Mark your calendar for #SRM2024, Feb 22-24, 2024. Submit your manuscript to The American Journal of the Medical Sciences , IF 3.46, the official journal of SSCI: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, page fee waived for SSCI members

⭐NEW PODCAST SERIES🎧 Tune into the first episode of the Leadership & Management series! Our speakers discuss common issues & questions that arise when looking for your first job in #HealthcareEpi. Clare Rock MD MS Jess Howard-Anderson on.soundcloud.com/HKmaL

Principles of diagnostic stewardship: A practical guide is out 1st in a series from the SHEA task force bit.ly/41wDRgC Endorsed by IDSA APIC SIDP Society of Hospital Medicine Diagnostic Stewardship is a exciting new concept, here are some highlights... 1/n

My daughter just heard someone say that urine is sterile.

Great kick off to #SHEA2023

Don't miss our talk on diagnostic #stewardship today at 11am PST in Columbia BCD at #SHEA2023! Kimberly Claeys Duke Infectious Diseases @SHEAepi

The time to act is now. Ask your federal legislators to cosponsor the #PASTEURAct, a bill recently reintroduced by Michael Bennet, Senator Todd Young, Congressman Drew Ferguson & Rep. Scott Peters which would spur antibiotic development and strengthen antibiotic stewardship:

This should be considered by CDC and CMSGov when considering new metrics/ retiring metrics

Thanks @Dr_Mike_Stevens!! It was fun to get to argue against Dan Morgan, although I think I got the better side ;). Thanks to SHEA for a great #SHEA2023

Important work by Joe Carpenter on using nonstigmatizing language #wordsmatter

IDSA Immediate Past Treasurer Helen Boucher, MD, FIDSA (Helen Boucher) is testifying during the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, “Superbugs: The Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on Modern Medicine.” Watch live: help.senate.gov/hearings/super…

#IDtwitter - Our Final SHEA Compendium of Strategies for Prevention of #CAUTIs is out now in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Updated include: - Disrupting catheter lifecycle - Implementation strategies - Dx stewardship - Leveraging metrics - #CatheterHarm Read: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

⁦Helen Boucher⁩ delivering the opening plenary at the 2023 ⁦ASM⁩ ⁦⁦ESCMID⁩ Joint Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance

Apply for Tinsley Harrison Scholars Program! Deadline Oct 6. ssciweb.org/tinsley-harris…

🆕️⚡️#CID Jess Howard-Anderson Helen Boucher Moving beyond mortality: Development and Application of a Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) Endpoint for(HABP/VABP) Todd C. Lee Joshua Davis Brad Spellberg Steven Tong #IDXposts academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…

Antibacterial Resistance, Research, and Funding in 2024 academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab… Wrote this editorial for Clinical Infectious Diseases to highlight the challenges faced in the antibiotic pipeline.

Three implementation podcasts from SHEA on how to implement #SSI Prevention Guidelines (cambridge.org/core/journals/…): 1. Pre-Op recommendations (soundcloud.com/user-788310625…), 2. Peri-Op recommendations: soundcloud.com/user-788310625…, 3. Post-Op recommendations: soundcloud.com/user-788310625…

"Why are these next-generation antibiotics not being used more often?" wrote Jessica Howard-Anderson, MD, of Emory Univ. School of Medicine, and Helen Boucher, MD, of Tufts Medicine + Tufts School of Medicine, in an accompanying editorial to a new study: medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag… Helen Boucher

What started as a fun (and maybe a bit scary) debate SHEA 2023 with Dan Morgan is now published in Annals of Int Med. We discuss implications and potential benefits of the new hospital onset bacteremia/fungemia (HOB) metric. Thanks Dan Morgan for your leadership! Carlos del Rio