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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jun 26
🚨🚨SAVE THE DATE!!!!🚨🚨 The Dennis Maki Infectious Disease Update Conference registration will be out soon! Mark your calendars!
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · 10d
Congrats to Dr. Dawd Siraj on his recent appointment to the
ISTM Journal editorial board!🥳 #travel #Medicine #infectiousdisease #doctor #research #journal #clinical
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Aug 26
#Infectiousdisease #fellowship #IDBluesky #GME #meded
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Aug 12
#LongCOVID projects happening at UW, including our very own Dr. Aurora Pop-Vicas! education.wisc.edu/news/through...
Through the fog: Project seeks best way to measure one long-term effect of COVID-19
A community-driven research project in the School of Education seeks the best way to measure one long-term effect of COVID-19.
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University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine @uw-medicine.bsky.social · Aug 4
Congratulations to the fellows who participated in and/or graduated from the department's Fellows as Medical Educators (FAME) program this year! 🎉🎓

Learn more about the program: www.medicine.wisc.edu/fellowship/f...

#MedEd #MedSky #Fellowship #FellowsAsEducators
Portraits of 2025 FAME graduates Amy Bier, MD, Shikha Jha, MBBS, Yimin Chen, MD, and Eric Mehlhaff, MD with their specialties listed. Portraits of 2025 FAME graduates Jane Salutz, MD, Nadia Sweet, MD, Ivana Surjancev, MD, and Melanie Ulrich, MD with their specialties listed. Portraits of 2025 FAME participants Andrew Pap, MD, and Kirsten Alman, MD with their specialties listed.
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Aug 1
New publication alert! Our recently graduated fellow, first-author Dr. Michael Moran, recently published his work! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40612452/
The implementation of complex infection control bundles to prevent colorectal surgical site infections: a survey of SHEA research network hospitals - PubMed
Our study found significant variability in the implementation of bundles consisting of multiple infection control elements to prevent SSI in clinical practice. Further research is needed to determine ...
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jul 17
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Prophylactic vancomycin may reduce risk for recurrent C . difficile
The incidence of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection was lower among at-risk patients on antibiotics for other indications who received oral vancomycin vs. placebo, according to study results...
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jul 9
Welcome to our new fellows! Drs. Pennella and Kumar join our general ID fellowship and Dr. Culas joins our transplant ID fellowship. #infectiousdisease #idfellowship #transplantmedicine #medED
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jun 26
🚨🚨SAVE THE DATE!!!!🚨🚨 The Dennis Maki Infectious Disease Update Conference registration will be out soon! Mark your calendars!
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jun 17
A great turnout at DOM Research Day with our faculty, staff, fellows, and students presenting! Congrats to Dr. Biermann who received a poster award!
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jun 13
Proud of all our fellows' hardwork which they presented at DOM Research Day 2025!🔍📉📍
#IDresearch #medED #infectiousdisease #IDfellowship
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · May 23
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Apr 29
Our faculty have some exciting hobbies! Dr. Dawd Siraj recently had a photo he took from his telescope during the 2024 solar eclipse featured in the Ebling Library Corpus Callosum. ebling.library.wisc.edu/corpus-callo...
Solar Eclipse totality 2024 – Corpus Callosum
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Apr 24
Congrats to Dr. Andes and colleagues on their new patent! www.warf.org/wp-content/u... @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Apr 11
Our ID Fellowship and Admin Team at AAIM Week 2025! Wonderful week of meeting colleagues and learning! #internalmedicine #infectiousdisease #academicmedicine #administration
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Mar 27
rdcu.be/efnxa Excellent work happening with Dr. David Andes and colleagues from around the world!
Characterizing extracellular vesicles of human fungal pathogens
Nature Microbiology - In this Perspective, Rodrigues et al. discuss the discovery of fungal extracellular vesicles, key unanswered questions in the field and future research directions.
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Mar 6
Congrats to Dr. Tischendorf!! #womeninmedicine #womeninSTEM #STEM #infectiousdisease
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Medical Microbiology & Immunology @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social · Feb 26
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Dr. Andrew Mehle Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Andrew Mehle from the department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on being elected to the American Academy of Microbio...
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Feb 20
Congrats to Dr. Biermann! #infectioncontrol #stewardship #SHEA #infectiousdisease #fellowship
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Feb 18
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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · Feb 14
You + a career in ID = everlasting love ❤️ #HealthPolicyValentines
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Feb 13
@marinschweizer.bsky.social so excited for the new things to come in the future with your new role! Congratulations!
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Medical Microbiology & Immunology @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social · Feb 11
Friday! Join us as the MMI Seminar Series features Dr. Tamia Harris-Tryon from UT Southwestern!
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Feb 5
asm.org/Press-Releas... Congrats to Dr. David Andes who was appointed to the ASM Health Scientific Advisory Council!
ASM Launches Health Unit to Empower Microbial Scientists Worldwide
ASM has launched the ASM Health Scientific Unit, the first unit in ASM’s new strategic roadmap and a crucial component in ASM’s approach to addressing critical health issues through microbial science.
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UW Division of Infectious Disease @uwinfdisease.bsky.social · Jan 30
First ID Grand Rounds of 2025! Learning with Dr. Rowe! @drdrrowe.bsky.social