NC CLASP Acute Care/Inpatient

Learning Objectives

Participants in the acute care hospitals cohort meet for one-hour sessions to:

Discuss the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Hospitals
Understand the benefits of the CDC’s National Healthcare Surveillance Network’s Antimicrobial Use (AU) module and analyze hospital annual surveys specific to antibiotic stewardship preparedness
Identify barriers to improving antimicrobial utilization
Describe commonly used antimicrobial stewardship implementation strategies

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Team Leads

Zachary (Zach) Willis, MD, MPH is the Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UNC Health and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Willis completed a pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases before joining the faculty of the UNC Department of Pediatrics in September 2016. Dr. Willis’s research is primarily focused on promotion of appropriate use of antibiotics in children in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He also studies the epidemiology and prevention of antibiotic-associated complications, such as antibiotic-resistant infections and C. difficile infections. In his role as the director of the pediatric antimicrobial stewardship program for UNC Health Care, Dr. Willis closely follows the epidemiology of highly drug-resistant organisms and current evidence-based strategies for optimal treatment.

James W. (Jim) Johnson, PharmD, BCPS [AQ-ID] completed his pharmacy training at the University of Colorado and the Medical University of South Carolina. His clinical practice in Infectious Diseases pharmacotherapy spanned 29 years at two North Carolina Health Systems. He enjoyed caring for both inpatients and ambulatory patients to help optimize the use of antimicrobial medications. He participated in the antimicrobial stewardship effort in the Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health system for 21 years. Jim enjoys mentoring trainees and colleagues and holds adjunct associate professor status in medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and in pharmacy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His interests include antimicrobial pharmacotherapy, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics, viral infections, and antimicrobial stewardship.