Controversial take: The AMA should embrace populism. Hear me out. Populism is broadly defined as "a movement that emphasizes representing the interests and concerns of ordinary people, especially in opposition to an established elite." A new AMA CEO should prioritize the

#CARTcells for #DIPG #DMG clinical trial (1st arm) results are out today. Full Tweetorial coming, but first want to share the story of a patient whose #DIPG has disappeared for over 3 years. It is a milestone and moment of hope on a journey filled with so much grief. “There’s a

New in nature, a team led by Shawn Hervey-Jumper & Todd Hollon (Michigan Neurosurgery) present an #AI tool for detecting tumor infiltration from fresh, unprocessed tissue samples within seconds that outperforms conventional surgical adjuncts for locating residual tumor: nature.com/articles/s4158…

New NEJM A whopping (~90%) reduction of progression to Type 2 diabetes with tirzepatide (GLP-1 drug, dual receptor) vs placebo in a randomized trial of >2,500 participants with obesity, absolute reduction of 10/100 treated nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… by Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD and

Elon is spot on. Here’s why: Medicare’s incentive structure rewards more administrators and data manipulation over actual quality of care. Payment schemes like DRG and quality metrics favor institutions adept at number massaging, not patient care. A neurosurgery study

Can optogenetics be used to control activity in human brain tissue? Check out our new publication in Nature Neuroscience (nature.com/articles/s4159…) Here's a breakdown 🧵 1/14

New nature A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells nature.com/articles/s4158… Ferdinand von Meyenn Laura Hinte

Excited to share what I've been working on! Over the past few months, we’ve been aligning language and speech both semantically and non-semantically in a fully trained multimodal model, while maintaining language capabilities.

Two ways to improve physicians' lives: 1️⃣ Unions: They work for union bosses, not employees. A physician union would cement our role as employees and eliminate the idea that doctors can own healthcare delivery. There’s no lawyer’s union — because they own their firms. 2️⃣

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

Grateful to train with awesome chiefs like Alexander Haddad. Come check us out at UCSF Neurosurgery ! #subi #neurosurgery

Fascinating ANA Journals study inadvertently found that deep brain stimulation of the human midbrain (pedunculopontine nucleus) can induce sleep on-demand. High-frequency stimulation (80Hz) produced NREM sleep within minutes. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20437591/ video ⬇️

Literally blown away hearing our model. Amazing work from everyone at Hume. And extra kudos to the research team 🙂

Please join us in welcoming the newest members of UC San Francisco Neurosurgery! A big congratulations to Michael Baumgartner, MD, PhD, Jennifer Guidera, MD, PhD, and Maxwell Wang, MD, PhD 🎉 #Match2025 #MatchDay #Neurosurgery UCSF School of Medicine Penn Neurosurgery Pitt Neurosurgery

Join us this Saturday for a virtual session about our residency program! Our PGY4 residents will give an overview of what it's like to do your residency at UCSF and answer questions about the application process. Register here: tiny.ucsf.edu/NSResidencyInfo #MedTwitter #neurosurgery

Congrats to UCSF Neurosurgery PGY1 Rob Osorio for his @aans plenary talk describing work completed by him and his coresident Joseph (Jun) Oh in my lab defining PitNET tumors st the single cell level, challenging the current classification scheme. #AANS2025

Manish Aghi, MD PhD UCSF Neurosurgery AANS Joseph (Jun) Oh Honored to present our work on RNA sequencing of PitNETs today at AANS! Thanks to Manish Aghi, MD PhD and UCSF Neurosurgery for their unending support. #AANS2025

We released our new conversational speech-llm. Fully multimodal (inputting/outputting text&audio tokens). Ability to adopt any voice, modulate speech, and generate language.

Excited to share my co-first paper at nature! I would like to thank my co-first authors Jason and Heydar and Prof. Dan Dombeck for his amazing mentorship. I hope that this work can open up future investigations of the underlying neural mechanisms of representation drift!

Your Brain Maps the Same Path Differently Every Time A new study has found that the brain’s internal GPS rewrites itself each time we navigate the same space. Even when mice walked through an identical virtual maze with precisely controlled sights, smells, and speed, different