Still Beautiful at 140 Years Old: Happy Birthday, Forest Park On June 24, 1876, the opening day and dedication of Forest Park, the St. Louis Post Dispatch declared, “The forest is indescribable in its loveliness. The large trees stand as nature planted them, their long branches spreading over the roadways and beautiful swards, in which […]
The MTPCI is the postdoctoral Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation, which provides multidisciplinary clinical and translational research training to promote the career development of junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows by helping them become clinical and translational researchers. The title of my project that was accepted into this program is “Readmissions for multi-drug resistant infections […]
Abigail Carlson, MD, fellow in training, and Mike Durkin, MD (instructor in Medicine now) received the Jonathan Freeman Scholarship Award from SHEA Spring 2015 meeting: Science Guiding Prevention in Orlando, FL. The Jonathan Freeman Scholarship was established by SHEA to promote the training of outstanding infectious disease fellows who demonstrate interest in the field of healthcare epidemiology. Abigail Carlson, MD, received […]
Hitoshi Honda MD, PhD is an infectious diseases consultant and a hospital epidemiologist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. He received his MD and PhD from the Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan in 2000. He completed the internal medicine residency at University of Hawaii in 2007 and then completed an infectious […]
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) 2015 Abby Carlson, MD presented a poster at SHEA 2015 conference titled: “Urine Culturing Practices in a Large Academic Medical Center.” Jennie Kwon, DO presented a poster at the SHEA 2015 conference titled: “Correlation of Clostridium difficile Enzyme Immunoassay Results with Clinical Signs and Symptoms of Clostridium difficile Infection.” Cryptococcus […]
For Andrej Spec, MD, infectious disease is not only a career, it’s a passion, a chance to solve patient health mysteries and unearth remote but meaningful disease connections. As a fellow, Dr. Spec was paired for IDWeek’s mentorship program with Carol A. Kauffman, MD, a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and chief of […]