GW Infectious Diseases

Big changes to the CDC’s childhood vaccine guidance may mean new conversations at the pediatrician’s office. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

PS our annual GW ID family pic ❤️

Our fellows crushed it at the Greater Washington Infectious Disease Society meeting with some fascinating cases:
🍄 Histoplasmosis + IRIS
💉 M. abscessus PD catheter peritonitis
🧬 Hep E & Hep C coinfection
🧠 Cerebral aspergilloma
🔬 Tsukamurella infection
Couldn’t be prouder of this amazing crew! 🔥

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We are thrilled to welcome our 2026–2028 Infectious Diseases Fellowship Class to the GW ID family! 💙

#IDSky #InfectiousDiseases #WeAreID

GW Names Accomplished Academic Leader as Next Dean of Milken Institute School of Public Health | GW Today | The George Washington University Kelly A. Gebo, a physician-scientist, brings 30 years of leadership experience in public health administration, scholarship, teaching and patient care.

GW welcomes Dr. Kelly A. Gebo as the next dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health. As a public health leader, Dr. Gebo brings decades of experience that will help shape the future of our school and public health. gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-names-acc... @gwu1821.bsky.social

Dream team last week in the wards 💪🧫🦠✅ #IDSky #IDFellows #BugSquad

Check out the 5 articles SHEA’s Journal Club explored at their monthly May meeting!

Link to read the full summaries: bit.ly/44Amiie

Through every challenge ahead, your ID docs will stand by you—resilient, committed, and always here for you #4thofJuly #IDSky

Welcome dinner for our first year fellows Tamanna and David! 🎊 🎈 🎉 #IDSky #IDFellows

🎉 Big congrats to our amazing 1st year fellow Will Jowsey (2nd from left) for delivering a great oral presentation at #ASMMicrobe2025! 🧪 He explored rapid diagnostic testing for malaria in non-endemic settings, highlighting key challenges like low-density parasitemia 👏 🌎 🧬 #IDSky

👏 Big shoutout to our ⭐ 1st year fellow Helena Holmgren and team for their work presented at #ASMMicrobe2025 looking at long-acting CAB/RPV in PWH and past HBV exposure (cAb+ sAg-): no HBV reactivation seen in their case series—supporting updated guidelines and expanding treatment options! 🧬📊 #IDSky

Feeling incredibly grateful for this amazing GW ID family. We lift each other up, face challenges, and celebrate successes together. Couldn’t ask for a better team. Here celebrating our senior fellows Alex and Sarah’s graduation! We will miss you guys! 💙

We were so excited to host Cesar Lecarnaque, a recent grad from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima! 🌎🩺 Sharing knowledge across borders is what makes our work stronger and more meaningful. ¡Gracias por visitarnos! 🔴⚪🔴 #GlobalHealth #IDSky

Precise targeting of HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humans A protective HIV vaccine will need to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) in humans, but priming rare bnAb precursor B cells has been challenging. In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled ph...

Reading now: promising results from double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1 RCT of a recombinant germline-targeting HIV Env trimer GT1.1 vaccine. h/t @amsterdamumc.bsky.social in collab w/our GW Vaccine Research Unit (D. Diemert, E. Malkin, A. Desrosiers + others!) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meningoencephalitis Caused by Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in a Returning Traveler, United States, 2023 | Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases We describe a case of meningoencephalitis caused by tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in a traveler returning to the United States presenting with fever, headaches, neck stiffness, encephalopathy, a...

Reading now: a rare case of tick-borne encephalitis virus infection in a civilian US traveler, masterfully presented by our second-year fellow, Dr. Alex Ogilvy, in collaboration with colleagues at CDC and GW!

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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Great hike to Old Rag mountain in Shenandoah National Park. Based on website’s projected duration to complete the hike, we learned we are averaged-paced hikers. #IDSky

Great hike to Old Rag mountain in Shenandoah National Park. Based on website’s projected duration to complete the hike, we learned we are averaged-paced hikers

And congrats to these three superstars, Dan, Stephen, and Rachel - now ID Board Certified! ✅✅✅⭐️⭐️⭐️ #IDSky #Classof2024

We are delighted to announce that Tamanna Sahni and David Goldmeier will join our ID fellowship program in 2025! Tamanna & David - welcome to the GW family!
#IDSky #IDfellows

So proud of our wonderful fellows who presented some great cases at the Greater Washington ID Society meeting last night! From Aggregatibacter brain abscess to T indotineae, Scedosporium, and Prototheca infections. Congratulations to Helena, Sarah, Will, and Alex!

No better way to start our #IDSky than to share that our PD, Afsoon Roberts, received the ACP DC Chapter 2024 Sol Katz Teaching Award, recognizing excellence in teaching during her career. Dr. Roberts has been instrumental in training and mentoring ID fellows for more than 20 years. Congratulations💙