"Publish or Perish" is pervasive. Reviewers=unsung heroes of academ publishing. If we don't become reviewers, academic publishing will be less sustainable. Change your paradigm->"Review or Perish, regardless of your attempts to publish" Give it a read:

As a kid, I learned from a friend in Michoacan, Mexico, how to make bricks. It was fun. Since completing my medical training, I realized that it is a high-risk activity for infections, but there is almost no data on it. So I wrote this paper:

I am excited to share that I have been elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP)! I am very proud to have received this distinction after only three years of completing my Internal Medicine Residency and months of completing my Infectious Diseases Fellowship!

@danbacic I ended changing Jorge Aldo Barajas Ochoa into Aldo Barajas-Ochoa in my pubs, and even now people struggle with it :(

Great opinion from my mentor and friend, Cesar Ramos-Remus @ramosremus, on the responsibilities needed to embrace the use of LLM in research properly. Quoting him "The force is with you, not with [insert your LLM here]." A great read!

Cómo te sentirías si por cada 10 publicaciones en las que trabajas, 1 a 3 no tuvieran tu nombre propio?Muchas Universidades tienen este problema. Lee nuestro artículo en contra de la traducción de nombres de instituciones en Gaceta Médica de México.

Excited about the publication of our experience managing liver transplant recipients' infections with vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and daptomycin-resistant Enterococci in Transplant Infectious Diseases! Check it out!

@dralicehan Alice, thank you so much for your kind words!

Published! A personal essay I wrote on my perspective of the opioid and drug epidemic was just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases!

Check the letter I wrote to a Call to Action on the physician-scientist workforce in Infectious Diseases that omitted the role of Foreign Medical Graduates (AKA non-US citizen medical grads). It also applies to other specialties/fellowships! @JIDJournal

RT @ASHE_Journal: The use of EQUATOR-related reporting guidelines is infrequent in ID research articles, read on from @AldoBarajasMD, @gonz…

RT @NateWarnerMD: Session 4 of the @VCUHealth ID Fellow #POCUS Series on ascites, kidney, & bladder was a success! Thanks to @VCUEM and @g…

@matthewmof31 Got 2 of those since the start of July haha

@mmPharmD @SHEA_Epi Thank you so much! And thank you for stopping by!

@RickyLemusMD @IUIntMed Felicidades, Ricky! Muchísimo éxito! Hay que seguir en contacto!

@courseplus Courseplus is currently down 🙃

Nature published an editorial on the role they have played in some of the social issues that have created discriminatory movements and still divide us. Interesting to see them acknowledging it. How Nature contributed to science’s discriminatory legacy