Andre Kalil, MD, MPH, professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, was honored with the Internal Medicine “Publication of the Quarter” for the third quarter of 2016, for his first author paper titled, “Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society,” published in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2016 Sept., 1;63(5):e61-e111. Other authors include: Metersky ML, Klompas M, Muscedere J, Sweeney DA, Palmer LB, Napolitano LM, O’Grady NP, Bartlett JG, CarratalĂ J, El Solh AA, Ewig S, Fey PD, File TM Jr, Restrepo MI, Roberts JA, Waterer GW, Cruse P and Knight SL, Brozek JL.
Honorable mention was given to a paper with Debra Romberger, MD, Lehnhoff Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, for her first author paper titled “β2-Adrenergic agonists attenuate organic dust-induced lung inflammation,” published in the American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 2016 Jul 1;311(1):L101-10. Todd Wyatt, PhD, professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, was senior author. Other authors included: Heires AJ, Nordgren TM, Poole JA, Toews ML and West WW.