Hooked on ID with Anurag N. Malani, MD
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ID is a dynamic field that is constantly changing. The types of infections we’re talking about today are different than what we may have been talking about 5 years ago. So, it’s intellectually stimulating and challenging.
In infectious diseases, we have one of the very few fields that see patients throughout the continuum of care. We see them when they may be quite sick, during hospitalization. But then we follow many of these patients as they improve and get better, and follow them to ambulatory care and see them improve, and that’s actually quite rewarding.
The other thing that I was really always interested in, and continue to be interested in, is that you’re impacted by everything, globally — what happens across the world is what happens here. The issues of antimicrobial resistance are not isolated to the United States; it’s a global burden and a global challenge, and so it really points to how connected we really all are. That, to me, was always an area I was quite interested in.
I went into medicine after a few years as an industrial operations engineer, so medicine was a second career for me. And it was those challenges that attracted me to infectious diseases. I knew when I was in medical school that it was something that I was really quite interested in.
Anurag N. Malani, MD
Medical director of health care epidemiology, special pathogens and antimicrobial stewardship programs
Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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