Epidemiologist

The posts on X (formerly Twitter) looked like advertisements to Aaron P. Mitchell, MD, MPH.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

Christopher Flowers, MD, has been appointed division head of cancer medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University, will receive the Excellence in Transplantation Award from the National Kidney Foundation.

In patients aged 75 years of age or older taking statins for primary CVD prevention, discontinuing statin therapy was associated with a 33% increased risk for hospital admission for a CV event, researchers reported.

Researchers have developed an antibiogram that uses hospital data as well as patient-specific data to predict the likelihood that a treatment will be successful.