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Earthlings! Join us for our first Astro-Ethics Affinity Group gathering for 2025 with guest speaker Aidan Kunju!

Promoting a talk (TOMORROW) on space ethics by my former intern Aidan T Kunju as part of our ASBH Astro Ethics Speaker Series led by Vasiliki N Rahimzadeh, PhD

Happening now!

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have been selected as a site for the Neuralink PRIME Study, a clinical trial for Neuralink’s groundbreaking brain-computer interface.

First day of my neurosurgery rotation I saw 3 endoscopic transnasal transsphenoid resections of pituitary adenomas. Kept thinking about how similar it is to excerebration done in Ancient Egypt 3000 years ago — basically going through the nose to scoop out the brain.

One transsphenoid, the other transethmoid. One to preserve life, the other to consecrate and immortalize.

Just saw MEDICINAL LEECHES used in the hospital for the first time‼️ 🤯 Did not know we had those chilling in the pharmacy. Apparently we also use non-metamorphosing medicinal maggots for wound debridement sometimes….

Congratulations to the recipients of the American Academy of Neurology 2025 Medical Student Scholarship to the Annual Meeting Come see them be recognized on Apr 8 at 8:00 a.m. bit.ly/4lewULa Hope to see you there! #AANAM

Thrilled to be attending the #AANAM this year supported by the Medical Student Scholarship. I'll also be presenting my research on the effects of smoking on post-DBS neuropsychological outcomes in Parkinson's disease. See you all soon! American Academy of Neurology

Day 1 at the Disneyland of the brain ✅ #AANAM American Academy of Neurology

A unique blessing of being a med student is sometimes seeing the same patients across diff specialties. There were 2 patients whose cancer surgeries I scrubbed into on my surgery rotation, who I’d seen in random ER visits during my EM shifts a month before. We wear many hats…

“Medicine lies at the junction of the subjective and objective,” said Aidan Theepura Kunju from Miller Medicine, where art helps med students understand AI — not just how it works, but what it cannot replicate. “This sets humans apart from machines.” bit.ly/4eYKMqb #AIinMedEd

Got to speak to the first year medical students on their first day of classes about my art and the medical humanities🔥

Aidan Kunju (Aidan Theepura Kunju), M.D. Class of 2027, welcomed our new #MedCanes with a message about navigating uncertainty, building community, and embracing the journey ahead. 🙌 Read his reflection in the latest #MedCanesChronicles: loom.ly/e8K57zw

JUST PUBLISHED! The Fall-Winter 2025-26 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine has just gone live. Take a moment to read an inspiring essay, poem, short story, or look at art (like Sujal Manohar's ink drawing shown here) or watch a short video by Ellen Chang.

“Care cuts kill.” Doctors and health care workers carrying symbolic caskets marched on the U.S. Capitol to warn of the risks of health care cuts. nbc4dc.com/7Q9k78E

Read my narrative medicine piece “And Do You Have Any Children” Published in the latest issue of The Intima Journal! “‘Well, you know.’ He pressed his lips together, shifting in his chair. ‘I thought I had a daughter.’” theintima.org/and-do-you-hav…