Jason Eric Stout

Kapil Saharia (Duke medical student): Comentored with Carol Hamilton for MPH thesis, “Racial and ethnic disparities characterize pediatric tuberculosis in North Carolina.”  Obtained MPH summer 2003.  Currently Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland

Lee Ann Morehead (physician assistant student, Wake Forest University): Mentored for Masters’ Research project: “Knowledge of, attitudes to and beliefs about tuberculosis among North Carolinians at increased risk of infection: results from a series of focus groups.”  Project presented successfully 5/2005.  Currently physician assistant, Department of Dermatology, Duke University Medical Center.

L. Beth Gadkowski (Duke resident/infectious diseases fellow): Comentored with Carol Hamilton.  Resident project: “Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and beliefs among North Carolinians at increased risk of infection: results from a series of focus groups.”  Fellow project examined healthcare utilization and outcomes among persons with TB/HIV in North Carolina.  Currently Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Florida.

Aaron Kipp (UNC-Chapel Hill PhD student, epidemiology): Comentored with Carol Hamilton, Annalies VanRie, “Epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in North Carolina.”  Masters’ thesis, UNC School of Public Health.  Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, East Carolina University.

Lisa Nguyen (Duke medical student): Comentored with Carol Hamilton for MPH thesis, “Predictors of Mortality among Tuberculosis Patients in North Carolina.” Successfully presented thesis summer 2005.  Also precepted in clinic 7/04-7/05.  Currently in practice, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.

Christina Fiske (Taulien) (Duke resident): Comentored with Carol Hamilton for resident research project, “A Retrospective Study of the Association Between Alcoholism and Tuberculosis in the United States and North Carolina Between 1994 and 2003.”  Currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University.

Neela Goswami (Duke resident/infectious diseases fellow): Mentoring for resident research project, Location-based Screenings with Serum Quantiferon-TB Gold In-Tube Compared to Clinic-based Screenings in Detection of Latent TB.  Awarded Barton F. Haynes resident research award for this project and Center for AIDS Research small grant award.  Currently at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Field Services Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Atlanta, GA.

David P. Holland (Duke infectious diseases fellow): Comentored with Carol Hamilton and Gillian Sanders for fellowship research projects, primarily focusing on the use of decision analysis to assist with formulating policies and guidelines for treatment of latent tuberculosis infection and exposures to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.  Also primary mentor for Master’s thesis project, Duke MHS program.  Currently Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Anna K. Person (Duke infectious diseases fellow): Research mentor for fellowship project: Text messaging to Enhance Testing and Treatment for Tuberculosis, HIV, and Syphilis (TEXTT THIS).  Currently Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

Laura Guderian (UNC-Chapel Hill infectious diseases fellow/preventive medicine resident).  Comentoring with Arlene Sena and William Miller, project: Association between rural location and tuberculosis presentation in North Carolina.  Currently in private practice at One Medical Group, New York, NY.

Kia Armstrong (CDC Public Health Prevention Specialist).  Comentored with Maureen O’Rourke, project: Association between staff experience and effective tuberculosis contact tracing, North Carolina, 2008–2009.  Currently working for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.

Paul Park (Duke medical resident).  Clinical mentor, subspecialty clinic (TB clinic), and research mentor for resident project: Costs of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections to a public health tuberculosis clinic.  Awarded a Duke Resident Research Award to conduct this project.  Currently Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Brianna Norton (Duke infectious diseases fellow).  Comentored with Susanna Naggie, “Acceptability of Community-Based Hepatitis C Testing in Wake County, North Carolina.”  Currently Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY.

Charles McCormick (Duke medicine-psychiatry resident).  Clinical mentor, subspecialty clinic (TB clinic) and research mentor for resident project: Tobacco use, tuberculosis infection, and comorbidities among tuberculosis clinic attendees in Wake County, North Carolina.  Currently in private practice in Raleigh, NC.

Michael Woodworth (Duke medicine resident). 2013-2015. Research mentor for resident project: Nocardia at Duke University Medical Center 1996-2013.  Awarded a Duke Resident Research Award to conduct this project.  Currently Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Matthew Johnson (Duke infectious diseases fellow).  “Xpert MTB/RIF testing among HIV-positive patients in Zambia”, mentor during research years of fellowship, 7/2014-6/2016.  Currently at Merck.

Dana Clifton (Duke medicine/pediatrics resident).  Research mentor for resident project: HIV testing among pneumonia patients at Duke.  Awarded a Duke Resident Research Award to conduct this project.  Currently hospitalist, Duke University Medical Center.

Lauren Collins (Duke medicine resident).  Research mentor for resident project: Long term outcomes of patients with AIDS and disseminated Mycobacterium avium intracellulare.  Awarded a Duke Resident Research Award to conduct this project.  Currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Kursten Lyon (MPH student).  Research mentor for MPH thesis project: “Spatial correlation between risk and engagement in care on the latent tuberculosis cascade of Wake County, North Carolina.”  Thesis accepted in partial fulfillment of MPH requirements 12/2018.  Currently public health nurse in Iowa.

Ahmad Mourad (Duke medicine resident).  Clinic mentor for subspecialty clinic and research mentor for resident project: Reduction in expected survival associated with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection.  Currently infectious diseases fellow, Duke University.

Robert Rolfe (Duke infectious diseases fellow).  Research mentor for project “Patient preferences for latent tuberculosis treatment.”

Sofia Zavala Monzon (Duke infectious diseases fellow).  Research mentor during fellowship.