Virginia Pierce, MD

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Congratulations to Pranita Tamma, MD, MHS, the recipient of IDSA’s 2024 Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement. 🎉 Dr. Tamma of @HopkinsMedicine is an international leader in diagnosing and treating patients with gram-negative infections. Learn more: bit.ly/3UeL7Ml

My friend and🌟#InfectiousDiseases doc, David Roach @bwh_id @mgh_id, is working on low-cost diagnostics for #antimicrobialresistance. He's a finalist for the @IDSAInfo award. Check out his project: vimeo.com/1010706108. And vote for him to win! 👇 surveymonkey.com/r/CT96FMY

We mourn the passing of Denise Flannery, a beloved Medical Technologist bringing her expertise and joy to the lab. Her kindness and dedication will be deeply missed. michmed.org/NrXnW

@mmPharmD @IDWeekmtg @EBabady @Thea_BK @DavidCGaston @StanDeresinski @SIDPharm I also seem to recall her using the word “torture”! What have we gotten into, indeed?!?

Excited & nervous for this session at @IDWeekmtg #IDWeek2024 When we met as a group, I swear @EBabady gave an evil laugh & wished that the odds be ever in our favor. What have we gotten into?!

Congrats to our alumnus David Roach, MD, MBA for being named one of three IDea Incubator Award category winners! How can you get involved? Let's vote for his BADLOCK (Bacteria and AMR Detection by SHERLOCK) assay to win! surveymonkey.com/r/CT96FMY

Congrats to #UMichPath's Carol Young, named the 2025 recipient of the @ASMicrobiology Scherago-Rubin Award! This award honors exceptional bench-level clinical microbiologists in routine diagnostics. michmed.org/y5nWZ

JID is seeking proposals for papers devoted to Contemporary Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)! Proposals are due Sept. 22, 2024, and authors will be notified of acceptance in late October. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4fxcVoh (@OUPMedicine)

Michigan is searching for our next great partner as our new ID chief! Please share widely. Applicants send CV and cover letter to search chair: bmoore@umich.edu

This will be bright and early tomorrow (Friday)! I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss partnerships between clinical microbiologists and their antimicrobial stewardship colleagues.

@raneempallotta The end of an era, indeed! Miss you already!

End of an era 〽️ I can’t believe my two years at UMich have come to an end. I’m so thankful for the mentors here who have become lifelong friends. Although I’m sad to leave, im happy to share that I have accepted an Immunocompromised ASP job at the University of Utah in SLC!

🚨 Michigan medicine is hiring a COpAT pharmacist! 🚨 I cannot recommend this place enough. Feel free to message me if you have additional questions. This is a new program for UMich. You’ll get to work with the best group (not bias at all)… careers.umich.edu/job_detail/250… #IDTwitter

@christinakouts3 @CLSI_LabNews Thank you! I’m grateful for the opportunity to speak on this topic at such a fantastic conference. @PIDSociety @JasonGNewland

As we come to the end of #labweek 2024 remember that investing in clinical lab personnel isn't something you wait to do when the next pandemic rolls around but can have an incredibly positive impact on the quality of patient care today #clinicalmicro @ASMicrobiology

How New Regulation of Laboratory-Developed Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests Will Affect Infectious Diseases Clinical Practice ✅ Just Accepted ✍️ @romneyintn et al. bit.ly/3xkyIhb

In @CIDJournal, Kaleb Wolfe, MD (@Kalebsiella), Virginia Pierce, MD (@VMPierceMD), and Romney Humphries, PhD (@romneyintn), discuss how current and proposed regulatory policies from the FDA may jeopardize the future of antimicrobial susceptibility testing. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the 14th Annual International Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference (May 29-31) in St. Louis. Find out more at pids.org/event/14th-ann…