Division of Infectious Diseases
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases – The Ghostbusters of Medicine
Medicine is a team sport, there is no denying that, but together the Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases(ID) specialists create a powerhouse of for diagnosis and treatment. Detect, Identify and Destroy. Infectious Disease physicians are called in to start the investigation – does the patient have an infection? What do we think is the most […]
Aug 7, 2017
Dr. Sue Swindells on “Why I Love ID”
Dr. Sue Swindells on “Why I Love ID”: “So, I found myself in a fancy maternity hospital in San Francisco not too long ago, while my daughter was having a baby. The nurses there were very excited to have an Infectious Diseases doctor in the room. I had thought they might be a bit nervous […]
Aug 3, 2017
Lisa Hill, NP on “Why I Love ID”
Lisa Hill, Nurse Practitioner with Transplant Infectious Diseases on “Why I Love ID” “ID is like a puzzle. You are looking at each piece trying to see how it fits in the big picture. Sometimes the edges are clear and sometimes pieces are missing. It is our job to look at all the details to […]
Jul 24, 2017
Hope is Not a Plan – Preparing for Public Health Emergencies.
Dr. Hewlett presented her talk “Hope is Not a Plan” for the SHEA/CDC Outbreak Response Training Workshop(ORTP) in Philadelphia in June. The workshop was geared towards Hospital Epidemiologists and focused on hospital preparedness for public health emergencies. Dr. Hewlett specifically spoke on key steps in preparing for a high-consequence pathogen infection, travel and screening tools […]
Jul 21, 2017
Dr. Alison Freifeld on “Why I Love ID”
Dr. Freifeld on “Why I Love ID”: “My 30+ year career in managing infections in the most vulnerable immunosuppressed cancer patients has been an incredible journey and one I would choose again! Infectious complications in this population are often complex and life-threatening, but work of diagnosing and managing those problems (and often there are multiple […]
Jul 17, 2017
Courage and Heroism in the Face of Ebola – Dr. Martin Salia Honored at Nebraska Medical Center
Dr. Martin Salia was a healthcare hero in his native Sierra Leone. He strove to provide excellent, quality healthcare to patients in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, as the Ebola epidemic continued to spread. It was during his selfless determination to care for his patients, that Salia contracted the Ebola virus. He was […]
Jul 14, 2017
Interested in Common Infections in the Elderly? Listen and Learn at UNMC!
Common Infections in the Elderly July 13, 2017 Location: UNMC Eppley Science Hall – Amphitheater In this presentation, Dr. Muhammad Salman Ashraf, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Infectious Diseases, will discuss why older adults are at increased risk of infections. He will also identify common infections in the elderly and present management issues […]
Jul 12, 2017
HIV prevention – Are you PrEPared?
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the strategy of administering antiretrovirals to HIV uninfected, at-risk individuals in order to prevent HIV infection. Tenofovir-emtricitabine (Truvada) was approved for HIV PrEP by the FDA in 2012 and is over 90% effective in preventing HIV infection when taken as directed. UNMC’s HIV clinic has been offering HIV PrEP for […]
Jul 6, 2017
Dr. Ashraf on “Why I Love ID”
Dr. Ashraf on “Why I Love ID” “I love the sense of satisfaction that practicing in the field of infectious diseases provides to me. This is a specialty where we are able to prevent and/or cure most of the diseases. In my opinion, investigating a case of infectious disease like a detective, looking at all […]
Jul 3, 2017
Antimicrobial Stewardship – Beyond the Hospital
According to the CDC, each year in the US, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections. Inappropriate antibiotic use is an important driver for development of drug resistant bacteria. Antibiotic misuse is prevalent in all […]
Jun 26, 2017
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