IDWeek Program Committee Choice Award

This award recognizes up to four of the best abstracts overall. IDWeek’s Program Committee selected the following recipients based on outstanding scientific research:

IDSA Awardee: Yu-Chun Pan, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, "Deep Learning–Based Prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance Using Multicenter Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization–Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry Data"

SHEA Awardee: Sarah Hochman, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, "Genomic surveillance reveals reduced Staphylococcus aureus transmission in semi-private versus multi-bed hospital rooms"

HIVMA Awardee: Ali Dehghani, DO, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, "Zoster Vaccination in People Living with HIV Is Associated with Reduced Mortality and Cardiovascular Risk: A Real-World Matched Cohort Study"

PIDS Awardee: Rachel Strength, MD, NIH/NIAID/Children's National Hospital, SIlver Spring, MD, "Searching for the Path of Least Resistance: Characterizing Longitudinal Changes in the Gut Resistomes of Healthy Infants and NICU Infants"

IDWeek Diagnostics Award 

The IDWeek Award for top abstracts submitted in diagnostics is intended to recognize the best abstract in the category of diagnostics. The IDWeek Program Committee selected the recipients based on outstanding scientific research: 

Anfal Marafie, MD, RD, MS, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, OH, "Improving Specificity of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screening with Quantitative PCR on Saliva"

Xavier Quan-Nguyen, MD, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, Montréal, QC, "The Use of Whole Genome Sequencing and a Novel Bioinformatic Pipeline for Mycobacterium abscessus Molecular Epidemiology"

Shirley Shapiro Ben David, MD, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Host-Response Testing to Guide Antibiotic Prescription: Association Between MeMed BV® Results and Clinical Outcomes in an Urgent Care Network"

IDWeek Investigator Award 

The Investigator Awards are intended to recognize the work of investigators in practice for less than 15 years, whose submitted abstracts are accepted for presentation at IDWeek. Selection was based on the quality of the scientific merit of the nominee’s accepted abstract. Each IDWeek sponsoring society has chosen one outstanding abstract from a member in their specialty to highlight:

IDSA Awardee: Hannah Nam, MD MSCI, University of Irvine - California, Orange, CA, "Home Decolonization to Decrease UTI, Graft Failure, and Death After Renal Transplantation (PROTEKT: PROTEction after Kidney Transplant): A Pragmatic Quality Improvement Study"

SHEA Awardee: Don Bambino Geno Tai, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Antibiotic Duration and Risk of Treatment Failure in Acute Postoperative Spinal Implant Infections: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study"

HIVMA Awardee: Valeria D. Cantos, MD, FIDSA, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, "Acceptability and Usability of a Latino MSM-tailored HIV Prevention App: A Pilot Study"

PIDS Awardee: Anna Wang-Erickson, PhDP, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, "Emerging Dominant Variants of Human Metapneumovirus in the United States"


 IDWeek International Investigator Award 

The IDWeek International Investigator Awards are intended to recognize and support the work of individuals outside the United States and Canada who are either currently in training or who have been in practice for five years or less, and have an abstract accepted for presentation at IDWeek:

IDSA Awardee: Fatima Al Dhaheri, MBBS, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, "Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Dermatophytosis: Insights from a Case Series on Trichophyton indotineae and Related Genotypes Emerging in the UAE"

SHEA Awardee: Suhail Hassan Jalal, PharmD, The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, "People Can Change! The Impact of Pharmacist-Led Interventions on Reducing Antibiotic Self-medication in Rural Tamil Nadu, India"

HIVMA Awardee: Henry Michael, PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, "Neurocognitive Effects of Transitioning to Dolutegravir-based Antiretroviral Therapy in People with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa"

PIDS Awardee: Dhruv Gandhi, MD, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India, West Monroe, LA, "Ethionamide and Ofloxacin-based Antitubercular Therapy for the Treatment of Drug-sensitive Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in Children"

Anja Lindis Dahl, MD, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark, "Frequency of Viral Monitoring to Detect Cytomegalovirus Infection and Prevent Disease in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: An International Multicenter Study"

Ana González, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile, "Protective Role of Outer Membrane Vesicles Released by Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates Against Carbapenems and Cefiderocol"

Anas Hakkim, M Pharm, Amrita School of Pharmacy, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, Kerala, India., Palakkad, Kerala, India, "Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Extended Infusion Ceftazidime-Avibactam-Aztreonam (CAZ-AVI-AZT) in Critically Ill Patients with Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Gram-Negative Infections"

Juliano Ito, BSc, Biomedicine, Laboratory of Medical Bacteriology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Parana, Brazil, "Impact of Anti-tuberculosis Drugs on Mycobacteriophage D29 Infectivity in Mycobacterium smegmatis Host Cells"

Wei-Ting Lin, MD, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, "High Dose Daptomycin Shows Non-Inferior Outcome Compared to Linezolid in Patients with Daptomycin and Vancomycin Resistant Enterocci Bloodstream Infection"

Thundon Ngamprasertchai, MD, PhD, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand, "Interrupted Time-Series and Survival Analysis of Adult Hospitalized Pneumococcal Disease from 15-Year Nationwide Surveillance: Evidence Supporting Vaccine Inclusion in National Immunization Programs of Resource-Limited Countries"

 

The Guerrant International Awards are awarded to excellent submissions from low- and lower-middle-income countries (based on the World Bank’s definition).

Tsion Firew, MD, MPH, FACEP, Africa, Health Sciences University, Kigali, Rwanda King Faisal Hospital Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda and New York University, New York, USA, KG 288, Kigali, Rwanda, "Remdesivir for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis of Marburg Virus Disease: A Cohort Study Assessing Safety, Clinical, and Immunologic Outcomes."

Narteki Gyapong-Osei, MBCHB, MWACP, FWACP(Paed), 37 Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana, "Assessing Growth and Neurodevelopment in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children: A Ghanaian Case-Control Study"

Jose Kochuparambil, Pharm D, MQMH, Pala, Kerala, India, "Streamlining Root Cause Analysis of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Outbreaks Using a Mobile App–Based Digital Platform: A Quality Improvement Study in Infection Prevention and Control"

Anh Thi Van Nguyen, PhD, Spobiotic Research Center, ANABIO R&D Ltd. Company, Hanoi, Vietnam, "Nasal-Spray Bacillus Spore Probiotics Prevent Respiratory Infections in Preschoolers: A Community RCT"

Dewan Imtiaz Rahman, MBBS, MPH, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh, "Exploring Healthcare Seeking Patterns for Nipah-like Illnesses in Bangladesh: Findings from a Community-based Study"

Sandeep Rao Kordcal, MBBS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, "Molecular Detection of Tubercular Lymphadenitis: Real World Evidence for a Novel PCR-Based Assay"

 

The Kass Awards were established to honor the achievements of Edward H. Kass, a past IDSA president and leader in infectious diseases research. These are awarded to medical students, residents, or house officers who have demonstrated excellence in research in infectious diseases and allied fields.

Khalid Abu-Zeinah, MB BChir, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, "Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Lyme Arthritis: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study"

Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, MBBS, MD, AdventHealth Sebring, Sebring, FL, "In-patient mortality trends caused by HIV infection in the United States: A retrospective national database healthcare resource utilization analysis from 2016-2022"

Taylor Boyd, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, "Challenges of Microbiological Diagnosis and Targeted Treatment of Pediatric Sinogenic Intracranial Infections"

Julia Patricia Bunal, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, "Epidemiology and Outcomes of Nocardia Colonization"

Livia Frost, BS, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, TX, "Clinical Experience of Long-Acting Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine in an Underserved Population in Houston, Texas"

Cyrus Ghaznavi, MD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, "Prediction of Clinically-Significant Infections among Stem Cell Transplant Patients Using Next-Generation Sequencing Surveillance"

Andrea Grimbergen, MD, Baylor Scott & White - Temple, Temple, TX, "Assessing Knowledge of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis before and after Resident Education"

Megan Hansen, MD, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, "Understanding Epstein-Barr Virus and other Infectious Drivers of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: A Single-Center Study"

Angela Ishak, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, "Clinical Factors and Obstetric Outcomes of Pregnant Women with Hepatitis C in Southeast Michigan"

Eliana Jacobson, MD, NYU Langone, New York, NY, "Tracking the Increase: Diagnostic Trends in Infectious Disease Among New Patients at a Large Urban Safety Net Health System, New York City (NYC) 2021-2023"

Monica Lou, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, "Comparison of swab versus fluid culture obtained from infected sites in the operating room"

Neha Muraly, BS Neuroscience, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, "Timing and Use of Adjunctive Steroids in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis in the United States"

Jacob Myers, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, "Ion Channels as Targets of an Anti-Tick Vaccine"

Emma Nedell, MPH, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, "The Path Toward Treatment: Identifying Barriers to Hepatitis C Care Linkage After Positive Emergency Department Screening"

Karina Ohri, BS, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA, Fayetteville, NY, "Post-Pandemic Masking Practices Among Health Care Personnel: Beliefs, Barriers, and Opportunities for Improving Adherence in Clinical Settings"

Hilary Osaka, MT, Institute of Science Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, "Retrospective Analysis of Antimicrobial Drug Shortages in Japan from 2021 to 2024"

Jose Luis Paredes, MD, MSc, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL, "Detectable coronary artery calcium score among people living with HIV and regional variations: a systematic review and meta-analysis"

Tri Pham, MD, MPH, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, "The Complete Story: Packaged Testing and the Gaps in Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening"

Alexandra Poeschla, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, "Change in Cryptococcal Antigen Titer Over Time in Uganda"

Daniel Rizk, MD, MS, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, "Application of a Machine Learning Algorithm to Routine Admission Laboratory Testing for Risk Adjustment among Patients with Suspected Severe Infection across 296 US Hospitals"

Hannah Rosenthal, BS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, "Geographic Access to Liver Transplant Centers with HIV and HOPE Experience, 2017–2022"

Maria Sanes Guevara, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, "HIV and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Co-infection in a Multicenter Cohort Study"

Sailesh Shrestha, MD, MPH, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, New York, NY, "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in RSV Pneumonia: Propensity Score Matched Analysis from All of Us Cohort"

Mike Sportiello, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, "County by county estimation of HIV, Hepatitis C Virus, and deaths averted caused by Overdose Prevention Health Centers in the United States from January 2020-June 2024."

Chun Ho Szeto, MD, MPH, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Permian Basin, Odessa, TX, "Hospitalizations Associated with Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis  and Coccidioidal meningitis, Texas, 2016-2023, USA"

Varshini Thiruvadi, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Peoria, IL, "Clinically Significant Cytomegalovirus Infection (csCMVi) After Matched Donor Allogeneic HSCT Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"

Angela Wu, BA, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, "Real-World Impact of the 2021 IDSA/SHEA CDI Guidelines: Shifts in Treatment, Outcomes, and Healthcare Costs"

Emily Xiao, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, "Shorter Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy is Noninferior for Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Associated Systemic Infections"

Sirey Zhang, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, "Trends in Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Hospitalized Children"

 

IDWeek Trainee Awards

Each IDWeek partnering society has chosen one outstanding abstract from a trainee member in their specialty. These abstracts are recognized as the top submissions from trainees.

IDSA Trainee: Paul Mitchell, MD, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, "Utilizing Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) Modeling in Colorado Schools and Childcare Facilities to Identify Schools Most Susceptible to Measles Outbreaks"

SHEA Trainee: Natalie Mackow, MD MSCR, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, "Using a novel Anaerobic Activity Index to assess risk for poor outcomes in burn patients in a burn intensive care unit"

HIVMA Trainee: Christopher Kaperak, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, "Virologic Outcomes with Lenacapavir in Heavily Treatment-Experienced People with HIV: A Multi-Center Real-World Study"

PIDS Trainee: Kacie Rytlewski, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Centennial, CO, "Association of Oseltamivir use with Clinical Outcomes of Children Hospitalized with Influenza — Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network, 2014-2023"

Rasha Abdalla, MD, Wayne State University/ DMC, Detroit, MI, "Missed Opportunities: Gaps in Osteoporosis Screening Among Older Adults Living with HIV"

Timothy Adkins, MD, West Virginia University, Danville, WV, "Evaluating Missed Opportunities for HIV Diagnosis in a Statewide Health System"

Ismael Aguirre, PharmD, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Hillsboro, OK, "Clinical Outcome differences in Kidney Transplant Patients Receiving Letermovir Versus Valganciclovir for CMV Prophylaxis"

Wefag Ahmed, MD, MRCPCH, MPH, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Peroria, IL, "Evaluating DoxyPEP's Role in Reducing Sexually Transmitted Infections among HIV Patients: A Two-Year Study at the HEAT Clinic"

Mayyadah Alabdely, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, "Monotherapy versus Combination Antimicrobial Therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections"

Haitham Alaithan, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, "Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcome of Aortic Endograft Infections"

Calvin Albrecht, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, "Is Respiratory Gram Stain Useful in the Era of Rapid, Highly Sensitive Molecular Pneumonia Panels?"

Rahma AlDhaheri, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, "From Dialogue to Documentation and Back: A Rule-Based NLP Algorithm to Detect PrEP Discussions and Identify Eligible Patients in the Emergency Department."

Nouf Almaghlouth, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sepsis due to Serratia: Trends in Incidence, Mortality, and Hospital Resource Utilization — A National Inpatient Sample Analysis (2016–2022)"

Shaikha Al-Shokri, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "The Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Combination Therapy on Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A 5-Year Experience"

Sergio Alvarez Mulett, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Brain Abscess After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A 15-Year Retrospective Review at Mayo Clinic"

Sean Anderson, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, "Association Between Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) Test Positivity and Colorectal Cancer (CRC) in Adults in a Multisite Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Analysis"

Denise Araujo, MD, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI, "Determinants of In-hospital Mortality in Patients with Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections"

Christen Arena, PharmD, MPH, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, "Implementing a Tailored Prescription Strategy for Outpatient Sinusitis Management"

Benjo Ato, MD, Philippine General Hospital, Manila City, National Capital Region, Philippines, "Refractory, Resistant and Recurrent Cytomegalovirus Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes"

Julian Azzouzi, BSPS, PharmD, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, "Assessing the Impact of Penicillin Susceptibility on Biofilm Production and Identifying asa1 Expression in Clinical Enterococcus faecalis Blood Isolates"

Kayla Backus, PharmD, MBA, Medical University of South Carolina, Holland, MI, "Antibiotic Prescription Rate for Viral Respiratory Infections After a Viral Care Package Intervention and Provider Education in the Urgent Care Setting"

Ashveen Bains, DO, Milton S. Medical Center, Hershey, PA, "Reduced Risk of Acute Kidney Injury with Montelukast in Vancomycin-Treated Patients: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study"

Kemar Barrett, M.B.B.S, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN, "Beta-Lactam Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Patients"

Hadley Beauregard, BS, BA, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, "The Local Microbiota Modulates the Clostridioides difficile Metabolome to Promote Immunotolerance in the Colon: A potential Molecular Mechanism of Recurrent C. difficile Infection"

Alex Belote, D.O., University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, "The Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance: Importance of Ongoing Investment, with Projections for Lives and Healthcare Dollars Saved"

Kelly Biermann, DO, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, "A Summer COVID-19 Outbreak at a Community Living Center within a Rural Veterans Affairs Hospital in the Midwest"

Kaytlin Bishop, PharmD, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis, MO, "Impact of an Antimicrobial Susceptibility Reporting Change for Serratia marcescens"

Callan Bleick, PharmD, Anti-Infective Research Laboratory, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Detroit, MI, "Phage Sensitivity Profiles and their Association with Biofilm-mediated Antibiotic Tolerance in DNS-MRSA Isolates"

Stormmy Boettcher, PharmD, Wayne State University/Henry Ford Hospital, Plymouth, MI, "Discharge Delays and Costs Associated with Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy for Multi-drug-resistant Organisms: Opportunities for Improvement"

Tyler Brehm, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, "Urinary Tract Infections in Outpatient Men: An Analysis of Clinicians’ Diagnostic and Treatment Patterns"

Helena Brenes-Chacon, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Germantown, TN, "Impact of Obesity and adipokine levels in Young Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection"

Jose Cadena-Zuluaga, MD, South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, "Clostridioides difficile infection outcomes following implementation of 2-step testing at a large Veterans Affair hospital in South Texas"

Catherine Cai, MD, PhD, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City, NY, "Effect of Antibiotic Suppression for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis on Recurrence Rates"

Sandra Castejon-Ramirez, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, "Cytokine Profiles as Biomarkers of Bloodstream Infections in Children with Febrile Neutropenia after Hematopoietic Cell Transplant"

Jacqueline Causbie, MD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, "Fracture and Musculoskeletal Injury Risk in Active Duty Military with HIV Compared to Those without HIV: A Retrospective Virtual Cohort Study"

Perani Chander, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, "Diagnostic Ambiguity in Clostridioides difficile Testing and a Call for Standardization"

Uday Chauhan, MD, University of California San Francisco - Fresno, Fresno, CA, "Understanding barriers and facilitators for access to care in populations in Central California with Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) Meningitis using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research!"

Xueyi Chen, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, "Comparative Efficacy of Rifamycin-containing Regimens in a Murine Model of Tuberculous Meningitis"

Howard Chhen, PharmD, Midwestern University College of Pharmacy - Glendale Campus, Glendale, AZ, "Navigating the Dual Threat: Clinical Outcomes in Patients with KPC and NDM Co-producing Enterobacterales Infections"

Lior Cohen Yatziv, MD, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, "A Network Meta-analysis of Empirical Antibiotics for complicated Urinary Tract Infections"

Kathleen Condon, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, "Comparison of Concurrent (Same or Next-Day) Conventional Microbial Testing to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Results: Review of Pediatric Samples over 4-Years (2020-2024)"

German Contreras, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, "Low-Level CMV Viremia Predicts Increased Risk of CMV Disease and Subsequent High-Level Viremia in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter EHR-Based Study"

Fernando Cordero Baez, MD, University of South Florida, Lakeland, FL, "Breaking the IV Tradition: Oral Doxycycline for MRSA Bone and Joint Infections"

Luqman Croal-Abrahams, MD, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, "Breaking the Barrier? Vancomycin Versus Alternative Agents for Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Epidural Abscess"

Kyle Crooker, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, "Implementation of Novel Point-of-Care Hepatitis C RNA Platform and Clinical Characteristics of Treatment in Persons Experiencing Homelessness in Detroit, Michigan"

Roopali Dahiya, MD, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, "Vein Attempts & IV League Hazards: Rethinking Peripheral IV and Bacteremia Risk"

Aamir Dave, PharmD, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Hicksville, NY, "Assessing the clinical impact of the BioFire FilmArray Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2) Panel in the Selection of Effective Antibiotic Therapy at an Academic Medical Center"

Alejandro De la Hoz, MD, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, "Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation After Resolved Infection: A 10-Year US Cohort Analysis"

Genevieve Donahey, MD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, "Current Practices for the Outpatient Diagnosis & Management of Bacterial Tracheitis (BT) in Ventilator-Dependent Children (VC)"

Huan Dong, MD, MS, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, "Genetic markers of antimicrobial resistance in oropharyngeal commensal Neisseria"

Shreya Doshi, MD, MPH, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, "Building Sustainabil-ID: Advancing a New Field of Environmental Stewardship in Infectious Diseases"

Bradley Dye, MD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, "OPAT Safety Outcomes with Cefepime vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam"

Emily Dyer, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, "Who’s Being Missed? Baseline Evaluation of Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Ryan White Population"

Maheswari Ekambaram, MBBS, Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Round Rock, TX, "Comparative Effectiveness of Broad vs. Narrow Spectrum Antibiotics for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitalized Children with Medical Complexity"

John Flores, MD, MS, Cook County Health / University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Perspectives of Community Health Workers on the Rise of Congenital Syphilis"

Vishal Fnu, MD, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY, "The Genomic Epidemiology of Fulminant Streptococcus pyogenes Infections in Rochester, NY: Why Community Surveillance Matters"

Joshua Foster-Tucker, MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, "Human Parainfluenza Virus 1–4 Illnesses in the HIVE Cohort During 2010–2022"

Yakun Fu, PharmD, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, "In vivo Efficacy of an Aztreonam-Avibactam Human Simulated Regimen against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in the Murine Thigh Infection Model: Decision Support for Susceptibility Breakpoint Determination"

Saipriya Gadiraju, PharmD, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, "Evaluation of Treatment Failure in Serratia marcescens, Morganella morganii, and Providencia spp. Bacteremia Treated with AmpC vs. Non-AmpC Stable Antibiotics"

Adam Gailani, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, "Detection of Human Adenovirus with and without Co-detection of Other Respiratory Viruses Among Children with Acute Respiratory Illnesses"

Oscar Gallardo-Huizar, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, "Chagas Disease Testing Across Joint Base San Antonio"

Rafael Garcia-Sturgill, MD, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, "Evaluation of Intracranial Hemorrhage in patients with Infections related to Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) at our Transplant Center"

Adriana Gardner, PharmD, MS, BCIDP, Purdue University College of Pharmacy, Los Altos, CA, "Impact of a Blood Culture Stewardship Initiative Among Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia Patients on Reducing Carbon Emissions"

Isabel Gonzalez-Bocco, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, "A population-based assessment of infectious complications in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) exposed to ibrutinib"

Matthew Goodwin, MD, Duke, Durham, NC, "Cryptococcosis in Patients with Hematologic Malignancy: Guideline-Based Treatment Regimens and Mortality of a 30-year Cohort at Duke"

Bollapally Naveen Goud, MBBS, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India, "Mortality in Hospitalised Patients with Dengue Fever: An Ambispective Observational Study"

Dale Zachary Gozum, DO, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, "Is it worth the shot? Costs associated with Long acting  Dalbavancin use compared to Standard of Care  Antibiotics at VA North East Ohio Healthcare System"

Chiraag Gupta, MD, Trinity Health Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, MI, "Pharmacist-driven Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Screening in Multi-hospital System Reduced Resistant Gram-positive Antibiotics Use and Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR)"

Siddartha Guru, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hummelstown, PA, "Long-Term Risk of Arrhythmias After Infective Endocarditis: A Global Propensity-Matched Cohort Study"

Sarah Habbal, MD, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Rockford, IL, "Epidemiology of Pediatric Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in an Inner-City Tertiary Care Center: A 13-Year Study and Post-Pandemic Insights"

Kelly Hallowell, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Chronic Infection Screening in Immigrant Patients Recently Diagnosed with Cancer"

Olla Hamdan, B.Pharm, MPH, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, "Parainfluenza Virus Serotype-Specific Co-detection with Other Respiratory Viruses and Its Association with Clinical Outcomes in U.S. Children with Acute Respiratory Illness"

Alisse Hannaford, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, "Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Adjuvanted (Arexvy) and Non-Adjuvanted (Abrysvo) RSV Vaccines in Immunocompromised Individuals with Hematological Malignancies"

Sean Harford, MD, Hartford Healthcare Medical Group, Glastonbury, CT, "Management of Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis Following Surgical Intervention: Trends from an Academic Medical Center"

Jeffrey Harrington, PharmD, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, MI, "Clinical Impact of Linezolid Therapeutic Drug Monitoring on the Tolerability of Prolonged Courses in the Outpatient Setting"

Shinya Hasegawa, MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, "Antibiotic Prescribing Trends and Outcomes in Outpatient Uncomplicated Diverticulitis: A Retrospective Analysis in Veterans Health Administration Between 2016 and 2023"

Lindsey Hastings, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham/Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, "Integrated Obstetric and Addiction Care Promotes Antepartum STI Screening and Poses Opportunities for Preventing the Vertical Transmission of HIV, HCV, and Syphilis"

Josh Havens, PharmD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, "Real-World Insights of the Financial Metrics of a Long-Acting CAB/RPV Program"

Haya Hayek, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, "Cellular Correlates of Immunogenicity Following Standard- Versus High-Dose Influenza Vaccination in Adult Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients Over Two Seasons"

Christian Hendrix, MD, BJH WashU, St. Louis, MO, "IDSA Chalk Talks as a Catalyst for Enhancing Clinical Teaching and Professional Identity through Medical Education Innovation"

R. Alfonso Hernandez Acosta, MD, SSM Health / St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, "Outcomes of Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients with Bacteremia Shortly Before Transplantation"

Carissa Hickey, PharmD, Temple University Hospital, Lititz, PA, "Evaluation of the treatment of infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"

Andrew Hill, MD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Chevy Chase, MD, "Does BCG Vaccine Result in Non-Specific Effects on Childhood Infections in American Indian and Alaska Native Children?"

Nadia Hill, MBBCh, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, "Identified Needs in Antimicrobial Stewardship Education for Pediatric Advanced Practice Providers: A Qualitative Analysis"

Chad Hinkle, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, "Hospitalized Patients Have Microbiome Dysbiosis Linked to Post-Discharge Infection"

Alison Hixon, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, "Use of Large Language Models Does Not Improve Model Performance for Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction in Community- and Hospital-Onset Gram Negative Sepsis"

Sara Hockney, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, "Discontinuation Patterns and Virologic Failure Among Persons with HIV Receiving Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir-Rilpivirine Antiretroviral Therapy"

Thomas Holowka, MD, PhD, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, "Enhancing Patient Outcomes and System Efficiency Through Active Screening for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile and Specialty Treatment at an Infectious Diseases Clinic"

Ruth Howe, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, "Optimizing Preclinical Models and Therapeutic Combinations for Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease"

Anila Hussain, MD, Rhode Island Hospital, East Greenwich, RI, "Assessment of Pre-operative Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Urine Culture Utilization in Invasive Urological Procedures: A Retrospective Review"

Julia Ienes-Lima, BSc, MSc, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, "Virulence Analysis of Type VI Secretion System in Neonatal Meningitis E. coli using Galleria mellonella as an Infection Model"

Rita Igwilo-Alaneme, M.B.B.S, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Microbiologically-defined Tissue Expander Infections: Evaluating risk factors for recurrence and optimal management strategies"

Tatsuki Ikuse, MD, PhD, National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan Pediatric Society, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, "Impact of Simulation-based communication training on addressing pediatric vaccine hesitancy in Japan"

Saira Iqbal, MBBS, Maimonides Health, Brooklyn, NY, "Malaria on the Move: Rising cases in Brooklyn, New York"

Ajithkumar Ittaman, Fellow Infectious Diseases, Hamad  Medical Corporation, Thrissur, Kerala, India, "Comparison of clinical characteristics and Outcome of Brucella Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Pyogenic  Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A  5 year retrospective Study."

Luke Jackson, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, "Clinical Characteristics and Microbiology of Patients with Pneumonia after Battlefield Trauma"

Megha Jagannathan, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, "The Role of T2 Candida in the Early Detection of Invasive Candidiasis Among Solid Organ Transplant Patients"

Nirpeksh Jain, MD, Creighton University School of Medicine, Elkhorn, NE, "Ceftriaxone (CRO) pharmacokinetics (PK) in obesity in the intensive care unit (ICU)"

Deborah Jimenez Jerez, MD, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Health System, Miami, FL, "Seeing Beyond the Culture: Smarter UTI Diagnosis in Spinal Cord Injury Patients"

Sean Jung, MD MPH, VA San Diego / UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, "A New Strategy Against Healthcare-Associated Infections: A Tertiary Academic Healthcare System-wide Surveillance of Hospital-Onset Bacteremia and Fungemia"

Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS, FIDSA , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, "Clinical Features, Microbiological Epidemiology, and Recurrence Risk of Cellulitis in Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema"

Esther Kanner, PharmD, Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, "Comparative Treatment Outcomes of Non-Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL), Ceftriaxone Non-Susceptible, Enterobacterales Bacteremia with Piperacillin/Tazobactam, Cefepime, Carbapenem or Other Antibiotic Treatment"

Silpita Katragadda, M.B;B.S., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Rochester, MN, "Cost of CAUTI: A Retrospective Study of 314 catheterized patients"

Yuya Kawamoto, MD, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan, "Community-associated carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli infection in Japan"

Kristen Kelly, MD, University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, "Development of a Severity Scoring System for Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection"

Douglas Kepko, DO, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, "Mastering HIV: The Full Spectrum of Training During ID Fellowship"

Fareed Khawaja, MBBS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, "Risk Factors and Outcomes of Resistant CMV Infections in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: a 7-Year Review"

Milton Kodom, BPharm, MS, PharmD candidate, Nova Southeastern University/Memorial Healthcare System, Fort Lauderdale, FL, "Ceftaroline Monotherapy Versus Combination Therapy for Persistent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Bacteremia: A Retrospective Cohort Study"

David Kornblum, MD, USF, Clearwater, FL, "Invasive Fusariosis in Immunocompromised Cancer Patients: Insights from a 17-Year Retrospective Cohort Study"

Victor Kovac, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, "Host, treatment, and disease-related risk factors for invasive fungal disease in 549 patients with newly diagnosed high-risk myeloid malignancies treated with intensive induction chemotherapy"

Antigone Kraft, MD, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, "The New Kid On The Block: Use of Maribavir in Pediatric Immunocompromised Hosts"

Nicole Kusnik, MD, MS, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, "Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Blood Culture Bottle Shortage: Changes in Antibiotic Prescribing, Contamination Rates, and Sepsis Measures at a Large Academic Institution"

Joseph Ladines-Lim, MD, PhD, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, "Outcomes Associated with the 2024 Blood Culture Shortage at a Large Academic Medical Center"

Jeremy Levin, MD, Rutgers- New Jersey Medical School, Bloomfield, NJ, "Daptomycin Resistant Enterococci - An Antibiotic Stewardship Crisis"

Guyu Li, M.B.B.S., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Evaluation of Multi-Dose Strategy of Phage K and Vancomycin Delivery to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) Biofilms on Orthopedic Screws"

Ryan Liberg, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, "The Burden of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in the Military Health System"

Hannah Lichota, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, "Candidozyma (Candida) auris in the United States: Insights from the SHEA Research Network"

Molly Lindstrom, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Microbiology of Spinal Fusion Infections: An Analysis of the National Healthcare Safety Network Database"

Kenneth Long, MD, Ph.D., The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, "Long-term Utility of Clinical Nudges within Clostridioides difficile Diagnostic Stewardship"

Adrianna Losquadro, PharmD, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, "Impact of Minocycline Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations on Clinical Outcomes in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Respiratory and Bloodstream Infections"

Yasmeen Mann, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, "Rapid Point-of-Care Hepatitis C RNA Test-to-Treat in Persons Experiencing Homelessness through Street Based Initiatives in Detroit, Michigan"

Jose Antonio Mansen Arrieta, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, "Hemodialysis-Related Interventions for Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections at a Veterans Administration Hospital"

Elise Mara, MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, "The Cyclical Cascade of HIV Care Engagement in Côte d'Ivoire"

Sylwia Marianski, PharmD, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, "Evaluation of Ceftriaxone Population Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Pharmacodynamics (PD) in Critically Ill Pediatric Population."

Lakshmi Marimuthu, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, "Epidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections after COVID-19 Pandemic"

Nicholas Marshall, MD, FAAP, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, "Predicting Bacteremia in Emergency Departments: A Suite of Data-Driven Clinical Decision Tools"

Takahiro Matsuo, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Consequences of Delaying Surgical Intervention in Patients with Native Joint Septic Arthritis"

Jack McHugh, MBBCh. B.A.O., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Infection Following Cytokine Release Syndrome in Patients Receiving Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy"

Nicholas Meade, DO, MS, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, "Factors Associated with Outpatient IV Antibiotic Extension in Patients with Prosthetic Joint Infections"

Andrea Mendez, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, "Experience of Bartonella henselae Osteomyelitis in the Pediatric Population at Texas Children’s Hospital: A Retrospective Review from 2004-2025"

Jude Meniru, MD, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH,  "The Impact of Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT team) on Patients Enrolled in an OPAT Program"

Amy Meyer, MD, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, "A Scoping Review of Medical Education Innovations Presented at IDWeek"

Kaylie Miller, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Perspectives of Women who have Migrated to Paris, France from Sub-Saharan Africa on Awareness, Promotion, and Implementation of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis"

Ukamaka Modebelu, MS, UNMC, Omaha, NE, "Ensitrelvir (ESV) Population Pharmacokinetics (PK) in Nonhospitalized Adults with COVID-19"

Soo Jin Moon, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, "Financial and Environmental Impact of Duplicate Hepatitis C Antibody Tests"

Brendan Mullen, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, "Nanoparticle Capture of Urinary Lipoarabinomannan for Diagnosing Childhood Tuberculosis"

Mayse Nasser, MD, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, "C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin Levels During Bloodstream Infections in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Duke University Hospital"

Yara Neaimeh, MD, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, "Predictors of Adverse Clinical  Outcomes in Children with Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis"

Brent Nelson, DO, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, "Evaluation for congenital syphilis at a single center in Utah from 2014-2023"

Mai Uyen Nguyen, PharmD, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, "Comparing Valganciclovir Exposures to Predict Neutropenia in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients"

Bin Ni, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, "Assessing Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of BK Virus-Related Complications Following Kidney Transplantation"

Emily Niehaus, MD, MPH, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, "DoxyPEP uptake in a Southeastern HIV and PrEP clinic: missed opportunities and gaps in implementation"

Temesgen Nurye, MD, Neurologist, Columbia University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, "The Impact of Armed Conflict on Advanced HIV Disease and Cryptococcal Meningitis Care in Northern Ethiopia"

Yusuke Ohashi, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, "Factors Associated with Human Herpesvirus 6 DNAemia Among Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients in the Modern Era"

Samuel Opara, MBBS, MPH, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, "Mpox Vaccine Uptake among Black Sexual Minority Men"

Rhea O'Regan, MB BAO BCH, Mater Misericordiae University Hosptial, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, "A review of Imported Fever presentations across two Irish tertiary academic teaching hospitals"

Cole Orlikowski, PharmD, MBA, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, "Implementing Revised Cefazolin Use Criteria within a Pharmacy-to-Dose Protocol to Improve Guideline-Concordant Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Beta-Lactam Allergic Surgical Patients"

Xaviera Ortiz Soto, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, "Hospital-Onset Bacteremia as a Surveillance Tool: A Comparative Analysis with CLABSI Rates"

Patrick Passarelli, MD, Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, "Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes of Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Bone and Joint Infections at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York from 2019-2023"

Palak Patel, DO, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Protective Bile Acid Profiles in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients with Confirmed CDI Toxin"

Baiju Patel, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, "Treading New Paths: Dalbavancin in Gram-positive Diabetic Foot Infections"

Kristin Patrick, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Towson, MD, "Needs-Based Assessment of Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculums by Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Directors"

Monzur Patwary, PMP, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, "Mpox Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Public Health Professionals in Bangladesh"

Rachael Pellegrino, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, "Prescribing Patterns of Doxycycline for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis and Trends in Sexually Transmitted Infections at a Large Academic HIV Clinic"

Jillian Peters, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, "Diagnostic Yield of a Multiplex PCR Sample-to-Answer Array among Patients Admitted with Acute Febrile Illness, Uganda, 2019-2023"

Riley Pickett, DO, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, "Retrospective Review of Multi-modality Imaging Utilization in the Diagnosis, Management, and Follow-up of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Military Treatment Facility"

Alana Pinheiro Alves, MD, Henry Ford Health, Farmington Hills, MI, "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Pregnant Patients with Latent Tuberculosis"

Alexander Plattner, MD, MBA, WashU Medicine / St. Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, MO, "Leveraging Instant Orders to Create a Semi-Automated Process for Candida auris Ring Surveillance"

Tori Pravato, PharmD, RWJ Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, "Cytomegalovirus Reactivation in Patients Treated with Bispecific Antibodies (BsAbs)"

Jamila Ranavaya, MD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, "Factors Associated with Readmission in Immunocompromised Hosts Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy"

Nora Ranjitkar, MD, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lilitpur, Bagmati, Nepal, "Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection in the hospitalized patients"

Judith Ratcliffe, MD, NYC Health+Hospitals, New York, NY, "Understanding Recruitment into a Long-acting Injectable Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Trial: Lessons Learned to Enhance Equity and Optimize Engagement of Underserved Groups"

Kaitlyn Reasoner, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, "Evaluation of Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Outcomes of Vertebral Osteomyelitis"

Maithri Reddy, DO, Walter Reed Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, "The Evolution of Symptom Severity and Patterns Over the First Four Years of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic"

Isaura Rigo, DO, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, "B-cell Depletion via Anti-CD20 Does Not Increase Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk"

Julieta Rodriguez, MD, MPH, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "Characteristics of Latine/x Newly Diagnosed with HIV in San Francisco 2021-2023"

Daniel Rogers, PharmD, Emory Decatur Hospital, Lawrenceville, GA, "Community Acquired Pneumonia Dashboard: An Antimicrobial Stewardship Solution to Treatment Guidance Adherence Monitoring"

Kelsey Rowe, MD, MBA, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, "Implementation of a Proactive and Standardized Approach to Isolation Discontinuation and Survey of Outcomes (IP-SAID-SO)"

Ilan Rozen Eisenberg, MD, MMS, Boston Medical Center / Boston University, Brookline, MA, "Development of PCRSeqTyping to Differentiate Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) Serotypes 15B and 15C"

Elle Saine, MD, PhD, MA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, "Low Barrier Advocacy: A Weekly Call Script Program to Promote Physician Engagement in Infectious Disease Policy"

Colin Samoriski, MD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, "A Clinical Management Algorithm Using Society for Vascular Surgery Wound, Ischemia, and Foot Infection (WIfI) Score in Emergency Departments (ED) for Lower Extremity Wounds (LEW) Improves Diagnostic Efficiency and Resource Allocation, Implications for Quality Improvement (QI)"

Ayesha Samreen, M.B.B.S, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, "Clinical predictors of ICU admission in patients with invasive Pneumococcal blood stream infection: a review of 10-year single-center experience"

Ruby Sangha, MD, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, "Acute respiratory illness in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipient's vs immunocompetent children: A multicenter analysis"

Matthew Sattler, MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, "Implementation and Evaluation of a Curriculum on Antimicrobial Stewardship for Pediatric Residents"

Daniel Schreiber, PharmD, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Systems, Chicago, IL, "Screening and Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) among Persons Living with HIV (PWH) in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC)"

Sima Sharara, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, "Investigating the Molecular Epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Producing Enterobacterales Among Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit"

Syeda Fatima Shariq, MBBS, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar, "Differential Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOC) on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes"

Shaurya Sharma, MD, SUNY Downstate University of Health Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, "Impact of Molecular Diagnostics on Treatment Decisions in General Infectious Diseases Consultative Services: A Call for Laboratory Stewardship"

Elly Sherman, PharmD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, "Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Bundle on the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections in Geriatric Patients"

Justin Shiau, PharmD, Midwestern University Pharmacometrics Center of Excellence, Downers Grove, IL, "Vancomycin Population Pharmacokinetics and Toxicity-Exposure Relationships in Children with Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome"

Samuel Showalter, MD, Colorado Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO, "Performance of a Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Cerebrospinal Fluid Compared to Conventional Testing in Pediatric Patients"

Cassandra Simonich, MD, PhD, University of Washington/ Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, "Deep Mutational Scanning of the RSV Fusion Protein Reveals Mutational Constraint and Antibody Escape Mutations"

Medha Singh, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, "Proapoptotic Bcl-2 Inhibitors as Adjunctive Host-Directed Therapy Enhance Tuberculosis Treatments and Long-term Cure in a Murine Model"

Luke Blagdon Snell, MB BS, KCL, London, England, "Consensus Guidelines for the Clinical Validation and Interpretation of Respiratory Metagenomic Data from the UK National Health Service Respiratory Metagenomics Network"

Fnu Sonia, MD, Westchester Medical Center, white plains, NY, "Head-to-Head Comparison of “Soft Stop” and “Hard Stop” alerts for the Diagnostic Stewardship of Clostridioides difficile PCR testing."

Kimberly Mae Soultan, DO, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, "Significant Increase in Influenza-related Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia During the 2024-2025 Influenza Season in New York City"

Paddy Ssentongo, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, "Comparative Effectiveness of Dalbavancin Versus Standard Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs: A Retrospective, Propensity-Matched Cohort Study Using Real-World Data"

Samuel Starke, MD, Rush University, Chicago, IL, "Short-Course Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy in a High-Migration Setting: Experience from Suburban Cook County, Illinois"

Matthew Steinberger, MD, University Of Michigan, East Lansing, MI, "A Target Trial Emulation of Short vs Long Antibiotic Duration for the New Definition of Uncomplicated UTI"

Adam Stewart, MBBS, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, "Aspergillus Osteomyelitis: Clinical Features, Management, and Outcomes Across Two Large U.S. Centers"

Katarzyna Stoj, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine NewYork Presbyterian, Hoboken, NJ, "Impact of a Pediatric Reflex Urine Testing Algorithm Across a Multihospital Network"

Paulina Sudnik, MD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, "Differentially Expressed Genes in Patients with Legionella and Streptococcus Pneumonia"

Shawnalyn Sunagawa, PharmD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, "Assessing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Coverage at a Midwest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)"

Lauren Sweet, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, "Impact of Acute Malaria on Viral Load Among People with HIV: A Multi-Site Prospective Cohort Study in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Stephanie Sweitzer, MSPH, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, "Engagement in the Syphilis Screening Cascade among Pregnant Women in North Carolina"

Alexander Tarr, DO, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, "Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation in the Diagnosis of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis at an Academic Health Care Network"

Kedar Tilak, MBBS,  FAAP, Children's Mercy Hospital, Overland Park, KS, "Monitoring the laboratory frequency for musculoskeletal infections at a tertiary care Children's Hospital: a diagnostic stewardship QI project"

Lee Xin Ting, MBBS, DTMH, MRCP, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom, Birmingham, England, "Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE): Specimen Testing, Enzyme Comparison, Timeline Analysis and Patient Outcomes at a large tertiary UK centre"

Mario Torres, MD, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, "Letermovir use for CMV prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients : A single center experience"

Lucy Tran, MD, UCLA Multicampus Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles, CA, "TB Exposed: Understanding the Risks and Patient Factors Associated with Healthcare Worker Exposure to Pulmonary Tuberculosis at a Major Medical Center"

Adrian Valadez, PharmD, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, "Pulmonary Target Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Attainment Rates among Cefepime-treated Patients Admitted to the ICU with Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia requiring Renal Replacement."

Sean Van Helden, PharmD, Wayne State University, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Detroit, MI, "Discrepancies Between Bacteriophage Plaque Assays and Time-Kill Analyses in Daptomycin Non-Susceptible Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus"

Paulina Vega, MD, University of Washington/ Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, "Fusariosis in Hematologic Malignancies in the Era of Antifungal Prophylaxis"

Nicholas Venturelli, MD, MPH, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, "Adolescent Provider Perspectives on Sexual Health Screening and Preventive Care"

Anh Vo, MD, MPH, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Oakland & San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "Antibiotic Prescribing in Pediatric Patients with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Ambulatory Settings"

Diana Walczyk, PharmD, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, "Comparison of Switching to Daptomycin versus Remaining on Vancomycin for Bacteremia due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Patients who Inject Drugs"

Jenna Wick, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, "Prevalence and health care utilization outcomes of Z codes in patients with HIV, Tuberculosis Disease, Hepatitis B Virus Infection, and Hepatitis C virus Infection"

Edwin Woodhouse, MD, MPH, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, "Rapid Initiation of Hepatitis C Treatment in Hospitalized Veterans Using a Real-Time Clinical Dashboard"

Abdullah Zada, MBBS, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, "Ferritin, Procalcitonin and Lipid Profile as Biomarkers in Tick Borne Diseases: A 10-year Retrospective Study"

Arya Zandvakili, MD, PhD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, "Transcriptional Cascade in Cytomegalovirus Infection"

Olivia Zdradzinski, PharmD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, "Descriptive Study of Bridging with Caspofungin to Therapeutic Mold-Active Triazoles"

Adam Zimilover, MD, MPH, Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, "Culture Shock: Antibiotic Use in Invasive Kidney Stone Surgeries"