Authors
Schmalzle is an infectious disease physician, and medical director of the THRIVE Program HIV clinic at the University of Maryland. She leads a multidisciplinary team in piloting the STRONG and STRIVE to 100 HIV-aging models of care.
Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
O’Brien is a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases at Novant Health at Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Weinstock is a second-year internal medicine resident based in southwestern Virginia and has been a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America since his second year of medical school. He is passionate about antimicrobial discovery and medical education.
Childs-Kean is a clinical associate professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Gainesville, FL.
Dorazio is a research technician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Her contributions there are focused on elucidating mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative pathogens.
Girod is a scientist with an MSc in Bioinformatics and a Senior Product Manager at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. She is based at the company’s development and manufacturing center in San Jose, California and oversees strategic development of the company’s liquid handlers from market research to new product launches, and works closely with research and development teams and customers.
Maximos is an early career scholar, pharmacist at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and sessional clinical lecturer, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6385-9718
Mikhail is an inpatient pharmacist at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining St Christopher’s, Mikhail was a research fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia exploring the pharmacokinetics of analgesics and antimicrobials in pediatric patients with critical illness.
Smith is a revenue cycle management content writer with a background in journalism and a passion for healthcare and finance. With over a decade of experience in both fields, he specializes in creating compelling, high-quality content that helps businesses in the healthcare sector improve their financial operations. He focuses on key topics within revenue cycle management services, including medical billing, coding, compliance, data analytics, reimbursement trends, and financial strategies. By leveraging his expertise, he works with organizations like MedCare MSO to provide valuable insights that enhance financial efficiency and streamline operations.
Britt is a clinical practice specialist, Infectious Diseases, University Health System in San Antonio, Texas.
Shah is an assistant professor in medicine and a consultant in the Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases and Occupational Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His interests include antimicrobial stewardship, diagnostic stewardship, infections in the critically ill, and emergency preparedness and planning.
Moran Viacava is a first-year infectious disease fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York. Her clinical interests include tropical medicine and HIV-primary care.
Jason C. Gallagher, PharmD, FCCP, FIDP, FIDSA, BCPS, is a clinical professor at Temple University (TU) School of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also is director of the PGY2 Residency in Infectious Diseases Pharmacy at TU.
Patel is a professor of clinical pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He maintains practices at the Antiviral Research Center as an investigational drug pharmacist and clinical pharmacist at UCSD Student Health Services.
Hirsch is the current secretary of the Breakpoints Working Group of the CLSI Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. She is also an associate professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and runs the Hirsch laboratory in the Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department.
Zeitler is a pharmacotherapy specialist coordinator in Infectious Diseases at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, FL
King is an infectious diseases PGY2 residency program director, codirector of outpatient antimicrobial stewardship, and outpatient infectious diseases clinical pharmacist at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey.
Sheth Pandit is professor and co-vice chair for research and scholarship in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
Christensen is infectious diseases pharmacist and antimicrobial stewardship program manager, HealthPartners System, Minneapolis MN.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1497-3116
Chiasson is an infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX.
Cappuccio is a PGY-2 pharmacy resident in infectious diseases at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. His interest areas include HIV, multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections, and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
Weissenbach has practiced as an epidemiologist and infection preventionist for more than fifteen years. He is responsible for directing clinician efforts toward the design, development, implementation and support of Wolters Kluwer Clinical Surveillance software solutions. He is a fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and an active member of both APIC and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Castillo is an infectious diseases physician and medical director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.. She is passionate about building collaborative, supportive relationships with clinicians and supporting them to optimally utilize antimicrobials in their daily practice.
Ghanta is an inpatient pharmacist at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Curtis writes for the Yale School of Medicine.
Castellino is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine.