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Broad spectrum antibiotics are the refuge of the poor diagnostician!

Congrats to Chelsea Gorsline MD on being selected as this month’s #featurededucator IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice. SO SO SO well-deserved idsame.notion.site/Chelsea-Gorsli…

Thrilled to be IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice’s featured educator for July for my work in founding TxID Early Career Network. Thanks to Todd McCarty 💊🐉👨‍⚕️ for nominating me! And be sure to follow TxID Early Career Network for #TxIDChat events and other #TxID content 🤓

Transplant ID Fellowship #TxID at Vanderbilt @VUMCTransplant is accepting applications for 1-year fellowship (2025-2026). Learn from our growing section of 6 faculty in 🎵City! TxID Early Career Network Infectious Disease Fellows Network Infectious Diseases Community of Practice - AST maricar malinis @VUMC_ID myast.org/communities-pr…

Imaging of gangliosides during Staph infections. New paper from ⁦Katerina Djambazova and the ⁦⁦⁦⁦Spraggins Lab⁩. Happy to be involved in this beautiful work⁩. ⁦J. of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry⁩ 🔬 🦠 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Surreal I get to present with these inspiring women! Can’t wait to interact with you all. Thanks to Scripps Research for the invitation.

New publication from Eric Skaar Lab including confocal microscopy from the ZEISS Microscopy LSM880. 3D imaging shows complexity of extracellular matrix of biofilms. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR!

Get out of the lab and join the 2024 International Conference on Gram Positive Pathogens! Hosted by UNMC Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology Center for Staphylococcal Research (CSR). Early registration is ending on August 24. 📅 October 13-16, 2024 🏙️ Omaha, NE ✍️Register at shorturl.at/exhIX

Honored to have our recent paper included as a Nature Communications Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Editor’s Highlight! Thanks for featuring our work on antibiotic tolerance in S. aureus! Eric Skaar @VUMC_ID @VUMCPathology @VI4Research nature.com/collections/je…

📢📢📢📢📢 Calling all ID educators and learners: Check out the newly published #IDChalkTalks from the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice following peer review. idsame.notion.site/ID-Chalk-Talks… These are open-access and available for teaching or learning ID content 1/

🚨My favorite event of the year is here 🚨 - the @VI4Research DEI Symposium is highlighting Immigrant scientists (so timely, huh?)!! Talks from Dr. Manuela Raffatellu is @manuelar.bsky.social , Sophie Helaine and Yi-Wei Chang. Open to VU/VUMC community! Link to register: tickettailor.com/events/vi4/132… - Please, RT!

I appreciate the work that went into this study, but if your prediction, absent a new mechanism or major change, looks like this, I’m worried your conclusions follow from assumptions and not evidence

We have an open #TID fellowship position @VUMC_IDFellows. @VUMCTransplant is a high-volume transplant center ( lung, heart, kidney, pancreas, liver) with a diverse patient population and pathology. The program has expanded to 6 faculty members and APRN.

I am excited to announce that my work on antibiotic treatment failure in Staph is now funded through a K08 from NIAID News! A big thank you to @VUMC_ID Vanderbilt PSTP/Harrison Society @EFSInsideScoop and especially my mentor Eric Skaar to help get me to this point!

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

🆕💫(STOP-Vanc) RCT protocol @VUMC_ID Jeff Freiberg, MD, PhD Swab Testing to Optimize Pneumonia treatment with empiric Vancomycin The study will provide the 1st RCT data regarding the use of MRSA nasal swab PCR testing to guide antibiotic de-escalation #idxposts trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The study protocol for STOP-Vanc, our RCT looking at the use of MRSA nares PCR testing in an ICU, is finally published! We are hoping to be done with enrollment soon and excited to see what we learn from this study! @VUMCLHS trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…