Harbor-UCLA Adult Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
@harborucla-id.bsky.social
Patient care, teaching, research. Impacting the lives of our patients and community in Los Angeles County
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@HarborUCLA & @the_lundquist
- RTs & likes ≠ endorsements.
https://www.harbor-ucla.org/infectious-disease/
https://harborid.org
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Antibiotic duration for bacteremia is something most of us learned by habit, not by trial data. In the latest episode of Beyond Journal Club from @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group, we walk through the BALANCE trial and use it as a lens for treatment guidance. nej.md/3XNgajK
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Antibiotic duration for bacteremia is something most of us learned by habit, not by trial data. In the latest episode of Beyond Journal Club from @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group, we walk through the BALANCE trial and use it as a lens for treatment guidance. nej.md/3XNgajK
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Global methane emissions have been rising since 2006 even though fossil fuel emissions have plateaued. Isotopic analysis suggests the culprit is likely microbes thriving in a thawing Arctic, warming tropical wetlands, farms, and waste dumps. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OaMI50XIxYP
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Global methane emissions have been rising since 2006 even though fossil fuel emissions have plateaued. Isotopic analysis suggests the culprit is likely microbes thriving in a thawing Arctic, warming tropical wetlands, farms, and waste dumps. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OaMI50XIxYP
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FDA approval 📢🔥
US FDA approved Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) granules that dissolve in water. This medicine can treat uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea in adults and children 12 years and older who weigh at least 77 pounds.
2 new oral Abx for gonorrhea #idsky
gepotidacin
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US FDA approved Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) granules that dissolve in water. This medicine can treat uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea in adults and children 12 years and older who weigh at least 77 pounds.
2 new oral Abx for gonorrhea #idsky
gepotidacin
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Approves Two Oral Therapies to Treat Gonorrhea
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved two new oral medicines to treat a common sexually transmitted infection called gonorrhea.
www.fda.gov
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
FDA approval 📢🔥
US FDA approved Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) granules that dissolve in water. This medicine can treat uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea in adults and children 12 years and older who weigh at least 77 pounds.
2 new oral Abx for gonorrhea #idsky
gepotidacin
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
US FDA approved Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) granules that dissolve in water. This medicine can treat uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea in adults and children 12 years and older who weigh at least 77 pounds.
2 new oral Abx for gonorrhea #idsky
gepotidacin
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
Brilliant ID-themed white elephant gift from @brianchowmd.bsky.social - a Magic 8 Ball and ID Consult Questions Starter Pack! #magic8ball #IDSky
-- Answer to "Is this Infectious?" is always "Ask Again Later"
-- Answer to "Is this Infectious?" is always "Ask Again Later"
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Brilliant ID-themed white elephant gift from @brianchowmd.bsky.social - a Magic 8 Ball and ID Consult Questions Starter Pack! #magic8ball #IDSky
-- Answer to "Is this Infectious?" is always "Ask Again Later"
-- Answer to "Is this Infectious?" is always "Ask Again Later"
When your idle reddit browsing and your day job collide: www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...
PS - top comment "As a doctor I've seen one case of this" -- clearly not a Harbor ID doc!
PS - top comment "As a doctor I've seen one case of this" -- clearly not a Harbor ID doc!
From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL pork tapeworm is one of the leading causes of adult onset epilepsy.
Explore this post and more from the todayilearned community
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December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
When your idle reddit browsing and your day job collide: www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...
PS - top comment "As a doctor I've seen one case of this" -- clearly not a Harbor ID doc!
PS - top comment "As a doctor I've seen one case of this" -- clearly not a Harbor ID doc!
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For HIV Awareness Month, TLI Investigator Raul Macias Gil, MD explores emerging innovations and community-driven models that are reshaping access to HIV testing, PrEP, and treatment.
Read our latest article: bit.ly/4awFrWO
#HIV #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HIVPrevention #LGBTQIA
Read our latest article: bit.ly/4awFrWO
#HIV #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HIVPrevention #LGBTQIA
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
For HIV Awareness Month, TLI Investigator Raul Macias Gil, MD explores emerging innovations and community-driven models that are reshaping access to HIV testing, PrEP, and treatment.
Read our latest article: bit.ly/4awFrWO
#HIV #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HIVPrevention #LGBTQIA
Read our latest article: bit.ly/4awFrWO
#HIV #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #SexualHealth #HIVPrevention #LGBTQIA
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Please note that this event has been moved to Wednesday, December, 17, 2025! More details here: bit.ly/48KQXfV
Join us on 12/10 for a lecture by TLI Investigator Ashraf Ibrahim, PhD, recipient of the Frank J. DeSantis Investigator Award. This lecture will explore innovative immunotherapeutic strategies designed to disarm the most dangerous traits of invasive fungal pathogens. 🧪 More details: bit.ly/48KQXfV
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Please note that this event has been moved to Wednesday, December, 17, 2025! More details here: bit.ly/48KQXfV
Incredibly proud of Dr. Brian Chow, director of Harbor's Beall Positive Care Clinic, for speaking up about the importance of childhood hepatitis B vaccines. Fortunate to have such a knowledgeable and passionate physician advocate in the Harbor-UCLA ID family!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Incredibly proud of Dr. Brian Chow, director of Harbor's Beall Positive Care Clinic, for speaking up about the importance of childhood hepatitis B vaccines. Fortunate to have such a knowledgeable and passionate physician advocate in the Harbor-UCLA ID family!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
Rank list completed! We had amazing ID applicants this year and can't wait to find out the next two leaders in ID to be joining our Harbor-UCLA family. #IDSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rank list completed! We had amazing ID applicants this year and can't wait to find out the next two leaders in ID to be joining our Harbor-UCLA family. #IDSky
Harbor-UCLA ID faculty & former fellow with a recent ICHE publication examining the environmental & human health impact of contact precautions in LA County!
NEW in ICHE: Environmental and human health impact of contact precautions
In LA County, contact precautions for MRSA/VRE:
▶️ Use 7.3 million gowns annually
▶️ Generate 506 tons of plastic waste
▶️ 1.73 million kgs of CO2 equivalents
= -4.07 DALYs
#IDSky
📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....
In LA County, contact precautions for MRSA/VRE:
▶️ Use 7.3 million gowns annually
▶️ Generate 506 tons of plastic waste
▶️ 1.73 million kgs of CO2 equivalents
= -4.07 DALYs
#IDSky
📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Harbor-UCLA ID faculty & former fellow with a recent ICHE publication examining the environmental & human health impact of contact precautions in LA County!
Spotlight on celebrating amazing ID fellow Dr. Soo Jin Moon at IDWeek presenting her poster and faculty Dr. Stephen Judge taking the podium for IPC in correctional health. Still early and many others in the Harbor-UCLA family to celebrate!
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Spotlight on celebrating amazing ID fellow Dr. Soo Jin Moon at IDWeek presenting her poster and faculty Dr. Stephen Judge taking the podium for IPC in correctional health. Still early and many others in the Harbor-UCLA family to celebrate!
Shout out to sustainability leaders at Harbor-UCLA Pam Lee, MD and Gary Fong, PharmD with the launching of an Antibiotic Waste Calculator (ecorxchoice.com?page=home) as a innovative solution to support antibiotic stewardship and sustainability!
See recent newsletter @sidpharm.bsky.social
#IDSky
See recent newsletter @sidpharm.bsky.social
#IDSky
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Shout out to sustainability leaders at Harbor-UCLA Pam Lee, MD and Gary Fong, PharmD with the launching of an Antibiotic Waste Calculator (ecorxchoice.com?page=home) as a innovative solution to support antibiotic stewardship and sustainability!
See recent newsletter @sidpharm.bsky.social
#IDSky
See recent newsletter @sidpharm.bsky.social
#IDSky
CELEBRATE! National Latino Physicians Day coordinated by our own Dr. Macias Gil. A true leader recognizing the importance of ensuring representation of the community we take care of.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
CELEBRATE! National Latino Physicians Day coordinated by our own Dr. Macias Gil. A true leader recognizing the importance of ensuring representation of the community we take care of.
A huge congrats 🎉 to our new ID specialists Drs. David and Tjoeng!! HUMC will miss you and thank you!
July 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A huge congrats 🎉 to our new ID specialists Drs. David and Tjoeng!! HUMC will miss you and thank you!
Leadership through action.💪 Ensuring trust in the process for evaluating vaccines. Thanks @idsainfo.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Leadership through action.💪 Ensuring trust in the process for evaluating vaccines. Thanks @idsainfo.bsky.social
We take care of many patients living with HIV at our safety-net institution. It is a privilege and incredible opportunity to be part of Ending the HIV Epidemic.🎗️ Our voice matters.
www.theaidsinstitute.org/RRA/fact-she...
www.theaidsinstitute.org/RRA/fact-she...
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We take care of many patients living with HIV at our safety-net institution. It is a privilege and incredible opportunity to be part of Ending the HIV Epidemic.🎗️ Our voice matters.
www.theaidsinstitute.org/RRA/fact-she...
www.theaidsinstitute.org/RRA/fact-she...
#IDSky great review by CMR for optimal testing of dimorphic fungal infections. journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
We are very aware of the diagnostic algorithm for cocci here in California! 🌵🌞
We are very aware of the diagnostic algorithm for cocci here in California! 🌵🌞
June 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#IDSky great review by CMR for optimal testing of dimorphic fungal infections. journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
We are very aware of the diagnostic algorithm for cocci here in California! 🌵🌞
We are very aware of the diagnostic algorithm for cocci here in California! 🌵🌞
Celebrating Dr. Soo Jin Moon 1st year ID Fellow winning first prize 🥇 at the Harbor-UCLA Research Day. HCV-Ab Diagnostic Stewardship saves money and CO2 emissions! 🦠💰🚗💨 Looking forward to the publication!
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Celebrating Dr. Soo Jin Moon 1st year ID Fellow winning first prize 🥇 at the Harbor-UCLA Research Day. HCV-Ab Diagnostic Stewardship saves money and CO2 emissions! 🦠💰🚗💨 Looking forward to the publication!
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Your voice as an infectious diseases professional is crucial to ensuring ID and HIV remain a priority in health policy. By joining our member advocacy program, you can make a direct impact and help ensure our field is heard in Congress. Sign up and take action 👇
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Ensure Your Voice is Heard | IDSA & HIVMA
Congress needs to hear from you about the role that federal programs, policies and funding play in supporting local, federal and global efforts to track, prevent, diagnose and treat infectious disease...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Your voice as an infectious diseases professional is crucial to ensuring ID and HIV remain a priority in health policy. By joining our member advocacy program, you can make a direct impact and help ensure our field is heard in Congress. Sign up and take action 👇
www.idsociety.org/policy--advo...
www.idsociety.org/policy--advo...
Its always an incredible joy when our graduating fellows present their Grand Rounds. Thanks to Dr. David for the education on current data behind cfDNA in ID 🧬 and her research results. We look forward to her paper to come! 👩⚕️📚
May 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Its always an incredible joy when our graduating fellows present their Grand Rounds. Thanks to Dr. David for the education on current data behind cfDNA in ID 🧬 and her research results. We look forward to her paper to come! 👩⚕️📚
Have a great weekend and celebration of Mother's out there (and in our fellowship now!) 👩🔬🌷 #WellnessID
May 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Have a great weekend and celebration of Mother's out there (and in our fellowship now!) 👩🔬🌷 #WellnessID
Happy Earth Day 2025🌲🍁. We are lucky to have a leading advocate in the efforts combining ID and sustainability with Dr. Pamela Lee. Thanks for the DHS Earth Day Plenary and your recent publications on cocci & climate!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy Earth Day 2025🌲🍁. We are lucky to have a leading advocate in the efforts combining ID and sustainability with Dr. Pamela Lee. Thanks for the DHS Earth Day Plenary and your recent publications on cocci & climate!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
📣👩🔬Faculty Spotlight in the press! Congrats to Dr. Lee for her work combining two passions: ID & environmental sustainability! #Cocci #ClimateChange🧫🏜️
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Climate Change and Coccidioidomycosis
This JAMA Insights discusses the increased risk of coccidioidomycosis due to climate change and the importance of clinicians, patients, and health systems being educated about the disease to ensure ac...
jamanetwork.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
📣👩🔬Faculty Spotlight in the press! Congrats to Dr. Lee for her work combining two passions: ID & environmental sustainability! #Cocci #ClimateChange🧫🏜️
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#IDSky
@WinnieByanyima Exec Director of UNAIDS, "if funding from USAID did not resume...there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths...there were 600,000 AIDS-related deaths globally in 2023...about a ten-fold increase."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
@WinnieByanyima Exec Director of UNAIDS, "if funding from USAID did not resume...there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths...there were 600,000 AIDS-related deaths globally in 2023...about a ten-fold increase."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
March 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#IDSky
@WinnieByanyima Exec Director of UNAIDS, "if funding from USAID did not resume...there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths...there were 600,000 AIDS-related deaths globally in 2023...about a ten-fold increase."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
@WinnieByanyima Exec Director of UNAIDS, "if funding from USAID did not resume...there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths...there were 600,000 AIDS-related deaths globally in 2023...about a ten-fold increase."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...