What is possible when dozens of incredible global researchers sprint for 2 weeks to share aggregate data on nearly 28,000 #COVID19 patients. Visualizations @ covidclinical.net. Not perfect, but we're just getting started.

Another awesome example of cello meets video chat.

This is the kind of humanity that supported us during the surge and what we need now. There isn’t a great distance between those who lost their livelihoods and those fighting for their rights. They are all fighting for dignity and they are all our neighbors.

For all those who thought preventing the spread of #COVID19 wasn't a good enough reason to wear a mask, maybe this will do the trick.

To beat COVID-19, we need to collaborate across borders, languages, and different coding systems. Our 4CE consortium of (now) 7 countries just published 1st efforts. Inspiring that >100 scientists/clinicians worked so hard with good will and trust. nature.com/articles/s4174…

We need to remember: We’re at war with a virus — not with each other.

The Surgical Informatics Lab lab at BIDMC Department of Surgery has been busy. Excited to be presenting projects at American College of Surgeons #ACSCC21 and more at #QualitySafety21 on safe post-surgical opioid prescribing, surgical consent, and other topics! facs.org/clincon2021

🏥🚨New surgical opioids preprint out - targeted learning quantile regression with EHR predictors to estimate nonresponse-adjusted procedure-specific #opioid prescribing guidelines w/ Gabriel Brat Jayson Marwaha, MD MSc Kortney Robinson et al. BIDMC Department of Surgery DBMI at Harvard Med - via Iván Díaz’s method

An insightful piece. We should always be asking the “Hamming question—‘what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren’t you working on them?’” Researchers and Founders blog.samaltman.com/researchers-an…

In their new blog, Jayson Marwaha, MD MSc, John Halamka, M.D., M.S., Gabriel Brat, + William J. Gordon from BIDMC, Mayo Clinic, + Harvard Medical School discuss why administrative + billing codes are foundations upon which data is generated + used to inform public health decisions. bit.ly/3kP8UkG

Looking forward to this conversation with friends and colleagues. I’m always ready to evangelize about the bright future of data science in surgery.

📰Just out…our Fall/Winter issue of "Inside Surgery!" Read about alum Dr. Martin Dib, Dr. Gabriel Brat’s research, faculty & trainee achievements, new clinical services, our newest research fellows, & much more! bit.ly/3CXxbM0 BIDMC

1. Read and write more. 2. Don't hesitate to admit when you're wrong. 3. Be comfortable changing your opinion. 4. Find a mentor. 5. Stay teachable. 6. Make mistakes and learn. 7. Don't get offended easily. 8. Ask questions. 9. Spend time with nature. 10. Stay humble.

Happening now -- it's not to late to join the webinar! Hear from members of 4CE ("foresee"), the international Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR. Speaking now: Gabriel Brat on clinical perspective. Next up: Paul Avillach & Florence Bourgeois on pediatric studies.

I won’t poo poo any optimistic sign when the hospital is so full of sick people.

Once upon a time, we didn’t have MRIs, we didn’t have electronic medical records, we didn’t have dermatoscopes. Medicine is always evolving with new tools. AI algorithms are tools that can help us - we have to figure out which ones are actually helpful and adapt to using them.

Join us next week Tuesday, October 11th @ 4:00 p.m. EDT for our Harvard Surgical HSR Speaker Gabriel Brat: "The Surgeon-AI Partnership: Leveraging Clinician Intuition to Improve Algorithms" csph.brighamandwomens.org/gabriel-brat/ Register here: bit.ly/3yb66V8

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories. —Professor Richard Feynman

REMINDER: The way to attend the leading event on AI in medicine Symposium on AI for Learning Health Systems #SAIL24 May 7–10 in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, is to submit an abstract by this Friday 1/19 to present at podium or poster! Top selections receive travel awards from NEJM AI. Visit sail.health/event/sail-202…