Dr. Leung currently practices at the Cleveland Clinic, after fifteen years with Summa Health. Dr. Leung is board certified by ABIM in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, and by the American Board of Pathology in Pathology – 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 a medical degree from Kansas City University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.

As of October 2024, Dr. Leung reported the following ongoing external relationships:

Dr. Leung reported service as an item-writer for the American Board of Pathology, without compensation.

Dr. Bhanot is the Division Director of Infectious Disease and the Director of the Infectious Disease-Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine.  He is ABIM 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 Academy of Higher Education and Research (then Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College) in Karnataka, India, and completed residency and fellowship training at Maimonides Medical Center. He has a master’s degree in public health from the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and a master’s degree in medical management for physicians from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.

As of October 2024, Dr. Bhanot reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Blyth is the Program Director for the Infectious Disease 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 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and completed residency, a chief resident year and infectious disease fellowship at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.

As of May 2025, 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, Accreditation Appeals in the Specialty of Internal Medicine – Infectious Disease, Standing Panel Member, without compensation.

Dr. Nnedu is an infectious diseases physician at Ochsner Health System and Vice Chair for the Infectious Diseases department at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. He also serves as medical director for the Ochsner Travel Clinic, and adjunct faculty and course director for the medical helminthology course in the Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Tulane School of Public Health. His interests include travel medicine, parasitology and HIV treatment/prevention.

Dr. Nnedu completed medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he also obtained a Master of Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency at Tulane University and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Washington. 

As of April 2025, Dr. Nnedu reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Yoon is Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and medical director for the Center for Special Studies, which focuses on HIV infection, sexual health treatment and prevention. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. She is an educator for AIDS Education and Training Centers and serves as HIV section editor for the journals Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases and Current Infectious Disease Reports.

Dr. Yoon received a medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed her internal medicine residency there and completed fellowship in infectious diseases at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. 

As of April 2025, Dr. Yoon reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Edson is the Internal Medicine Program Director at California Pacific Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is ABIM Board Certified in 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 Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and was a Senior Associate 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 ACP. 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 Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education.

As of October 2024, Dr. Edson reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Blackburn is a Clinical Professor of Medicine – Infectious Diseases and Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at Stanford Medicine, where he has won numerous awards for his teaching and clinical care. He has practiced for over twenty years in this specialty, and has special interests in parasitology, travel and tropical medicine, infections in patients with compromised immune systems and medical education. He is a former Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria. He also serves on several national committees related to infectious diseases education and program development.

Dr. Blackburn received a medical degree from the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He completed internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship training at Stanford University. He is ABIM Board Certified in Infectious Disease.

As of November 2024, Dr. Blackburn reported no ongoing external relationships.

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 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 ABIM Infectious Disease 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. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.

As of October 2024, Dr. Ressner reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Sifri is the Director of Hospital Epidemiology/Infection Prevention and Control for the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. 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 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 the 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 coauthored 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 internal 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 and Women's Hospital.

As of May 2025, 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, IDWeek Planning Committee, member, without compensation

Dr. Threlkeld is ABIM Board Certified in Infectious Disease and has been a 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 Health Science Center. He also serves as epidemiologist and Infectious Disease Director of the Baptist Heart Transplant Program, as well as Co-Chair of the Infection Control Committee and Chairman of the System Antibiotic Stewardship Committee at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. He is a member of the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium and a member of the Infectious Diseases 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-Memphis.

Dr. Threlkeld received his undergraduate degree at Rhodes College and a medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine. 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 May 2025, Dr. Threlkeld reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Vergidis is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the Director of the Hematology-Oncology Infectious Disease Service and the Ambulatory Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead. He is the Co-Director of the Microbiology Course at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.

Dr. Vergidis is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. He has coauthored over 100 original articles, reviews and book chapters. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and serves on the Board of Directors of the Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium (MSGERC). He is an editor for Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Dr. Vergidis received his medical degree from the University of Patras School of Medicine in Greece. He completed infectious disease fellowship training at Boston Medical Center and further specialized in transplant infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic. He earned a master’s degree in clinical research from the University of Pittsburgh. 

As of May 2025, Dr. Vergidis reported the following external relationships:

Funding for clinical trial expenses and staff, paid to the Mayo Clinic, from the following companies:

• Ansun Biopharma
• Cidara Therapeutics
• F2G
• Scynexis
• Zepto Life Technology Inc.

Service on data and safety monitoring boards for the following company, with compensation paid to the Mayo Clinic:

• AbbVie 

Service on end-point review committees for the following company, with compensation paid to the Mayo Clinic:

• Scynexis

Service on a research-related expert panel or advisory board for the following company, with compensation for travel expenses and honoraria:

• Scynexis

Work as an author or editor for the following company, with compensation as listed: 

• Merck, receiving compensation as an editor.