Outbreak Escape Room

Step Back in Time with the Out-BREAK! Escape Room

Get ready to put your problem-solving skills to the test—our popular Out-BREAK! Escape Room will be back and better than ever at IDWeek 2025!

This interactive, time-travel-based escape room experience challenges participants to solve medical mysteries under pressure while having fun with fellow attendees.

Check out the trailer and get excited to participate in Atlanta!

Featured in OFID

Out-BREAK! : An IDWeek 2023 escape room to break out of the educational mold describes the design, development, and implementation of an educational ID-themed escape room activity entitled “Out-BREAK!” at an international conference, IDWeek 2023. An anonymous survey was conducted to collect demographic data, assess participant satisfaction with the escape room puzzles, and gauge participant interest in game-based learning.

Thanks to our Organizers!

Antoinette Acbo, PharmD
Adarsh Bhimraj, MD, FIDSA
Juri Boguniewicz, MD
Victoria Chu, MD, MPH
Peter Cooch, MD
Huan Dong, MD, MS
Sara Dong, MD
Nathan Everson, PharmD, BCIDP
HeatherLyn Gray, MPH, CEM, CIC, CPhT
Meghan Jeffres, PharmD, BCIDP
Melissa Kerkelis, MD
Katie Lusardi, PharmD
Dilip Mahale, MD

Monica Mahoney, PHARMD, BCPS, BCIDP, FCCP, FIDSA, FID
Rachel Martin-Blais, MD, DTM&H, CTropMed®, FAAP
Shaqil Peermohamed, MD
Paul Pottinger, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Elizabeth Ristagno, MD, MSc, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA
Justin Searns, MD
Marina Simeonova, BSc, PharmD, ACPR, ACPR2(AMS)
Rachel Wattier, MD
Tracy Zembles, PHARM.D., BCPS, BCIDP
Diana Zhong, MD, MHS