It’s a privilege to highlight the fantastic work of our Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine students and the ways they have and will improve improve health disparities. Thanks to PBS Horizon and Ted Simons for hosting me. azpbs.org/horizon/2024/0…

Shoutout Dr. Ravi Ramaswamy presenting on antiageism curriculum at Tideswell Conference. Congratulations!! @MSHSGeriPalCare Ravi Ramaswamy

Grateful to have worked on this w/ Amit Shah, MD, E and @carmen_quatman Artificial Intelligence and Geriatric Medicine: The Future is Now – AGS 2024 - hope to see you at our session on #AI #AGS24 starting in just under a half hour! ags24.showcare.io/sessions/artif…

Having difficulty remembering all the different "-mabs" for Alzheimer's disease. Here is a snippet of the Geriatrics Updates and Sing Along talk at #AGS24 to help you out. #geriatrics

Rainbow Connection and Kermit! One of my favorite songs of all time, only made better with this parody! #AGS24

With the rise in serious infections and drug resistant organisms in nursing homes, it can seem like the end of the world as we know it… Snippet from #AGS24 Updates and Sing Along Talk. #geriatrics

"There is a chair in the bed over there. What the heck, I'll sit in the chair." Summary snippet from the Updates in Geriatrics and Sing Along about a randomized control trial of chair placement on physician behavior and patient satisfaction. #medicine #hospitalist #geriatrics

Better than R.E.M.!

Last year’s performance data for USMLE Step 1 are now available. The pass rate for first-time test-takers dropped again, to 92%. (🧵)

How can AI-enabled cardiac magnetic resonance imaging be used to diagnose cardiovascular diseases? Check it out in our new paper, now published in Nature Medicine! Link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

A very fun Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Arizona campus Class of 2024 graduation!

30% of people with “severe” OH did not have symptoms. This complicates making the diagnosis, but they are at more risk of falls than their symptomatic counterparts (perhaps because they don’t get warning to sit down), says Briggs #BGSconf

Wonderful to have the Medical Students as Teachers (SATS) program developed by Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Arizona campus students to teach fellow students to be teachers published yesterday! Was great to be a mentor to the students on this curriculum! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great article on Dr. Rosanne Leipzig from the AARP. One of the most inspiring geriatricians I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with! Rosanne M Leipzig MD PhD American Geriatrics Society Aquifer.org aarp.org/home-family/fr…

Orientation week with MCASOM AZ class 2028 was fantastic! We are so excited to welcome these bright, committed future doctors to our Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine family.

Open Evidence is awesome! I highly recommend this great resource for learning and answering clinical questions

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Fascinating, humbling graph to study

From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. 🧵 1/4 latimes.com/science/story/…