The PCORI Strategic Plan’s redefined focus on improving health outcomes includes our commitment to addressing #healthequity and finding ways to further inclusivity in research and ensure quality, equitable, & respectful care for all people. Learn more: pcori.me/3QDLOLy

Helpful advice for peer reviewers! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If you have Immunity from prior vaccination/infection And start to feel symptoms Assume symptoms are your body warning that you’ve been exposed - even if virus hasn’t grown up yet Presume you are/about to be infectious Test: If Neg on PCR or Rapid, test again 2 days later

Happy to share the protocol paper for Housing Transitions QUERI, which implements and evaluates Critical Time Intervention in VA’s community partners …plementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Kristina Cordasco, MD, MPH, MSHS Erin Finley

Excited to share our work: Community Care urgent care use by Veteran in early pandemic: Use of telehealth differed by Veteran characteristics; a driver was lack of in-person care availability. VA HSR VACSHIIP @avashi

“None of the providers denied charging the same for diff internet speeds to diff neighborhoods…but they said their intention wasn’t to discriminate against communities of color…there were other factors to consider.” LITERALLY defining structural racism. apnews.com/article/broadb…

Don’t forget yourself co-author themannyAC - you were an integral part of both the project and manuscript writing team!

So honored to have contributed to this report, and committed to engaging in the work needed to address these important findings. VA HSR

Excited to be co-directing (with my VACSHIIP colleague Dr. Evelyn Chang) this course, sponsored by VA HSR. All early investigators welcome- don’t need to be an internist or physician. Open to VA and non-VA folks. Apply by Jan 6th!

Article Alert! 🚨Acceptability of Reproductive Goals Assessment in Public Mental Health Care with Drs. Nichole Goodsmith, Karissa Fenwick, Alison Hamilton, and Kristina Cordasco, MD, MPH, MSHS pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36478352/

Thank you @DxRxEdu and Rabih Geha for the most inspiring and moving plenary I have ever attended. #SGIM2023

ED docs, PCPs and outpatient specialists - what best practices have you seen for communicating and getting patients that care they need after ED visits? Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) AEM Journal Emergency Physicians ACP

Think progress, not perfection.

So very accurate …. 😂😂😂

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@TanyaOlmos8a describing LEARN QUERI at #QUERI 25th anniversary panel AcademyHealth #ARM2023. We are excited about building capacity to conduct partnered, rapid & rigorous evaluations in support of VA programs & policies. VA HSR VACSHIIP Kristina Cordasco, MD, MPH, MSHS Sonya Gabrielian

Delivering bad news isn’t easy. Unfortunately, this isn’t taught well. 6 tips to make this easier for you and the patient:

Hispanic/Latinx are 18% of U.S. Yet ONLY 4.7% of hematologists/oncologists 3.1% of those listing research as major activity 1.3% of senior #RadOnc faculty #RepresentationMatters it shapes research & policy agendas to promote #HealthEquity Join ⤵️ Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation #LatinasInMedicine

An excellent synopsis of what I say when people ask my why I choose VA as a physician researcher.

“What we as doctors do for a living on the most mundane day is a sacred honor, wherever we do it.” So true. Thank you Dr. Dr Samer Attar for a truly inspiring essay. nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opi…