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Infectious Disease Fellow
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Aasith is a first-year Infectious Disease fellow. She attended Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru for undergrad and medical school including rotations at the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute. She later became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Tropical Medicine Institute at UPCH in Lima and at the UTMB (University of Texas Medical Branch) – UPCH Collaborative Research Center in Cusco, Peru. Cusco, Peru. She then completed her Internal Medicine internship and Residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. During residency, she was selected for the Global Health Pathway residency track and completed the Minnesota-based Global Health course, including ASTMH CTropMed® coursework. Her internal medicine continuity clinic was based at a medical clinic that served primarily immigrants. Aasith is interested in vaccine-preventable diseases, women’s health, and infections in mobile populations including immigrants and travelers. She is also passionate about community outreach and health equity and previously served as a Delegate for the Committee of Interns and Residents at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.