Please join us for the 830th monthly meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM on Nov 16, 2026 featuring Mecky Pohlschroder, PhD from Penn. This is a hybrid meeting you can watch on our YouTube channel. Program details on our website, epaasm.org #PhiladelphiaScience

Please join us for the 829th monthly meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM on Oct 26, 2026. This is a hybrid meeting and for those that cannot attend in person, we live stream the meeting on our branch YouTube channel. @ASMicrobiology

Please join us for the 828th monthly meeting of the EPAASM on Sept 28 featuring Ralph Isberg @IsbergRalph of @tufts on the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia #LegionnairesDisease outbreak @ASMicrobiology see epaasm.org for details

Please join us for the 55th Annual Clinical Microbiology Symposium on Oct 8, 2026 in Philadelphia. Program details and registration on our website @ASMicrobiology @EPAASMBranch

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Please join us for the 825th Monthly Meeting of the EPAASM featuring Jared Kehe, PhD. Details on our website epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology

824th Monthly Meeting- Jan 26, 2026
Nira Pollock, M.D., Ph.D., 
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

“Pandemic Preparedness through a Diagnostic Lens”
see our website for program details epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology @BostonChildrens

Wishing you a joyous holiday season and best wishes for 2026.

You’re invited to attend the 34th Annual Philadelphia Infection and Immunity Forum on Dec 1. Keynote speakers- Kimberly Davis @JohnsHopkinsSPH, Tera Levin Univ of Pittsburgh, Matthew Weitzman @PennMedicine
Program details and registration on our website epaasm.org

Please join us for the 823rd monthly meeting of the EPAASM on Nov 17 featuring Davida Smyth PhD giving the Norman Willett Memorial Lecture. Program details on our website epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology

Please join us for the 822nd monthly meeting on Oct 27 featuring Medini Annavajhala PhD from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Program details in our website, epaasm.org @PennMedicine

Join us for the 821st monthly meeting of the EPAASM on Monday, September 29 at Thomas Jefferson University, program details on our website, epaasm.org
Also live streamed on our YouTube channel if you cannot attend in person @ASMicrobiology @pennvet

Congratulations to all the @ASMicrobiology 2026 Award Recipients and especially to our own @PennPathLabMed @PennMedicine faculty member @KGRodinoPhD for the ASM Early Career Clinical Microbiology Research Award In Clinical Microbiology!

Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025-26 Eastern PA Branch ASM program schedule. See our website for detailed program information. Looking forward to another great year of programming!
@ASMicrobiology
epaasm.org

Impact of Sonication Fluid Cultures on Prosthetic Joint Infection Diagnosis and Management: A Microbiology-Driven Evaluation Using IDSA and EBJIS Criteria

✅ Just Accepted
bit.ly/4kVexJD

ICYMI, IDSA released the first guidelines for the management and treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs).

The new guidelines simplify the prior definitions of uncomplicated UTIs and cUTIs, & address treatment for cUTIs.

View guidelines: bit.ly/4lUjN1a

Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025-26 Eastern PA Branch ASM program schedule. See our website for detailed program information. Looking forward to another great year of programming!
@ASMicrobiology
epaasm.org

To our Branch members - we are grateful for another great year of monthly meetings, two symposia and education programs. We couldn’t provide our programs without the many committee members who volunteer their time on behalf of the branch and to the many sponsors. A big thank you!

Join us for the 820th Monthly Meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM on May 19 organized by our student chapter. Details on our website epaasm.org @ASMicrobiology

Join us for the 819th Monthly Meeting of the Eastern PA Branch ASM on April 28 featuring Carey-Ann Burnham, Ph.D., CEO of Pattern Bioscience. Program details on our website epaasm.org #ClinicalMicrobiology #AntimicrobialResistance @Patternbio @ASMicrobiology

If you can’t join in person, you can view the live stream on our YouTube channel at 6pm tonight.