Tag: #Love ID
About our First Year Fellows – Mark Ridder, MD
Tell us about your current position I a first year fellow of infectious disease at University of NE Medical Center. For the next 2 years I’ll be learning all I can from experts in the field for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of a wide variety of infectious diseases ranging from parasites and fungal disease […]
Feb 4, 2020
Thanks and Gratitude
This time of year is a time for reflection, gratitude, and appreciation of the blessings we have, and we are grateful for the opportunity to share our thanks from all of us at UNMC ID. We want to thank all of our blog subscribers, those who forward our blog on to others, and all of […]
Nov 28, 2019
Why I Love ID – Dr. Nicolas Cortes-Penfield
What about ID makes you excited? I love a good medical mystery or diagnostic challenge. Infectious disease specialists are often the experts other physicians turn to when they’re stumped by a patient’s seemingly inexplicable symptoms – a persistent fever, a perplexing rash, abnormal bloodwork that hints at inflammation in the body no one can seem […]
Sep 30, 2019
Special contributor: Dr. Shipra Goel
Dr. Shipra Goel joined us for the summer as an observer in the Infectious Disease Department. We’re excited to include her contributions to our blog during the month she was with us! My journey to an exciting observership at UNMC was enabled by my passion for infectious diseases (ID) which was virulent enough to infect […]
Sep 12, 2019
Treatment of Osteomyelitis – What’s the Evidence for our Strategies?
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 […]
Aug 29, 2019
A Message from Our ID Fellowship Leaders
Fellowship application season is nearing and as the leaders of our ID fellowship, we wanted to highlight some of the exciting aspects of our program. Our program and our division are growing. We began in 2011 with 2 fellows, grew to 4 in 2017, and are planning to expand to six fellows by 2021. We […]
Jul 11, 2019
Tiffany Kalin, APRN-NP on Why I Love ID
Why I love ID and UNMC: I wanted to work an UNMC/NM because of the positive experiences/education that I gained while working within the system previously (2007-2016). I truly enjoyed and am looking forward to again working in such a large operation with so many different experiences/education opportunities that are truly specific to UNMC/NM. I […]
Jun 11, 2019
Nadal Fadul, MD on Why I Love ID
Why I love ID and UNMC: The strong commitment to serving the community, the great opportunities provided to faculty; and my former colleague, Salman Ashraf, who is very happy here! I chose ID because my passion is taking care of people living with HIV, however, I enjoy all of ID and the intellectual challenge it […]
May 14, 2019
Bryan Alexander, PharmD on Why I Love ID
Why I love ID: I love academic medicine; working jointly with an interdisciplinary team of experts to sort out the most complex clinical cases excites me. There is no place in the region that fulfills each of the aspects of that statement better than Nebraska Medicine. While more and more of the practice of medicine […]
May 6, 2019
CRE or not CRE: A Question of Risky Business and Notes from the Field
The following was originally posted by Dr. Marcelin to the August 2018 SHEA Journal Club Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are not as prevalent in the United States as they are in the Eastern Hemisphere; however travel within our global village means creates opportunity for movement of these organisms to our region. The following is a review of […]
Sep 21, 2018
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