Weekends shouldn’t be time to recover. They should be time to rejoice. Burnout cultures exhaust us through the week and force us to recharge on the weekends. Healthy cultures provide daily space to refuel. Places that continually deplete our energy don’t serve our well-being.

The awesome transplant team of Maryland University of Maryland Medical Center University of Maryland School of Medicine at the #ATC2023SanDiego

Frailty is prevalent in SOT and is associated with DEATH 😬 But still we don’t have a consistent approach to frailty assessment in SOT patients. Great debate this morning! #ATC2023

Wonderful presentations by Silke Niederhaus on criteria for pancreas transplant and @jobadd on top ID papers today! #ATC2023 University of Maryland Medical Center

Just collecting all the documentation needed to get that prior auth

Congratulations Kaitlyn Legg and #stilltwitterlessken on completing PGY2! We are excited for you to join our team!

#TipsForNewDocs Pay attention to available dosages of meds you prescribe frequently. Ex.: furosemide comes in 20-, 40-. 80-mg tabs. 60 mg BID is annoying for pts to take- choose 40 BID to 80 BID. Little details -> less confusion, more adherence = win-win! #kittlesonrules

Working with the living donor team is just awesome. Thank you to our donors who make these transplants possible! 🥰

When someone is on cefepime what does perioperative cefazolin do. Does anyone know ?

Well…do you??? Happy Wednesday, TxPharm! Retweet if you’re team alemtuzumab

UM Medicine Faculty-Scientists and Clinicians Perform Second Historic Transplant of Pig Heart into Patient with End-Stage Cardiovascular Disease bit.ly/3t7AHmX

Advice I gave a resident today: Don’t assume the number of comments (feedback) you get from preceptors corresponds to a “bad” job done. It’s not always linear. What is pretty linear, however, is how much feedback you get vs how much your preceptors care about & believe in you.

The fact that insurance companies are STILL requiring HCV genotype for approval of pangenotypic agents is wild…🤯 Anyone have success with getting approval without genotype?

Read about Eileen Harlin, who donated both her liver and kidney to her mother, Julia Harlin, in rare, life-saving, living donor dual transplants at the University of Maryland Medical Center. wbaltv.com/article/dual-l…

Excited to share our opioid minimization experience University of Maryland Medical Center! 🥳 Thanks to our whole team for making this quality improvement initiative a success! Silke Niederhaus Chandra bhati cureus.com/articles/20912…

Renal transplantation using kidneys from a donor with high-grade CMV viremia >100 000 IU/mL? We describe the first case ever in The Lancet Infectious Diseases | Kasra Shirini | #RenalTransplantation #Cytomegalovirus #CMV #Valganciclovir #TransplantResearch | authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOfA5E-UogW…

So much fun chatting with Kayla, Kimi, and Keith! Their dedication to their sports and training is impressive!

🦠 New episode 📣 SOT ID experts, Kellie Goodlet and Erin McCreary, dive into some of the most pervasive myths surrounding ID in SOT . Join Aileen Chi and Sara Bova, as we sit down with experts to explore the latest evidence that challenges these myths! open.spotify.com/episode/2mz98l…

NEW PODCAST 🚨 Go behind the scenes of our podcast committee and hear what it’s all about and why being part of this team is so fulfilling. Whether you’re curious about joining or just want to know what makes this group tick, tune in for some honest talk! open.spotify.com/episode/1uG0Ne…