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Niels K. Jerne Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. Past President, American Thoracic Society (2020-2021). 🇨🇴🇺🇸
Jul 5, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
With new fellows, I am reminded of the joy of mentoring+ learning from bright young people+ see them grow into leadership positions worldwide. Grateful to @nih_nhlbi for funding our T32 HL129949 + our R25 Summer Research Program. @ChildrensPgh @atsearlycareer @ATS_EOPH @ATSPeds





Including time at @BrighamWomens, I've had the privilege of mentoring 4 Division Chiefs+ 2 Vice-Chairs+ 4 Center/Inst. Directors+ 15 K awardees- 30+ great people. We are birds of passage+ there is no greater satisfaction than seeing #nextgen thrive+ fight for worthy causes.
Feb 17, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
Encouraged by a very + response to the "RFA" for our new Summer Research Institute (SRI) Heart +Lung +Blood Program (CHP2SRIP) for undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds, funded by @nih_nhlbi (R25 HL158295) and now part of the SRI Program at @ChildrensPgh 1/3 Indeed, we had 67 undergraduate students from groups URiM apply to the @ChildrensPgh SRI Program this year, compared with 5 such applicants last year (a nearly 14-fold increase)! Very grateful for the leadership + help from Drs. Sunder Sims-Lucas + Michelle Manni in our team. 2/3
Feb 12, 2022 4 tweets 5 min read
Dr. Wong's recent MS is 1 of 31 papers authored+co-authored by our T32 post-doctoral fellows since 2016. Grateful to @nih_nhlbi for funding our Training Program (T32 HL129949), given a pressing need for physician-scientists and scientists in pediatric pulmonary medicine. 1/3 Thankful for our T32 fellows -Drs. Tim Perkins, Anjani Ravindra, @catarmbruster, Rob Abood, @EricaLStevensMD, Soyeon Kim, @jeremy_landeo, Bo Zhai, Kristina Gaietto, + Matt Wong, our outstanding mentors and faculty, and our Exec. Committee-Drs. @EForno+ John Alcorn+ @morrisa1668
Jan 27, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
A few personal insights about the @EncantoMovie about the Madrigals, a fictional Colombian family. The location of Encanto is based on the Valley of Cocora in the beautiful coffee-growing region of the country. You can see tall palm trees, called Palma de Cera 🇨🇴 My wife’s paternal grandfather, Armando Dugand, successfully postulated the Palma de Cera to be the national tree of Colombia. He was the first Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the National University of Colombia (1940-1953) and the son of a French immigrant