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Hey #Epitwitter I am working with a very talented SQL programmer who would like to learn some basic epi Any advice for favorite online, self-paced intro epi courses focusing on concepts like confounding, missingness, selection, measurement error?

Thank you so much for this truly incredible honor. I spoke about the need to commit to making sure our newsrooms reflect the world around us — but we also need to ensure we’re supporting journalists from underserved communities and valuing their expertise.

Tomorrow for Pulmonary Grand Rounds we are thrilled to welcome Jack Iwashyna🫁 from Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University PCCM Fellowship to discuss How White Supremacy Hides in Our Pulse Oximeters & Other Threats to Patient Safety. #PCCM #MedEd #CCM #Pulmonary #Lung

Excellent talk by Jack Iwashyna🫁 We Houston Methodist PCCM Fellowship had the opportunity to listen to the talk at our Grand rounds!

Congratulations to these amazing fellows and their mentorship teams for submitting NRSA grant proposals this week 👏👏👏

The NIH NHLBI announced with some fanfare in CHEST a program to develop new pulse oximeters that were NOT racially biased sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Today CHEST published our response, which points out some correctable weaknesses of how NHLBI did it sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Grok roasting Elon Musk. No one is safe from Grok's insults, not even its dad.

Hallie Prescott has a brilliant new paper out Annals of the ATS asking: How much increase in adverse events are actually seen with faster time to #antibiotics for #sepsis? How bad could it be for patients and hospitals? atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/An… Accompanying editorial says

Shameless, I am: A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama is behind the scenes in the sumptuous historical epic THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723449/t…

The way you should respond when you get invited to be a guest editor of a Frontiers special issue

8 years ago today I became mom of 2 under 2 and concurrently decided to go all in on becoming an independent physician scientist. I had no idea what I was doing (still don’t?!) but I’m here to say that you’re stronger than you think and it’s ok to figure it out as you go. 🌟

My amazing colleague Mariah Robertson MD MPH has been awarded the Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award at the American Geriatrics Society’s Annual Meeting this week! Johns Hopkins Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology Ken Covinsky American Geriatrics Society americangeriatrics.org/media-center/n…

#CCR24 #a2b Okay, 2 ?'s I want to ask: 1/ Is 49 bpm actually a severe adverse event? This safety parameter is having an enormous effect; how robust is the data for it? Should we relax it? 2/ Comment, really: is "how to get the propofol off" the central question we face?

Must listen... Pulse Oximeters’ Racial Bias from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health featuring Tom Valley Boston Review publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/pulse-oxi… johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/special-series…

New from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: A deep-dive into pulse oximeter accuracy, featuring our own Tom Valley and more (including Jack Iwashyna🫁 who we still count as an honorary Michigander...): publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/pulse-oxi…

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health podcast Public Health On Call has a special three-part series on the national reckoning with racial bias in pulse oximeters—prompted by this essay we published in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, by MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas: bostonreview.net/articles/amy-m…

Congratulations to Stephanie Parks Taylor ! Stephanie was installed last night as the first J. Griswold Ruth, M.D. & Margery Hopkins Ruth Research Professor of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Great introductory comments from Jack Jack Iwashyna🫁 from Johns Hopkins Medicine #GoBLUE #GoSteph 👏🏽😀🎉