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NM ADSP is pleased to announce all NM Hospitals Achieved the Illinois Antimicrobial Stewardship Honor Roll Gold Tier in 2025.
In addition to Gold Status, NM hospitals received collaboration distinctions, reflecting the strength of community work that drives innovation and improves outcomes for patients throughout Illinois. See the Illinois Department of Public Health Website for more information on this award |
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Community Acquired Pneumonia Continuing Medical Education: CME: Updates in Standard of Care for Community Acquired Pneumonia Richard Wunderink and Chiagozie I. Pickens Presented Live on Monday, October 27th from 12-1pm To watch the highlights and/or receive CME credit, click here |
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ADSP Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Award
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 2025 winner: Dawn Anderson, PharmD earned the Red Belt Award in Antimicrobial Resistance Fighting 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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Congratulations to the winners of the 4th Annual ADSP Bug Bowl (2025):
Team You Can't B. Cereus! Melissa Bregger, MD, Jacob Stout, MD, and Kelsey Schultz, PharmD! |
Previous Bug Bowl Teams from 2022, 2023, & 2024
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ADSP Bug Bowl Wall of Champions
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2025 4th Annual Team You Can't B. Cereus: Melissa Bregger, Jacob Stout, & Kelsey Schultz
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2024 3rd Annual Team Notorious MIC: Kathy Ritter, Emmy Wanjiku, & Alli Cowett
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2023 2nd Annual Team Notorious MIC: Cheryl Lee, Grant Witmer, & Alli Cowett
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2022 1st Annual Team Hydroxychloroqueens: Niti Patel, Remy Bremner, & Talha Kahn
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CDC Antibiotic Awareness Week: Nov 18-24
Celebrate CDC Antibiotic Awareness Week! The purpose of this week is to increase awareness of antibiotic resistance and the importance of careful antibiotic use. Antibiotics can save lives, but any time antibiotics are used, they can cause side effects and contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance. See the infographic to the right for more impacts of antibiotic resistance. Always Remember: Prescribe the right antibiotic, at the right dose, for the right duration, and at the right time.
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ADSP Team Members Complete 3rd Year of the 50 Mile Relay Run In October, "The Stewards", a five-member team completed 50 miles of relay running. All regions of NM system were represented. From left to right, Jaime Borkowski (Delnor), Aaron Oliver (Palos), Erin Weslander (NMH), Stephanie Chang (Huntley/ McHenry), & Mike Postelnick (System ADSP Director) are pictured after completing the race! Previous year included Michael Dickens (CDH). |
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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. |
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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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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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.