Betsy Hirsch, PharmD (TLOAS)
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Betsy Hirsch, PharmD (TLOAS)
@ebhirsch.bsky.social
Associate professor 👩🏻‍🏫 , ID translational research, pharmacist educator, MDR GNR enthusiast 🧫, UTI, MN.

➡️Slow runner 🏃🏻‍♀️, Swiftie 🐍🪩.

#BLM #SauceForMason #PharmGradWishlist #IDSky #PharmSky #UTISky #MedSky
Houston friends, I’ll be visiting UH College of Pharmacy next week! ✈️My trip is relatively short, but let me know if you’re around!

#IDsky #UTIsky #Pharmsky
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Absolutely phenomenal @sidpharm.bsky.social keynote 🔑 from Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis @matih-id.bsky.social today: Reducing Barriers Toward Health Equity: Advocating for Change in the Healthcare Industry and Beyond.

I laughed, I cried. All the things. Just wow 👏👏👏 #IDWeek2025 #IDSky
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
13.1 miles around the lakes this morning!✅⛵️ Grateful to be injury free and to be able to do hard things! #Running #HalfMarathon
September 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Adopted a new furry child. 🐾🦴Welcome to the family, Scooby Doo!

#dog #puppy #IDsky #Pharmsky #Medsky
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Seems our new puppy 🐾🦴 brought some passengers along with him.

❓What are your guesses as to what we are treating? #Medsky #pharmsky #idsky #vetsky
August 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Love this! My daughter’s Girl Scout troop wrote letters to our #MN state senator and House Rep about a bill regulating pesticides to protect pollinators 🐝 🌼🪻She just received a written response from Jamie Long. So awesome his office took the time to do that!

#Minnesota #advocacy #GirlScouts
July 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📌Gentamicin and tobramycin breakpoints also lowered one dilution ➡️ now </= 2 mg/L susceptible
📌Based on extrapolation of amikacin PK/PD targets and gent/tobra PTA analysis for Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas
June 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Amikacin breakpoints were lowered down to /32 mg/L R ➡️ largely based on USCAST PK/PD modeling and ECOFF Finder demonstrating ECV of 8 mg/L, which agrees with EUCAST. **Based on dosing of 20 mg/kg**
📌See pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36946729/
June 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Breakpoint updates from #CLSI for Acinetobacter spp.
📌Tetracycline urine breakpoint was removed based on absence of data to support. Doxycycline removed in Jan 2025 and minocycline breakpoint lowered #MedSky #IDSky
June 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Drs. Jim Lewis and Matt Wikler honoring Dr. Lauri Thrupp at the #CLSI meeting. 🏆 He’s one of the founders of CLSI and a wealth of knowledge
June 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s one of my favorite seasons in Minnesota—when the lady’s slippers are in bloom 💛
May 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨Impacts of federal funding disruptions and terminations at the University of Minnesota and to Minnesota citizens
➡️As of April 25, 72 federal awards had been terminated, totaling $22.3 million in lost grant funding, and impacting 220 UMN personnel
#MN #Medsky #ScienceSky
May 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congrats to the University of MN College of Pharmacy class of 2025!!🎓 You did it!✨

@melaniernicol.bsky.social @draphilbrick.bsky.social
#PharmSky #pharmacy
May 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Had an amazing time in Vienna for #ESCMIDGlobal2025
🧫Good science
⭐️Great people & networking
🏢 Beautiful city

#IDsky #Pharmsky #ESCMID
April 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Ice is out and the ducks 🦆are happy! Running is keeping me sane while it feels like the world is burning down. Sunshine ☀️ makes everything better too
March 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You should check out Boon Boona Coffee! ☕️@usfidpharmd.bsky.social told me about them. A Black owned family business in Seattle, beans sourced from Africa. This first bag I’ve tried is good! www.boonboonacoffee.com/pages/about-us

#coffee #Blackowned
February 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Peak MN winter ❄️ activity day in gorgeous 45F weather
-4 mile run around the lake
-outdoor sauna 🥵 and cold 🥶plunge session with friends

☀️Feeling refreshed and ready to start a new week

#saunaculture #hygge
February 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
‼️The @idsainfo.bsky.social cUTI guideline 📄 draft is now available for public comment🗣️! This version has been reviewed by 15+ orgs & revised according to extensive feedback provided to us. www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

UTIsky IDsky Medsky PharmSky
February 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A very timely read with themes about anti-science 🧪🥼 and not trusting scientists as he had to advocate for years before policy makers listened to their work and warnings. Toward the end, one of the kids said “Should we be scared?!” I had a hard time answering honestly…
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It’s Read-a-Thon 📚 month at my son’s elementary school! Got to be a guest reader for second graders and my son chose this excellent book about Dr. Mario Molina and his work with CFCs and depletion of the ozone layer

#sciencesky #medsky #chemistry #pharmsky
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is an excellent kids book on him and his work! Just read 📚 to my son’s second grade class today #science
February 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
She’s a beauty and all grown now!😻

Here is another #cat sitting on a desk
January 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The doxycycline breakpoint has now been *removed*✌️after approval from the full AST Subcommittee. Not enough micro, PK/PD, or clinical outcomes data exist to support a breakpoint. Tetracycline not formally reviewed yet, but likely to be removed in future
January 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🧫Doxycycline breakpoint update for Acinetobacter from CLSI

Table below displays tetracycline breakpoints prior to 2025. Minocycline breakpoint was reduced at June 2024 meeting and published in 2025

#IDsky #Medsky #Pharmsky
January 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s the best time of January!
#CLSI Antimicrobial Susceptibility Subcommittee plenary session starting now 🌟

And the 35th edition of the M100 publishes today!

#IDsky #Medsky #pharmsky
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM