MD/PhD student @PittCMU_MSTP: translational psychiatric neuroscience, genomics, development, post-mortem, MRI, cognition and bagpipes He/Him
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined July 2018
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Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Better brain science starts with better design! 🧠
A new study co-authored by #MIDB researchers and published in @Nature shows how selecting diverse participants improves the reliability of brain-wide association studies. Read more ➡️ z.umn.edu/MIDBReliablityBrai…
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
New in @biorxivpreprint: tools to improve the rigor of #ABCDStudy sMRI analyses, based on manual reviews of >12,000 scans. Major effort by @safia_elyounssi, @psykeiko @kevinfdowling @sattertt @barchdbarch and many others. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Interested in how prenatal exposures relate to subsequent risk for psychopathology? Check out our new paper out today in @PLOSONE led by @joshuaroffman @ErenDSipahi1 @ErinDunnScD #abcdstudy
Our new paper out today: common adverse prenatal exposures associate with steep increase in risk for psychopathology at age 9-10 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone… @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci #ABCDStudy
Interested in how manually editing MRI images as part of rigorous scan QC impacts measures of cortical morphology in youth? Come visit @SOBP poster F183 to learn more!
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Would be cool if we could all start calling it a “chief concern” instead of a “chief complaint.”
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
America: we need diversity in medicine.
Also America: let’s make med school and the application process so expensive (and racist) that people who are poor (and Black and Latinx) can’t become doctors.
This is the hill I will die on.
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
ACHD has opened additional vaccine appointments for those 65 and older at its Monroeville clinic. Appointments are required for the site and remain in great demand. Links to the clinics and more information is available here: alleghenycounty.us/News/2021…
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Researchers from CMU and @PittTweet are developing and testing a new hybrid microneedle array platform capable of delivering vaccines directly into the skin.
It could have an impact on COVID-19 vaccination in the developing world.
cmu.is/microneedle via @CMUEngineering
ALT A microneedle array platform.
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Most cases ever and headed to 400-500 daily which will close our hospitals and endanger even the uninfected. With Thanksgiving ahead we are in DANGER. Time to lock down for the common good. People are dying.
Shout out to @PittCMU_MSTP's Sean Sweat for contributing to this awesome oath!
University of Pittsburgh medical students wrote a new version of the Hippocratic Oath, which calls on doctors to combat disinformation to improve health literacy and be an ally to minorities.
trib.al/lNCWHC7
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Advice from @BalaChaudhary and @aaberhe about how to build an anti-racist research lab. Preprint of paper they wrote (to be published in Plos Computational Biology) here: ecoevorxiv.org/4a9p8/. Excited to get into the weeds on this paper during our next lab journal club.
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Today is National Voter Registration Day! You can go to iwillvote.com to check your registration and make sure you have a plan to vote and to vote early! #VoteReady
ALT Image reads: "Don't Wait. Register to vote at iwillvote.com
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
This is a portable MRI. It arose from a collaboration between @HyperfineR, @YaleNeuroICU, @MGHMartinos, MGH Radiology, and @MGHNeurology. It can take images in a patient’s room and opens up new and exciting possibilities. @MassGeneralNews @MGHNeuroICU
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Naloxone has 1 function—to reverse effects of opioids on brain + respiratory system to save someone’s life. Every Pennsylvanian has a role to play as a potential first responder + can save a life by having naloxone on hand + using it if they come across someone who has overdosed.
Be ready to save a life by learning how to use #naloxone. Watch @SecretaryLevine's naloxone training video on TRAIN PA to get your certificate of completion that will protect you legally as a Good Samaritan trying to help someone in need: bit.ly/PANaloxoneTraining
#EndOverdose
ALT Dr. Levine talking about using naloxone to save a life
The start of the new med school semester has once again reminded me that no set of scrubs will ever be as comfortable as they look.
Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 retweeted
Masking is now a requirement for all Pennsylvanians when leaving home.
We’re still fighting this virus and right now masking is one of the best weapons we have.
More info on #MaskUpPA requirements for individuals and businesses ⬇️ pa.gov/guides/responding-to-…
