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Deb Verran

@debverran.medsky.social

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Surgeon Interests include #equity #transplantation #SurgSky #PhysicianJustEquity #socialmedia #bookMedSky #hiking

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · Nov 19

Here are the surgeons starter packs with Round 2 now having kicked off. Please contact me if you wish to be added #SurgSky #MedSky #OBGyNSky

Round 1
go.bsky.app/JhPwuUd
Round 2
go.bsky.app/TPpcAaG

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 1d

I think that some organizations will now be stepping into the breach in light of the latest news about the CDC in the United States #publichealth

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 2d

There were 25 #measles cases recorded this week, and 44 outbreaks so far this year. Stay up to date with measles and other outbreaks like #mpox, #chikungunya and more in our weekly Tracking Report.

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 2d

Ping @statnews.com

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 6d

Banksia coccinea - Scarlet Banksia

Known by the local Noongar peoples as Waddib, this stunning banksia is endemic to the southwest coast around Denmark/Albany to the Stirling Ranges.

It is a stunning flower to see growing in the wild!

#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #banksia #Proteaceae

Picture of a very distinctive flower spike that is generally scarlet/red in colour. The inflorescence is actually made up of many hundreds of smaller individual flowers all of which have scarlet style

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 3d

The scientific report of this particular axillary liver transplant procedure utilizing a genetically engineered porcine liver can be found in the EASL associated Journal of Hepatology along with the following succinct editorial #LiverSky www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016...

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 3d

It led to a number of collaborative type projects some of which resulted in publications journals.lww.com/journalacs/a...

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 4d

It can also be a problem for immunocompromised solid organ transplant recipients #IDSky

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 5d

👇This important work wrt how surgeons deal with microaggressions in the workplace #MedSky #SurgSky

Michael Sinha @drsinhaesq.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW🚨 paper with Physician Just Equity colleagues in @acsjacs.bsky.social: Whether and How Surgeons Took Action Against Workplace Microaggression: Survey of ACS Members journals.lww.com/journalacs/a...

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 6d

Big congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi on their Nobel Prize win. Their research relates to regulatory T cells and immune responses in the body. #medicine #NobelPrize #science #womeninSTEM #womeninscience 🧪

The medicine Nobel Prize goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were honored for research into how the body helps the immune system avoid attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.

www.npr.org

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 8d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Eugene Manley, Jr., PhD @emanleyjr.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Antonia Coello Novelo, Puerto Rican, was the first woman & first Hispanic to serve as the US Surgeon General. Specializing in #pediatrics and #nephrology, she played a large role in the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act.
#womeninmedicine #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Antonia Coello Novello, MPH, MD - STEMMCHEQ

Dr. Antonia Coello Novello was born on August 23, 1944 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. She became the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as the US Surgeon General. After spending the first 18 years of h...

www.scheq.org

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 11d

Classic performative type management speak!

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 11d

Rest in light to an amazing scientist Jane Goodall. She tirelessly worked for conservation and helped open up pathways and inspiration for many women scientists
#janegoodall #womeninSTEM #RIP

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 12d

Bingo!!!

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Nephrology Times @nephtimes.bsky.social · 13d

RBC-based kidney normothermic machine perfusion triggers problems that may negate its potential benefits. #nephrology #nephsky #kidneytransplant #perfusion docwirenews.com/post/molecul...

Molecular Changes in Kidney Grafts During Normothermic Machine Perfusion | Docwire News

Red blood cell-based normothermic kidney perfusion may drive hemolysis, iron overload, and ferroptosis, potentially negating its clinical benefits, a study showed.

docwirenews.com

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 13d

This manuscript contains really useful information with respect to the underlying medical scenarios leading to this -

“If there is a doctor on this flight can they make themselves known to the cabin crew”

Jonathan Serrie @jonathanserrie.bsky.social · 13d

One in every 212 flights involved a medical emergency, according to an international study of in-flight medical events from Jan. 2022 to Dec. 2023, led by Duke Health; 8% of patients were taken to the hospital after landing and 1.7% of the medical events were serious enough to divert the plane.

In-Flight Medical Events on Commercial Airline Flights

This cohort study estimates the global incidence and outcomes of in-flight medical events on commercial airline flights.

jamanetwork.com

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 13d

The hide of those particular individuals to send you those emails .......glad to see that you persisted. Congratulations!

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 13d

Just added you to the surgeons Starter pack number 3! go.bsky.app/JExT1SK

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 14d

Of course, where else would it be?!?!

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 14d

Learned a bunch at the Alaska Writers Guild conference.

My memoir, Lessons from Chaos: Notes of a “Simple” Surgeon is a story only I can tell. It matters now b/c few have seen what it’s like when health systems barely exist, and survival depends on the people already there.

#GlobalHealth #Memoir

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 17d

Donor-derived infections with Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus) in 2 kidney transplant recipients (1 fatal)

Teaching points
- 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant)
- Cases 📈 in Texas
- Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx
- cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Figure 1. Timeline describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. Day 1 of donor hospitalization is represented as −5, the day of death as −1, and the day of transplantation as 0, after which posttransplant days are listed, ending with the discharge of recipient 1 from the hospital on posttransplant day 20.

Figure 2. Chest radiographs from an organ donor with murine typhus, from a study describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. A) Chest radiograph obtained at hospital admission, 5 days after symptom onset, with no specific abnormalities noted. B) Chest radiograph obtained on hospital day 3, revealing extensive alveolar opacities predominantly in the middle and lower lung fields.

Figure 3. Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsy specimens collected from the right and left kidney allografts procured from a donor who died of murine typhus, from a study describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. A) When stained with hematoxylin and eosin, both allografts showed multifocal, interstitial, and predominantly mononuclear peritubular infiltrates, associated with focal endarteritis (thin arrows), features of acute tubular injury, including epithelial attenuation with loss of apical cytoplasm (thin arrowheads), and pigmented casts (large arrow). B) Glomeruli displayed moderate mesangial hypercellularity and tuft adhesions to the Bowman’s capsules (arrows) and intracapillary and mesangial phagocytic foam-cells (arrowheads), That finding is compatible with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. C) Short chains comprising small, rod-shaped bacteria were revealed in glomerular capillaries by the Warthin–Starry silver impregnation staining technique. Immunoreactive R. typhi antigens were noted within intracellular bacteria in endothelial cells of renal arterioles. D–F) An immunohistochemical stain for typhus-group rickettsiae revealed intact bacteria within endothelial cells of inflamed small vessels and vascular spaces of mesangial capillaries (arrows) and phagocytized bacterial antigens in the cytoplasm of glomerular foam-cells (arrows). Original magnifications ×400 (A, B and E) and ×1,000 (C, D, and F).

Figure 4. Annual case counts of murine typhus in Texas, USA, during 1920–2024. Cases increased from close to zero to ~ 500 in 1930s before spiking to ~2000 in 1940s, then back down close to zero by 1950s, and remained near zero until started creeping back up in 2000s, steadily increasing, now with ~800 cases/year

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 18d

Partly depends on the actual risks associated with the neurosurgical procedure. Need to see the published data.

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 18d

Awww, is that your dog?

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 20d

The amazing team at @sciencevs.bsky.social dropped a #Tylenol podcast a few days ago, giving explanation of why the link has been made and how it's not quite as it seems
A great example of bias and confounding, and how meta-analysis isn't always the pinnacle of evidence
#EpiSky #MedSky

Does Tylenol Cause Autism?

Podcast Episode · Science Vs · 09/18/2025 · 28m

podcasts.apple.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 20d

👀 #SurgSky

STAT @statnews.com · 20d

The largest professional organization representing ENT doctors in the U.S. has endorsed gun silencers, a scientifically flawed policy blunder.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...

I’m a surgeon. My society waded into gun regulation — and chose politics over science

The largest professional organization representing ENT doctors in the U.S. has endorsed gun silencers, a scientifically flawed policy blunder.