@MDqualitysafety

Pulm/crit care physician, quality/safety expert and budding health services researcher at Kaiser Permanente @KPDOR. Tweets are mine and not medical advice.

 Oakland, CA
Joined January 2019
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Important piece on @medpagetoday by @MDqualitysafety and Mary Meyer on risk associated with #wildfire smoke. Opinion | Where There's Fire, There's Smoke medpagetoday.com/opinion/cal…

Opinion | Where There's Fire, There's Smoke

Wildfire smoke has become a public health crisis

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ICYMI: Smoke can travel thousands of miles. @MDqualitysafety @KPDOR @kpnorcal research scientist and @TPMGDocCareers physician spoke with @KTVU2 about how #wildfires can affect our health. Watch here: bit.ly/4hfLgbt
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Opinion | Where There's Wildfire Smoke, There's Respiratory Infection medpagetoday.com/opinion/cal…

Opinion | Where There's Wildfire Smoke, There's Respiratory Infection

We're only just beginning to understand what wildfire smoke is capable of

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A very timely interview on @KTVU with @MDqualitysafety and Mary Meyer @KPDOR @kpnorcal @PermanenteDocs on protecting yourself and your loved ones from #wildfire dangers. Watch here: bit.ly/3XAJGZq
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Laura Myers MD MPH retweeted
ATS Blue Journal@ATSBlueEditor24 Sep 2024
A Research Agenda to Improve Outcomes in Patients with COPD and Cardiovascular Disease: An Official ATS Research Statement A call for #pragmatictrials with #patientcenteredoutcomes that collect pulmonary and cardiac data @KPDOR @MDqualitysafety 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdeaabt3
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Advocacy 1 of 3: Thank you to Dr. Laura Myers @kpthrive research scientist I, Division of Research, and pulmonary intensivist, Diablo Service Area, and our ATS Environmental Health Policy Committee members who spoke last week urging @EPA to approve CA Advanced Clean Fleet waiver.
Photo of truck on a highway with dark exhaust visibly coming from the truck’s front vertical exhaust pipe.

ALT Photo of truck on a highway with dark exhaust visibly coming from the truck’s front vertical exhaust pipe.

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How to improve care for people with #COPD & #heartdisease? Real-world studies with #patientcenteredoutcomes that address health disparities, finds @atscommunity research statement in @ATSBlueEditor, first author @MDqualitysafety @PermanenteDocs Story: ibit.ly/7bGoL
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A recent study coauthored by KPSOM faculty members Nareg H. Roubinian and @JVelottaMD shows no significant differences in secondary patient outcomes with video-assisted procedures. Read more: kpsom.link/3SvlpCt
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Laura Myers MD MPH retweeted
KP Diablo Area@KPDiablo29 Jul 2024
One of our pulmonologists spoke to@bett_yu about how to stay safe in the heat, sun and surf in this @KTVU interview. Learn some tips to help you and your family this summer. ktvu.com/video/1492499

Tips to protect yourself from environmental hazards | KTVU FOX 2

California's dry summer heat can lead to extreme conditions that may seriously impact our health if we're not prepared. Dr. Laura Myers, a pulmonologist and researcher at Kaiser Permanente, shares...

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Great @NASA_HAQAST meeting in SLC with experts from across the country. In particular, I learned about the health effects of #sugar burning in Florida, which occurs >6mo of the year instead of a higher cost, green alternative to harvesting.
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The smoke unfortunately impacts the health of communities of color in the Glades. We need better PM2.5 monitors in the area and @EPA @CDCgov awareness of this #environmental #injustice. The sugar industry should adopt greener harvesting practices in order to improve #publichealth
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Vincent Liu @KPDOR on @STATnews #AI panel: "There's hope that mathematical approaches are going to solve all of these issues but... it's much more complex...we can use these advanced techniques to optimize but they may need to be guided." bit.ly/3PLfOqv @permanentedocs
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Devika Bhushan, MD@DrDevikaB13 Aug 2023
New @JAMA_current piece by Mensah et al on academic medicine salaries by specialty shows that: 👨‍👦Faculty salaries RISE in specialties with more White / men trainees 👩🏾‍🚀Faculty salaries FALL in specialties with more minoritized / women trainees #DEI #AcademicMedicine #MedTwitter
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Medical educators have a crucial role in shaping the inevitable integration of AI into the healthcare. @AdamRodmanMD and I wrote about it in NEJM ⬇️ nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Mytien Nguyen@MytienTNguyen27 Jun 2023
1/ Humbled & excited to share our new 📰 @JAMA_current on gender 🚨inequity🚨 in @NIH K to R funding transitions 🔗jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… Thank you to our amazing team @aanyatrishna @christineolagun Sarwat Chaudhry @mayurdesai123 @adardik @DowinHugh Our key findings, a🧵:

Transition From Mentored to Independent NIH Funding by Gender and Department

This study uses National Institutes of Health RePORTER data for mentored K awards and R01-equivalent grants to all departments in US schools of medicine to characterize K-award distribution and...

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My @JAMA_current office view most days My office view today
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Congratulations to Dr. Chad Hochberg for receiving the 2023 Robert A. Wise MD Award for Clinical and Research Excellence. We look forward to your continued success as faculty @HopkinsPCCM
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Action shot of @jehanalladina giving a talk on monocyte-derived cells in asthmatic airways at the Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference! Dr. Alladina's work was recently featured on the cover of @SciImmunology! Read more here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scii…
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires have sparked air quality alerts for NYC & Tri-State area. We hope these excerpts from our Patient Fact Sheet can provide helpful information on staying safe if your area is affected by nearby wildfire smoke🔥 👇 Full sheet: bit.ly/3qt5ZmZ
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Laura Myers MD MPH retweeted
Neeta Thakur@nthakurMD8 Jun 2023
#WildfireSmoke is no joke. Now a regular season on the West. Created low-health literacy handouts for patients @ZSFGCare. Hope these can be helpful for our East Coast friends. @atscommunity @CalThoracic
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