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Haley Pritchard, MD MS

@strongylady.bsky.social

ID Doc at IUSOM, Antibiotic Steward, MedEd, Giant Nerd, X-Phile, Human Mom, Animal Mom. Thoughts and opinions are my own. She/her. Finally making the jump over to #IDSky

1,974 Followers  |  1,039 Following  |  19 Posts  |  Joined: 26.09.2023  |  2.0668

Latest posts by strongylady.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Former Temple University Hospital IM-turned-ID reunion! @templeid.bsky.social

22.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#idweek2025 Dr Pritchard moderating A Bloody Mess! Blood Culture Shortages and Stewardship

21.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indiana Health Student and Professional Sign-on Letter to Senator Todd Young Make your voice heard: RFK's policies harm Hoosiers!

pnhp.salsalabs.org/INPowerbuild...

14.10.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got my copy of the new edition of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases and it's pretty damn cool to see my name in the bible of ID. Such cool company to keep with all the great contributors! Thanks @dmaronoff.bsky.social for the opportunity!

16.07.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism Β· No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

I'm attending No Kings's event, β€œOne Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

15.07.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am very proud of @idsainfo.bsky.social today for being part of this!

07.07.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Special Collection: Vaccine Sciences Explore this special collection on vaccine sciences, led by Dr. Helen Chu, featuring a wide range of topics including global health and access, systems vaccinology, and vaccine hesitancy.

Discover our special collection on vaccine sciences, led by Dr. Helen Chu. New articles in each JID issue through 2025 highlight key advances, challenges, and future directions.

Read More ⬇️

#IDSky

11.06.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proud to be included in this year's FIDSA inductees! @idsainfo.bsky.social

19.05.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ACT: Defend Medicaid - The Committee to Protect Health Care Physicians are uniting to defend Medicaid and protect the millions of patients who rely on this vital program.

committeetoprotect.org/medicaid-def...

15.05.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Optimizing Antibiotic Therapy in Musculoskeletal Infections

"Optimizing Antibiotic Therapy in MSK Infections" in ID Clinics

Check out our latest paper in this great issue on MSK infections with an amazing group of coauthors: @cortes-penfield.bsky.social @juliejusto.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social

#IDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.04.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

2020 - Sighs, creates email folder for COVID
2022 - Sighs, creates email folder for Mpox
2024 - Sighs, creates email folder for avian influenza
2025 - Sighs, creates email folder for measles

16.04.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist The second Trump administration has released a torrent of executive policies hostile to public health, science, and marginalized populations. We outline th

Our patients persecuted; colleagues and public health institutions under attack. Our field needs to rise up & fight back

Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist

Viewpoint by @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social & me

OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

24.03.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 19
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Petition to Hospital and University Leaders and Administration Science, healthcare, and academic freedom are under attack by the Trump administration and its proxies. Public health institutions have been forced to shed essential personnel, losing years of trainin...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/f0...

25.03.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Editorial from the @thelancet.bsky.social
"The health, medical, and scientific communities have a vital role in advocating for their patients, defending programmes, and lobbying for policies and institutions that are good for health and wellbeing."
#GoodTrouble

07.02.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

An existing link to the CDC 2021 STI Guidelines for those who need it πŸ‘‡πŸ» #IDSky #PharmSky #AMSSky @sidpharm.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social

courses.nnptc.org/resource.php...

01.02.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@idsainfo.bsky.social Why aren't we doing this? We have an obligation to our profession and our patients to continue to provide evidence based care despite political interference.

04.02.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. Any ID/epi/micro professional society that obeys this cruel regime in advance is not getting my dues or time. We can and must do better. #IDSky #EpiSky #MicroSky

02.02.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

01.02.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7725    πŸ” 4334    πŸ’¬ 574    πŸ“Œ 1643

Medical societies that do not publicly oppose the nomination of RFK Jr for HHS secretary will be looked upon as complicit cowards by the annals of history

Silence is complicity

27.01.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6
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Hey #HoosierSky

The NIH provides a TON of funding to Indiana Universities and companies

Every $1 spent on NIH funding provides $2.46 of downstream benefit in the form of new discoveries, etc

Pausing it even for a short time will have major detriments to science and scientists

23.01.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨

The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

22.01.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 26028    πŸ” 11085    πŸ’¬ 1415    πŸ“Œ 795
Best practices for introductions

Best practices for introductions

INSIDE-OUT: Introduction of Speakers at IDWeek Events - Observing for Unconscious bias over Time

White moderators more frequently used non-professional introductions (no title at first intro). Younger and women speakers more likely to be introduced without title

academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

17.01.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Merry Winter Festival of Your Choosing to all. Time to lie on the couch and eat cheese until dinner. Let the sloth times begin.

25.12.2024 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so excited this is out, & am so proud of the work we do. A chance for me to walk my talk as a nonprofit expert. Cc @gbosslet.bsky.social @carlmega84.bsky.social @janeahartsock.bsky.social @strongylady.bsky.social @asinhamd.bsky.social @minnowwalsh.bsky.social @cerouse.bsky.social #nonprofitsky

06.12.2024 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Frequency of Dual Allergy to Penicillins and Cefazolin #idsky #medsky #AMSsky

04.12.2024 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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How to Figure Out the Length of Antibiotic Therapy One thing we ID doctors know β€” that other cliniciansΒ simply don’t β€” is how long to treat a patient withΒ antibiotics. I was reminded of this special power by these recentΒ events: An excellent fellow fr...

Something divided by 5 or 7.

But not 5 weeks. *Never* 5 weeks. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

04.12.2024 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
No More General Anesthesia
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken No More General Anesthesia

A real, actual thing BCBS is doing youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

04.12.2024 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1074    πŸ” 439    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 103
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Matched! Congratulations to all who matched! #idsky #idfellows #idfellowship

04.12.2024 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Congratulations to all the new fellows matching today! And congratulations to @iuidfellowship.bsky.social for filling our fellowship spots this year!!! So excited for the new fellows joining us this summer!

04.12.2024 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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