Patients with serious infections who are cared for by an ID physician have better outcomes, shorter hospital stays & lower healthcare costs, shares Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. during today's House Appropriations and House Appropriations Democrats 'Member Day' hearing.

Thank you for your leadership in urging…

📢📢 We are hiring! APPs in ID- check out our job posting. Great colleagues, interesting work, and a fantastic location. Come join our team! HutchIDSciences UW Medicine careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/27332/adv…

Since it’s my mission to educate the world on how common iron deficiency is in menstruating people, I will continue to tweet this until my fingers fall off.

Y’all want to help me out with a RT?!

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New article published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology highlighting our team's work creating community respiratory viral metrics to message the importance of masking in healthcare facilities.

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And more incredible work by Whitney Hartlage and the UW Center for Stewardship in Medicine (CSiM) community! We have to know where we are to know where to go. Maybe some low-hanging 🫐🍐🍊?

Couldn't agree more! Outstanding work by Dr. Alyssa Castillo to improve communication in antimicrobial stewardship (and everywhere else!) UW Center for Stewardship in Medicine (CSiM)

Congratulations Whitney Hartlage

John Lynch Rupali Jain UW Center for Stewardship in Medicine (CSiM) Paul Pottinger NMP and twitterless: Alyssa Castillo, Jeannie Chan, Chloe Bryson-Cahn
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?s about the updated COVID vaccine? Drew Comments has the answers ⬇️

What's the best model for TeleASP?

Zahra Kassamali Escobar and I tried to tackle that and much more in a giant review in Infectious Disease Clinics.

Check it out: secure-web.cisco.com/1EbIhHYBOa_bu2…

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More great news this week. Another outstanding colleague, physician, teacher, and leader in ID moving and shaking the world for the better. Congratulations Jasmine R Marcelin, MD, FACP, FIDSA 🦠! Smart move University of Nebraska Medical Center.

In the US:
Malaria, dengue, COVID-19, typhus, measles, M. leprae, C. auris, vaccine + ID mis/disinformation, widespread inequities➡️IDs, defunding of PH...Feels like we in ID (+ others) have a lot of work to do now + the coming months/years
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This is wonderful news! Jeanne Marrazzo is a fantastic leader, scientist, physician, and colleague. So excited for the future of NIAID.

Could not be more excited about this inspiring announcement of ⁦Jeanne Marrazzo⁩ as the new NIAID director. A dedicated scientist and great champion of prevention & equity, Dr. Marazzo will be an outstanding ⁦leader in this globally important role. nih.gov/news-events/ne…

🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.

(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/

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Devastating is an understatement. This decision will only worsen currently existing disparities in deaths due to racism. mississippitoday.org/2023/01/26/mat….

New commentary from NIH: for patient safety, #masking should continue in healthcare settings. Full text available here: ow.ly/a5iK50Op5oI

Exactly!

Outstanding article by 3 world class pharmacy experts/colleagues, Drs Erin McCreary Julie Ann Justo and Zahra Kassamali Escobar!!