Fellowship in SIDP

Please consider nominating a colleague for this distinction, which is awarded at the SIDP Business Meeting. Further information regarding the nomination and application process can be found here.

P. Brandon Bookstaver, PharmD, BCIDP, FCCP, FIDSA, FIDP

Dr. Brandon Bookstaver is a Professor and Director of Residency and Fellowship Training in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina (USC). Following graduation from the USC College of Pharmacy, he completed PGY1 and PGY2 residencies at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, specializing in Infectious Diseases (ID). Brandon serves as an ID pharmacist at Prisma Health Richland and director of an ID PGY2 residency and clinical fellowship program. He has over 175 peer-reviewed publications in various areas of ID including antimicrobial stewardship, hospital-acquired infections, and clinical pharmacy service line expansion. He is the co-founder and director of the research network Southeastern Research Group Endeavor (SERGE-45). During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Nicole and children (Aaron & Maddie), coaching baseball, traveling and Gamecock athletics.

Alan E. Gross, PharmD, FCCP, BCIDP, BCPS, FIDP

Alan Gross is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Retzky College of Pharmacy and serves as an infectious diseases pharmacist and Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist Coordinator at University of Illinois Hospital. He has been active within SIDP since 2010, serving in multiple leadership roles within SIDP including as Board Member-at-Large, Chair of the Policy and Government Affairs Committee, and Chair for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee.

Over the past 15 years he has educated hundreds of learners during clinical rotations, including students, residents, pharmacy and medical fellows, and international visitors. In addition to his clerkship and didactic teaching at the College of Pharmacy, he regularly delivers external educational programs aimed at advancing infectious diseases pharmacy practice. This includes the SIDP FAST program as well as national and international programs. His clinical practice and research center on implementing antimicrobial stewardship interventions and evaluating their clinical outcomes. He has authored more than 50 publications related to infectious diseases management. In recognition of his contributions, he received the “Outstanding Clinical Practice in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy” award from SIDP, the “SHEA Top Oral Abstract” award at IDWeek, and his research has been cited by guidelines from the IDSA and ADA.

Vanthida Huang, PharmD, BSPHM, FCCP, FIDP

Vanthida Huang is a Professor (tenured) in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Midwestern University College of Pharmacy-Glendale Campus. She is also the Director of the Infectious Diseases Translational Fellowship Program. She has appointments as Professor at Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Graduate Studies. Previously she was a tenured Associate Professor at Mercer University College of Pharmacy. She received her BSPHM and PharmD from the Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to pursuing her PharmD, Dr. Huang was a pharmacist at various hospitals including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and Pottstown Memorial Hospital. After pursuing her PharmD, Dr. Huang completed an ASHP-Accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency at Sarasota Memorial Hospital followed by a two-year fellowship in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy at Wayne State University and Detroit Receiving Hospital. In the laboratory her research interests include multidrug-resistant gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria; specifically, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics optimization and prevention of resistance. Her clinical research interests include antimicrobial dose optimization in the critically ill population and antimicrobial stewardship.

Dr. Huang has been a member of SIDP since 2002 and has served as Chair, Vice-Chair, or member on almost every committee. She is also a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of America, International Society of Anti-Infective Pharmacology, and Society of Critical Care Medicine. She has received multiple awards as an academician, experiential educator, and researcher including SIDP Distinguished Service Award (2015), the inaugural ACCP ID PRN Distinguished Investigator (2017), Faculty Mentor of the Year (2018, 2024), AACP Preceptor of the Year (2024), and Residency Preceptor of the Year (2024).

Kristi Kuper, PharmD, BCPS, CMD, FIDSA, FIDP

Kristi Kuper is Senior Director and Global Medical Affairs Data Generation Strategic Planning Lead for Anti-infectives at Pfizer. With over 25 years of experience as an infectious diseases pharmacist, her career has spanned hospital practice, ID clinical pharmacy leadership roles at Cardinal Health and Vizient, and data-driven positions at DoseMeRx and most recently with Pfizer’s Real World Evidence team. She has collaborated with over 700 hospitals worldwide and advised on antibiotic stewardship through initiatives led by the CDC, Pew Trust, AHRQ, NQF, and IHI. Kristi was also an invited participant at the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship and a longstanding member of the City of Houston Antibiotic Stewardship Executive Committee.

As a member of SIDP for almost two decades, Kristi has chaired several committees and is currently the Chair of the SIDP Strategic Planning Committee. One of her most notable accomplishments while a member was as co-founder of the annual SIDP/CLSI/ACCP ID PRN webinar. This annual webinar has been in existence for over a decade and educated thousands of clinicians in the spirit of fostering collaboration and providing education to better equip healthcare professionals to be better antibiotic stewards.

She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, completed her residency at James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, and holds graduate certificates in Biomedical Informatics and Medicines Development. Kristi resides in Houston with her husband and three children.

Jamie L. Wagner, PharmD, BCIDP, FIDP

Jamie Wagner is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She began her career in ID as a student, where she dove into investigating all things gram-negative. She continued this pursuit with a clinical outcomes fellowship in 2013, which is when she also first learned about SIDP. Jamie has been an active member of SIDP ever since, serving on the SIDP Board from 2021-2023 as well as multiple other committees. Her long-standing service on the SIDP stewardship committee included implementing the long-term care certificate program and initiating discussions to reinvigorate the certificate programs. As a member of the strategic planning committee, Jamie was also instrumental in creating the KPI instructional handout for all committee leadership to assist in tracking and aligning activities to the SIDP strategic plan.

Throughout her clinical career, Jamie has successfully written a business proposal for a full-time stewardship pharmacist, implemented new rapid diagnostic technologies, and helped to train the future generation about stewardship. She currently enhances clinical pharmacy services at Mount Auburn Hospital, optimizes antimicrobial use in hospitalized patients throughout the Beth Isreal Lahey Health system, and continues to perform research related to antimicrobial stewardship.

Jamie has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, including serving as an SIDP representative on two different guidelines, one on stewardship in long-term care, and the other on the pharmacist’s role in stewardship.

As a former educator, Jamie imparted her drive, passion, and thirst for knowledge in all learners she interacted with. This included multiple lectures and an elective ID course at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, as well as local and international presentations on controversial ID topics at several ID meetings, including SIDP, IDWeek, SHEA Spring, and most recently, MAD-ID.

Tracy Zembles, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP, FIDP

Tracy Zembles is a founding member and Co-Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. She completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Drake University. Dr. Zembles’ clinical interests include implementation of handshake stewardship, evaluation of extended infusion beta-lactams in children, and penicillin allergy de-labeling. She is well published, authoring over 30 infectious diseases or antimicrobial stewardship publications. Many of those were done with pharmacy residents, who she enjoys mentoring on longitudinal, year-long projects. She was awarded the Pharmacy Residency Preceptor of the Year Award in 2024. Nationally, Dr. Zembles has been an active member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, recently completing a term as Board Member at Large and currently serving on the Programming Committee. She also serves on the Education Committee for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and as a pharmacist advisor for the APIC Education Committee. In her free time, she enjoys running and cheering for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Milwaukee Brewers!