2026
Being right, for the wrong reasons
Fellowship cases: Rhombencephalitis from Lyme & Candida. Covers neuroinfectious diagnostics, including strengths & limitations of CSF mNGS
(s)TICK Season
Fellowship cases: Adenovirus (not ticks) triggering HLH. Review of infection-associated HLH, with a focus on the tick-borne infection phenotype and how anaplasmosis-like syndromes overlap with HLH
MARS is calling
Fellowship cases: Review of infection risk in spaceflight & a terrestrial case of eosinophilia after endocarditis treatment
Measles..?
Fellowship cases: Suspected measles after MMR. Review focusing on VARI and public implications in the setting of PEP
Slow burn
Fellowship cases: Review of LTNP & elite controllers in HIV, including immune control, inflammatory aging, and whether ART should still be recommended
The heart of the matter
Fellowship cases: Review of PVE after TAVR, emphasizing when echocardiography is insufficient and how PET/CT can help evaluate endovascular infection
2025
Hot Blooded
Fellowship cases: NSAID induced aseptic meningitis, atypical drug fever FUO, and ECMO decannulation; how did LLMs handle these diagnostic reasoning cases?
It’s all greek to me
Fellowship cases: Keratits, endophalmitis, retinitis/optic neuritis; toxoplasmosis, MSSA, and M abscessus
Gut Reactions
Fellowship cases: Infectious diarrhea in transplant patients, with emphasis on multiplex stool PCR pitfalls, Campylobacter and norovirus in kidney transplant, and fever after IV iron
Travel History
Fellowship cases: West Nile Virus and Babesiosis (and my trip to Alaska)
Stomach Aches
Fellowship cases: Complicated intra-abdominal infections
Rash decisions
Fellowship cases: resistant HSV (TK deficient and more) with GVHD; also presented at transplant ID conference
(wrench) (heart) (biohazard)
Fellowship cases: Suppressive antimicrobial therapy for prosthetic valve endocarditis
A visit to the dentist (Part 2)
Fellowship cases: cavitary pneumonia, part 2! Covering legionella & nocardia (case 3-4), staph aureus after influenza (case 5), and Strep anginosus from a dental infection (case 6)
PEP Rally
Fellowship cases: HIV PEP. Occupational post-exposure prophylaxis & PEP during pregnancy
A visit to the dentist
Fellowship cases: Cavitary pulmonary lesions, including Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (and maybe cryptococcus) and Coccidioides
Hemoptysis
Fellowship cases: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the 2025 updates to guidelines
[Hyper]sensitivities
Fellowship cases: beta-lactam toxicities on OPAT, acute HCV, and the differential diagnosis of a case of vasculitis
2024
Malignant fevers
Fellowship cases: Cronobacter sakazakii and a case of (almost) ecthyma gangrenosum
Spinal spookiness
Fellowship cases: Elsberg Syndrome (HSV lumbosacral myeloradiculitis) and the plague
Midbrain MAGIC
Fellowship cases: Listeriosis and vascular graft infections
Chicken & Fish
Fellowship cases: Nocardia and (maybe) mycobacterium marinum
Headaches
Fellowship cases: global guideline for the diagnosis and management of cryptococcosis
ACP Board Prep Curriculum - Nephrology 4
Board review for quintessential topic of internal medicine: Hyponatremia
2023
Noon Conference - Lab error?
Noon conference case for UT Health Internal Medicine residency
2021
Noon Conference - Animal Farm
Noon conference case for UT Health Internal Medicine residency during intern year
