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Feeling some major FOMO about missing #SHEASpring2024. Since I can't be there in person, sharing 5 of the best infection prevention/stewardship articles (& accompanying editorials) published in JAMA this past year.

As a study participant in this trial, I did not use the AI-generated reply all that often because it didn't sound like me. I didn't feel comfortable sending a message with a new tone/voice to someone I had a long-standing relationship with. 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Thinking about joining the cicadas this summer and just screaming for six weeks straight. You?

New in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology: Bobby Glenn Warren III et al. describe a lab-based study whose results suggest the superiority of qPCR over culture-based methods & efficacy of sponge sampling over swab and contact plate sampling methodologies. 📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

happy ID Pharmacists Day, y’all! We’ve got some rockstars at Duke Infectious Diseases Jason Funaro yenna, pharmd Rebekah H. Wrenn Libby Dodds Ashley Amy Mackowiak and no-context Connor

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Dean's Staff Awards! Dean's Excellence Staff Award - Bobby Warren, MS, Director of the Disinfection, Resistance, and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Department of Medicine

🎉 Congratulations to Bobby Warren, MS, Director of DiRTE Lab, and Pamela Keels, Administrative Director for receiving the 2024 Dean’s Staff Awards from Duke University School of Medicine. We're so grateful to have your leadership here at the Department of Medicine! bit.ly/4aEgmWq

Late last year, IDSA wrote a letter to American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) asking for (very reasonable) changes in the recertification process: -reduce $ -make process less onerous -make it more relevant The letter, now published Clinical Infectious Diseases, is here. doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… 1/3

#IDGoodNews, Congratulations Dr. Perez on your effort as a faculty member in the Duke Interprofessional Education Clinic for academic year 2023-2024!! #DukeInterprofessionalEducationClinic #DukeID #DukeProud Duke Department of Medicine

Our new work: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… showed that for resident physicians, secure messaging use was linked with an increase in telephone use. Results suggest that use of EHR-integrated messaging channels do not replace of existing channels, but add to the communication burden.

I know first-hand how important Infectious Disease (ID) physicians are in a public health crisis. Yet, 80% of U.S. counties do not have an ID physician. To protect our nation’s public health, we must break down the barriers that stop medical students from becoming ID physicians.

#UncleBob proudly presents Episode 150 of Annals On Call - Everything We Label Sepsis Is Not the Same Annals of Int Med acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN… A very important podcast featuring Dr. Michael Klompas from Brigham and Women's Hospital

Support Hillsborough Elementary School Read-a-Thon! 📣📣📣 Libby McDaniel's 4th grade... And a cool guy named Simon who likes books. 🎉🎉Hillsborough Elem. givebacks.com/causes/hillsbo…

We're RECRUITING for our NEXT PGY2-ID!!

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Timely public health info keeps communities safe. The HHS communication pause blocks critical CDC updates, risking delayed responses to threats like H5N1. SHEA urges immediate restoration—because transparency saves lives. #SafeHealthcareForAll buff.ly/40GO36S