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A recap from IDWeek 2023.  Check out the guests/correspondents below!

Group 1:

• Dylan Koundakjian, third year internal medicine resident at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (who is applying to ID fellowship!)
• Jonathan Ryder, Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE (who is back for this third IDWeek review!)
• Alainna Jamal, second year internal medicine resident at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Carlyn Harris, fourth year medical student at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (applying to internal medicine and internal medicine primary care)

Group 2:

• Bismarck Bisono-Garcia, second year adult ID fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Anais Ovalle, ID attending and Director of Population Health for internal medicine residents at Kent with Care New England - Brown affiliate, Providence, RI
• Kailynn Jensen, second year medical student at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
• Bill Wilson, pediatric ID pharmacist specialist at UNC Childrens Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
• Raul Macias Gil, ID attending and associate program director for ID fellowship at Harbor UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• [and Jonathan Ryder, who was also in Group 1 above]

Please check out and sign up for the new IDSA PROUDLY ID Interest Group Community, which Anais, Bill, and Raul mentioned in the episode.  This platform is serving to provide a space for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, representation, and education.  The link is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMtfcT5OOB9akApk-7r7bT9h4MtoL-qDYxhRpBJq06N2R1FA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Group 3:

• Rija Alvi, second year adult ID fellow at Henry Ford, Detroit, MI (member of ID Digital Institute)
• Memar Ayalew, ID clinical pharmacist and co-director of antimicrobial stewardship at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC (member of ID Digital Institute)
• Radhika Sheth, second year adult ID fellow, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, OR (member of ID Digital Institute)
• Julie England, chief medical resident, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (applying to ID!)
• Christina Lin, chief medical resident in research at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (applying to ID!)

The IDWeek Out-BREAK escape room

Part 1 featured the organizers of the escape room:

• Victoria Chu, second year pediatric ID fellow, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Diana Zhong, adult ID attending, University of Pittsburgh, ID Connect, Pittsburgh, PA
• As well as the other members of the planning committee:
• Katie Lusardi, ID PharmD, Baptist Health Medical Center, Little Rock, AR
• Justin Searns, pediatric ID attending at University of Colorado / Children’s Hospital of Colorado
• Juri Boguniewicz, pediatric ID attending at University of Colorado / Children’s Hospital of Colorado
• Paul Pottinger, adult ID attending, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
• Liz Ristagno, pediatric ID attending, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Rachel Wattier, pediatric ID attending, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Adarsh Bhimraj, adult ID attending, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX
• Natalie Gabriel, IDSA
• Sara Dong, adult and pediatric ID attending at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Part 2 included 2 teams that experienced the escape room:

Team 1:

• Rebecca Kiliany, PharmD, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
• Dhananjay Kumar Sinha, nephrologist, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh,...