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Alice Han
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ID physician at MIDC - transforming private practice ID with an academic and lifestyle focus. Opinions my own👩🏻‍⚕️🧫🩺 #Medsky #IDsky
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Hello #IDsky! I’m an ID doctor in private practice and had a great time on the IDSA podcast last year with @paulsaxmd.bsky.social

Spoiler alert: the grass is greener in private practice! Hope it’s just as green over here. 🌱

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Is the grass greener? Life as an ID physician working in private practice
Podcast Episode · Let's Talk ID · 06/10/2023 · 31m
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The hospital is handing out taffy apples 🍎today, and I am just here to say they are delicious!

I am ashamed to admit I grew up in the midwest, and this is the first time I have ever had a taffy apple.

Don’t make my mistake, go try one now! They are so good! 😋
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Alice Han
‼️Just shared at #IDWeek2025 & now published in @ofidjournal.bsky.social cephalexin vs. cefdinir for tx of uUTI in females. Spoiler: Cefdinir was independently associated with/failure & cefdinir pts were twice as likely to fail. Let’s stop Rx’ing cefdinir for UTI! 🛑💊 academic.oup.com/ofid/article...
Cefdinir Versus Cephalexin for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections
Due to its poor bioavailability and urinary excretion, cefdinir may be a suboptimal agent for UTI treatment. Our findings demonstrate that patients treated
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October 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Wow!!! This is a really exciting prospect. To think that the COVID19 mRNA primes the immune system to make immunotherapy more effective against cancer is a BIG deal. This is fascinating science 🤩
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Alice Han
Really proud to be a part of this community and always inspired by my colleagues around the country who continue to show up even when it's hard.
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This year's #IDweek is now over. Our community has taken so many hits since the pandemic and now the assaults on public health, science, vaccines etc.
Yet the infectious disease community has some of the most dedicated, resilient and thoughtful people I know.
Here's to hope & staying with the fight.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Sometimes the best part of the conferences are the Q&A sessions afterwards
-Someone asked what do you do with pts colonized with MDRO’s prior to transplant
-Dr Papanicolau creates a detailed abx plan for when pt has a neutropenic fever
-Someone said that they decolonize w/ oral gentamicin 🤯
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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AML is the primary hematologic malignancy associated with invasive fungal infection
What a great slide looking at the mutations we see in AML, very rare pts with MRD post induction and not need to proceed with allo HSCT as shown in green box
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Fascinating lecture on the respiratory microbiome
Our understanding of the resp microbiome has changes dramatically but the commensals may actually be protective against pathogenic bacteria
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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What is the best agent for invasive aspergillosis?
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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does higher dosing of L-amB matter for mucorales?
Does combination therapy provide any benefit?
By Dr Farmakiotis at Beth Israel

Highly angioinvasive nature of mucorales and increased LAMB MIC compared to other molds
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Outcomes of pts with CLABSI receiving antibiotic lock therapy
An underutilized therapy we should use more to salvage catheters!
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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#Teamdalbavancin
When does the patent expire?
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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serotype distribution & resistance prior to pcv 20/21
- non bacteremic hospitalized episodes of pneumococcus have a different serotype distribution and tend to have higher resistance than IPD
- interesting breakdown on differences bw what pcv20 vs 21 would cover if vaccinated
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Next up, a presentation from Rush by Dr Rhee
Let’s look at CHG concentrations on our heme/onc/SCT units
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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One of my partners Dr Pinsky is presenting data on staph aureus colonization, risk factors for infection and whether vanc changes risk of infection
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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What’s the optimal duration for gram neg bacteremia in SOT recipients?
October 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Outcomes in OLT recipients with recent bacteremia
No difference bw <14 d vs >14d recent bacteremia
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Come join us this morning for our IDSA private practice CoP!
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Our IDSA Private Practice CoP will be meeting again this year at IDWeek!
Hope to see you there 😊

Tuesday October 21st at 8:30 am
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park
Grand Ballroom A-M4 Tower
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Reposted by Alice Han
#IDWeek2025 off to a 🔥start! first in person Women in ID Book Club reading the Rainfall Market!

Thankful for these women who continue to come out to support and enjoy each others company! @idweek.bsky.social @jennmpd.bsky.social @sairabt.bsky.social @docwoc71.bsky.social @dralicehan.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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What’s hot in clinical ID
Looking at levo for tb prevention in close contacts- vchamp and vquin

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October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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What’s hot in clinical ID
First approved Ebola vaccine and utilizing it as ring vaccination for close contacts
October 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Why telemedicine is so valuable.
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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What’s hot in clinical ID
ADAPT-Sepsis
You can use procal but not CRP to guide abx

But maybe also refer to BALANCE Trial to also help guide duration for gram neg sepsis - which she also discussed. As well as DOTS
October 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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What’s hot in clinical ID
This was one of my favorite studies this year. Such a breakthrough in understanding transmission and persistence of BV
October 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM