Dr. Harnett has been a "boots on the ground" clinician for over 20 years, spending 10 years as an emergency physician before establishing himself as a nationally respected physician and key opinion leader in urgent care medicine. In addition, he has been an active author and researcher - designing trials, writing trial protocols, and acting as a principal investigator for numerous clinical trials conducted in the urgent care setting. After spending 5 years as the Chief Medical Officer for American Family Care as they grew from 17 to 185 clinics, he founded No Resistance Consulting Group in 2016 which focuses on clinical trial site management and recruitment for a growing network of high volume, geographically diverse, urgent care and multi-specialty sites. Dr Harnett was presented the inaugural Urgent Care Association Antibiotic Stewardship Champion Award for his efforts in building a coalition of urgent care leaders and senior representatives from the CDC, Pew Institute, and the George Washington University Antibiotic Resistance Action Center to address inappropriate antibiotic use in the industry.
This session will focus on addressing antibiotic overuse in outpatient care, emphasizing the importance of patient education, managing expectations, challenges and tools to implement stewardship practices, and the critical role of diagnostics in making informed decisions to combat antimicrobial resistance.
Sponsored by Biomerieux