It is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW)! Our antimicrobial stewardship team has been hard at work making this the most fun & educational week! Head over to our @pennIDfellows Instagram to let us know what antibiotic you are!

Congratulations to Dr. Florence Momplaisir on being awarded the ID Society Citation Award. Her dedication to her patients, the community, and improving to care for all is an inspiration. We are so lucky to learn through her leadership and example.

“We can be the antidote to stigma.” Dr: Judith Feinberg shares the life lessons she has learned over a lifetime of being on the front lines of epidemics during the Edward H. Kass Lecture at #IDweek2025

✨#IDFacultyFridays: Judy O’Donnell, MD (PPMC CMO & ID Chief)✨ Why Penn ID: “The breadth/depth of expertise is unparalleled…But it’s the people/camaraderie among providers, clinic/admin staff, grants/research teams that make Penn ID a wonderful place to work. I may be biased but PPMC ID is the best!”

Which of our ID Fellowship tracks are you???? ✅ Head over to our instagram to see the full post. ✅ Don’t forget to check out our website to learn more about our fellowship tracks! ✅ If you have questions, send us a DM!

The Med-Peds ID program is a 4-year joint program between HUP & CHOP. When they finish, our Med-Peds ID fellows are expertly trained to manage infections throughout life stages. Bonus - CHOP and HUP are all on the same campus (and CHOP has the best cafeteria!)

Fellows have several opportunities to pursue an advanced degree research training program, such as the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE), one of the nation’s top offerings in clinical research training. MSCE grads are poised for academic research careers across a disciplines.

The Opioid Use Disorders & ID Fellowship Track is one of several tracks for fellows to complete advanced training. Fellows become experts in clinical management of people living infections due to opioid use disorder through a combination of unique clinical & educational opportunities.

The HIV & Viral Hepatitis Fellowship Track is one of several tracks for advanced training. The track is designed for fellows to become experts in the clinical management of people living with HIV & viral hepatitis through a wide range of faculty mentorship, clinical care, & research opportunities.

The Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Stewardship Track prepares fellows for a career in healthcare epidemiology, including leading & collaborating with infection prevention & control, & antimicrobial stewardship teams. Learn more at our fellowship website.

The Transplant ID Fellowship Track is one of several tracks within which fellows can complete advanced clinical training. The track combines inpatient & outpatient training in the management of transplant candidates & recipients with infectious diseases issues. Learn more at our fellowship website.

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Dr. Sarah Longworth, MD (Fellowship Associate PD)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The culture of our division- incredible collegiality & support to train & practice. We're a big division. The breadth of expertise comes in handy when you need to phone a friend.”

✨FellowSpotlight✨Dr. Michelle Munyikwa (1st yr) Why ID?: “ID docs recognize the power & importance of people’s stories for diagnosis & treatment: we get to ask the coolest questions &, plus, our diseases are so treatable! I love being part of a specialty that is so attuned to equity.”

✨FellowSpotlight✨Dr. Danny Sack (1st yr) Why ID?: “Infections transcend organ systems, social structures, & geographic borders. Treating infections requires understanding their interplay & appropriate interventions for each. That's pretty cool.”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE (Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The best thing about Penn ID is the people! A super supportive, collaborative, & fun group of people to work with. Penn ID rocks!”

Congratulations to former @PennIDFellow & PPMC Attending, Dr. @kdyer330.bsky.social, on her MA thesis work publication, "Effectiveness of an Embedded Infectious Disease Screening, Treatment, and Prevention Intervention Within an Inpatient Substance Use Treatment Program" in @ofidjournal.bsky.social!

On the last day of #WTC2025, two of our amazing transplant ID Attendings took to the podium during the “Can I Do That? Preventing Infection” Invited Symposium. Dr. Ingi Lee gave a talk entitled “Can I Do That? Can I Prevent That?” & Dr. Blair Weikert moderated.

Huge congratulations to Dr. Kelly Dyer, Penn ID graduate & PPMC Attending on the publication of her thesis work!!!

@pennidfellows at #WTC2025 in San Francisco!! Did you know that we have a Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship Track, combining diverse inpatient & outpatient clinical experience?! We also have the coolest transplant ID Attendings! @astinfo.bsky.social @ttsorg.bsky.social @ast-idcop.bsky.social

The World Transplant Congress is underway in San Francisco. On Saturday, our very own @pennidfellows Program Director and WTC 2025 Congress President, Dr. Emily Blumberg, opened the #WTC2025! @astinfo.bsky.social @ast-idcop.bsky.social @ttsorg.bsky.social

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Jessie Torgersen, MD MHS MSCE (Director of the Center for Viral Hepatitis & Hepatitis Linkage Team)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The collegiality & diversity of expertise within our division that make this a wonderful environment in which to train, work, & innovate.”

Welcome to our new ID fellows!!! We are loving getting to meet you all and are so excited to have you joining us!

Yesterday, we celebrated the graduation of 6 of our ID fellows: Drs. Kevin He, Zach Hostetler, Kevin Kohm, Charmaine Mutucumarana, Sergio Reyes, & Corey Watts.They are all incredible doctors, educators, and people! It was wonderful to take some time to celebrate their awesome achievements!

Congratulations to Dr. Florence Momplaisir & Dr. Elle Saine, recipients of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Infectious Diseases Citizenship Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Longworth & Dr. Kate Whitaker, recipients of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Infectious Diseases Junior Faculty Outstanding Clinician Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Dovie Watson, recipient of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Infectious Diseases Junior Faculty Outstanding Investigator Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Jessie Torgersen, recipient of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Harvey M. Friedman Infectious Diseases Faculty Mentoring Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Bill Short & Dr. Randi Silibovsky, recipients of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Stephen J. Gluckman Infectious Diseases Faculty Teaching Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Dyer & Dr. Jess O’Neil, recipients of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Robert Austrian Outstanding Infectious Diseases Research Fellow Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin He & Dr. Kevin Kohm, recipients of the 2025 Infectious Diseases Division Outstanding Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellow Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Bogadi Loabile on the publication of her research paper entitled “Association of HIV Status with Infections Complicating Abortion in Botswana” in the journal AIDS.

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Vin Lo Re III, MD, MSCE (Assistant Professor in ID & Epidemiology, Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Co-Director of the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The fabulous people in our division.”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Erica Weinstein, MD, MSCE (Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in ID)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The collaborative, friendly, supportive environment.”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Dr. Ross England, MD, PhD (Adult/peds ID Attending @ HUP & CHOP)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “Combining great clinical ID cases w/ a super smart group w/ diverse areas of expertise & clinical/scientific interest creates a perfect storm of awesome teaching & learning”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Danica Palacio, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative group-- excited to join such a welcoming group!”

✨#IDFacultyFridays: Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE, AAHIVS✨ Favorite thing abt Penn ID: “My amazing research mentor, Dr. Bauermeister. He's a prolific LGBTQ+ health researcher & incredible human. I often ask ‘What Would Jose Do?’ to keep motivated, extend myself grace, & ensure I stay authentic & bad ass.”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Rahul Kohli, MD, PhD (Assoc. Professor in ID & MD/PhD Program Assoc. PD)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “HUP & PSOM are intertwined with the Penn campus. Penn ID is uniquely situated to support basic science & its translation into innovations that impact patient care.”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Sharon Tsay, MD (Assoc. Hospital Epidemiologist, PPMC ID Elective Course Director, & Assistant Prof)✨ “Penn ID is an inclusive, vibrant, enthusiastic family, & I feel lucky every day to get to work & learn from amazing colleagues. I love organizing ID Book Club.”

Congratulations to Kurt Palumbo, MS, PA-C & Michael David, MD, PhD on their publication “Clinical presentation, treatment, and antimicrobial susceptibility of 155 sequential Staphylococcus lugdunensis infections.” Read here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/....

ID showing up to support science and medicine. We are proud to be a division of scientists and clinicians whose science leads the way in advancing medical care.

Congrats to Dr. Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE (PI, Chief of the ID Division), & co-investigators, Drs. Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP & Brendan Kelly, MD, MSCE, on their 2025 LDI Pilot Grant, “Increasing Community Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant Organism & its Impacts on Population Health”!

Congrats to Dr. Elle Saine, MD, PhD, MA (PI, ID fellow & post-doc), & co-Is, Drs Jessie Torgersen, MD, MHS, MSCE (Mentor), Julie Szymczak, PhD & Vin Lo Re, III, MD, MSCE, on their 2025 @pennldi.bsky.social Pilot Grant, “Improving Equitable Access to Maternal HBV Screening, Prevention, & Treatment”!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Congratulations to Dr. Bill Short on his editorial, “Expanding choices of antiretroviral treatment regimens for pregnant and breastfeeding persons with HIV,” in AIDS Journal. A link to the paper can be found here: journals.lww.com/aidsonline/c...

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Gross, MD, MSCE (Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases & Professor of Epidemiology) on being awarded the Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Global Health Faculty Prize, which recognizes his contributions to improving global health capacity through mentorship.

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH (Director of Infectious Diseases Addiction Medicine Integration & an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Infectious Diseases)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “Amazing colleagues and trainees!”

Congratulations to Dr. Ross England on his K08 Career Development Award, entitled, "Evaluating mRNA-LNPs and adjuvants to overcome maternal antibody interference.” This is a huge accomplishment!! Dr. England is an Attending Physician-Scientist of adult & pediatric infectious diseases at HUP & CHOP.

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Sahrish Ilyas, MD (ID Attending w/ expertise in immunocompromised hosts & NTM)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “Everyone is extremely supportive and always ready to help in any way - whether it be with career advice, managing a tough case or where to eat for dinner. ”

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Dr. Jillian Baron, MD, MPH (ID Attending, Medical Director of PPMC Clinic, & @PennIDFellows grad)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: “The supportive community of the ID division.” Dr. Baron is a big EAGLES fan so we had to celebrate her on the day of the Eagles parade! 🦅

✨#IDFacultyFridays Spotlight: Dr. Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH (ID Attending, Physician Scientist, & @PennIDFellows grad)✨ Favorite thing about Penn ID: The “collaborative, team care/science environment.”

Congratulations to Dr. Arianne Morrison on receipt of a CFAR pilot grant for her project entitled, "Barriers and Facilitators of PrEP Uptake and PrEP Coverage among US People Assigned Female at Birth!” This study will increase knowledge that will help advance public health and PrEP access!