Accuracy in diagnosis is critical for treating infectious diseases. In honor of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 18-24, 2021), this Therapeutic Thursday podcast episode features an expert from the CDC and a physician and epidemiologist from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Our guests discuss diagnostic and antibiotic stewardship and how disease overestimation during diagnosis impacts antimicrobial prescribing behaviors.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Arjun Srinivasan is the Associate Director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His research and investigative areas of concentration include outbreak investigations, infection control, multi-drug resistant gram negative pathogens and antimicrobial use. He currently leads efforts to coordinate activities to prevent healthcare associated infections and to improve the use of antibiotics in hospitals.
Dan Morgan MD, MS is a physician and epidemiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a tenured Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where the directs the Center for Innovation in Diagnosis and is Chief of Epidemiology at the VA Maryland Healthcare System.
His research explores probability in medicine, medical overuse, diagnostic stewardship and infection prevention. He has continuous federal funding, over 170 publications.
Anna Dopp, Pharm.D., serves as the Senior Director of Clinical Guidelines and Quality Improvement at ASHP. Prior to this role, Dr. Dopp served as the Vice President of Public Affairs for the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin while practicing as a clinical pharmacist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. She also served as a Pharmacy Benefit Consultant with WEA Trust in Madison, WI and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. Dr. Dopp received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University Of Minnesota College Of Pharmacy and served as a Congressional Health Policy Fellow with the United States Senate.