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Patient care, teaching, research. Impacting the lives of our patients and community in Los Angeles County
@HarborUCLA & @the_lundquist
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https://www.harbor-ucla.org/infectious-disease/
https://harborid.org
Rank list completed! We had amazing ID applicants this year and can't wait to find out the next two leaders in ID to be joining our Harbor-UCLA family. #IDSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Harbor-UCLA ID faculty & former fellow with a recent ICHE publication examining the environmental & human health impact of contact precautions in LA County!
NEW in ICHE: Environmental and human health impact of contact precautions

In LA County, contact precautions for MRSA/VRE:

▶️ Use 7.3 million gowns annually
▶️ Generate 506 tons of plastic waste
▶️ 1.73 million kgs of CO2 equivalents
= -4.07 DALYs

#IDSky

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Spotlight on celebrating amazing ID fellow Dr. Soo Jin Moon at IDWeek presenting her poster and faculty Dr. Stephen Judge taking the podium for IPC in correctional health. Still early and many others in the Harbor-UCLA family to celebrate!
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Shout out to sustainability leaders at Harbor-UCLA Pam Lee, MD and Gary Fong, PharmD with the launching of an Antibiotic Waste Calculator (ecorxchoice.com?page=home) as a innovative solution to support antibiotic stewardship and sustainability!
See recent newsletter @sidpharm.bsky.social

#IDSky
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
CELEBRATE! National Latino Physicians Day coordinated by our own Dr. Macias Gil. A true leader recognizing the importance of ensuring representation of the community we take care of.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A huge congrats 🎉 to our new ID specialists Drs. David and Tjoeng!! HUMC will miss you and thank you!
July 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Leadership through action.💪 Ensuring trust in the process for evaluating vaccines. Thanks @idsainfo.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We take care of many patients living with HIV at our safety-net institution. It is a privilege and incredible opportunity to be part of Ending the HIV Epidemic.🎗️ Our voice matters.

www.theaidsinstitute.org/RRA/fact-she...
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#IDSky great review by CMR for optimal testing of dimorphic fungal infections. journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

We are very aware of the diagnostic algorithm for cocci here in California! 🌵🌞
June 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Celebrating Dr. Soo Jin Moon 1st year ID Fellow winning first prize 🥇 at the Harbor-UCLA Research Day. HCV-Ab Diagnostic Stewardship saves money and CO2 emissions! 🦠💰🚗💨 Looking forward to the publication!
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Harbor-UCLA Adult Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Your voice as an infectious diseases professional is crucial to ensuring ID and HIV remain a priority in health policy. By joining our member advocacy program, you can make a direct impact and help ensure our field is heard in Congress. Sign up and take action 👇

www.idsociety.org/policy--advo...
Ensure Your Voice is Heard | IDSA & HIVMA
Congress needs to hear from you about the role that federal programs, policies and funding play in supporting local, federal and global efforts to track, prevent, diagnose and treat infectious disease...
www.idsociety.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Its always an incredible joy when our graduating fellows present their Grand Rounds. Thanks to Dr. David for the education on current data behind cfDNA in ID 🧬 and her research results. We look forward to her paper to come! 👩‍⚕️📚
May 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Have a great weekend and celebration of Mother's out there (and in our fellowship now!) 👩‍🔬🌷 #WellnessID
May 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy Earth Day 2025🌲🍁. We are lucky to have a leading advocate in the efforts combining ID and sustainability with Dr. Pamela Lee. Thanks for the DHS Earth Day Plenary and your recent publications on cocci & climate!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
📣👩‍🔬Faculty Spotlight in the press! Congrats to Dr. Lee for her work combining two passions: ID & environmental sustainability! #Cocci #ClimateChange🧫🏜️

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Climate Change and Coccidioidomycosis
This JAMA Insights discusses the increased risk of coccidioidomycosis due to climate change and the importance of clinicians, patients, and health systems being educated about the disease to ensure ac...
jamanetwork.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#IDSky
@WinnieByanyima Exec Director of UNAIDS, "if funding from USAID did not resume...there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths...there were 600,000 AIDS-related deaths globally in 2023...about a ten-fold increase."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
March 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Call to action for #IDSky. Become a IDSA/HIVMA Advocate! Streamlined advocacy to support global health funding, HIV and HIV prevention funding, and limiting Medicaid proposed cuts.

idsociety.quorum.us/takeaction/
March 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Nice @cidjournal.bsky.social publication supporting early use of oseltamivir in patients hospitalized with influenza PNA with mortality benefit. Nicely aligns with a 2014 @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social article I share with trainees.

doi.org/10.1093/cid/... & doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70041-4
Timing of Influenza Antiviral Therapy and Risk of Death in Adults Hospitalized With Influenza-Associated Pneumonia, Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET), 2012–2019
Using population-based surveillance data, among adults hospitalized with influenza-associated pneumonia, delayed initiation of influenza antiviral treatmen
doi.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thanks to @microbetv.bsky.social #IDpuscast for highlighting new guidelines published for risk stratification and prevention of HBV reactivation in Gastroenterology. Amazing tables and very interesting they do not take into account the sAb status.
www.gastrojournal.org/action/showP...
February 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Tecovirimat for mpox? STOMP and PALM007 = nope. Importance RCTs and placebo cannot be overstated. Pts would be still be receiving Rx without any benefit and only potential harms. On to new trials and advances in science!

Proud HUMC was able to contribute to STOMP 👩‍🔬
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIH Study Finds Tecovirimat Was Safe but Did Not Improve Mpox Resolution or Pain
Study Examined Tecovirimat in Countries Affected by Global Clade II Mpox Outbreak.
www.nih.gov
December 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Amazing when your research division is part in these groundbreaking studies! Shout out to our coordinator Ramiro😀 and the participants involved. #EHE #PrEP!

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention
A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access
www.science.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
First post on Bluesky...welcoming our future ID trainees to the Harbor-UCLA ID Family 😀. See you soon Drs. Abeydeera-Keshmiri & Joshi!
December 20, 2024 at 4:53 PM