Fellow
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
I am currently a physican at the Northen Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor ME, and I have combinated position in Pediatric Primary Care and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. I did my medical school at the American University University of Beirut and residency in Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University. As a fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, I received an excellent training in Pediatric Infectious Disease that exposed me to a broad spectrum of pathology, including extremely rare infectious diseases around the world. I was trained in the various aspects of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, including immunocompromised and transplant medicine, HIV, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection prevention. I was deeply interested in antimicrobial stewardship during fellowship and had the opportunity to be involved in multiple inpatient and outpatient stewadship research projects. I published an article entitled "Decreased Outpatient Fluoroquinolone Prescribing Using a Multimodal Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative" in OFID and presented multiple posters at IDWeek as well as local conferences. I am grateful to be able to carry out my interest and work in antimicrobial stewardship as an attending physician. I have recently started working on a multi-site study called Better Antibiotic Selection in Children (BASiC) and organized by the AAP. This study investigates the impact of a multi-faceted stewardship intervention on many variables, including first-line antibiotic use, when used for community-acquired pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infection, and urinary tract infection as inpatient and in the ED. My long-term plan is to be running more clinical research projects in antimicrobial stewardship in order to improve antibiotic use and patient outcomes in the pediatric population.
