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Oct 2023
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83: Febrile at IDWeek 2023

SARA DONG
About this episode

A recap from IDWeek 2023.  Check out the guests/correspondents below!

Group 1:

  • Dylan Koundakjian, third year internal medicine resident at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (who is applying to ID fellowship!)
  • Jonathan Ryder, Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE (who is back for this third IDWeek review!)
  • Alainna Jamal, second year internal medicine resident at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Carlyn Harris, fourth year medical student at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (applying to internal medicine and internal medicine primary care)

Group 2:

  • Bismarck Bisono-Garcia, second year adult ID fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • Anais Ovalle, ID attending and Director of Population Health for internal medicine residents at Kent with Care New England - Brown affiliate, Providence, RI
  • Kailynn Jensen, second year medical student at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
  • Bill Wilson, pediatric ID pharmacist specialist at UNC Childrens Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Raul Macias Gil, ID attending and associate program director for ID fellowship at Harbor UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • [and Jonathan Ryder, who was also in Group 1 above]

Please check out and sign up for the new IDSA PROUDLY ID Interest Group Community, which Anais, Bill, and Raul mentioned in the episode.  This platform is serving to provide a space for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, representation, and education.  The link is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMtfcT5OOB9akApk-7r7bT9h4MtoL-qDYxhRpBJq06N2R1FA/viewform?usp=sf_link


Group 3:

  • Rija Alvi, second year adult ID fellow at Henry Ford, Detroit, MI (member of ID Digital Institute)
  • Memar Ayalew, ID clinical pharmacist and co-director of antimicrobial stewardship at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC (member of ID Digital Institute)
  • Radhika Sheth, second year adult ID fellow, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, OR (member of ID Digital Institute)
  • Julie England, chief medical resident, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (applying to ID!)
  • Christina Lin, chief medical resident in research at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (applying to ID!)


The IDWeek Out-BREAK escape room

Part 1 featured the organizers of the escape room:

  • Victoria Chu, second year pediatric ID fellow, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Diana Zhong, adult ID attending, University of Pittsburgh, ID Connect, Pittsburgh, PA
  • As well as the other members of the planning committee:
  • Katie Lusardi, ID PharmD, Baptist Health Medical Center, Little Rock, AR
  • Justin Searns, pediatric ID attending at University of Colorado / Children’s Hospital of Colorado
  • Juri Boguniewicz, pediatric ID attending at University of Colorado / Children’s Hospital of Colorado
  • Paul Pottinger, adult ID attending, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
  • Liz Ristagno, pediatric ID attending, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • Rachel Wattier, pediatric ID attending, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Adarsh Bhimraj, adult ID attending, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX
  • Natalie Gabriel, IDSA
  • Sara Dong, adult and pediatric ID attending at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Part 2 included 2 teams that experienced the escape room:

Team 1:

  • Rebecca Kiliany, PharmD, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
  • Dhananjay Kumar Sinha, nephrologist, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Sean Boger, ID physician, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
  • Rupal Jaffa, ID PharmD, Charlotte, NC
  • Julie Williamson, antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
  • Curtis Sudbury (first year pediatric ID and ICU fellow at Rainbow Babies, Cleveland, OH), Melissa Walton, and their son Craig

Team 2:

  • Sarah Silverburg, pediatric ID fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, CA
  • Sean Ong, ID physician from Singapore, current PhD candidate at University of Toronto, Ontario, CA
  • Dara Petel, pediatric ID fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, CA
  • Michael Prodanuk, pediatric ID fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, CA
  • Jesse Veisblatt, internal medicine resident, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  • Nouf AlSadoun, pediatric ID fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, CA
  • Geraldine Huynh, pediatric ID fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, CA


The IDWeek 2023 BugBowl champions were from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, MA.  You heard from:

  • Abarna Pearl, third year adult ID fellow, BIDMC, Boston, MA
  • Noah Rosenberg, third year internal medicine resident, BIDMC, Boston, MA (applying to ID!)
  • Jaspreet Banga, third year adult ID fellow, BIDMC, Boston, MA


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