Good Read: Ten Lessons for a Post Pandemic World

Despite COVID-19 fatigue, I greatly enjoyed Ten Lessons for a Post Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria. 

Take home messages: nations are more interconnected than ever, we are social animals, life is increasingly digital, inequality is deepening, globalization is not dead, markets are not enough, the quality of government matters and people should listen to experts (and experts should listen to people).

With that in mind, nothing is written, we still can shape our future so as to more convincingly and humanely respond to the next great catastrophe.

Immunity4U: Why is it Important to Study Infections and Immunity in Medical School?

 

My Q+A video blog with Professor Eun Lee of the VCU School of Medicine

VCU Health and COVID 19: One Year Later and a Message of Thanks

 

Vagabond Dandies YouTube Channel and Website Launched

The Vagabond Dandies YouTube Channel launched, access here. More band information and upcoming gig dates on Vagabond Dandies website.

The band is composed of 3 VCU Health physicians (Drs. Justin Haught, Gary Tye and Gonzalo Bearman) along with Mr. Greg Lawson.

The Power of Moments

I stepped away from the blog for a bit to concentrate on other matters such as life and work.  But now, I am back, and would like to comment on this cool book, The Power of Moments, by Chip and Dan Heath.

Although published in 2017, the book is new to me, wherein the Heath brothers explore the power of moments, or, why certain experiences have extraordinary impact.  These experiences can be triumphs or failures and resonate with individuals through either moments of elevation, insight, pride or connection. 

But here is the thing,  why wait for these moments to occur spontaneously? With awareness and deliberate action, powerful moments can be created. This is where the true insight of the book lies.

Well worth reading.

Rock is Dead! Long Live Rock!

There is Respite in Rock....Vagabond Dandies at SHEA Spring 21 (above) and in Richmond Bizsense Magazine, here.

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE): Launched!

For personal and professional reasons,  my focus was elsewhere and I stepped away from the blog for a bit.  I am back.

I am deeply honored and grateful to be the inaugural Editor in Chief of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE),  an official publications of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), published by Cambridge University Press.

The journal is committed to the rapid dissemination of high quality, timely, evolving science in antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare epidemiology, in an open access model, to serve both developed and low and middle-income countries.

All of the relevant  details are  contained on the journal website, accessible here.

This is exciting.