Larissa May

Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis

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Dr. May's research interests center on clinical infectious disease epidemiology and management; with a particular focus on the application of rapid molecular diagnostic assays; behavioral economics and clinical guidelines to improve antibiotic stewardship in the ED. Dr. May has served as an investigator on multiple federally-funded and industry-funded trials evaluating antimicrobial stewardship strategies in the ED. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in her field. She has also served on numerous committees and task forces focused on antibiotic stewardship and emergency preparedness for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and professional organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

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Contributions

Why Antibiotic Overuse Leading to Resistance Needs to be Addressed — and How It can be Done

Key Findings Brief, February 2019

Publications

"Multisite Exploration of Clinical Decision-Making for Antibiotic Use by Emergency Medicine Providers Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods" (with Glencora Gudger, Paige Armstrong, Gillian Brooks, Pamela Hinds, Rahul Bhat, Gregory J. Moran, Lisa Schwartz, Sara E. Cosgrove, Eili Y. Klein, Richard E. Rothman, and Cynthia Rand). Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 35, no. 9 (2016): 1114-1125.

Explores clinical decision-making for antibiotic use by emergency medicine providers using quantitative and qualitative methods.

"Antibacterial Drug Shortages from 2001 to 2013: Implications for Clinical Practice" (with Farha Quadri, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Erin R. Fox, Kristy L. Hawley, Jesse M. Pines, and Mark S. Zocchi). Clinical Infectious Diseases 60, no. 12 (2015): 1737-1742.

Evaluates antibacterial drug shortages over a ten year period in the United States. Finds that there were a large number of shortages from 2001 to 2013, with a dramatic rise in shortages since 2007.