A wonderful 🆔 #GrandRounds by Andy Miller, Chief Physician of Infectious Diseases Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) discussing prosthetic joint infections: advances and controversies 🦿🦾 #PJI

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Join us this Friday 5/3 for a talk by Dr. David Alland, Director of the Public Health Research Institute & Chief of Division of ID at Rutgers University: 'The long and winding road to develop a suite of TB diagnostics - a personal story'

Location: Belfer BB-1101
Time: 5/3 12pm

Congrats to our fellow Alex Stabell and to all the other winners of the IDSNY research awards. Looking forward to hearing you present on May 7! IDSA Weill Department of Medicine

Big thank you to all our Administrative Professionals who keep are division functioning everyday and are wonderful to work with! Thank you!!

Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! We are so grateful for our laboratory colleagues especially our Microbiology lab partners Weill Cornell Medicine Pathology for their incredible work to improve infectious disease diagnosis. Thank you!! 🔬 🦠 🧪🧫

Thrilled to share our new report by Preeti Moar Kyaw Linn Ravi Tandon et al. in AIDS Journal highlighting a mammalian lectin, #Galectin9 and its link w/ inflammation in adolescents w/ perinatally acquired HIV and cognitive health. Weill Cornell Infectious Diseases Division MIMH

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Check out our own Priya Kodiyanplakkal, MD at the next Transplantation Society Clinicopathologic Webinar

A short piece describing why Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology is committed to #healthequity in #HAIs , #antimicrobialresistance & antimicrobial prescribing and what the journal is doing to support your efforts to achieve it. Additional ideas welcome! SHEA cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Social worker follow-up of people hospitalized with HIV in Tanzania expedited their treatment, but did not reduce patient mortality a year later, according to findings from Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Global Health and Weill Department of Medicine teams.

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This International Women's Day, we celebrate the achievements of women in medicine and science.

We celebrate the exceptional women who care for patients, make discoveries in the lab, and teach and mentor the next generation of physicians and scientists.

Great team effort! Such an honor and pleasure to conduct this trial with our partners mituorg and the Ministry of Health with support from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). 🇹🇿🇺🇲

At CROI Media, Dr. Rob Peck’s (@RobNPeck) team presented findings published in JAMA on the Daraja trial, which found a low-cost social worker improved HIV care outcomes in hospitalized people w/HIV in Tanzania. bit.ly/3Tu6ppm Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Global Health Weill Cornell Medicine

We're excited to kick off the week with our first Vitals episode of March, featuring Dr. Leonard (John P. Leonard, MD) in conversation with Dr. David Calfee in the Division of Infectious Diseases (@WCM_ID). bit.ly/4a0f7B8 Weill Cornell Medicine

Comparison of a couple different Actinomycetota from the micro lab, both filamentous, but different staining
Left: Streptomyces (gram-positive)
Right: Nocardia farcinia (modified-acid fast)

CGH Director, Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald and faculty, Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi on Bedaquiline-based Second-Line Therapy for DR-TB
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Should genomic sequencing 🧬be a routine part of hospital infection prevention programs? Alex Sundermann, DrPH Waleed Andie Lee, Sebastiaan Van Hal & Graham Snyder share experiences & describe pros/cons, questions & barriers on the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology podcast. on.soundcloud.com/SZNVu

Join #INHSUEMCR & CHERISH for a webinar with Ali Jalali, PhD & Shashi Kapadia. Learn:

➡️Purpose & approach to economic evaluations
➡️Best practices for determining intervention costs
➡️ Approaches to estimating cost-effectiveness

Register: inhsu.org/events/webinar…

We are so grateful to our incredible ID fellows for their dedication to patient care, education and research. Thank you Travis, Lucy, Sharan, Fiona, Lee, Wes, Anna and Alex for all you do!!

Congratulations to Dr. Kyu Rhee on his election to the American Academy of Microbiology! @wcm_id @asmicrobiology tinyurl.com/y6b7dbc6

New in JPHMP Direct: Researchers, including coauthor Shashi Kapadia, share how Louisiana & Washington’s approaches to developing and funding hepatitis C elimination programs can be a useful framework to eradicating HCV by 2030: buff.ly/3uosrjw.