Table of Contents
Credits
Host: Sara Dong
Guests: Priya Nori and Gonzalo Bearman
Content is based on the CID article featured in this episode
Edited and Produced by Sara Dong with support from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Our Guests
Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, FACP
Gonzalo Bearman is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Internal Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. He is a graduate of Colgate University (BA), SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (MD) and Columbia University (MPH). He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and was Chief Resident, both at SUNY at Buffalo. He then completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and a residency in Preventive Medicine/Public Health, both at Cornell University. Dr. Bearman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and General Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Since 2003, Dr. Bearman is an attending physician on the Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Service at VCU Medical Center. Dr. Bearman served as the Clerkship Director of the VCU M3 Internal Medicine Clerkship (2005 – 2011) and was the 4th year Acting Internship (AI) Director. Dr. Bearman lectures in the M1 Population Medicine Class and M2 Medical Microbiology. He is the course director for both Contemporary Issues and Controversies in Public Health seminar in the VCU Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and an M4 Elective on Medicine in Literature.
Since 2005, Dr. Bearman has worked on the VCU Global Health Program through the Honduras Medical Relief Brigade, a medical relief effort bringing medical and public health assistance to rural Honduran communities.
In 2013, Dr. Bearman launched the Medical Literary Messenger, an online magazine for humanities and medicine, where he serves as the Editor in Chief. He serves as a section editor for Current Infectious Diseases Reports and as Editor in Chief of Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases. From 2013-2015, Dr. Bearman was the Chair of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s (SHEA) Guidelines Committee and currently serves as a Board Member for SHEA.
His areas of research focus on the epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections. Dr. Bearman has various industry grants and has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, multiple invited text books doctors, and is the editor of 3 medical text books.
Priya Nori, MD
Dr. Priya Nori is a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Orthopedic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She serves as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP), Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy program (OPAT), and is Co-chair of the systems Antimicrobial Council at Montefiore Health System. She served as Program Director of the Infectious Diseases (ID) fellowship program from 2019-2022. She is an alumna of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she received the American Medical Women’s Association’s Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She completed her internship at Baylor College of Medicine, residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell. She returned to Einstein/Montefiore for fellowship in infectious diseases then stayed on as faculty. Her primary contribution to the MHS/Einstein pandemic response has been as Physician Lead of the Montefiore COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutics Program since December 2020.
She is widely published in medical education in stewardship and infection prevention, orthopedic hardware infections, novel diagnostic technology, and COVID-19 therapeutics. She served as chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Subcommittee for Antimicrobial Stewardship Curricula, chair of the SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, and co-chaired the SHEA stewardship certificate track, 2019-2022. She is also Deputy Editor of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases Photo Quiz co-editor. Under her leadership, Montefiore’s ASP was awarded the IDSA’s Stewardship Center of Excellence distinction in 2018, 2022, and 2024. She was awarded ID fellowship “teacher of the year” in 2015, the Department of Medicine “rising star” award in 2017, the “Sharon Silbiger Subspecialist Teacher of the Year” award in 2020, the March 2022 IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice’s Featured Educator, and the SHEA 2023 Stewardship Scholar award.
Culture
Priya shared the interest group called South Asians in ID and their book club. A recent selection was the Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Gonzalo loves soccer and playing drums in his cover band
Consult Notes
Check out the article!
This episode featured a discussion with authors of “H.U.S.T.L.E.: A Consult Fitness Guide for Infectious Diseases Providers” from the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal (CID): Bearman G, Nori P. H.U.S.T.L.E: A Consult Fitness Guide for Infectious Diseases Providers. Clin Infect Dis. Published online December 5, 2025. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaf672
H: Hone your skills, set limits, and manage expectations
U: Update your toolbox with EPIC shortcuts and AI upgrades
S: Seek an effective approach to individual/team consults and curbside requests
T: Take action as a leader to help establish group boundaries
L: Launch/lead novel programs and creative FTE models
E: Emphasize cost-saving initiatives (e.g., clinical pathways, stewardship, and OPAT)
You can also find Priya and Gonzalo at the Antimicrobial Stewardship Healthcare Epidemiology Journal from SHEA and the associated podcast
Infographics
Goal
Listeners will be able to adopt a “H.U.S.T.L.E.” mindset to improve their consult fitness
Learning Objectives
After listening to this episode, listeners will be able to:
- Define “consult fitness”
- Describe the “H.U.S.T.L.E.” mentality
Disclosures
The guests as well as Febrile podcast report no relevant financial disclosures
Citation
Nori, P., Bearman, G., Dong, S. “#130: Do the H.U.S.T.L.E.”. Febrile: A Cultured Podcast. https://player.captivate.fm/episode/9da5f38e-41d5-4f2a-a740-230d51b4f12e/