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Alice Han

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ID physician at MIDC - transforming private practice ID with an academic and lifestyle focus. Opinions my own👩🏻‍⚕️🧫🩺 #Medsky #IDsky

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello #IDsky! I’m an ID doctor in private practice and had a great time on the IDSA podcast last year with @paulsaxmd.bsky.social

Spoiler alert: the grass is greener in private practice! Hope it’s just as green over here. 🌱

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Is the grass greener? Life as an ID physician working in private practice

Podcast Episode · Let's Talk ID · 06/10/2023 · 31m

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 5h

#IDSky
Come say 👋 at IDweek!
We will be in the exhibit hall Mon-Wed

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 3d

#IDsky
Anyone curious about private practice ID, we’d love for you to join us for the fellow’s day workshop! I’m happy to help answer any questions you might have. Can’t wait to see you there!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 3d

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 7d

I have goosebumps listening to this song. When she gets to the part when she is whispering, it is so good.

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 8d

#IDsky
Bookmark these tables as your quick guide to FMTs!

PPID Journal @ppidjournal.bsky.social · 8d

#IDsky
Curious about the differences between FMTs for recurrent C. Diff? Which therapy suits your patient best? Explore the 4 options: Rebyota, Vowst, VE303, and CP101 here. www.ppidjournal.com/doi10-55636-...

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying.
“The space between us connects us more than it separates us”

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t mean to relate dogs to people, but that experience helped me understand end of life care - how hard it is to make those decisions. Dogs are always meant to be happy on this earth. Never meant to suffer. When they are no longer happy, it’s time. But it still breaks your heart to let them go 💔

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 9d

I am so sorry. I had to put my older dog Pablo down a couple years ago, and it broke my heart. I cannot begin to explain how that dog represented so much of my adulthood and who I became as a person.

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 9d

#IDsky
I greatly enjoyed this piece about the Art of the ID Consultation, written by our founding partners at MIDC.

Don’t make the mistakes of Idiot savantism or the Alexander Haig approach! 😂

PPID Journal @ppidjournal.bsky.social · 9d

#IDsky
Do you know the faux pas of an ID consultation? Don’t make these mistakes!
Here are 8 steps to a successful ID consultation

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The Art and Science of Infectious Disease Consultation - Private Practice Infectious Disease

Infectious disease is a cognitive specialty, procedurally represented by the consultation. Done correctly, a consultation is a powerful tool that can change physician behavior, strengthen critical relationships,...

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 23d

#IDsky
And for anyone who wants to join our IDSA PP CoP group, you can join here!

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 23d

#IDsky
Thank you to everyone who joined our first IDSA PP CoP webinar yesterday! Blueprint for Success: Building Sustainable and Thriving Private Practice Groups.

For anyone who missed it and wanted to check it out, here’s the recording!

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 25d

Count me in! Hope everyone else can come by and say 👋 ! @zacrobid.bsky.social @bwtrautner.bsky.social @paulinavegamd.bsky.social @safabric.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social

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Jonathan Ryder, MD @jonathanrydermd.bsky.social · 25d

Join us this #IDWeek2025 for a SoMe meet-up! One of the highlights every year of the conference is meeting all of you! #IDSky

Joseph Marcus @josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 26d

Come join #IDSky at the unofficial @idweek.bsky.social Social Media Meet-Up!

All are welcome.

IDWeek Social Media Meet-Up
October 19, 2025
7:30 PM-10:00 PM
Lobby Bar at the Signia by Hilton Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center

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Joseph Marcus @josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 26d

Come join #IDSky at the unofficial @idweek.bsky.social Social Media Meet-Up!

All are welcome.

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 29d

#IDsky
Reminder: our IDSA Private Practice CoP is coming up!

Blueprint for Success: Building Sustainable and Thriving Private Practice Groups

Join us on September 17 at 2 PM ET
Hope to see you there!
Sign up 👇

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Blueprint for Success: Building Sustainable and Thriving Private Practice Groups . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th...

Join us on 9/17 at 2 PM ET as our Private Practice Community of Practice Leadership Group members, Russ Petrak, Alice Han, and Trees Ritter, discuss the ins and outs of building successful private p...

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

I don’t think I have ever known what subtype of HIV virus my patient has. I don’t know how to order this test commercially either.

The bigger question is how clinically significant is LLV? And to what end does it need to be pursued? When the cd4 doesn’t improve, when it is consistent over years? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

#IDsky
Unfortunately, despite a promising premise, Clofast did not pan out for shorter duration w/clofazamine rifapentine regimen (3 months) vs RIPE (6 mo).
Shorter regimen had higher relapse rate, worsening radiographic response
despite earlier cx conversion
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Beautiful!🤩

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Have very high viral loads at the beginning. ?high inoculum, ? Combination of different resistance mechanisms? Although I was always taught wild type was most fit. If it’s a pt with high cd4 and high viral load (early diagnosis), does it matter?

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 7

But the commentary discusses how pts with very high virals loads do worse in terms of virologic outcome overall and perhaps a more intensified regimen would make the difference (ex, adding diff agent fostemsavir or lenacapavir).

It’s an interesting question bc I actually don’t know why some people

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Discussed results of DOLCE - showed that DTG/3Tc similar to TDF/FTC/DTG for PWH w/CD4 < 200. (23% w VL > 500k)
It goes against everything I learned in training but INSTI were new back then, and I don’t think we realized its potency.

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 6

#IDsky
Yes! I would love to see this.
What do we do for the pts w/ high viral load up front? Does the primary regimen matter if an INSTI is included given its potency?

@drlaurajwaters.bsky.social
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DOLCE: Sweet Success for Dolutegravir/Lamivudine?

After a dearth of trials investigating first-line antiretroviral therapy in people with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 2 randomized studies i

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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 6

#IDsky
For high dose influenza vaccine, I think we need a trial looking at a different age group with comorbidities. It looks like there may be a signal for age >72 and pts with immunosuppression.

But age > 65 may not be it. 65 is the new 55!

Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 6

#IDsky
This is one of those studies I didn’t know was a question, and I don’t know that the study answers the question.

I didn’t know early syphilis tx with 1 dose of pcn was debated, and I don’t know that we can answer that question with a 6 mo follow up. Thoughts?
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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · Sep 6

So good! I watched the dog video 3x! 😂😂😂

And what IS going on with pivmecillinam and the rest? I keep waiting.