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Credits
Host: Sara Dong
Guests: Tara Vijayan, Allan Tunkel, Paul Sax
Writing, Cover Art: Sara Dong
Audio Editing: Bentley Brown
Produced by Sara Dong with support from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Our Guests
Tara Vijayan, MD
Dr. Tara Vijayan completed medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2007, where she started the school’s first and only literary magazine. She spent a gap year at Yale doing the Doris Duke Research Fellowship studying transitioning adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV to adult medicine before starting and completing her training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. After fellowship she spent a year and a half as a primary care doctor for patients with HIV in Oakland, California. She moved to UCLA in 2015 where she has had formal roles teaching 1st and second year medical students the wonderful world of microbiology and infectious diseases. She currently serves as the Medical Director of Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medical Director of the CARE Clinic (serving patients with HIV) and an Associate Program Director for the UCLA Multicampus Infectious Disease Fellowship. Her academic passions remain health equity, clinical decision making, narrative medicine and all things infectious diseases. She has been fortunate to have received the Golden Apple award by medical students 4 times and was selected as the Gold Humanism Grand Rounds speaker in 2022. Her role as co-editor of the State-of-the-Art Reviews in Clinical Infectious Diseases is a dream job. She lives in what she calls a hamlet by the beach in Los Angeles with her two kids, her husband who is a primary care doctor at Venice Family Clinic and their aging hound.
Allan Tunkel, MD, PhD, MACP, FIDSA
Dr. Allan Tunkel received his PhD and MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School in 1980 and 1984, respectively, where he was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed his residency and chief residency at the Hospital of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and did a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. During his fellowship, he initiated his interest the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis and central nervous system infections; he has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications (original articles, reviews, editorials, letters, books and book chapters) in his fields of interest and Chaired of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Practice Guideline Committee which developed practice guidelines for Bacterial Meningitis, Encephalitis, and Healthcare-associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis. He was previously at Drexel University College of Medicine where his roles included Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine, Associate Dean for Admissions, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Campuses, and Faculty Councilor of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. From January 2006 through June 2013, he was Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ. In July 2013, he began his appointment at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and retired in April 2022 as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, during which time he was the principal investigator on a 5-year, $1 million grant awarded as part of the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Initiative entitled “Educating Future Physicians: Development of a Primary Care-Population Medicine Program.” In retirement, Dr. Tunkel continues to teach and see patients and has accepted roles as Health Careers Advising Expert in Residence at Brown University, one of the Deputy Editors of ACP MKSAP, Co-Chair of the IDSA Alzheimer’s Review Committee, and Co-Editor of the State-of-the-Art Reviews Section of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Paul Sax, MD
Dr. Paul E. Sax is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds the Bruce A. Beal and Robert L. Beal Distinguished Chair in Infectious Diseases. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, did his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham, then fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Sax is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Infectious Diseases, the flagship journal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). In addition, he is a Section Editor of HIV/AIDS in UpToDate, and on the Editorial Board of NEJM Journal Watch, where he writes a regular column called HIV and ID Observations. An internationally recognized clinician and clinical teacher in infectious diseases and HIV, Dr. Sax also has been actively involved in research. Ongoing areas of investigation include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapies, cost-effectiveness of strategies for HIV management, and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy. He was closely involved in the clinical management and prevention of COVID-19, including frequent communications with the medical and lay public about the disease.
Culture
- Allan is an aficionado of classic movies. His favorite movie is To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck
- Paul is obsessed with tennis and loves getting out on the court to play
- Tara enjoys watching movies and TV while doing puzzles with her kids. A recent show she enjoyed was The Brothers Sun on Netflix
Consult Notes
Welcome to the Febrile StAR series!
This episode introduced the StAR series, which is short for State-of-the-Art Reviews! The Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) journal has been publishing these wonderful reviews to cover topics relevant to your clinical practice, and Febrile will be bringing these authors on the podcast to chat through learning pearls and example cases. There will be a great variety of subjects but we’d also like to note the important key themes of multidisciplinary care with a team approach, health disparities, and long-term care.
We will provide you the links to relevant articles (also in the episode descriptions) as well as the wonderful infographics created for the reviews!
Check out CID on their website and make sure to follow them on social media!
Infographics
Goal
Listeners will learn about the upcoming Febrile and CID collaboration episodes on State of the Art Reviews.
Learning Objectives
None
Disclosures
Febrile podcast reports no relevant financial disclosures
Paul Sax is Editor in Chief of CID. Allan Tunkel and Tara Vijayan are the co-editors of the State of the Art Review series for CID
Citation
Vijayan, T., Tunkel, A., Sax, P., Dong, S. “#97: StAR! Introducing State-of-the-Art Reviews”. Febrile: A Cultured Podcast. https://player.captivate.fm/episode/d6fc3c92-1dec-4163-8ef6-0b4f6d705f93