A Career in Antimicrobial Stewardship... so Much More to Explore

Friday, May 3, 2024

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 604

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Selected By: PIDS

Leader(s)

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

Professor
Pediatrics
Children's Mercy Kansas City, UMKC
Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Slides

Co-Leader(s)

Dustin Flannery, DO, MSCE

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
AN

Amanda Nedved, MD (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
UMKC School of Medicine | KU School of Medicine
Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Rana Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE (she/her/hers)

Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Infectous Diseases
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Disclosure(s):

Rana E. El Feghaly, MD, MSCI: Merck (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Dustin D. Flannery, DO, MSCE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Amanda Nedved, MD: Merck (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Pfizer (Terminated, June 30, 2023) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Rana F. Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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 fulfilled a successful career 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: inpatient, outpatient, hospital medicine, neonatology, and public health.

Learning Objectives:

To promote antibiotic stewardship across various settings.
To highlight the different career paths leading to antimicrobial stewardship
To implement novel strategies to devise a career in antimicrobial stewardship