You can also revisit our poster with great colleagues at the Veterans Affairs Health System! We analyzed 24-year national trends of resistant Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas in urine cultures from spinal cord injury patients. Proud of those maps I coded myself 😜 #IDWeek2025

If you’re still around at #IDWeek2025, stop by poster 1967! If not, here it is — a workflow using LLMs on real patient data showed limited performance compared to an ID expert in adjudicating blood culture appropriateness.

Check out our CLABSI paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If you’re feeling sad that #IDWeek is coming to an end tomorrow, don’t worry, ESCMID Global is just around the corner! Abstract submissions are now open. It’s such a wonderful conference where I’ve met friends and collaborators from all over the world!

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Just realized — this is my first talk as a newly minted attending and hospital epidemiologist! Grateful to the Mile High APIC chapter for the opportunity!

Excited to share the podium with colleagues, collaborators, and my academic grand-mentor while presenting on AI in healthcare epidemiology at the APIC Mile High Colorado Chapter!

Couldn’t agree more! The criteria also fail to keep up with emerging molecular diagnostics, leading to unfair penalties!

Couldn’t ask for a better way to close out my trainee years than highlighting our work at #SHEASpring2025 — from idea generation to funding, to grabbing wastewater and running tests. Learned epi, IPC, comms, and more! Thanks to @jlsalinas.bsky.social for being the best mentor I could ask for!

Excited to be appointed as the ESCMID Local Champion for the U.S. for the next three years! After many rewarding experiences, I look forward to promoting ESCMID Global and championing infectious diseases—especially the often-overlooked field of healthcare epidemiology!

Facing the blood culture shortage, we implemented an order alert and restricted repeat cultures within 72 hours to high-yield indications. Spearheaded by our incredible micro lab and supported by our 2-year stewardship initiative, details here:

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Up to 79% of providers order blood cultures without evaluating the patient first—lots of room to improve! Honored to collaborate on this national study, led by Johns Hopkins, exploring blood culture practices across 8 US academic institutions.

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Bayesian reasoning is fun.

LLMs won’t take our jobs, but learning to work with them is the future. And no, not all LLMs are made equal! In this great collaboration, we tested LLMs for helping infection preventionists—GPT-4 outshined GPT-3.5, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenEvidence @jlsalinas.bsky.social

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Welcome to the new Stanford Infectious Disease fellowship class! Excited for you to learn, grow, and have fun in Silicon Valley

Honored to be part of the Stanford Health Care team recognized with the Malinda Mitchell Award for Quality. Through collaboration, including blood culture stewardship I led with great support from @jlsalinas.bsky.social and others, we made a real impact on reducing CLABSI. Proud of our team’s work!

A picture is worth a 1000 words! My biggest pet peeve? Slides with a 1000 and zero images.

Pro tip: I use ChatGPT to create visuals for my talks—no coding skills needed most of the time. Occasionally, I do need to tweak the code to improve the images!

A bit out of my comfort zone as a healthcare epidemiologist discussing novel therapeutics for resistant Gram-negative infections, but excited for the opportunity!

Stanford ID has an abundance of cool cases, great people, and, most importantly, food for the faculty, fellows, and trainees! 😝

I came across this beautiful paper on aerosol generation (or lack thereof, haha) during routine patient care activities. Only nebulizations were linked to significant aerosol production. Interesting note: bronchoscopy without nebs showed no significant aerosols.

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