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​ADSP Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Award
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​Clinicians are awarded this honor for excellence in Antimicrobial Stewardship. It takes all members of the healthcare team to provide optimal infection treatment and combat the development and spread of microbial resistance. 

June 2023 winner:
Skye Castaneda, PharmD earned the ​Red Belt Award in Antimicrobial Resistance Fighting

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Fill out this form to nominate yourself of a colleague for this distinct award!

​See the past winner page for more stewardship excellence at Northwestern Medicine.

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ADSP Team Member, Justin Moore, presents Emory Transplant Grand Rounds

Dr. Justin Moore, our very own COVID-19 transplant pharmacist expert, was invited to discuss COVID-19 infection in these difficult to treat and at-risk patients.

CDC Antibiotic Awareness Week: Nov 18-24, 2022

1st Annual Bug Bowl

ADSP celebrated CDC Antibiotic Awareness Week with our 1st Annual ADSP Bug Bowl. On November 18, 2022, our peers competed for eternal stewardship glory in a Jeopardy-style infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship trivia competition. 

Congratulations to the 2022 Champions: Hydroxycholoroqueens (Niti Patel, MD, PharmD; Remy Bremner, MD; and Talha Khan, PharmD)

Always Remember
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Prescribe the right antibiotic, at the right dose, for the right duration, and at the right time.

• Reassess therapy to stop or tailor treatment based on the patient clinical condition and diagnostic test results
• Use of the shortest effective duration of antibiotic therapy is a key antibiotic stewardship strategy

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​IDWeek 2022

​Check out the IDWeek interview with our CDH Antimicrobial and Diagnostic ​Stewardship Pharmacist at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Dr. Radhika Polisetty. She discusses efforts to decrease hospital-acquired C. difficile infections. 

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Upcoming Events

Save the date! 
For the 2nd Annual ADSP Bug Bowl: Friday, November 17th from 12-1pm in Feinberg Conference Room A

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​NM ADSP RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Wu E, Osborn RL, Bertram CM, Moore WJ, Galvin SR, Bolon MK, Masters MC, Krueger KM. Tecovirimat Use in Ambulatory and Hospitalized Patients with Monkeypox Virus Infection. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2023; 50(3): 172-174.

• Larry RC, Hoff BM, Bertram CM. Evaluation of Microbiological Concordance of a Rapid Molecular Diagnostic Pneumonia Panel in a Real-World Population with Pneumonia. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2023: jfac133

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• Patel D, Ng T, Madani LS, Persell SD, Greg M, Roemer PE, Oberoi SK, and Linder JA. Antibiotic stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in integrated academic health-system urgent care clinic. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2022: 1-10.

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• Scheetz MH, Chang J, Baretto EF, et al. Nephrotoxin Stewardship Alongside Antimicrobial Stewardship. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022.

 

• Weslander E, Thomas H, Jeune R, et al. Cefadroxil Use for Musculoskeletal Infections in an Academic Pediatric Hospital. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2022: 590-593.

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• Venugopalan V, Casaus D, Kainz L, Slaton, CN, Hurst N, Bruzzone M, Hu C, Sword G, Cherabuddi K, Iovine N, Liu J, Scheetz MH, Rhodes N, Maranchick N, Peloquin CA, Klinker K, Alshaer MH. Use of therapeutic drug monitoring to characterize cefepime-related neurotoxicity. Pharmacotherapy. 2022; 00: 1- 9.

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• Boesch TS, Eischen E, Ries AM, Quinn A, et al. Promoting Beta-lactam utilization through suppression of electronic medical record cross-allergy alters. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 79 (S2) 2022.

• Rohani R, Scheetz MH, et al... Rhodes NJ. Individual target pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic attainment rates among meropenem-treated patients admitted to the ICU with hospital-acquired pneumonia. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 77 (11) 2022.

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