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We are recruiting a postdoc in the area of medical device immunoengineering! Please reach out to me if you’d like to learn more. @UTSWPostdocs

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Hi #IDTwitter and #MedTwitter ! As we near the end of 1st year of ID fellowship @MGHBWHIDFellows , I wanted to reflect on 10 RCTs that I found useful on General ID. This is neither all-encompassing nor meant to get into the meat of study design/critique ( #IDJournalClub ). (1/12)

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So proud to share that I have very nearly accomplished something wonderful! Congratulations to all my rockstar co-fellows and mentors @MGHBWHIDFellows !!!

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Haven’t gotten my own copy yet, but someone sent me this pic (cat for scale). Keep your eyes peeled for The Infectious Diseases Consult Handbook!

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Been too long since I’ve been overnight at MGH; treated myself to a house staff cocktail…

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Officially a board-certified infectious disease physician! There has been a lot of twists and turns on this journey, but we've reached the end of the beginning!

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Intern’s first Swing day @mghmedres @alexandrarenee_

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So happy to be a family of four! Welcome Audrey Tatara. @alexandrarenee_

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Many thanks to @MBTA for getting us to the hospital safely this morning!

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The book arrived! Author’s cat for scale

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Some exciting personal news! A short🧵. "Why haven't the blood cultures cleared yet?" "Does this patient need an LP?" "What the heck is THIS type of organism??" ID fellowship @MGHBWHIDFellows was a fabulous learning experience thanks to the hundreds of consult questions. 1/4

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

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I put together my teaching notes from time on the inpatient General ID service in the format of common (and some not-so-common!) consult questions. Some mentors recommended submitting it as a 📖 and @SpringerNature agreed to publish it! 2/4

The Infectious Diseases Consult Handbook: Common Questions and Answers

www.amazon.com

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

More 1st year ID fellow pearls #IDTwitter #MedTwitter - Let's talk about dx of candidemia, another common reason for ID consult. In fact, retrospective data suggests ID consultation saves lives ()! @FungalDoc (1/8)

Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation on Clinical Management and Mortality in Patients With...

Candidemia has a high attributable mortality. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of infectious disease consultation on mortality and clinical outcomes in candidemia. Infectious...

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

10 months

Congratulations to fellows that matched today!!! However, yikes for our field- ID down to 67.3% of filled positions. Heme/Onc and Pulm/Crit Care at 99.3% and 98.5%, for example.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Roses are red Violets are blue Ticag affects platelets Staph bacteremia, too?

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

11 months

It was an honor to present our work on a scaffold vaccine for periprosthetic joint infection at the #WyssRetreat23 ! @wyssinstitute

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Delighted to represent @wyssinstitute in our ID clinic- thanks for the great welcome gift!! Very excited about collaborating to better understand infection mechanobiology

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

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Happy Father’s Day!!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Grateful to be supported by @MGHBWHIDFellows when I had to bring an unexpected guest to my journal club presentation!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

So grateful for an amazing residency experience @MGHMedicine ! Can't wait to keep working with friends as an ID fellow @MassGenBrigham . See you all again soon!! @mgh_id

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Interested in next generation vaccines (poster 308) or AI (poster 1310) for orthopedic hardware infection? Stop and say hi at @IDWeekmtg ! @SandyNelsonMD @NourNassourMD

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

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3 years

Proud partner alert! So proud of @alexandrarenee_ “the real Dr. Alex Tatara” for her @mghmedres teaching award!!

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Baby’s first tropical storm!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

8. More recently, compression wraps were also shown to decrease cellulitis recurrence in a non-blinded RCT (). How cool is a non-pharmacologic intervention?? (9/12)

Compression Therapy to Prevent Recurrent Cellulitis of the Leg | NEJM

Chronic edema of the leg is a risk factor for cellulitis. Daily use of compression garments on the leg has been recommended to prevent the recurrence of cellulitis, but there is limited evidence fr...

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

Thank goodness for our amazing nurses... the overnight nursing note is the first thing I read in the chart to catch up on what’s really happening!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

@MGHBWHIDFellows @HarvardCatalyst @tatara_cat Many thanks to friends and mentors at @wyssinstitute and @mgh_id !! Very grateful for the support from @HarvardCatalyst and look forward to continuing our work on device-related infection!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

So excited for my first @MSISorg !

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

So proud of Big F pharmacist @alexandrarenee_ for being awarded for a top 10 research project at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2020 Annual Meeting! What a rock star!! @MGHMedicine

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

Found notes from my first time on ID rounds (July 2011, Dan Musher). Includes gems like “What is zosin?” and “hates BAL”

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

So I just got to spend the last year learning about infection and getting to hang out with this crew- how lucky is that?? @MGHBWHIDFellows

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Interested in how we can engineer vaccines to prevent staphylococcal periprosthetic joint infection? Come see our talk at #MSIS2023 for results in our pre-clinical model! @SandyNelsonMD @MikeSuper18

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

So proud to be included in the company of Dr. Li and other awardees of years prior! MANY thanks to the fantastic mentorship and support of @SandyNelsonMD , David Mooney, @MGHBWHIDFellows , @mghmedres PSP as we work to better understand and manage device-related infection.

MGH Division of Infectious Diseases

@mgh_id

2 years

⭐️⭐️⭐️Congratulations to Alex Tatara, MD PhD @AMTatara and Yijia Li, MD @eeeejjjaaaa on being awarded the 2022 Maxwell Finland Research Award through @massidsociety !

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

On our way to #TERMISAM2023 ! @TERMISAM @SyisTermis

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

The other Dr. Alex Tatara is publishing on ID pharmacy topics now! This bodes poorly for our volume of mistaken pages/e-mails...

Alexandra Whiddon Tatara, PharmD, BCPS

@alexandrarenee_

2 years

Excited to share an interesting case of a fidaxomicin skin reaction! Excellent work by co-authors @MoniqueBidell @RamyaPharmD

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

1. Staph aureus bacteremia (SAB) is our bread and butter! We are often asked about combination tx. DASH () did not show benefit to adding daptomycin to beta-lactams for treatment of MSSA SAB. Duration of bacteremia was the primary endpoint. (2/12)

Daptomycin versus placebo as an adjunct to beta-lactam therapy in the treatment of Staphylococcus...

ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02972983 . Registered on 25 November 2016. Trial protocol: http://individual.utoronto.ca/leet/dash/dashprotocol.pdf.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@AMTatara

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5. Likewise, POET looked at early transition to PO abx compared to IV throughout for L-sided endocarditis () and found PO to be non-inferior in stable pts. Sparing folks prolonged IV antibiotics when possible is very powerful for the right pts. (6/12)

Partial Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis | NEJM

Patients with infective endocarditis on the left side of the heart are typically treated with intravenous antibiotic agents for up to 6 weeks. Whether a shift from intravenous to oral antibiotics o...

www.nejm.org

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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4. "Do we need a PICC?" Between line issues and toxicity from IV tx, I learned in 1st year that 6 wks of IV is no joke. OVIVA examined early transition to PO regimens compared to IV throughout for osteomyelitis and found PO to be non-inferior (). (5/12)

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

My partner, once again showing how pharmacists make all the difference to our patients

ACCP Adult Med PRN

@accpamedprn

3 years

Happy Friday AMED! ✨Check out this month's #amedprn featured research presented by Alexandra Tatara, PharmD "Implementation of daily pharmacy student new medication education during hospitalization to improve patient satisfaction"

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3. Duration of tx is another frequent consult question. I found myself frequently referring to the "Shorter is Better" @BradSpellberg (). STOP-IT is 1 example of an important RCT examining duration for intra-abdominal infxn (). (4/12)

Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection | NEJM

The successful treatment of intraabdominal infection requires a combination of anatomical source control and antibiotics. The appropriate duration of antimicrobial therapy remains unclear. We rando...

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

7. More bread+butter- we are frequently asked to weigh in on cellulitis, especially in pts w/ freq recurrence. In PATCH I (), it was shown that PCN prophylaxis can decrease recurrence. (8/12)

Penicillin to Prevent Recurrent Leg Cellulitis | NEJM

Cellulitis of the leg is a common bacterial infection of the skin and underlying tissue. We compared prophylactic low-dose penicillin with placebo for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis. We con...

www.nejm.org

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

So thankful for my amazing wife. Check out our 2020 Thanksgiving dinner for two! Perfect meal to come home to after a day of consults!

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@AMTatara

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2. What about dreaded MRSA bacteremia? Likewise, CAMERA2 did not show benefit of combo tx w in MRSA SAB and had to be ended early due to AKI in the combo group (). Synergy with ceftaroline is an upcoming area () (3/12)

Clinical Data on Daptomycin plus Ceftaroline versus Standard of Care Monotherapy in the Treatment...

Vancomycin (VAN) and daptomycin (DAP) are approved as a monotherapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. A regimen of daptomycin plus ceftaroline (DAP+CPT) has shown...

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

6. On the topic of abx selection, as a resident I was less comfortable with dapto and linezolid. The controversial ZEPHyR trial () is a reason to get excited about non-vanc tx. In pts w/ MRSA PNA, linezolid had similar success and less AKI than vanc. (7/12)

Linezolid in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nosocomial pneumonia: a randomized,...

For the treatment of MRSA nosocomial pneumonia, clinical response at EOS in the PP population was significantly higher with linezolid than with vancomycin, although 60-day mortality was similar.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

More 1st year ID fellow pearls #IDTwitter #MedTwitter - a chat about dx of cellulitis! Last week, we discussed two clinical trials for prevention of recurrence- today, lets discuss ALT70, a scoring system for dx. (1/8)

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

There is a whole world of HIV+Transplant ID that this thread does not cover, plus dozens of other Gen ID studies- perhaps next time! Dislike 1 of these studies? Feel there is a glaring omission? Let me know! Many thx to all my attendings and co-fellows throughout Year 1! (12/12)

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

#IDTwitter - Anyone know why the field settled on Infectious Disease Specialists/Doctors rather than Infectologists?

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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10. Lastly, who could forget that our 1st year coincided with a global pandemic? The RECOVERY trial () was a game-changer in how we dosed corticosteroids in critically ill pts w/ COVID-19. (11/12)

Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 | NEJM

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is associated with diffuse lung damage. Glucocorticoids may modulate inflammation-mediated lung injury and thereby reduce progression to respiratory failure and ...

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Excited to be part of these studies and to work with such talented people! @wyssinstitute @mgh_id

Wyss Institute

@wyssinstitute

2 years

Researchers like Alex Tatara at the Wyss & @MassGeneralNews are developing a new delivery method for systemic antifungals that could help reduce negative side effects & better target the infection. #ReimagineTheWorld #FungalInfection

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Jealous of your future residents!!! Congratulations to MGH!

Alexandra Whiddon Tatara, PharmD, BCPS

@alexandrarenee_

3 years

Very excited to announce that I will be Program Director for our brand new Internal Medicine PGY2 @ MGH! See QR code below to sign up for info sessions! Can't wait to meet you! #TwitteRx #MedTwitter #Pharmacy @MassGeneralNews

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

For those interested in staphylococcal virulence and material properties, my talk has had a time change- now 2P in the Falkland Room (4th floor) today! #SFB2022

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

@MGHBWHIDFellows @drlouiseivers @mgh_id @JordanJastrab Would have loved to be there, but got paged urgently to the bedside of this newborn:

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

I hear that pager ringing Ringing til it's dead I ain't seen the sunshine Since I don't know when I'm stuck in ID office And time keeps dragging on I hear that pager ringing The team won't answer the phone

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

9 months

LSU won and we cooked a dinner of cabbage, greens, black eyed peas, and cornbread. Happy 2024 from our family!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

So coming this fall, keep your eyes peeled for The Infectious Diseases Consult Handbook: Common Questions and Answers! Includes 140 questions divided by organism type and anatomic site written for the level of residents/medical students on service. 3/4

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Tomorrow! Looking forward to presenting and hearing the latest in OrthoID!

Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Interested in how we can engineer vaccines to prevent staphylococcal periprosthetic joint infection? Come see our talk at #MSIS2023 for results in our pre-clinical model! @SandyNelsonMD @MikeSuper18

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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9. We are also often called to discuss MDR infxn. In MERINO, pip/tazo was NOT non-inferior to carbapenems for ceftriaxone-R E coli and Klebsiella bacteremia (). Note that this was not designed to study specifically AmpC producers nor study cefepime. (10/12)

Effect of Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Meropenem on 30-Day Mortality for Patients With E coli or...

anzctr.org.au Identifiers: ACTRN12613000532707 and ACTRN12615000403538 and ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02176122.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

Many thanks to @katrinarmstrong and @MGHMedicine for my #COVIDcut today!!! ✂️✂️✂️

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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A million thanks to the mentors, attendings, co-fellows, nurses, pharmacists, and patients who have taught me so much during the past few years! @mgh_id @bwh_id @wyssinstitute 4/4

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Bla bla bla- very exciting!

Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟

@ABsteward

3 years

Super interesting💥💥 Oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positiveStaphylococcus aureus (OS-MRSA) is clinically significant and isolated globally, this article sought to determine the mechanism of its occurrence Deletion in blaR1 resulted in oxacillin S in OS-MRSA

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Stay tuned in this space! We’re working on a few exciting projects.

Wyss Institute

@wyssinstitute

1 year

"There’s a real unmet need to improve the way that we deliver #antifungals , both to better eliminate the infection and also to reduce the amount of side effects that our patients see when they have to be treated." Alex Tatara on FeCILL

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

I still ask myself “What is MSSA?” but now in a more existential sense.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

I can attest that you’ll have the best PD ever!

Alexandra Whiddon Tatara, PharmD, BCPS

@alexandrarenee_

3 years

Hey #RxTwitter ! Interested in Internal Medicine PGY2? Sign up below to learn about our brand new program at Massachusetts General Hospital! We are also recruiting at PPS! @accpamedprn @ACCP @ASHPOfficial #MedTwitter

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@AMTatara

10 months

Proud to be a 2023 Bostonian of the Year 😅

The Boston Globe

@BostonGlobe

10 months

They're beleaguered. They're intrepid. They're absolutely essential. MBTA commuters have endured shutdowns and slow zones. Yet they do their part to keep Boston vibrant: They ride. For that, @BostonGlobeMag has named them the 2023 Bostonians of the Year.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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Look out, @mghmedres ! New IM pharmacy resident on campus soon, how exciting!!

Alexandra Whiddon Tatara, PharmD, BCPS

@alexandrarenee_

3 years

8 years ago, @AMTatara opened my PGY1 match day email and read me the results. Fast forward to today, this first-time RPD is so excited to have MATCHED! Our first resident! 🥳👏 #TwitteRx #MedTwitter

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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Proud to train with some rockstars on this paper!!

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

@OFIDJournal

8 months

Neuroinvasive Bacillus cereus Infection Amongst Immunocompromised Patients: Epidemiologic Investigation of 5 Cases in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia ✅ Just Accepted 🔓 Open Access 🔗 @JessicaLittleMD

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@AMTatara

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Not my cat and not my copy, part II:

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

Grateful I get to work with this rockstar!

Tetsuhiro Harimoto

@TetsuHarimoto

1 year

Honored to have been named as one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

New England rum punch with homemade lemonade

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Really interesting work on how vaccination affect lymph node activity!!

Alex Najibi

@alexnajibi

2 years

Did your lymph nodes swell after the Covid vaccine? That could be a good thing! Just hosted this pre-print of my final PhD project, investigating the multi-scale changes in lymph nodes after vaccination and how they relate to vaccine outcomes.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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What a pleasure to celebrate our halfway point with Dr. Sax and the rest of our attendings! @MGHBWHIDFellows

Paul Sax

@PaulSaxMD

4 years

Hey, not all of ID is COVID19. Really! Some selected interesting non-COVID things that popped up during inpatient consult service -- and thanks to the first-year ID fellows who are now more than half-way done! Latest: @AMTatara @MGHBWHIDFellows @bwh_id

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@drlouiseivers @MGHBWHIDFellows @mgh_id So proud to have trained with this group of super stars!!!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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Spooky addition to our aquarium- ghost shrimp!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Can’t miss talk from one of the most thoughtful MSK infection specialists!!

MGH Division of Infectious Diseases

@mgh_id

2 years

💪 Wednesday Harvard Joint ID Conference 🦴 30 November 2022, 8A 💪 Sandra B. Nelson, MD 🦴 Musculoskeletal Infections

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@AMTatara

2 years

Fantastic news, how well deserved!!

Jen Manne-Goehler

@IDDocJen

2 years

3 graduate degrees 87 published papers 1 NIH K23 award 2 (adorable, IMO) babies ~18 versions of my CV AND 21 MONTHS later... I am happy to say I'm finally approved for **promotion to Assistant Professor** @harvardmed and @BrighamWomens Just wow. #WomenInMedicine #IDTwitter

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@eeeejjjaaaa @MGHBWHIDFellows From showing me the ropes as my first weekend senior fellow on ID to showing me all these awesome places in Pittsburgh where he's now an attending, where would I be without Yijia??

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@AMTatara

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Who is at risk? Sick pts! The Candida score () was derived from a prospective observational ICU study. Points awarded for severe sepsis, TPN, recent surgery, and multifocal yeast colonization. Score >2 = more likely to have invasive candidal disease (2/8)

Evaluation of "Candida score" in critically ill patients: a prospective, multicenter, observation...

Our results confirm that the "Candida score" is an interesting tool to differentiate among ICU patients who exhibit hospital-acquired severe sepsis or septic shock those would benefit from early...

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@AMTatara

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@sargsyanz I’ve found walking folks through the ALT70 score helpful!

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@ARLetourneau @S__Baksh MGH ID: strong antibiotic and ice cream recs

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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@okwalding "Well known to ID"

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@splon Enjoy your trip- the weather is perfect! Let me know if you end up around Cambridge, I’d love for you to meet Evie!

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@eemoin Wrath Grapes

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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This is a really fascinating paper! Friends, any guesses as to why we see S aureus as the most common non-endospore organism and not other staphyloccal species?

Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟

@ABsteward

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Super interesting ⚡️ ⚡️ Everything but the kitchen sink An analysis of bacterial &chemical contaminants found in syringe residue from People Who Inject Drugs Bacteria were cultured from 58.75% of 160 syringes analyzed Bacillus is most common,followed by SA

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@mgh_id @SandyNelsonMD What a wonderful time learning what’s on the cutting edge of OrthoID, reconnecting with old friends, and making new ones! Grateful for #MSIS giving me the opportunity to speak about our PJI vaccine and to @mgh_id @SandyNelsonMD @wyssinstitute for the mentorship.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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@eeeejjjaaaa @MAdamsick @mgh_id I don't think so! I think the strep is named after Melvin Gordon (viridians classifications) and the myco named after Ruth Gordon (soil bacteria)!!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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@eeeejjjaaaa Not even one month at many places 😞

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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@Cortes_Penfield @PaulSaxMD Oh, where did you give this talk- was it recorded? Would love to see it!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Dr. Musher is priceless!

Terry Wuerz

@TerryWuerz

2 years

Doxycycline is an old antibiotic, but a good antibiotic. Recent meta-analysis & (editorial): it is still a GREAT choice for outpatient treatment of non-severe pneumonia. Musher, Doxycycline to Treat Community-acquired Pneumonia, CID, 2022; ciac617,

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

1 year

So sad that Wild Flour Kolaches here in Ma closed last year!

Regional American Food

@RegionalUSFood

1 year

The klobasnek, klobásník or kolache: a Czech-American sausage roll found throughout Texas

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

Many thanks to my sister for this biography of a physician-engineer with a love for Cajun food, Michael DeBakey!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

Many thanks for the great points and context!

Nico Cortes-Penfield MD FACP FIDSA 🦴💊

@Cortes_Penfield

3 years

OK so the question I really wanted to look into here was: "What’s the [evidence for a] difference between doxy and mino for S.aureus infection?" And here is what I found:

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Such a cool idea! I’m so lucky to get to learn from you!

Kwasi Adu-Berchie

@kaduberchie

2 years

Excited to share our @biorxivpreprint . We present SIVET, an injectable biomaterial platform that enhances adoptive T cell therapy by synergistic in situ antigen-free vaccination. #MooneyLab @wyssinstitute @hseas #Tcell @BioRender

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

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@okwalding Would ask to test doxycycline and minocycline- depending on mutation, could get a hit despite tetracycline-R!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

8 years

Thanks so much to my adviser, Tony Mikos, and WFIRM for their exemplary leadership in our field! @WFIRMnews

Rice University Bioengineering

@Rice_BIOE

8 years

Today, BIOE's Alex Tatara will receive the Wake Forest Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award.

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

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@jmvyasmdphd @MGHMedicine @mghmedres You have been such an outstanding advocate, mentor, and role model for us physician scientist trainees! Thanks for all that you do, Jay!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

@michael_lam52 @TheBCRP Congratulations and welcome to Boston!! Feel free to reach out if we can help with anything!! #TXtoMA @alexandrarenee_

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

@alexandrarenee_ ‘s homemade fried okra and pimento cheese!!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

4 years

@jeffpears0n @IDSAInfo @BWDionne @PaulSaxMD @FranciscoMarty_ @sigal_md Congratulations to the team!!

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

2 years

Who wants to have the best PD???

Alexandra Whiddon Tatara, PharmD, BCPS

@alexandrarenee_

2 years

It's recruitment time! Sign up to hear more about our Internal Medicine PGY2 at MGH @MassGeneralNews at the link below! #TwitteRx

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

@JakeJohnsonMD @eeeejjjaaaa Is that how all those deer got COVID???

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Alexander Tatara, MD PhD

@AMTatara

3 years

One of the challenges in dx of candidemia is slower growth- time to positivity in blood cx averages 42hr and can be as long as 4 days ()! Need to be patient and vigilant when it is on the differential (5/8)

Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in patients with Candida...

A longer time to positivity was associated with a higher mortality for Candida albicans BSIs; therefore, initiating empiric treatment with antifungals may improve outcomes.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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