Clinical activities

• Antimicrobial stewardship patient care reviews (prospective audit and feedback)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Program activities (antibiograms, antimicrobial use and resistance reporting, gap analysis, etc.)
• Rounding with infectious diseases consult teams
• Vancomycin and aminoglycoside dosing and TDM optimization through infectious diseases pharmacist consult
• Oversee restricted antimicrobial use
• Perform literature reviews and drug information questions
• Conduct quality improvement projects
• Create/update infectious diseases-related guidelines and protocols
• Investigate medication error reports and adverse drug reactions
• Contribute as a member of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Ambulatory Care Antimicrobial Stewardship and Antimicrobial Use P&T Subcommittee

Projects

• Major research project suitable for publication

Presentation opportunities

• Pharmacy Grand Rounds
• Microbiology Grand Rounds
• Antimicrobial Stewardship meetings
• Pharmacy Department staff meetings
• UW School of Pharmacy lecture(s)
• Infectious Diseases MD Fellows education conference(s)
• Major research project to be presented at a national conference

Teaching opportunities

• Clinical instructor status at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
• Precept fourth-year pharmacy students on elective infectious diseases clinical rotation
• Help precept pharmacist residents on infectious diseases elective rotation
• Teaching certificate program through UW School of Pharmacy

Required rotations

• Immunocompetent Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Immunocompromised Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Immunocompetent Infectious Diseases consults
• Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases consults
• Microbiology Lab experience (2 weeks)
• Precepting
• Capstone advanced practice experience (2 weeks)
• HIV/ID Clinic (longitudinal)
• Clinical practice leadership and administration (longitudinal)
• Major research project (longitudinal)

Elective rotations

• OPAT – UW Care Direct (Two weeks)
• Medical/Surgical ICU
• Cardiac ICU
• Advanced Pulmonary
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant
• Emergency Medicine
• Pediatrics – Infectious Diseases consult (two weeks), Internal Medicine, ICU
• CMV Clinic (two weeks)
• Academia
• Research

All rotations are four weeks unless specified

The Infectious Diseases pharmacy resident will participate as a member of the adult and pediatric infectious diseases teams at UW Health.

The primary focus of the residency is to become a competent infectious diseases clinician. This is accomplished by rounding with adult and pediatric infectious diseases consult services and supporting an antimicrobial stewardship service that serves four affiliated hospitals.

The UW Health Department of Pharmacy works collaboratively with infectious diseases physicians and fellows, School of Pharmacy faculty, the Clinical Laboratory Department and Infection Control Division to optimize management of complex infectious diseases.

Our department leads innovative approaches to pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic target-based therapeutics in hospitalized patients. With four hospitals, seven intensive care units, a federally recognized comprehensive cancer center, a world-leading transplant center, an outpatient HIV clinic and a home infusion center, a broad patient population is cared for during this specialty residency program.

Program contacts

Megan Wimmer, Pharm.D., BCIDP
PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Director
UW Health Department of Pharmacy
600 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53792
mwimmer@uwhealth.org

Courtney Baus, Pharm.D., BCIDP
PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Coordinator
UW Health Department of Pharmacy
600 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53792
cbaus@uwhealth.org

Current residents

Kaitlin Ledvina, Pharm.D.
Noa Slotky, Pharm.D.

Meet our residents

Program summary

Infectious Diseases Residency