This proposed grant seeks funding to support attendance to The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Annual Meeting in May 2016. The SHEA meeting is a national meeting dedicated to infectious disease physicians, pharmacists and infection preventionists that focuses on infection control, hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship. The Centers for Disease Control and SHEA co-direct a course during this meeting that is used as unique training for new hospital epidemiologists and also an antimicrobial stewardship track. SHEA is the only national meeting in which this kind of course is offered. As a junior faculty interested in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control, I intend to attend this course to reinforce the principles of building a robust antimicrobial stewardship program. I would also plan to use the daily poster abstract sessions and networking sessions to meet other leaders in the field to foster network growth and also possible future collaborations. Attending this course will benefit my research and clinical career as a young investigator at the University of Michigan. The stewardship principles I learn will be shared with my colleagues in the Infectious Disease division at University of Michigan with the intent of reducing health care costs, limiting the emergence and transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and improving quality of patient care.