First Generation Physician-Scientist, & many other things. This account is Private - opinions and tweets do not represent any of the organizations I work with.
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Feb 16 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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Over 100 Yale faculty released a public letter to the future president of @Yale urging a steadfast commitment to academic freedoms, diversity, and progress.
In this 🧵 I outline the main points:
#YaleFuture
#LetterToNextYalePresident
letter is here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 2/n
Reject attacks that aim to undermine Yale’s mission and belittle importance of work on topics previously ignored, such as race, sexuality, gender, social & environmental justice, and civil & human rights.
#DefendAcademia
#LetterToNextYalePresident docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Jan 19 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
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Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber's "State of the University Letter" is a superb call for action against "virulent threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy" saying #WeMustSpeakUp.
I agree!
see 🧵below
Full letter
#ThisIsOurLane princeton.edu/sites/default/… 2/n
After discussing briefly the turbulence of the last 3 months on US campuses, Eisgruber says it as it is: The outrage about antisemitism was used to attack progress in diversity, inclusion, and equity in US Universities.
I agree ( )
#WeMustSpeakUp haaretz.com/opinion/2023-1…
Dec 8, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I'm completely NOT on the manufactured rage bandwagon re the statements of MIT, Harvard, & Penn Presidents. In part because I actually heard their full testimony, but in part because I know what they did and what they did not do. Before you attack me read my 🧵 to the end 👇🏼
1/n I do want to start by reminding all that the University Presidents did NOT do:
- The University Presidents did not kill, rape or abduct Israelis on October 7th
- They also did not bomb Gaza or kill thousands of Palestinian children & innocent adults
Apr 30, 2023 • 17 tweets • 13 min read
Attn @PresidentATS@CHESTPrez, @SCCMPresident - societies that hold conferences in states unsafe for women, LGBTQ, minorities, will lose them.
This👇🏼is already happening!
The following thread is inspired by
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Prof Jamieson for courage & leadership #ConferenceLocation🧵
1/n When I posted my 11 tweets about going to national/international conferences in locations that have draconian #AbortionBans, I thought this was temporary, that societies, while having past commitments, will recognize this as an issue and change future locations. I was wrong
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This is a 🧵about events that happened 40 years ago in Israel.
I was a freshman student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem & attended a demonstration.
The demonstration ended with the murder of Emil Grunzweig, an Israeli teacher & peace activist. #RememberEmil2/n The demonstration was against Israel’s criminal war on Lebanon, requesting accountability for those responsible for the Sabra & Shatila Massacre. We gathered in Jerusalem’s city center, marched with torches to hold a vigil near the Prime Minister's Office #RememberEmil
Sep 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
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FINALLY OUT! "Airway basal cells show a dedifferentiated KRT17⬆️ Phenotype & promote fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis"
In the following 🧵I explain some of the key findings of this Herculean work and why I'm so excited
#CureIPF #IPFABC nature.com/articles/s4146… 2/n
In follow up to our previous work showing that airway basal signatures in BAL were markers of mortality (), Prof Prasse's team profiled IPF airway basal cells by #SCRNAseq & showed they were very different from normals
#IPFABC atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rc… nature.com/articles/s4146…
Sep 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 8 min read
1/n September Pulmonary Fibrosis controversy thread about #IPFandGERD preprint from Dr. Cosetta Minelli's group: Two tweets from really good people say "GERD Causes IPF" (@IPFdoc, @drcjar), and a 3rd (@LungDrE) says: "Not based on your data".
1/n Our #SaracatinibPaper is FINALLY out - we establish the case for repurposing Saracatinib, a SRC Kinase Inhibitor (prev tried in cancer & Alzheimer's) as a potential therapeutic in IPF, based on in-silico, in-vitro, in-vivo, and ex-vivo data #CureIPF atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rc… 2/n #InSilico - Using connectivity between disease transcriptional signatures & compound signatures suggested that Saracatinib may be an effective antifibrotic (⬆️ than currently, @FDA approved drugs) #SaracatinibPaper atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rc…
Oct 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
1/n So, what do I think, as a non-expert, son to holocaust survivors, about @VPrasadMDMPH's article, claiming #COVID19 restrictions could be used as blueprint for a future totalitarian regime, his analogy to Hitler's rise in Germany. @GYamey says it better
2/n Frankly, not much. My approach is, if you want to understand threats to democracy go to experts (I am not, @VPrasadMDMPH is DEFINITELY NOT) there are really good books, like @TimothyDSnyder's #OnTyranny. Check out this clip
May 14, 2021 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
1/n This thread is not about Medicine, Science or Lung Disease. It’s about what you should ask when when you hear about another cycle of violence in #IsraelPalestine. Written in #Solidarity with the Jews & Arabs who today stand together against racism & hate #TrueHeroes2/n When people speak about “country x’s right to defend itself” - what you should ask, does the leadership of country x have the right to provoke violence? and do the actions taken really constitute defense or serve another agenda? #KnowWhatToAsk#IsraelPalestine
Mar 28, 2021 • 10 tweets • 11 min read
1/n Usually we invite friends/colleagues to our SEDER, but no guests last & this year. Inspired by FB comment by @gregggonsalves I thought it’d be fun to share our dishes with #MedTwitter friends as if we’re together - see following thread #PCCMEats#HappyPassover20212/n Every item on the Seder Plate has a symbolic meaning in the ceremonial retelling of the Exodus story - except the Orange, a recent addition dedicated to #inclusion of those marginalized in traditional religions (women, LGBTQ) #NKsSederTweetorial#PCCMEats#HappyPassover2021
1/n The #IPFCellAtlas is finally out! We profiled 312,928 cells from 32 IPF, 28 controls, 18 COPD lungs using @10xGenomics#scRNAseq & identified previously unidentified populations of epithelial & endothelial cells enriched in IPF #CureIPFadvances.sciencemag.org/content/6/28/e…2/n Among epithelial cells, we identified cells DISTINCT from ANY epithelial cells previously described in human lungs. These aberrant basaloid cells are at the edge of myofibroblast foci & express fibrotic molecules & regulators #IPFCellAtlas#CureIPFadvances.sciencemag.org/content/6/28/e…
Jul 4, 2020 • 16 tweets • 13 min read
1/n Dr. Mark Siegel is a superb critical care physician, ethicist & legendary Internal Medicine Residency Program Director whose weekly notes I read eagerly. This week’s note is titled “what I’d say to new interns” #MarksWisdom#TipsForNewDocs#MedEd facebook.com/1444114056/pos…2/n Siegel starts saying #COVID19 took away joys of orientation: pizza, hot dogs, cold beer, gelato, unscripted conversations & new friendships. But don’t worry, show up, work hard, don't worry, you'll do great & then follows with 14 SPECIFIC TIPS: #MarksWisdom#TipsForNewDocs
Jun 23, 2020 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
1/n This is a thread about microRNA therapeutics in pulmonary fibrosis summarizing the MiRagen call today - we've been collaborating for >6 years now through an NIH-NHLBI funded CADET II grant to develop mir-29 as a therapy - the progress is amazing! #CureIPF#Mir292/n And first and most important is the patient: Teresa Barnes, a patient advocate, speaks about the unmet need of highly specific and effective therapies in IPF #PeopleILookUpTo#CureIPF#CurePF#MircroRNATherapies#Mir29
May 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Reopening thread to our patients 1/8 (relevant also friends, neighbors, family, peers, all) - many years ago, a veteran of many wars told me that the days of ceasefire were very dangerous. This was because precautions were lifted but risk was still there (see next) #COVID19
Reopening thread to our patients 2/8 - During ceasefires soldiers & civilians are often injured because they let down their guards, while local commanders are not aware of ceasefire or simply disregard it. Do not let your guards down - #COVID19 is not gone yet #KeepSafe
Apr 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
1/n Our teams at @YalePCCSM are awestruck by the courage and esprit de corps exhibited by so many of our @YaleMed colleagues that have joined forces with us to help care for the increasing numbers of critically ill #COVID19 patients in our units medicine.yale.edu/intmed/news-ar…2/n We feel that the commitment and dedication exhibited without hesitation by so many of our colleagues who do not regularly care for medically critically ill patients need to be highlighted medicine.yale.edu/intmed/news-ar…
Mar 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
1/n Dr. Mark Siegel is a superb critical care physician, ethicist, colleague & a legendary Internal Medicine Residency Program director whose weekly note I read eagerly. I tuned this week' note: #wellness in times of #COVID19 into a #weetorial#MarksWisomfacebook.com/mark.d.siegel.…2/ First 4 are about continuing to live: Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Socialize. At times of crisis we tend to consider these luxuries - they are not. They are fuels that keep us effective as physician, during normal or abnormal situations #StaySafe but #KeepLiving#MarksWisdom
May 10, 2019 • 10 tweets • 11 min read
1/10 Random poster presentation advice for #ATS2019@atsearlycareer, trainees, @ATS_Assemblies friends: by now you are working on your poster or presentations - here are my suggestions & they are different: #PresentationTips
2/10 Don’t get tempted by populism: Many self appointed experts to tell you “eliminate facts”, “it’s all about the style”, “detail is not needed” - this is Trumpism. Science & Medicine all about data #ShowTheData#ATS2019#PresentationTips@atsearlycareer, @ATS_Assemblies