Whoohoo! Guess what? Our IDSA Private Practice Community of Practice website landing page is up! 🥰 Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar this morning 🙏. In case you missed it, you can find it on our new website page 👇 www.idsociety.org/membership-c...

Friendly reminder for this upcoming Monday, we have our upcoming first IDSA Private Practice CoP webinar for 2026: Getting the job you want in ID: Exploring practice models and career success Mon, April 20th at 10 am EST Register here: societycentral.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Hope to see you there!

Pt presents with 2 wk headaches, blurred vision, polyuria, polydipsia, Na 121. Found to have panhypopituitarism from mass involving pituitary gland. CT chest and skin lesion below. What is the diagnosis? www.ppidjournal.com/doi10-55636-...

What happens when a 79 year old woman wrestles a badger to protect her dog? What do you get from a badger bite? Read all about this fascinating case report here! www.ppidjournal.com/doi10-55636-...

Curbside consults are a daily reality in ID practice - but are we thinking carefully about the risk? This article examines the clinical, ethical and legal dimensions of curbside consults and gives you practical strategies to minimize liability

How do you navigate a curbside? Every ID doc knows the curbside consult 😅 Someone catches you in the hallway, asks you about a cx result, & suddenly you're giving advice on a pt you've never seen. We discussed the pros, cons, and yes - the legal risks, right here👇 ppidjournal.com/doi10-55636-...

Save the date! April 20th at 10 am EST Webinar: Getting the Job you want in ID Get a honest look at private practice ID, learn key interview strategies and more! Register here. societycentral.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#IDsky Hi for anyone who wasn’t able to join Roon, please message me with your email. They gave us invites until they can build it out. @sebpoule.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social @idiots-pod.bsky.social @dremilymcd.bsky.social @steventong.bsky.social @absteward.bsky.social

Excited to share a SoMe ID community that I'm helping build as one of their Founding Physicians: Roon The ID community is launching today. The fragmentation between X and BlueSky has hurt ID social media. I hope this medically focused SoMe will improve this connection and collaboration Join below!

I’m really enjoying this platform w/o the noise that makes other platforms frustrating. I am learning so much about other specialties & can’t wait to see what the ID community will bring (which launches today!) But I miss my friends so I hope you join! www.roon.com?utm_campaign....

I enjoyed this conversation on Roon. Got a little heated. Folks are passionate about the word “provider” Thoughts? www.roon.com/doctors/roun...

#IDSky Blood culture from the febrile patient in ICU. Proteus miralbilis is isolated (susceptibility below). How would you treat? @dralicehan.bsky.social @antibioticdoc.bsky.social @bradspellberg.bsky.social @idiots-pod.bsky.social @wwrighid.bsky.social @cortes-penfield.bsky.social

We are genotyping and phenotyping as many of the isolates as we can get hold of (will be most). So the analysis of blaZ and cefazolin inoculum effect will follow once done. Can't wait to see what this shows! Altogether there were 1341 participants in SNAP, so much larger than CloCeBa.

#IDsky Somehow I missed this in November! I thought snap put worries about BlaZ and inoculum effect to bed, but in the CloCeBa trial, in the BlaZ Type A subset, cefazolin did not meet noninferiority. Thoughts? @steventong.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IDsky Looking for private practice ID groups interested in joining a network that facilitates connections with local fellowship programs. Please contact me if you are interested!

Malpractice litigation is a reality for many clinicians - even in ID. This article explains the anatomy of a lawsuit and shares proves risk reduction strategies to help protect your practice and your patients 🩺 💡 www.ppidjournal.com/doi10-55636-...

Clinical educators - this one’s for you! A pragmatic approach to teaching ID in a busy private practice - actionable strategies to boost engagement and learning!

Medical lawsuits are the most emotionally stressful part of a physician’s job. This was an incredible article outlining how malpractice claims work. I loved the section on risk reduction strategies to protect your practice and patients. One to bookmark!

#idboardreview A Pt w/travel to Mexico a few months prior (drank tap water, ate raw vegetables) noticed a small worm-like object on inner surface of her lower lip. She removed the object with a needle. Dx? #medEd #idmeded #IDsky #parasitology

The hospital is handing out taffy apples 🍎today, and I am just here to say they are delicious! I am ashamed to admit I grew up in the midwest, and this is the first time I have ever had a taffy apple. Don’t make my mistake, go try one now! They are so good! 😋

‼️Just shared at #IDWeek2025 & now published in @ofidjournal.bsky.social cephalexin vs. cefdinir for tx of uUTI in females. Spoiler: Cefdinir was independently associated with/failure & cefdinir pts were twice as likely to fail. Let’s stop Rx’ing cefdinir for UTI! 🛑💊 academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

#IDsky Wow!!! This is a really exciting prospect. To think that the COVID19 mRNA primes the immune system to make immunotherapy more effective against cancer is a BIG deal. This is fascinating science 🤩

Really proud to be a part of this community and always inspired by my colleagues around the country who continue to show up even when it's hard.

This year's #IDweek is now over. Our community has taken so many hits since the pandemic and now the assaults on public health, science, vaccines etc. Yet the infectious disease community has some of the most dedicated, resilient and thoughtful people I know. Here's to hope & staying with the fight.

#IDsky Sometimes the best part of the conferences are the Q&A sessions afterwards -Someone asked what do you do with pts colonized with MDRO’s prior to transplant -Dr Papanicolau creates a detailed abx plan for when pt has a neutropenic fever -Someone said that they decolonize w/ oral gentamicin 🤯

#IDsky AML is the primary hematologic malignancy associated with invasive fungal infection What a great slide looking at the mutations we see in AML, very rare pts with MRD post induction and not need to proceed with allo HSCT as shown in green box

#IDsky Fascinating lecture on the respiratory microbiome Our understanding of the resp microbiome has changes dramatically but the commensals may actually be protective against pathogenic bacteria

#IDsky What is the best agent for invasive aspergillosis?

#IDsky does higher dosing of L-amB matter for mucorales? Does combination therapy provide any benefit? By Dr Farmakiotis at Beth Israel Highly angioinvasive nature of mucorales and increased LAMB MIC compared to other molds

#IDsky Outcomes of pts with CLABSI receiving antibiotic lock therapy An underutilized therapy we should use more to salvage catheters!

#IDsky #Teamdalbavancin When does the patent expire?

#IDsky serotype distribution & resistance prior to pcv 20/21 - non bacteremic hospitalized episodes of pneumococcus have a different serotype distribution and tend to have higher resistance than IPD - interesting breakdown on differences bw what pcv20 vs 21 would cover if vaccinated

#IDsky Next up, a presentation from Rush by Dr Rhee Let’s look at CHG concentrations on our heme/onc/SCT units

#IDsky One of my partners Dr Pinsky is presenting data on staph aureus colonization, risk factors for infection and whether vanc changes risk of infection

#IDsky What’s the optimal duration for gram neg bacteremia in SOT recipients?

#IDsky Outcomes in OLT recipients with recent bacteremia No difference bw <14 d vs >14d recent bacteremia

#IDSky Come join us this morning for our IDSA private practice CoP!

@dralicehan.bsky.social @zacrobid.bsky.social @sairabt.bsky.social @asato4kids.bsky.social

#IDWeek2025 off to a 🔥start! first in person Women in ID Book Club reading the Rainfall Market! Thankful for these women who continue to come out to support and enjoy each others company! @idweek.bsky.social @jennmpd.bsky.social @sairabt.bsky.social @docwoc71.bsky.social @dralicehan.bsky.social

#IDsky What’s hot in clinical ID Looking at levo for tb prevention in close contacts- vchamp and vquin evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#IDsky What’s hot in clinical ID First approved Ebola vaccine and utilizing it as ring vaccination for close contacts

#IDsky Why telemedicine is so valuable.

#IDsky What’s hot in clinical ID ADAPT-Sepsis You can use procal but not CRP to guide abx But maybe also refer to BALANCE Trial to also help guide duration for gram neg sepsis - which she also discussed. As well as DOTS

#IDsky What’s hot in clinical ID This was one of my favorite studies this year. Such a breakthrough in understanding transmission and persistence of BV

#IDsky Interesting trial looking at primary tx for CDI. I will need to check this study out! But will insurance companies approve for primary tx?

#IDsky Still waiting for both of these to be available on the market to Rx. Has anyone had access to these drugs? This is from last year IDWeek

#IDsky What’s hot in clinical ID? REVISIT trial. It’s always challenging to interpret when there are so few carbapenemase producing organisms included in the trial, esp MBLs

#IDsky Come say 👋 tomorrow at the 31 flavors of ID! Who doesn’t ❤️🍦? I will be at the private practice booth. Come learn all about private practice in ID. It’s wonderful, just like 🍨🍦

#IDsky Just arrived in Atlanta! Excited to see everyone at #IDweek. I’ll discuss any questions or advice for fellows interested in private practice in ID. Hope to see you tomorrow at Fellow’s Day!

#IDsky Our IDSA Private Practice CoP will be meeting again this year at IDWeek! Hope to see you there 😊 Tuesday October 21st at 8:30 am Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park Grand Ballroom A-M4 Tower