127: Season 5 Finale: Match Update & Pediatric ID Fellows Cup (PIDFC)

In our Season 5 Finale, Sara wraps up 2025 with Marisu Rueda-Altez (University of Alabama Birmingham) and the Pediatric ID Fellows Cup champions from Children’s National Hospital team “District of Contagion”! After an update on the US ID Fellowship Match, everyone breaks down some of the most commonly missed questions from the competition!

For Pediatric ID Fellows Cup (PIDFC) info, please click on links below!

Call for next round of question writers and mentors

Website: pidfc.notion.site

Follow on Instagram: @pid_fellows_cup

Guests from Children’s National team “District of Contagion”!

Katarina Manzi (first year ID fellow)

Hannah Chase (first year ID fellow)

Lillian Flannigan (second year ID fellow, team captain)

Einar Helgason (second year ID fellow)

Ugur Berkay Balkanci (second year ID fellow)

Sarah Benke (third year ID fellow)

Roya Gordji (third year ID fellow)

Alexandra Yonts (attending)

Nada Harik (attending and fellowship program director)

Other team members not on the recording: Craig Shapiro, Rana Hamdy, Andrea Hahn, Shreya Doshi

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