Congratulations to Dr. Blair Weikert on his election into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians!! The Academy of Master Clinicians is the highest clinical honor for a Penn Medicine physician.

Happy Holidays from the Penn ID Fellows. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season!

Making good use of what snowy daylight there is on the shortest day of the year!

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

www.koin.com/news/oregon/... UFOs in multiple locations in Oregon. Not much coverage in national news

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Interesting take on the value of productive stupidity in science

Congrats everyone!!

Congrats to the winners of the inaugural ID Division Ugly Sweater Contest (the 3 folks in green)!!

Congratulations to Dr. Dovie Watson on her invited commentary in JAMA Network Open entitled “Burnout Among Sexual and Gender Minority Physicians- From Recognition to Intervention.” This fantastic commentary discusses the increased burnout among SGM physicians and advocates for actionable changes.

Penn partnership w Cost Plus

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/m... Interesting piece on the intersection of military conflicts and AMR

academic.oup.com/ofid/article... Important call for global perspective in approach to AR

From my segment today on @cnbc.com. We face a grim and avoidable resurgence of once vanquished childhood infectious diseases if we follow down the current path being taken in Washington.

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- 2/7/25     ⁃    Program dates: 6/9-8/1/25 Learn more: tinyurl.com/pennspidr

University of Pennsylvania Infectious Diseases Division is recruiting for several Academic Clinician faculty positions. apply.interfolio.com/157709 (Asst Prof) apply.interfolio.com/157628 (Assoc/Full Prof)

This is FASCINATING 🤯 Devil Facial Tumor Disease spreads through the Tasmanian devil population like a highly contagious infection, not from a carcinogenic microbe but "as an allograft, meaning the tumor cells themselves are transplanted from one devil to another" #IDSky #VetSky #EpiSky #MedSky

Trump's pick to lead CDC, Dave Weldon, introduced a bill while he was a U.S. representative to move most of the safety research done on vaccines away from the CDC justfacts.votesmart.org/public-state...

Enjoying some SNF with Maddie and @ebblautenbach.bsky.social

Beautiful day for the Philly marathon!