Center for Disease Control's Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Guidance Updates and Strategies

November 19, 2025

This presentation highlights key updates to CDC’s Outpatient Core Elements guidance and outlines strategies for implementing evidence-based stewardship activities within a health system framework.

Target Audience

  • Physicians
  • Pharmacists
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, pharmacists and all other participants should be able to:  

  • Highlight the role of health systems in ambulatory care delivery and improving outpatient antibiotic use.
  • Outline updates to CDC’s core elements of outpatient antibiotic stewardship guidance.
  • Provide strategies and practical examples for implementing the updated outpatient core elements within a health system.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
11/19/2025
Course expires: 
01/18/2026
Event starts: 
11/19/2025 - 12:00pm CST
Event ends: 
11/19/2025 - 1:00pm CST
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FACULTY & PLANNERS

Faculty

Emily McDonald, MD, MPH
Medical officer at CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the Office of Antibiotic Stewardship
Center for Disease Control

Payal Patel, MD
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at Intermountain Health and the Enterprise-Wide Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship
Intermountain Health
 

Planners

Madeleine McDowell, MD
Senior Principal, Research and Analytics
Vizient, Inc.

John Schoen, PharmD, BCPS
Pharmacy Executive III
Vizient, Inc.

Stacy Lauderdale, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Vice President of Evidence-Based Medicine and Drug Information
Vizient, Inc.

Jackie Stokes, BBS
Pharmacy Services Manager
Vizient, Inc.

Samantha Gordon, MS
CE Programs Manager      
Vizient, Inc.

Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP
Director, Continuing Education       
Vizient, Inc.
 

DISCLOSURE

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
 
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It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
 
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Relevant Financial Relationships
Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
 
Payal Patel, MD, speaker for this educational activity is a consultant for Cormedix.
 
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In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

Designation Statements

Pharmacists (CPE)
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours for Pharmacists.
 
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-25-308-L01-P
 
Physicians (CME)
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation. Various state license boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
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