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I was always interested in infectious diseases, owing to the vast breadth of the field.

My interest and career choice in infectious diseases intertwine with a personal life journey that spans across three continents.

It is hard to know where to start. There are so many wonderful things about a career in infectious diseases.

Efforts by IDWeek’s program committee to ensure gender equity during the conference led to a more than 13 percentage-point increase in the proportion of speaker slots filled by women since 2013, according to an analysis.

In the spring, in anticipation that the COVID-19 pandemic could complicate IDWeek, organizers asked presenters to prerecord sessions in the event they could not travel.

Like many other medical conferences, IDWeek was converted to a virtual meeting this year because of COVID-19.

An evaluation of more than 100 Veterans Affairs hospitals showed that hospitals with a higher prevalence of MRSA prescribed more anti-MRSA antibiotics, even after adjusting for stewardship strategies, researchers reported.

I just was looking for something to do during the summer hiatus after my first year in medical school. Back then, we had summers off, and students often sought medicine-related jobs to broaden their experience while earning a few dollars.

A 2-year study involving more than 22,000 patients hospitalized with injection drug use-related infections in Florida revealed differences in clinical characteristics depending on the types of drugs used.

Since its founding in 2018, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force (IDA&E) has worked to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care.