Woman standing in front of scientific poster
Man standing in front of scientific poster
Group of adults posing in front of a balloon arch
Univ of Chicago PedsID trainees and graduates representing at #IDWeek2025
Increased Reporting of Infants Born with Congenital Syphilis to a Local Department of Public Health: A Quality Improvement Project
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
Increased Reporting of Infants Born with Congenital Syphilis to a Local Department of Public Health: A Quality Improvement Project url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article...
Had a LOT of fun with this one. Made me rethink epi of CS and if we are under (or over?) identifying certain groups. #ID #IDsky
I’m Chicago born and raised, this city is filled with feisty folks, I don’t see the average resident siting this one out, there will be mass protests that hopefully stay peaceful.
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
I feel like I’ve met a milestone for any infectious disease trainee or provider — contribute to a MMWR ✅ . Really interesting trending and observing unexpected findings of our CNS syphilis cohort in Chicago Illinois.
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In the current political climate, many misunderstand/misrepresent NIH "indirect costs", which cover facility and administrative costs essential for research
Here's a video that explains what F&A expenses cover, how they are determined, and why they are essential
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK...
Dear #medsky Together we can help patients understand the importance of vaccines. No matter your specialty, please start talking about vaccines at every visit. Love, #idsky
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Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis for bacterial STIs: Prescribing patterns, use, short-term outcomes among 2083 patients in a Los Angeles Federally Qualified Health Care Program, and implications for widespread use.
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
Had a great time assembling this DoxyPEP review with @anuhazramd.bsky.social , one more step towards reducing STIs in high risk populations
#IDSky
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Way to go Michael!!
A bright spot in current hellscape we are living through — my brilliant mentee presenting his work on ID match rates based on states’ reproductive and/or LGBT restrictions. Data will certainly be only more relevant in the years to come. #WeAreID #IDSky
Just publish paper evaluating effects of vaccination on long COVID risks in children/adolescents during Delta/Omicron periods
We found vaccines strongly protected against long COVID-19, and the effect was almost wholly mediated by reduced infection risk
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis focuses on the recent CDC guidelines on use of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
ja.ma/3WxWi3D
#MedSky
Beyond reducing acquired STIs through behavioral mechanisms, doxyPEP might make a lasting impact indirectly through other comorbidities in other priority groups such as pelvic inflammatory dz, congenital syphilis, etc. Ongoing studies may reveal other downstream findings, excited for 2025 data.
I truly hope that we can move through this quickly, so that all the CHW‘s, research administrators, and public health officials affected by this may continue their life, saving work on the forefront of countering American disease among all demographics. 🙏
I needed to remind myself that there’ thousands of people, both within and outside the infectious disease world, whose hard work on the front lines in ensures if improvement of outcomes, from viral infections to chronic health conditions. Even interruption of a few days-weeks can affect thousands
as someone about to graduate ID fellowship, the NIH price freeze immediately prompted my “how does this affect my k23 application?” But today I realized I’m fortunate to always have clinical medicine to do, as opposed to many community workers and research workers fully dependent on NIH financing.
I had a lot of fun riding this one with @anuhazramd.bsky.social , definitely a topic with some controversy, but could be a pivotal move to help reduce the incidence of this (not so) “hidden” syphilis epidemic.
PDF preview of article.
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis focuses on the recent CDC guidelines on use of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
https://ja.ma/41FWRvL
🔥The ADAPT-Sepsis RCT🔥
Daily PCT-guided protocol 🔽 total antibiotic duration & had noninferior all-cause mortality compared with standard care.
No difference was found in total Abx duration between standard care & daily CRP-guided protocol
CRP failure #idsky #EMIMCC
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Cool analysis restricted to women younger than 25 to isolate the impact of routine HPV vaccination in US women since June 2006.
"HPV vaccination affected the sequential decline in #HPV infection prevalence, cervical cancer incidence, and cervical cancer mortality."
#VaccinesSaveLives #IDSky
Find me a better intervention in medicine.
#VaccinesSaveLives
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Author Jason Zucker of Columbia University Irving Medical Center speaks with JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about the transmission, diagnosis, management, and prevention of mpox.
Listen to the episode: https://ja.ma/48UlfeJ
The ID march of shorter treatment is ok continues, this time for bacteremia (not including S. aureus).
FYI, E. coli, Klebsiella, Enterococcus, and CoNS made up > 70% of organisms.
By pathogen breakdown of risk difference emphasizes applicability of these results for GN bacteremia.
I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.
Fun QI study looking and reducing ID fellow burnout. Essentially having more Attending physician presence makes for happier fellows 😀
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