Antimicrobial Stewardship Series: Soft tissue and Skin Infections
Wed, Feb 12
|Online Event
The AHHA 2025 Antimicrobial Stewardship Webinar Series will provide updated stewardship information targeted to physicians, pharmacists, infection preventionists, and other members of an antimicrobial stewardship team.
Time & Location
Feb 12, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
This webinar series with Dr. Ben Westley will provide updated stewardship information targeted to physicians, pharmacists, infection preventionists, and other members of an antimicrobial stewardship team.Â
Information is geared specifically to the practice needs of Alaska providers and facilities and to provide support for complex clinical cases that have become more common due to antibiotic resistance.Â
The webinars are sponsored by the Alaska Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative (A2SC)Â and funded through the State of Alaska Department of Health. The A2SC is a partnership of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare providers dedicated to developing innovative strategies to ensure appropriate antibiotic use.
Dr. Benjamin Westley is board certified in Pediatrics and Adult Infectious Diseases. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and member of the HIV Medical Association. Dr. Westley is known across Alaska as a​ great resource in infectious disease.
SESSIONS & TOPICS:
By registering, you'll be signed up for all seven sessions of the webinar (dates and topics below). Recordings will be sent to everyone who registers.
Jan 22: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Action: Prospective Audit and FeedbackÂ
Feb 5: Antimicrobial Stewardship and Respiratory Tract InfectionsÂ
Feb 12: Stewardship in Soft tissue and Skin Infections
March 5: Stewardship in Urinary Tract InfectionsÂ
March 19: Stewardship in Intra-abdominal InfectionsÂ
April 2: Stewardship in Fever/Sepsis, Neutropenia, Osteoarticular Infection, and EndocarditisÂ
April 16: Clostridium Difficile
Please contact Debbie Lowenthal at dlowenthal@alaskahha.org if you have questions.