Today is a first. I have taken Dec 5th off every year since my daughter Haley died Dec 5, 1994 of what is now vaccine preventable meningitis. Today I am working our COVID clinic for 5-11 year olds to honor my daughter by vaccinating kids. Please send hugs!!

Wanted to share our labs recent publication on regionalized left ventricular fibrosis in mitral valve prolapse published in JAHA! Extra excited since this is my first, (co) first author research publication, with @cardiologystar - ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA… Russell Norris

Attention undergrads, grad students & med students -The Norris Lab Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Intern Program will be accepting applications beginning January 1st, 2022! Check out this page for more information & please retweet to spread the word! TheNorrislab.com/hip

The Hypermobile #EhlersDanlosSyndrome Intern Program applications open on January 1st, 2022! See the flyer (alt text available) or thenorrislab.com for more info. Please retweet or share with anyone who may be interested!

If you claim to be a chronic illness/disability advocate and actively try to discourage people from getting vaccinated - you are NOT advocating for those who are sick and disabled.

The greater part of my thesis has hit the shelves (at #jcdd)!!🎉👩🏻‍🔬 We identified a protein complex (DHCS1-LIX1L-SEPT9) & suggested its role in cell-cell and actin organization during critical stages of mitral valve morphogenesis mdpi.com/2308-3425/9/2/… (🧵ctd.)

CORTNEY GENSEMER, PHD!!!!

An excellent thread written by everyone’s fav Dr. Cortney

Wrote an article recently for the CGS Blog! Feel free to check it out! gradstudies.musc.edu/about/blog/202…

These two women are so special to me. It was an honor to celebrate them this weekend. Incredibly blessed to know you both and have amazing women to look up to not just in science but in life. Congratulations ~official~ Drs. Gensemer and Moore

getting closer to graduation

Let me just reference WebMD 😅

Like true crime? Like science? This is for you!! gradstudies.musc.edu/about/blog/202…

My thoughts are with Damar Hamlin and his family. Hoping to hear some good news soon.

Please don’t share the video of the Damar Hamlin play. Share this because we are all Praying for him and his family.

Dr. Neff!! You will be missed 💕

I have written another news release for MUSC about a large grant given to the Benitez lab to fund an exciting phase II clinical trial to look at the benefits of accelerated brain stimulation for treating depression and mild cognitive impairment! web.musc.edu/about/news-cen…

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary It’s still twitter to me :)

I’m so happy to say that I successfully passed my defense and officially Dr. Mia!! 🥼👩🏾‍🔬 I still haven’t quite found the words to express my excitement and gratitude for making it this far. It’s only up from here!🌟🧬 #PhD #OfficiallyDr #STEM #momsinSTEM #Biomed #Motivated

More pics from the defense 😊