黑料网鈥檚 OPAT and Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Teams presented five academic posters at the annual . ID (Infectious Diseases) Week is a joint conference of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medical Association, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. This year鈥檚 conference was held October 2-6 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, Fellow in the 黑料网鈥檚 Division of Infectious Diseases, presented her poster 鈥淩espiratory Viral Testing and Antimicrobial De-escalation Among Hospitalized Patients at a Tertiary Care Facility, 2015-2016:聽 A Matched Cohort Study Series鈥 is shown here with co-author Alan Kinlaw, PhD, MSPH (right), Assistant Professor and Pharmaco-Epidemiologist at the 黑料网 Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Kinlaw also presented, 鈥淥PAT at the End of Life? Short and Long Term Mortality Following Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy鈥 on behalf of lead author Dr. Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, Fellow in the 黑料网鈥檚 Division of Infectious Diseases.

Erin Mays, PharmD Candidate at the 黑料网 Eshelman School of Pharmacy, presented her poster, 鈥淓valuation of Adverse Drug Reactions due to Common Beta-Lactam Therapies Among Patients Enrolled in an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Program. Also pictured is her co-author, Ashley Marx, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP. Ashley is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at 黑料网 Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Clinical Education at the 黑料网 Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Marx also presented her poster, 鈥淓ffects of An Antimicrobial Stewardship Team-led Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Management Bundle: A Quasi-Experimental Study鈥 on behalf of the Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.

Bobbi Jo Walston, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacist at 黑料网 Medical Center, presented her poster, 鈥淚mplementation of a Pharmacist-led Intervention for Infectious Diseases Patients Discharged on Antimicrobials: the Infectious Disease Discharge Outreach and Retention (ID DOOR) Program鈥.