83: Febrile at IDWeek 2023 — Febrile

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