Congratulations to Dr. Blair Weikert on his election into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians!! The Academy of Master Clinicians is the highest clinical honor for a Penn Medicine physician.

Happy Holidays from the Penn ID Fellows. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season!

Making good use of what snowy daylight there is on the shortest day of the year!

Congratulations and welcome to our 2025 incoming fellowship class! We are so excited to welcome these amazing future ID physicians to the program!

UFO sighting over Oregon? What we know Multiple pilots reported strange lights in the Oregon skies over the weekend.

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UFOs in multiple locations in Oregon. Not much coverage in national news

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

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The importance of stupidity in scientific research I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school...

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Interesting take on the value of productive stupidity in science

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Congrats everyone!!

Congrats to the winners of the inaugural ID Division Ugly Sweater Contest (the 3 folks in green)!!

Congratulations to Dr. Dovie Watson on her invited commentary in JAMA Network Open entitled “Burnout Among Sexual and Gender Minority Physicians- From Recognition to Intervention.” This fantastic commentary discusses the increased burnout among SGM physicians and advocates for actionable changes.

Systematic mapping of antibiotic cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity with chemical genetics - Nature Microbiology Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. This study presents an approach to systematically discover and ...

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Penn Medicine partners with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs Penn Medicine has partnered with Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company through its innovative Cost Plus Marketplace in a strategic alliance that will allow Penn Medicine to secure the top 100 most frequ...

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Penn partnership w Cost Plus

Modern Warfare Is Breeding Deadly Superbugs. Why?

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Interesting piece on the intersection of military conflicts and AMR

A Global Call to Action to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance: IDSA and ESCMID Joint White Paper World leaders will convene this September at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to tackle one of the greatest threats facing human health—antimicro

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Important call for global perspective in approach to AR

Dr. Scott Gottlieb on RFK: He will cost lives in this country if he follows through on intentions Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and CNBC contributor, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the incoming administration's picks for health cabinet positions, where Gottlieb's worries are, and much...

From my segment today on @cnbc.com. We face a grim and avoidable resurgence of once vanquished childhood infectious diseases if we follow down the current path being taken in Washington.

Still better than the Giants v Panthers we sent to Germany

Are you looking for an enriching research experience in Philadelphia next summer? The Penn CFAR Scholars’ & Summer Program in Infectious Diseases Research (SPIDR) Program may be it!
    ⁃    Application opens: 12/2/24- 2/7/25
    ⁃    Program dates: 6/9-8/1/25
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University of Pennsylvania Infectious Diseases Division is recruiting for several Academic Clinician faculty positions.
apply.interfolio.com/157709 (Asst Prof)
apply.interfolio.com/157628 (Assoc/Full Prof)

This is FASCINATING 🤯

Devil Facial Tumor Disease spreads through the Tasmanian devil population like a highly contagious infection, not from a carcinogenic microbe but "as an allograft, meaning the tumor cells themselves are transplanted from one devil to another"

#IDSky #VetSky #EpiSky #MedSky

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Trump's pick to lead CDC, Dave Weldon, introduced a bill while he was a U.S. representative to move most of the safety research done on vaccines away from the CDC justfacts.votesmart.org/public-state...

Enjoying some SNF with Maddie and @ebblautenbach.bsky.social

Beautiful day for the Philly marathon!