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    RE: FAS Credentials

    By: James Wilson , 13 hours ago
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    I do think this lack of recognition of ID physician leadership is reflective of a much larger trend of decoupling physicians from leadership roles in healthcare- a pattern that extends well beyond the ID domain.  A colleague here pinged me offline to ...

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    RE: malaria options with retirement of quinidine

    By: Gary Simon , yesterday
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    Dear Dr. Zadoga, Crane We see a lot of malaria here.  Last year we had 2 patients in the ICU at the same time with cerebral malaria.  I spoke with someone on the malaria branch at CDC about a patient with cerebral malaria and a 30% parasitemia who assured ...

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    HIV-2 and ITP

    By: Venkat Ramesh , yesterday
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    We have a 50 year old gentleman with HIV-2 and ITP with a platelet count of 16000.He also has uncontrolled diabetes with HbA1c of 11. CD4- 560. We have asked for a HIV-2 viral load but that is an outsourced test and will take a week to return. He is ...

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Member Spotlight

Kim Hanson, MD

IDSA Diagnostics Committee Chair Kim Hanson, MD, has been appointed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests following a nomination from IDSA. The Panel advises the CMS Administrator and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on issues related to clinical diagnostic laboratory tests, including the establishment of payment rates and the factors used in determining coverage and payment processes for new tests.

Dr. Hanson is the head of Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Services and Director of the Medical Microbiology Fellowship Program at the University of Utah, as well as Director of Clinical Microbiology at ARUP Laboratories. She is an associate professor of medicine and pathology, splitting her time between patient care, laboratory administration, research, and teaching.

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    Early postoperative mortality may not differ between infective endocarditis caused by injection drug use (IDU) and non-IDU causes, despite different ...

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