ID Chief @ UMich

The Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan is HIRING! Please see attached postings for Clinical Assistant Professor and an Open Rank search in the Instructional (Tenure) track. The Division is growing, the people are fantastic, Ann Arbor is great. Check us out!

The ID Division at UM is growing! Opening up a search for two Clinical Track positions in the Division of Infectious Diseases (open rank). This is a supportive and collegial environment and a community dedicated to excellence in clinical care, education, and research. And Ann Arbor is awesome.

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I just got my advance copy today. Can't wait to read it. Especially the parts of about viral mutabillity and the problem of the poliovirus endgame.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!

This only happens to you once

Wow, it's been a while since I've had to prepare a powerpoint in 4:3 aspect ratio!

A bizarre dogma has emerged among the anti-mRNA crowd that the only data we have on vaccines is from the original trial papers, rather than the HUGE volume of studies that came out subsequently...

Blood cultures - the next frontier in diagnostic stewardship? Anastasia Wasylyshyn from the Division contributing here. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

New review on genomic epidemiology of C diff from Evan Snitkin in the Division. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New data on RSV VE from the CDC sponsored IVY network. This sort of work could be in jeopardy given events of the last several weeks. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

He’s not a therapy dog but I’m willing to bring my dog Wilmont to our noon conference 😂 @martenhawkins.bsky.social @lcahuaymemd.bsky.social

The federal government has decided to severely limit access to vaccines that have been shown to reduce illness, hospitalization, and death. Whereas we used to argue about whether government was forcing you to be vaccinated, now we government saying you can’t get vaccinated.

Benefit of Early Oseltamivir Therapy for Adults Hospitalized With Influenza A: An Observational Study url: academic.oup.com/cid/article-...

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

open.substack.com/pub/clauswil... this is very true and highly under appreciated. Not just for a PhD but any high level accomplishment.

ID fellows: join IDSA Fellows Community of Practice & CPSolvers for a virtual Fellows Case Conference this Friday at 3PM ET! This session will include an interesting case presentation and small group discussion, featuring Daniel Minter, MD, and Varun Phadke, MD. Register: https://bit.ly/47bJczm

New from Marisa Miceli in the Division! Lack of Association Between Histoplasma Urine Antigen Values and Clinical Response in Persons Without HIV url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

Take 5 minutes and watch this. Destroying biomedical research is dangerous, quite literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Friday emails of funding opportunities from the NIH used to take a little time to digest. They've gotten a lot easier lately, today's especially.

California’s Valley Fever cases have jumped 1,200% in 25 years - from 1k to over 12.5k a year. Climate change, construction, agriculture - and perhaps increased familiarity and testing - are driving the surge. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

Novel oral polio vaccines, now in type 1 and type 3 “flavors”!

I share this in case you're very literal like me and wonder why people keep insisting it's because coronaviruses look like they have a crown, when they don't.

Apropos of nothing... www.nature.com/articles/220...

Not to mention what it would do to society journals.

On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks blog: Learn about JID’s latest monthly roundup of papers relevant to clinicians, including advancements in defining post-COVID conditions, therapeutic success of adjunctive carbapenems for MRSA and more. buff.ly/Qvbuhxj

Nice work from Marisa Miceli in the Division.

Med students and residents: Join us for the #IDBugCrawl at #IDWeek2025! This FREE program is a one stop shop to learn about the field of ID, with opportunities to meet directly with ID specialists who are shaping the future. Register today for IDWeek 2025: idweek.org/registration

My biggest, loudest job application advice: WHY do you want this job? This SPECIFIC job? What about it interests you? What do you think of it? What can you bring to it? I know this sounds obvious but a generic cover letter isn't doing you favours - really. *Show me you know the job!* 1/7

me, every work week battling with the cloud.

And if you like: - world-renowned pharmacists - field-leading microbiologists - top-notch, innovative stewardship (join my track! 🤗) - mind-blowing tx ID cases - brilliant IPE - fun colleagues - dedicated allergy service for PCN allergy!!! (🥇, the real draw) It’s not too late to apply at U-M :-)

Great to work with the always awesome Terry Dermody on this chapter in PPID 10th edition and retire my 5th edition from fellowship.

To be clear, people on Medicaid don’t receive “handouts”. The “benefit” they receive is that their healthcare providers and hospitals get reimbursed when they take care of them.

Fewer vaccines for kids in LMICs means more diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other entirely preventable diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Gold “just make a decision”

BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Great to see this out with contributions from our own antifungal guru, Marisa Miceli!

I’m not sure many people in the media and therefore the general public realize how changing the ACIP can affect ACCESS to vaccines. Nice explainer by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/health...

#IDSky #MedSky Less visible than ACIP, and less of a gross violation of promises made and statements under oath, the disbanding of HICPAC, the committee that advises on patient safety and infection control is damaging to transparency and trust @trtalbot.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Losing the cumulative experience on vaccines of the recently removed ACIP leaders will only make America less safe. We are losing clinical experience, scientific integrity, and expertise at a time when it is most desperately needed. #vacicnessavelives www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pretty awesome Father’s Day card from Kid2

Thanks to the ACIP and its evidence based recommendations, the biggest barrier to getting my shingles vax today was admitting to myself that I am over 50 and overdue. Walked right in to pharmacy, no doctor note or Rx, insurance paid. Who knows what this will be like in the future! #IDsky #medsky

Here's a write-up from the Michigan Engineering! cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/clin...

One of the great things about ID at UMich is there are hundreds of people doing ID research across campus, which allows for great interdisciplinary collaborations like this one from Krishna Rao (ID) and Jenna Wiens (Engineering) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...