Looking to do some stewardship and/or hospital epi? Join me, @wbranchelliman.bsky.social, and our crew at VA Greater Los Angeles!

best admin assistant (and pre-interview Zoom DJ) ever!

Colleagues- in case this was missed during summer vacation, please share. I just went to the Bowl again last week and saw Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo. The Bowl is not the only reason to be in LA....but it is pretty spectacular. Also my ASP team is just the bee's knees.

the marker of a good journal club is that the fellows have already left for clinic and the attendings are still arguing

I demand a randomized controlled trial of hiring people who resign back to their prior jobs. The public deserves nothing less.

Moderate immunocompromise (even if overly broadly defined) should not buy you vanc + antipseudomonal for CAP: my latest @idsainfo.bsky.social Journal Club review: www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

my fellow just put up a slide in case conference with the “distracted boyfriend” meme for linezolid overtaking clindamycin as the “toxin” drug of choice and never have I been more proud as a program director

let’s goooooooooooooo

we’ve all been there, right?

most men aren’t complicated, it turns out (at least as it pertains to UTI)

you’re damn right I’m giving feedback on every internal medicine LKA question I miss as being a bad question

good reminder for all the new trainees: antibiotics don’t fix structural abnormalities

ID is about so much more than picking the correct antibiotics

On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks blog: A study in OFID examined the impact of antibiotic duration on gut microbiome composition and antimicrobial resistance. Read IDSA’s Journal Club review by Christopher J. Graber, MD, MPH, FIDSA. buff.ly/CDwwOlf

IDSA Journal Club is back, baby! My latest on the perhaps questionable effect of shortening antimicrobial courses of therapy on the gut microbiome: www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

Deadline approaching! Submit your team of ID trivia powerhouses to compete in IDBugBowl, a Jeopardy-style competition held at #IDWeek2025: buff.ly/JUFUcel IDWeek will pay FULL conference registration for student, resident & fellow team participants. Apply by 5/16.

It takes a village! So many past/present/future fellows on this paper examining Karius utilization: most clinical impact seen with cx neg IE and concern for fastidious/zoonotic/vectorborne pathogens www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

get those applications in!

so I am starting to bring up lessons I have learned from Dan Campbell (Detroit Lions coach) in talks on leadership in antimicrobial stewardship. Question from a colleague: What is the ASP equivalent of going for it on 4th down?

was discussing the vagaries of diagnosing osteomyelitis in conference today as to whether osteo was bona fide or not and someone said “don’t you mean bony fide” so that’s what I’m calling it now

Here is the gift link to a new piece I wrote for this mornings Washington post. You don't need to be a subscriber: wapo.st/42EsQeM

was hesitant to spend my free time on a medical drama, but I might have to be in now

bring it, rheumatology

c’mon, like we in ID don’t have enough on our plate already

The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) reclassifies Group B 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 as its own genus: 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘪 I knew this was possible (e.g. 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 used to be Group D 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴) but still caught me by surprise Cool they are honoring Rebecca Lancefield!

Drug-resistant #gonorrhea is an urgent issue, threatening our empiric treatment options. Resistance to ceftriaxone is rapidly increasing in the Asia-Pacific region. Happy to share our study from Vietnam, now out in @jidjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jid/article/... #IDsky #STIsky #AMR

Groundbreaking research from Dr. Joanna Schaenman! Her findings reveal how COVID-19 impacts organ transplant patients differently than others and highlight the urgent need for tailored treatment approaches for this vulnerable population. Read more: uclahs.fyi/41gGK6d

things we will discuss at the upcoming UCLA ID fellowship ORTBO

#Measles case reported in Los Angeles County LAX is a big airport and this is a long time frame = many people w/ potential exposure A good plug for #vaccines, because you never know when you might be exposed. publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/pub...

Connect the organisms with an antibiotic that covers all four in each group! connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OK2cZ4...

just discovered R.E.M. released a compilation last year entitled “We Are Hope Despite the Times.” Good one to put on the ol’ Spotify today.

love the “grow and blow” phrase used here (overly wet conditions allow growth of organism in soil, then overly dry conditions facilitate spore dispersal)

@padamsonmd.bsky.social up to stuff!

We are excited to announce the call for applications for the South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR) 2025-26 Fellowship Class! This is a year-long program for pre- and post-doctoral physician trainees from US institutions.

are you really an ID doc if you don’t correct grammatical and spelling mistakes when restating the consult question in your note?

my suggestion for the VA IT helpdesk on-hold music youtu.be/ousaiByU1ko?...

I cover the fellow pager for four hours. The hospital runs out of dalbavancin. The above two events may be correlated.

I’m convinced cardiologists make up different letters between HF and EF just to mess with us

every academic institution needs a Director of Attention Stewardship who monitors email traffic and does audit-feedback on people who send too many

if the people who run the Watch Alert app or the guy who runs the Los Angeles Scanner account on X ever run for local office here, they will get 100% of the vote

Thanks to everyone in the @ucla-id-fellowship.bsky.social diaspora that has reached out over the past few days. We are all safe but some have had significant losses. We will get through this together!

I did not have Steve Guttenberg saving lives in the Pacific Palisades on my bingo card for today but here we are

Congratulations to Paul Adamson, whose Super Gonococci won the 2024 @ucla-id-fellowship.bsky.social Fantasy Football Championship!

Absolutely wonderful @ucla-id-fellowship.bsky.social Grand Rounds today from Contagion writer Scott Burns titled “The Death of Expertise.”

the news that bezlotoxumab is being withdrawn from market reminds me of how we in ID continually shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to operating within the American healthcare landscape while specialties like heme-onc figure it out www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

ID doctors and clinical microbiologists identify alarming new cluster of extensively drug-resistant Shigella sonnei carrying blaCTX-M-15 in Los Angeles First author paper from our friend JR Caldera here: @jrcaldera.bsky.social www.ajicjournal.org/action/showP...

come for me being fired up about our match but stay for @wbranchelliman.bsky.social talking about her pivot from journalism to medicine!

our cross-town friends at @lageneral-id.bsky.social are here! Added them to the ID division/fellowship starter pack!