In this fifteenth installment of the OFID podcast, Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, shares her work in infectious complications of addiction with Editor Paul Sax, MD. She discusses her OFID article “Increasing Infectious Endocarditis Admissions Among Young People Who Inject Drugs,” as well as shares some of the challenges of coaching other health professionals when treating infection drug use and staying positive when entrenched in this often heavy work.

In the fourteenth installment of the OFID podcast series, Editor Paul Sax, MD, and Rebeca Plank, MD, MPH, face off in a game that mirrors a fantasy sports draft, where the players take turns picking the strongest team of antibiotics “players.”

In this thirteenth installment of the OFID podcast, Editor Paul Sax, MD, and Brad Spellberg, MD, discuss messaging and managing antibiotic stewardship. They delve into why it continues to be such a hot topic and how to convince hospital executives that the work is worthwhile, also well some of Dr. Spellberg’s all-time favorite misguided statements that people make on the subject.

In this twelfth installment of the OFID podcast, Editor Paul Sax, MD, discusses pertussis epidemiology and prevention with James Cherry, MD. Dr. Cherry breaks down the evolution of pertussis vaccines over time, how to protect and prevent infection in those most at risk, and whether infections are truly on the rise.