Digital Edition of Presby Bulletin - 12/9/2016

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Volume 11

Issue 25

December 9, 2016

PRESBYbulletin Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Save the Date for the Presby Gala

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Board of Trustees, Administration, and Faculty kindly ask you to reserve the date for the

16th Annual Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Gala Passport to London A Life in Motion Honoring our Hospital Hero L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery

March 24, 2017 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. VIE | 600 N Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 Formal invitation to follow

ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP AT PPMC Antibiotics are vital to the practice of modern medicine. They make many things that we take for granted today possible but like anything else, too much of a good thing can be bad. Changing the way antibiotics are used, and making sure they’re used appropriately, is the goal for the Antibiotic Stewardship team at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC). Led by Amanda Binkley, PharmD, AAHIVP and Christo Cimino, PharmD, BCPS, Judith O’Donnell, MD, and Naasha Talati, MD, the local group keeps a close eye on how local prescribers make use of the important drugs. The stewardship effort has a long history at Penn. One of the first antibiotic stewardship programs in the nation was started at HUP in 1992 by associate medical officer Neil Fishman, MD. Now led by Keith Hamilton, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical Medicine and infectious disease physician, remains a national model for stewardship programs. PPMC’s local stewardship team recently wrapped up its annual Antibiotic Stewardship Week, which gave faculty and staff across the hospital a chance to focus on the issue and learn more about what can be done to prevent to overprescription of antimicrobial drugs. The stewardship team set up a table with (continued on back)


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