The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) has named Dr. Gonzalo Bearman, chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the inaugural editor-in-chief of its new journal, Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE).
ASHE will be the companion journal to SHEA’s Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), published in partnership with Cambridge University Press, when it launches March 12. This new journal will be fully Gold Open Access and invite submissions of original investigations that will contribute to the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, as well as other areas of quality improvement affecting health systems, with the ultimate goal of improving healthcare safety.
ASHE will begin accepting submissions on March 12, including original research, review articles, practical perspectives, and education-focused manuscripts. It will welcome submissions on broad areas of interest, including infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare epidemiology, diagnostic stewardship, healthcare worker vaccination, public health policy, and occupational health concerns including blood-borne pathogen exposure prevention.
Bearman will serve a five-year term as editor-in-chief beginning this month and ending Dec. 31, 2025, with the possibility of one additional five-year term with the mutual agreement between the editor and the SHEA Board of Trustees.
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