As Senior Vice President of Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development, Dr. Bill Gruber is responsible for the global clinical development of vaccines and led the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine effort….
The pandemic is far from over, but there is hope for a better 2021 as thousands of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to hospitals and healthcare systems…
Jaquie Toia has been a board-certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago for the past 35 years. The majority of her career was…
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This seems an apt message for our current times. Many have…
Reference: Chen P, Nirula A, Heller B, et al. NEJM Oct 28, 2020; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2029849 Author: Surabhi (Sara) Vora, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Seattle Childrens’s Hospital…
Dr. H. Dele Davies is the Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Public Health, and also the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
Article: Jonathan C. Craig, Judy M. Simpson, Gabrielle J. Williams, et al. Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Children. N Engl J Med 2009;361:1748-59. Journal Club Author: Mohammed-Nafi’u,…
Dr. Philip Zachariah is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He also leads the antibiotic stewardship program and serves as hospital epidemiologist at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s…
The world’s largest organization of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control and eradication of infectious diseases affecting children, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, has honored eight distinguished physicians and scientists…
Reference: Minneci PC et al. Association of Nonoperative management Using Antibiotic Therapy vs Laparoscopic Appendectomy With Treatment Success and Disability Days in Children with Uncomplicated Appendicitis. JAMA. 2020; doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.10888 Author: John…
Author: Sanjeev K. Swami MD. Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Reviewers: John S. Schieffelin, MD, MSPH. Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Internal…
Dr. Annabelle de St. Maurice is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and is the Co-Chief Infection Prevention Officer at University of California Los Angeles/Mattel…
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