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    Summer Film for teenagers interested in Mediciine and/or ...

    By: John Drummond , 12 hours ago
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    In addition to summer reading for teenagers interested in medicine and/or ID, I highly recommend "Outbreak," a 1995 film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Cuba Gooding, Jr., in addition to a young ...

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    Summer Reading: Editor

    By: John Drummond , 13 hours ago
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    I suggest you edit The reference to Dr. Bryan as "medical history author." Thanks, Jo

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    Summer Reading

    By: John Drummond , 13 hours ago
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    I suggest "The Quotable Osler", published in 2008 by the ACP. The principal editor was the late Dr. Mark E. Silverman, who was a Professor Emeritus at Emory University and Chief of Cardiology at Piedmont Hospital here in Atlanta, and a beloved physician, ...

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Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis

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Member Spotlight

Sophia Koo, MD, SM, FIDSA has been selected as a semifinalist in the first round of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge, a $20 million federal prize competition seeking innovative, rapid point-of-care laboratory diagnostic tests to combat the development and spread of drug resistant bacteria. Dr. Koo will receive $50,000 to develop her concept, “Breath volatile metabolites for the rapid identification of pneumonia etiology,” into a prototype. The proposal outlines a novel approach to community acquired pneumonia (CAP) diagnosis based on distinct differences in the breath volatile metabolite profiles of patients with bacterial vs. viral pneumonia.

Dr. Koo is with Harvard Medical and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is a member of IDSA’s Diagnostics Committee.

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IDSA has been important in my career in infectious disease. IDSA also plays a big role in advocacy and drawing attention to key issues. It's exciting to be a part of that and feel that I have an avenue for my voice to be heard.
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The idea that I could link epidemiology with my fundamental knowledge of how microorganisms work, along with diagnostic microbiology...this is an amazing way to put the pieces of the puzzles together about how infectious diseases work in human beings.
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Understanding the pathogenesis of infectious diseases requires a knowledge of pathology, immunology, especially microbiology. The discipline allows practitioners to combine all of those, and there's never a dull moment.
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