Division of Infectious Diseases

Category: ID History

Treatment of Osteomyelitis – What’s the Evidence for our Strategies?

Posted by Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, MD | August 29, 2019

New UNMC ID publication alert! #ReadUNMCID Recently, the newest member of our Division of Infectious Diseases at UNMC/Nebraska Medicine, Dr. Nicolas Cortes-Penfield published an invited review in Open Forum Infectious Diseases entitled: The History of Antibiotic Treatment of Osteomyelitis.  Dr. Cortes-Penfield wrote this summary describing the review article, which was commissioned after he published a comprehensive blog post (on his blog IDJournalClub.com) about the history… Continue Reading

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Honoring Black Women and Men Physician Leaders in Infectious Diseases

Posted by Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, MD | February 22, 2018

African Americans account for only 6% of newly minted doctors graduating from medical school in the USA. Within our specialty of Infectious Diseases, only 3% of ID physician members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) self-report as Black/African American. Many of these physicians make it their career goals to provide care for and advance clinical research pertaining to People of Color, often underrepresented… Continue Reading

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