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Innovations in Diagnostic Stewardship: A Focus on Bacteriruria & Bacterisputia Oct 19, 2021

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Overview: In episode three of the four-part stewardship series, our moderator, Dr. Jessica Howard-Anderson speaks with Dr. Sonali Advani and Dr. Owen Albin. This podcast compares and contrasts diagnostic stewardship strategies and interventions related to both urinary and respiratory tract culturing practices. Our speakers also discuss why diagnostic stewardship is needed in these areas and how improving ordering practices can also improve antimicrobial prescribing. Speakers: Sonali Advani, MD, MPH Owen Albin, MD Jessica Howard-Anderson, MD, MSc (moderator)

COVID-19 & Healthcare Professional Fatigue and Burnout Oct 14, 2021

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Overview: In this episode, Dr. Waleed Javaid has a conversation with Dr. Gonzalo Bearman and Ms. Ann Marie Pettis about healthcare professional fatigue and burnout with a focus of those working in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention. They discuss the concept of burnout, how to recognize it, challenges faced as a result of burnout, what we've learned from COVID and burnout, how to address it, and more. Note: There will is not a news upate this week. It will resume in our next podcast episode. Speakers: Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, FACP, FSHEA, FIDSA Ann Marie Pettis, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC Waleed Javaid, MD SHEA will be hosting a live rebroadcast of the three SHEA Spring 2021 plenaries, including the talk by Dr. Bearman on fatigue and burnout, on Thursday, November 16th beginning at 11 am ET. To register, please visit this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p6pY9FBNSxikGwXp13rPxQ What do you think of our podcasts? Do you have topic or speaker suggestions? Let us know at https://learningce.shea-online.org/content/shea-podcast-feedback

Tele-stewardship: An Emerging Tool For Resource Limited Settings Oct 12, 2021

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Overview: This podcast will explore opportunities and strategies for supporting stewardship activities in resource limited clinical settings, including critical access hospitals (CAHs) and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Discussion with podcast participants will center on virtual stewardship activities with a specific focus on program design, the technologies used and the challenges encountered. Speakers: Erin McCreary, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP Eddie Stenehjem, MD Chris Crnich, MD, PhD (moderator)

Stewardship in Ambulatory Settings and The Emergency Department Oct 01, 2021

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Overview: Antimicrobial Stewardship is well established in many inpatient settings; however, outpatient programs are not as common despite high volume of inappropriate prescribing. Literature is lacking to help guide the best interventional strategies. Additionally, patient volumes are high and time to decision making is fast in the ambulatory and ED settings. Thus, strategies that are successful inpatient may not be feasible, successful, or sustainable in the outpatient setting. Finally, hospitals fund stewardship programs through pharmacy department resources or perhaps infection prevention or quality, but what about in the outpatient setting what are sources of funding? In our first episode of SHEA's Challenges and Innovations in Antimicrobial Stewardship podcast series, Dr. Rebekah Wrenn sits down with Dr. Larissa May of University of California Davis and Dr. Jeff Linder of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to address these topics and more. Speakers: Jeff Linder, MD, MPH, FACP Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS Rebekah Wrenn, PharmD, BCIDP (moderator)

COVID-19 and HAIs Sep 30, 2021

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Overview: In this episode, Dr. Jessica Howard-Anderson of Emory University has a conversation with Dr. Mohamad Fakih and Lisa Sturm of Ascension around the CDC report about the impact of COVID on HAIs and Ascension's study on CLABSI and COVID, key reasons behind HAI increases, why certain HAIs may have increased more than others the past year, areas for improvement, and more. Interested in the eLearning opportunity, Prevention CHKC, referenced in this podcast? Please visit www.preventionchkc.org and use coupon code PODCAST at checkout for FREE access! Speakers: - Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA - Lisa Sturm, MPH, CIC, FAPIC - Jessica Howard-Anderson, MD, MSc (moderator) - Chris Crnich, MD, PhD (news update) Sources from the news update: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255 https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab207/6375510 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784480 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01908-5/fulltext What do you think of our podcasts? Do you have topic or speaker suggestions? Let us know at https://learningce.shea-online.org/content/shea-podcast-feedback

COVID-19 Variants: What We've Seen, Where We Are, and What's to Come Sep 16, 2021

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Overview: This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. We also invited Dr. Andrew Read of Penn State University to discuss the variants, including what we've learned about them, the current state of variants, and what we might expect. Information on how HCPs can best assist their patients and to think about for themselves are discussed. Speakers: - Andrew Read, PhD - Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc (moderator) - Ishrat Kamal-Ahmed, PhD, MSc (news update) Sources from the news update: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/business/biden-vaccine-mandate-questions.html https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(21)00061-2/fulltext https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e3.htm?s_cid=mm7037e3_w https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2783986 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784031 What do you think of our podcasts? Do you have topic or speaker suggestions? Let us know at https://learningce.shea-online.org/content/shea-podcast-feedback

COVID-19 & Going Back to School Sep 02, 2021

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Overview: This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. Our moderator, Dr. Waleed Javaid, has a discussion with Katherine Burdge, President-elect of the Florida Association of School Nurses and full-time registered nurse for the Hillsborough County School District in Tampa, Florida, and Dr. Shanna Kowalsky, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, about how healthcare professionals can work most effectively with a safe return to in-person learning, how to advise parents and students in K-12, and how HCPs can get involved with assisting with school reopenings. Speakers: - Katherine Burdge, MSN, RN - Shanna Kowalsky, DO - Waleed Javaid, MD (moderator) - Cindy Prins, PhD, MPH, CIC, CPH (news update) Sources from news update: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm?s_cid=mm7035e5_w https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/impact-of-weekly-asymptomatic-testing-for-sarscov2-virus-in-inpatients-at-an-academic-hospital/AA937C194C9D966AB6344C48439020CE Do you have feedback for our podcast? Topic or speaker ideas? Let us know at https://learningce.shea-online.org/content/shea-podcast-feedback

Booster Vaccinations for Immunocompromised Individuals Aug 23, 2021

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Overview: In this special podcast episode, our moderator, Dr. Waleed Javaid has a discussion with Dr. Dorry Segev of Johns Hopkins University about booster vaccinations for immunocompromised individuals. They talk about the evidence behind the recommendation, how effective the booster will be for these individuals, and how to talk with patients about it. Note: Given this is a special episode of the series, there is no news update. We will resume news updates in our next episode. Speakers: - Dorry Segev, MD, PhD - Waleed Javaid, MD (moderator)

Role of Healthcare Epidemiology in Public Health Aug 19, 2021

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Overview: This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. In addition, our moderator, Dr. David Banach, speaks with Roza Tammer, Infection Control Epidemiologist at Oregon Health Authority, about the ways healthcare epidemiologists in settings like university hospitals interact with their state public health epidemiologists. They discuss how they each work as epidemiologists in their roles, how they intersect with one another, what COVID has taught them, and ways to work together after the pandemic. Speakers: - Roza Tammer, MPH, CIC - David Banach, MD, MPH (moderator) - Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc (news update) Sources from news update: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891?query=featured_home https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2782982 Do you have feedback for our podcast? Topic or speaker ideas? Let us know at https://learningce.shea-online.org/content/shea-podcast-feedback

Communicating with Minorities and Underrepresented Groups Aug 12, 2021

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Overview: Communicating with minorities and underrepresented groups is a challenge for healthcare workers and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a lot of communication disparity. In the final episode of this podcast series, our moderator, Dr. Jennifer Hanrahan, talks with Marielee Santiago, Pastor Duncan Gerard, and Sheikh Nuru Mohammed about how healthcare workers can better communicate with minorities and underrepresented groups, barriers to communication, considerations to make, and more. Speakers: Marielee Santiago, MSW, LCSW, MPH Pastor Gerard Duncan Sheikh Nuru Mohammed Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc (moderator)

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