Antimicrobial Stewardship Coordinator PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency Director

Rotation Precepted

  • Infectious Diseases Consult
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship

Pharmacy School

Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2011

Residency Training Programs 

  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2011-12
  • PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency at University of Michigan Health System 2012-13

Professional Interests

Clinical microbiology and rapid diagnostic testing, opportunistic infections in hematopoietic cell transplant patients, pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in special populations, antimicrobial stewardship outcomes-based research

Projects

  • Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist Intervention on the Management of Patients with Positive Blood Cultures
  • Comparison of outcomes in urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by SPICE organisms treated with non-carbapenem-beta-lactams versus non-beta-lactam agents
  • Evaluating the impact of a multifaceted stewardship intervention on duration of therapy on associated Clostridium difficile in patients with pneumonia and urinary tract infections
  • A Single Center Quasi-Experimental Study to Evaluate the Impact of Utilization of Rapid Diagnostic Technology to Detect Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Respiratory Culture Samples
  • single-center, quasi-experimel study to evaluate the impact of a multifaceted antimicrobial stewardship intervention in patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria and candiduria

Awards and Certifications

  • Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP)
  • Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) with added Qualifications in Infectious Diseases (AQ ID)

Publications

  • Crass RL, Powell KL, Huang AM. Daptomycin for the Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Infections Complicated by Septic Pulmonary Emboli. Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2018.09.004.
  • Revolinski S, Huang AM, Gibble AM. Rapid Diagnostics for Infection Prevention, In: Infection Prevention: New Perspectives and Controversies, Springer International Publishing, 2018. Edition 1, 297-305. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60980-5.
  • Foolad F, Huang AM, Nguyen CT, Colyer L, Lim M, Grieger J, Li J, Revolinski S, Mack M, Gandhi, Wainaina N, Eschenauer G, Patel T, Marshall VD, Nagel J. A Multicenter Stewardship Initiative to Decrease Excessive Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dky021.
  • Powell KL, Huang AM. Updates to the Guidelines for the Treatment of Hospital-acquired and Ventilator associated pneumonia: What do we need to know? The Journal of Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. Nov/Dec 2016.
  • Feldman R, Cockerham L, Buchan BW, Lu Z, Huang AM. Treatment of Paecilomyces variotii Pneumonia with Posaconazole: case report and literature review. Mycoses 2016. DOI: 10.1111/myc.12525.
  • Juul JJ, Mullins CF, Peppard WJ, Huang AM. New Developments in the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections – Considerations for the Effective Use of Dalbavancin. Ther Clin Risk Manag 2016:12,1-8.
  • Gibble AM, Huang AM. Should Atypical Coverage be Typical?: A review of the need for empiric coverage of atypical pathogens in the management of community acquired pneumonia. The Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. January/February 2016.
  • Gibble AM, Gross AE, Huang AM. Examining the Clinical Effectiveness of Non-Carbapenem Beta-Lactams for the Treatment of Extended-spectrum-Beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Antibiotics. 2015,4,653-666.
  • Revolinski S, Huang AM, Hoefing E. Pharmacy Preparations for Epidemics – The Ebola Experience. The Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. July/August 2015.
  • Huang AM, Nagel JL, Crass RL, Nguyen C. Combination Therapy for Mucormycosis: Examining the Evidence. Cur Fungal Infect Rep. 2015;9:94-110.
  • Marini BL, Perissinotti A, Huang AM, Frame D, Kaul D. Letter to the Editor: Risk for Invasive Fungal Infections During Acute Myeloid Leukemia Induction Therapy: A True Association With Echinocandins? Antimicrob Agents and Chemother. 2014:58(8):4988-4989.
  • Huang AM, Marini BL, Frame D, Marini BM, Aronoff D, Nagel JL. Risk Factors for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients. Transpl Infect Dis. 2014;16(5):744-50.
  • Nagel JL, Huang AM, Kunapuli A, Gandhi TN, Washer LL, Lassiter J, Patel T, Newton DW. Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention on Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus Blood Cultures in Conjunction with Rapid Diagnostic Testing. J Clin Microbiol. 2014,52(8):2849.
  • Huang AM, Newton D, Kunapuli A, Gandhi T, Washer T, Isip J, Collins C, Nagel JL. Impact of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight (MALDI-TOF) with Antimicrobial Stewardship Team Intervention on Outcomes in Adult Patients with Bacteremia and Candidemia. Clin Infect Dis. 2013;57(9):1237–45.

Hobbies

Running (especially races!), kickboxing, traveling, watching NFL football

Favorite things to do in Milwaukee

Anything on the lakefront no matter the weather, trying out restaurants, visiting breweries, hiking