Outbreak Escape Room

Step Back in Time with the Out-BREAK! Escape Room at IDWeek 2025

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! Stay tuned for more details on how to register.

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
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