Division of Infectious Disease Fellows 2020-2021
Caroline Koan, M.D.
Dr. Koan was born and raised in Los Angeles, and received her undergraduate degree in Physiological Science from UCLA. She went on to complete her medical education at the University of Toledo and her Internal Medicine residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. She is dedicated to providing healthcare to underserved communities; throughout her training, she has participated in research projects addressing health disparities, volunteered extensively in local free clinics and as an HIV testing counselor, and traveled to South Africa as a Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar (with an emphasis on HIV/TB co-infections and medical education exchange). Her interests in Infectious Disease are broad, including HIV, tropical medicine, antimicrobial stewardship, and improving healthcare delivery and the diagnosis/treatment of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations.
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Stephen Judge, M.D.
Dr. Judge earned his undergraduate degree in German Language and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He subsequently served as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching English in the Republic of Benin. He received his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, New Jersey. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.
Subsequently he worked as an Internal Medicine physician in a variety of roles including urgent care, outpatient Internal Medicine clinic and inpatient medicine. He also worked for one year with Indian Health Service at the Inscription House Health Center near Ts’aa Bii Kin on the Navajo Nation.
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Emily Kim, M.D.
Dr. Kim finished her undergraduate education at UCLA in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. She then went to medical school at Loma Linda University and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Scripps Green Clinic in La Jolla, CA. Her interests in Infectious Diseases vary, but she is currently interested most in antibiotic stewardship and finished a retrospective analysis of management of the Scripps neutropenic fever population. She also likes international travel, and although this will be limited in the foreseeable future, she has fond memories of recent travels to Hyderabad, India in 2020 before the pandemic.
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Praneet Kalkat, M.D.
Dr. Kalkat is a native of southern California who received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University where she majored in European History and Psychology. She attended medical school at Albany Medical College. Her interest in infectious diseases was kindled while volunteering at a clinic in Ecuador where she saw the impact of vector-borne diseases. She trained in Internal Medicine at George Washington University with a concentration in underserved medicine and public health. She was actively involved in providing medical care for vulnerable populations at a health clinic in the District of Columbia. She also had the opportunity to work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland where she participated in gene-based and immunotherapy for rare infectious diseases and presented grand rounds on X-DR TB. Her interests in infectious diseases include mycobacterial and mosquito-borne diseases. She is excited to be working at a county hospital with a focus on the intersection of infectious diseases and the underserved.
