Congrats to UWGASTRO and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center faculty, Drs. Bill Grady & Rachel Issaka and team, including ABGH Dr. Darrell Gray, advancing the area of CRC diagnostics. A blood test may be in the future for CRC! Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS Darrell Gray, II, MD, MPH, FACG

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Literally, Dr. Golden was just doing her job as chief diversity officer!! The definition she gave of 'privilege' is a textbook definition!!

Johns Hopkins Medicine chief diversity officer steps down two months after backlash over ‘privilege’ email

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A beautiful piece written by Dr. J Randall Curtis's family about his last days and medical aid in dying.

He is so missed at UW PulmCritCareSleep and in the #PCCM community ❤️

UW Department of Medicine American Thoracic Society (ATS)

The Strength It Takes to Suffer jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

❤️‍🩹Writing this piece for JAMA Internal Medicine w J Randall Curtis' wife, Amy, and daughter, Alice, has been a most meaningful experience🫂We call for a discourse on medical aid in dying rooted in compassion & respect-one that does Randy's memory proud➡️🔗: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…🙏

'Sexism in Medicine? It’s Not ‘All in Her Head.’'

I was interviewed for this The New York Times article on racism and sexism in clinical care.

nytimes.com/2024/02/26/wel…

Disturbing and important study from Deepshikha Charan Ashana Christopher Cox in JAMA Internal Medicine

If critically ill patient's caregiver was black, ICU clinicans provided:
⬇️ emotional support, gratitude+trust acknowledgement, info
⬆️ challenges to decisions

🔗tinyurl.com/bdhm9vcp

This Friday, join Dr Kemi Doll, one of our Black Advisory Coalition members for a seminar! This talk will focus on the use of theoretical frameworks of racial health inequity to improve survival of Black women with endometrial cancer in the US.

1/ NEW 📝 in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Using data from our REACH-AF cohort, we asked: is there variation in anticoagulation prescribing for #AFib in VA facilities across the country, and if so, are there racial differences in 💊 prescribing?

Here’s what we found. 👇🏾

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Read the JAMA Internal Medicine Original Investigation, “Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black People and Racial Disparities in Sleep Health,” covered by NYT Health in this article.

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Thanks for amplifying our work Oni Blackstock, MD MHS

📢 2 new palliative care RCTs w editorial

Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Nurse & Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team & Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease…

Although older Black Americans have twice the rate of dementia as their white peers, they were screened out of clinical trials of Leqembi and donanemab, two promising drugs at a higher rate, according to pharmaceutical researchers and executives. nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/al…

New paper in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (JPSM) describing patients’ discriminatory experiences during serious illness. Was told this work was “out there” and that I should do something else, so this feels like a small win. Co-authors Kemi Doll, MD MS Kristine Cueva and others.

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Why Stating Hypotheses in Grant Applications Is Unnecessary 👀

New Viewpoint by Miguel Hernán Sander Greenland

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Excited for the opportunity to be a part of this program!

Thank you Health Disparities for highlighting our work! Kristine Cueva @GoldenSherita Kemi Doll, MD MS