Overview
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology Fellowship Program is an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) postgraduate training program that is overseen by the Subcommittee on Postgraduate Educational Programs (CPEP).
CPEP is a 2-year fellowship program that prepares scientists and physicians for leadership roles in medical and public health microbiology laboratory careers.
Program Co-Director: Dr. Heba Mostafa, MD, PhD, D(ABMM), FIDSA
Program Co-Director: Dr. Andrew Clark, PhD, D(ABMM)
The Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine encompasses all major areas of infectious diseases diagnostics. This is reflected by the extensive test menu, volume of testing offered in the division (700,000 tests annually) and esoteric pathogens encountered based on the complex patient populations served (e.g., adult and pediatric, transplant, oncology, etc).
The goal of our CPEP Fellowship program is to prepare the fellow to become a director of a clinical and/or public health microbiology laboratory and a national and international thought leader in the discipline of medical microbiology. Fellows will have the opportunity to work directly with 5 board-certified laboratory directors with expertise in bacteriology, virology, mycology, mycobacteriology and parasitology. They will also have the opportunity to complete two public health laboratory rotations at both the city and state health level. They will gain experience with various diagnostic modalities from traditional culture-based methods to an array of advanced molecular methods including next-generation sequencing. The fellow will learn through hands-on-experience, bench rotations, didactics and a laboratory directorship to be completed in the second year. There will also be many opportunities for research, new test development and for publication and/or presentation of findings at meetings. Further rotations will include infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention and control, infectious disease serology and histopathology rotations. A dedicated education coordinator will coordinate and oversee the rotations for the fellow.
Requirements
CPEP Fellowships are open to postdoctoral-level candidates (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., Sc.D., D.O., and Dr. P.H.).
Additional details on eligibility can be found on the American Society for Microbiology website.
Applying
All applicants must apply through the ASM portal.
Current Fellows
Meagan Jenkins, Ph.D.
Dr. Meagan Jenkins received her Bachelors degree in Biology at Florida Gulf Coast University. She then received her PhD at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Jenkins completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kelly Wilson, Ph.D.
Dr. Kelly Wilson earned her Bachelors degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from the Indiana University – School of Medicine, becoming an ASCP certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS). While working as an MLS, she pursued a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, where she continued to do postdoctoral work.
Former Fellows
2023 - 2025
Shannon Murphy, Ph.D.
Dr. Shannon Murphy earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from SUNY Geneseo and her PhD in Microbiology from Cornell University. She completed post-doctoral training in public health at the Wadsworth Center (NYSDOH). Dr. Murphy joined the Division of Medical Microbiology as an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Bacteriology laboratory.
2021 - 2023
Victoria Campodonico, M.D., Ph.D., D(ABMM)
Dr. Victoria Campodonico earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Buenos Aires and earned her MD from the National University of Cuyo, Argentina, where she continued onto a residency in Internal Medicine. She completed Postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Campodonico is now a Principal Development Scientist for the Maryland Department of Health in Baltimore, Maryland.