Educating and entertaining healthcare audiences. We are @alexthomas2 (board certified pediatric allergist) and Gary Ashwal (health communication specialist)
Los Angeles + Chicago
Joined October 2011
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Attending @cfaarnu and already learning some surprising information! Under-diagnosis means under-prevention! #cfaar #foodallergy #foodallergyawareness #healthdisparities
Thanks again to @LAPhilip and Zubaer Khan for the great converstion!
Alex Thomas, the doctor, musician and cartoonist says Chicago allows you to do and be many things all at once.
Video by Zubaer Khan. Story by @LAPhilip.
Check out the story at trib.al/SVx1bOC.
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Such a blast and an honor to present at ComicCon alongside this crew of #graphicmedicine superstars (and to enjoy the breezy San Diego sunshine for a few days)! @BoosterShotCmx #SDCC2024
Free Booster Shot Comics at Convention Center Upper level- room 26AB!! #sdcc2024
This panel had some hilarious questions to amazing ones. This Scottish Batman (and traumatic brain injury survivor) asked if Batman’s violent tendencies and impulsivity could be due to chronic CTE rather than just PTSD alone?
The neurosurgeons say YES!
#SDCC2024 #graphicmedicine
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San Diego sunset and fish tacos to cap off a full day of conference at ComicCon. Looking forward to talking #palliativecare and #GraphicMedicine on Sunday!!! #SDCC2024 #hapc
We are at #SDCC2024 to present a panel on Comics for Medical Communication tomorrow at 12:30 room26AB! Join us- @alexthomas2, @Kriota, @NathanAGray and Annika Mengwall for a super cool review of how we use #graphicmedicine in #healthcommunication
Come join us for a great panel on medicine and animation as part of @NIAFF_animation Festival. You can click here to access the panel virtually for free! Starts in 15 min! tinyurl.com/2fwt3j6a #graphicmedicine
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We’ve answered your most frequently asked questions about #vaccines with short & fun animated videos. Share this one with your friends, family and neighbors to help #boostoregon. Learn more: boostoregon.org/info-for-par…. Each video is also available in Spanish. @BoosterShotCmx
Fantastic keynote! Greg Spence, Rachel Corston, Mena Gewarges, Jane Zhao. Weaving Our Worldview Using Graphic Medicine: Panel Discussion on the Generational Experiences of First Nation Health Research. @GraphicMedicine
#GraphMed2023
Thanks for not walking out during my jargon-filled stress fest!
Enjoyed Alex's cold open (an intentionally dense description of CAR T cell action in cancer treatment with too much text per slide) followed by Gary's "so how do we explain this?" @BoosterShotCmx #GraphMed2023
![Some graphic notes of Thomas and Gary Ashwal's talk titled Using Comics to Create the "Little World of Pediatric Cancer Immunology". Text notes include: "both adult reading and child following just text can understand [the comic]", "[characters have] enough structural representation to show function" pictured with doodles of cell characters with robotic arms added on; "colors should still be meaningful to readers with colour blindness"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1BOsQoWwAIyqfN.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Some graphic notes of Thomas and Gary Ashwal's talk titled Using Comics to Create the "Little World of Pediatric Cancer Immunology". Text notes include: "both adult reading and child following just text can understand [the comic]", "[characters have] enough structural representation to show function" pictured with doodles of cell characters with robotic arms added on; "colors should still be meaningful to readers with colour blindness"
#graphmed2023 is off to an amazing start with Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth! #graphicmedicine
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And don't forget to read the first seven comics of the project, all available online for free at
frontlinecomicsproject.org
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Hear about the history, goals, and process from project leaders Alex Thomas (@alexthomas2) and Michael Green (@mjg15) in conversation with MK Czerwiec (@ComicNurse) on @GraphicMedicine's new video podcast!
graphicmedicine.org/new-vide…
We’re so excited to get started on phase 2 of frontlinecomicsproject.org
The Graphic Medicine International Collective, in collaboration with Penn State College of Medicine, is starting the second round of our Frontline Workers Comics Project!
Details: graphicmedicine.org/frontlin…
#GraphicMedicine
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Watch the recording of our April #ELSIFridayForum: Visual Storytelling in #ELSI Research, with @Elizabethcohn Gary Ashwal of @BoosterShotCmx and Sara Ackerman, on #ELSIhub elsihub.org/video/visual-sto…
Check out this amazing comic from our workshop!! Thanks for sharing your process with us during the session, @a_reble!
Thanks to all of the participants who joined us for our @GraphicMedicine workshop at #PICOF2022. A big thanks for @callouscomics for co-leading the session with me and @KomiketPH for inviting us! Tweet your final comics with #PICOF2022GM or #PICOFDrawingTogether!
