UMMS Antibiotic (Antimicrobial) Stewardship Committee

The University of Maryland Medical System’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee was established to improve the quality of patient care and to optimize clinical outcomes related to infectious diseases across the Medical System. This is the first step in developing a centralized structure for Pharmacy and Therapeutics.

This committee plays a vital role in our clinical performance improvement initiative and in fact impacts more than half of our current UMMS clinical initiatives.

To that end, guidelines developed by infectious disease experts across UMMS provide information to assist all practitioners in selecting optimal antibiotic therapy for our patients. The guidelines are based on current literature, including national guidelines, microbiologic data from UMMC, and UMMC faculty expert opinion. 

Resources:

Committee Charter

UMMC Antibiotic Gudelines

For More Information, Contact:

• Executive Sponsor: Pat Ercolano
• Physician Sponsor: Kerri Thom, MD
• Pharmacy Sponsor: Emily Heil, PharmD
• Project Facilitator: Katie Humphrey

Project Team:

• BWMC: Stephanie Zhang
• CRMC: Gabe Abiola & Ashebir Woldeabezgi, MD
• HMH: Steve Low
• Midtown: Ife Egbunike
• SJMC: Jen Yeh
• Shore: Tawes Harper & Rosa Mateo, MD
• UCMC: Angela Katis, Jen Bui & Faheem Yonus, MD
• UMMC: Michael Kleinberg, MD, Teri Hopkins, Zach Feller, Stacey Williams & Kristie Johnson
• UMROI: Susanne Morsberger
• Union: Bhrugisha Patel & James Ley, MD
• Dimensions: Loveta Epie & Gita Shah, MD