Is LDL-C a causal risk factor for aortic stenosis? We're excited to see our study now in Circulation examining this question by leveraging rare protein-disrupting variants in UK Biobank and AllofUsResearch. With Sean Jurgens, Shino Kany, Patrick Ellinor & James 🥥🏈 Pirruccello.

Prevention requires bold & forward-thinking investments. My OpEd on why letting funding lapse for AllofUsResearch would be a step backwards statnews.com/2024/09/03/all… STAT

Ted Chiang, brilliant as always newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

I mentored a brilliant student Anya Chauhan at the SRI program by Harvard University's Harvard Undergraduate OpenBio Laboratory. Check out her project "Digital Patients🤖" 👇 We show that a model trained on a fully synthetic dataset can perform remarkably well on real medical imaging data! 1/n

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Congrats to Gladstone Investigator Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha (Catherine T, DVM, PhD | #BlackInCardio team) for being named one of 10 “Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine” scholars by The National Academy of Medicine. bit.ly/4e2OQUG

Excited to welcome Dr. Yetsa Tuakli MD MPH to the faculty at the Stanford Prevention Research Center! Looking forward to learning more about sports equity and to future collaborations!

In the early 1950s, the undergrad admission rate at Stanford was 80% 🤯 (Today, it is ~3%)

Only in Boston… (seen at Boston Logan airport)

⁦Brian Palmisano, MD, PhD⁩ gave a great talk ⁦Stanford Diabetes Research⁩ center seminar series on shared genetic architecture of coronary disease and insulin resistance ⁦SvenssonLab⁩ ⁦StanfordCVFellowship⁩

Excited to share our latest work advancing pro-efferocytic therapies closer towards the clinic. Fantastic effort led by Sarnoff fellow Shar Bamezai. Quite a lot of work done in just one year. Thanks to the Falk foundation, Greathouse family and ⁦Sarnoff Foundation⁩ for support.

We are pleased to share our latest study entitled "Exome wide association study for blood lipids in 1,158,017 individuals from diverse populations" (1/19) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredible start to the #FHSummit24 in #Dallas with the powerful story of the family that led to the discovery of the LDLR by Drs. Goldstein and Brown. Expertly moderated by Christie Ballantyne Josh Knowles Abha Shoa L. Clarke

Congrats to #StanDOM's Joyce Njoroge, MD, Christine Santiago, Parveen Shiraz & Samantha Wang, the 2024 Chair Diversity Investigator Award winners! 🌟 Their projects are paving the way for more equitable healthcare solutions. stanford.io/3BhkNu7

A4: The time for universal #PediatricScreening is now! Screening all children according to the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines is a pivotal step in improving care for all! #KnowFH #FHCantWait

A4: The Family Heart Foundation is thrilled to be launching a program this week that will provide free, at-home cholesterol screening, regardless of insurance status, with an opportunity to connect with Care Navigator. #KnowFH

In >2 mil VA pts, LDL-C control was low across primary and secondary ASCVD prevention cohorts. There were pronounced sociodemographic disparities and facility-level variation. Is it time for updated performance measures in ASCVD prevention?jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.10… JACC Journals

#NationalLatinoPhysicianDay (NLPD) is October 1st! We’re celebrating this inaugural holiday by highlighting 3 Stanford affiliates who helped get it passed, including Dr. Michael Galvez, Dr. Cesar Padilla, and StanfordMedRes' own APD, Dr. Wendy Caceres!