Epidemiology, Secretary of the Internal Medicine department, and the Chair of Antibiotic Stewardship. She has been invited to give presentations on such topics as COVID-19, Sepsis, Candida Auris, Dengue fever by an array of organizations, including the India-US Chamber of Commerce and Florida Department of Health. In her free time, she enjoys cooking traditional South Indian cuisine and spending time with her family.