Kavita Bhavan, MD, Fellow 2009 is honored with the 2016 Gage Award

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America’s Essential Hospitals has selected Dr. Kavita Bhavan’s submission, “Patient Engagement in Self-Care: OPAT at Parkland Hospital”, the winning recipient of the 2016 Gage Award in the category innovation and excellence.  The strategic priorities of America’s Essential Hospitals include identifying and disseminating evidence-based best practices that raise care quality for all, especially vulnerable people, and communicating members’ […]

Happy Birthday, Forest Park

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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 […]

First-year fellow, Jason Burnham, accepted to the MTPCI program

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Jason Burnham, MD

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 […]

Jonathan Freeman Scholarship Award from SHEA Spring 2015

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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, ID fellow ’10, member spotlight for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

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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 […]

2015 Acknowledgements

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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 […]

IDWEEK 2014 program mentee

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Andrej Spec, MD

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 […]

First Recipient of the Fraser Fellowship

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Graham Williams, BA, MSc, Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) pre-doctoral trainee in the laboratory of Adrianus “Jacco” Boon, PhD, Infectious Diseases Division, is the first to receive the Victoria J. Fraser, MD, Fellowship. The award will assist Mr. Williams to test the hypothesis that RNA-RNA interactions within and between genome segments dictate packaging and […]