Infectious Diseases Fellow
University of Rochester Medical Center
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Patrick Passarelli, MD - University of Rocheter Medical Center
Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, I loved science from an early age. When I read about Ebola is a preteen, my interest in infectious diseases was kindled. After completing pre-med and an English major at Boston College, I spent a year in Russia teaching English to medical students and doctors. The following year, I returned home to attend medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where I had worked in a lab studying mesenchymal stem cells during my summers away from college. In medical school, I was heavily involved with a multidisciplinary student organization that worked to combat STIs in our county jail. It was through this organization that I met my now wife, who was obtaining her MPH in occupational and environmental health. I had always planned on pursuing internal medicine residency as a pathway to ID, but my pre-clinical rotations in outpatient pediatrics sparked my interest in the combined field of med-peds. I went on to complete med-peds training at UC San Diego, where I had plenty of exposure to infectious diseases and was fortunate to have dedicated mentors. After completing a year as chief resident in pediatrics, my wife decided to take the plunge into medicine, which brought us across the country to New York state. After several years working as a hospitalist, I finally started infectious diseases fellowship, an aspiration born decades before. My interests include medical education, antimicrobial stewardship, gram negative resistance, tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections, STIs, wound care, and medical history.