Antimicrobial Stewardship Can Be Everybody’s Business: Improving Antibiotic Use in Your Specialty

Leader(s)

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  Rana El Feghaly, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers)

  Outpatient ASP Director, Professor of Pediatrics
  Pediatrics
  Children's Mercy Kansas City, UMKC
  Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Co-Leader(s)

• AS

  Anna Sick-Samuels, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Johns Hopkins Children's Center
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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  Joshua Herigon, MD, MPH, MBI

  Attending Physician
  Children's Mercy Kansas City
  Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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  Shreya Doshi, MD, FAAP (she/her/hers)

  Fellow
  Children's National Health System
  Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States
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  Shabnam Jain, MD, MPH

  Professor of Pediatrics
  Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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  Prakesh Shah, MD FRCPC (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Pediatrics
  Mount Sinai Hospital
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD MSHP

  Assistant Professor
  Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  Phi, Pennsylvania, United States

Workshop Description: "Antimicrobial Stewardship is a practice dedicated to prescribing antibiotics only when necessary and, when antibiotics are considered necessary, promoting use of the appropriate agent(s), dose, duration, and route of therapy to optimize clinical outcomes while minimizing the unintended consequences of antibiotic use.” Traditionally, it is thought that a career in Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS) requires an infectious diseases fellowship and involves work in inpatient settings. However, there is so much more to consider. Pharmacists, specialists in Urgent Care, Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Intensive Care, Public Health, among others have fulfilling, successful careers in AS. The pathway to success in this field is not tied to one specialty, one setting, or one delineated route.
In this workshop, experts in Antimicrobial Stewardship with different career paths will discuss their road to success, and roundtable discussions will focus on case scenarios and how the different experts address them in their routine AS work.
We will have national experts in the field discuss their role in AS and how their career blossomed in AS in different settings: neonatology, emergency medicine, sustainability, clinical informatics, diagnostic stewardship, and quality improvement.