2019 March 20 - IDSA News

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Leadership Development Committee Members Named

IDSA and HIVMA have selected members to their Leadership Development Committees.

IDSA/HIVMA Highlights from 2018

Thank you IDSA and HIVMA members for making 2018 such a successful year. Take a look at just a few of our many accomplishments and milestones achieved.

Deadline Approaching for 2019 Society Award Nominations

Help us celebrate the field of ID by nominating dedicated clinicians, promising young researchers, outstanding mentors, and those who have had a lifetime of impact on the field for an IDSA Society Award.

Journal Club

In this feature, a panel of IDSA members identifies and critiques important new studies in the current literature that have a significant impact on the practice of infectious diseases medicine.
Reviews in this issue: Oral Step-Down Therapy for Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia and Oral Antibiotics for Bone and Joint Infections.

2019 IDSA Leadership Institute

IDSA is pleased to announce the selected attendees for the 2019 IDSA Leadership Institute. Join us in celebrating the future leaders of ID.

IDSA and HIVMA Respond to White House Budget Plan

The president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal released this month is responsive to some of our nation’s most urgent public health challenges; however, it also neglects, and even deeply undermines, critically needed investments in both immediate and long-term responses to infectious disease threats.

IDSA Leads the Way on AMR Policy and Advocacy

IDSA continues to educate Congress about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and inform federal AMR research priorities.

Tickborne Disease Research Priorities

IDSA has provided input on the National Institutes of Health’s tickborne disease research portfolio in response to a Request for Information from NIH.

ID Implications of Climate Change

In response to congressional hearings on climate change held by the House Natural Resources Committee and the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, IDSA has submitted input to each committee.

Science Speaks

Researchers and clinicians from around the world gathered in Seattle for the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) March 4 – 7, and IDSA/HIVMA’s global Science Speaks blog was there.

IDSA & ID in the News

The New York Times spoke with IDSA spokesperson Matthew Zahn, MD on recent concerns that have been raised over the connection between travel and the rise in measles outbreaks.

ICYMI: What’s Hot on MyIDSA

Here’s a glance at the latest discussions happening on MyIDSA, IDSA’s members-only online community (login required).