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✨FellowSpotlight✨Dr. Suha Kalash, MD (1st yr) Why ID?: “It’s the best specialty to have as your own but also stay in every other specialty’s business. ID touches every organ system & specialty, so you’re constantly thinking broadly, solving diagnostic puzzles, & collaborating.”

🥳 Tomorrow is the ID Fellowship Graduation and we could not be more proud of this graduating class! We cannot wait to celebrate these exceptional ID fellows as they embark on the next stages of their careers!! 💫

The ID Division Book Club is tonight!! We will be reading “The Fatal Strain” by Alan Sipress. Dr. Louise Moncla from Penn School of Veterinary Medicine & Dr. Betsy Schroeder from Pennsylvania Department of Health will be joining us to discuss the book & avian influenza.

Congratulations and welcome to our 2025 incoming fellowship class! We are so excited to welcome these amazing future ID physicians to the program!

Congratulations to Drs. Laurel Glaser & Kyle Rodino, recipients of the Alfred Stengel Health System Champion Award with Dr. Vivianna Van Deerlin. They are recognized for their significant contributions to health system clinical integration, efficiency, & improving quality care.

Congratulations to Drs. Ted Kreider & Robert Gross, recipients of 2024 Red Ribbon Awards. Dr. Kreider was awarded the Cure Advocacy BEAT-HIV Award, recognizing his work advancing HIV education & advocacy in Philadelphia communities. Dr. Gross was awarded the Researcher Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Meisner on winning the first annual ID Cookie Bake-off!! And, congratulations to all of the bakers (Dr. Jung Seo, Olivia Lee, & Kurt Palumbo) on their delicious cookies!!!

Happy Holidays from the Penn ID Fellows! We had a great time at the ID Division Holiday Party where the PPMC Attendings swept all 3 top prizes in the ugly sweater contest. Congrats to Dr Sharon Tsay (& her contagiously crafty microbe sweater), Dr. Jillian Baron, & Dr. Bill Short!

Congratulations to Dr. Dovie Watson on her invited commentary in @JAMANetworkOpen entitled “Burnout Among Sexual & Gender Minority Physicians- From Recognition to Intervention.” This fantastic commentary discusses burnout among SGM physicians & advocates for actionable changes.

Are you looking for an enriching research experience in Philadelphia next summer? The Penn CFAR Scholars’ & Summer Program in Infectious Diseases Research (SPIDR) Program may be it!     ⁃    Application opens: 12/2/24     ⁃    Close date: 2/7/25     ⁃    Program: 6/9-8/1/25

Happy National Antibiotic Awareness Week, day 2! Today, the HUP Stewardship Team walk-rounded, handing out candy & stewardship buttons! UAAW is celebrated each November to raise awareness about the importance of appropriate antimicrobial use & the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Happy National Antibiotic Awareness Week!! Today, the PPMC Team had a table in the cafeteria with games, cupcakes, & buttons! Our Antimicrobial Stewardship Teams are awesome. USAAW raise awareness about the importance of appropriate antimicrobial use & the risks of AMR.

2nd year ID fellows, Drs. Elle Saine & Kevin Kohm, joined doctors & med students across the country to encourage physician voter advocacy. VOTE!!

📢NEW PUBLICATIONS📢 Congrats to Dr. Jess Meisner on 2 new publications this week! “Psychosocial Impact of Suspected Xylazine-Associated Skin Wounds Among People Using Fentanyl, Philadelphia, 2022-2023," in @SAj_AMERSA. "Outcomes of LA-ART at a syringe exchange" in @OFIDJournal

Congratulations to Dr. Jessie Torgersen on receiving the @PennMedicine Advocacy Award!! Dr. Torgersen pioneered the @PennMedicine Viral Hepatitis Linkage Team to address care gaps in hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening & linkage to curative treatment. She is an inspiration to all!

We are so proud to see Dr. Momplaisir on the front page for her #IDweek2024 session, “‘I Don’t See Race’: The Impact of Colorblind Constitution Has on Clinical Disparities, Medical Education & the Workforce in Infectious Diseases” addressing why DEI is essential in healthcare.

#IDweek2024 - Deanna Berg, PharmD presented 2 posters (including a Rapid-Fire poster): “Daptomycin-Induced Creatine Phosphokinase Elevations Among Patients Requiring Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy” & “Clinical Microbiology of Xylazine-Associated Wound Infections.”

#IDweek2024 - Tommy Rust, PharmD presented on “Short versus Long Duration of Empiric Antifungal Use Among Patients with Sepsis or Septic Shock.”

#IDweek2024 - Dr. Joseph Ladines-Lim presented on “Prevalence and Correlates of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing in Japanese Primary Care Settings.”