Erick Forno, MD MPH
@efornomd.medsky.social
Peds pulmonologist. Asthma epi & genomics research. Vice-chair for clinical research IUSM DOP. (Opinions = own ≠ advice. Repost ≠ endorse) 🩺🫁🏳️🌈
#Medsky #Pulmsky #Pedsky #PedsPulmSky
#Medsky #Pulmsky #Pedsky #PedsPulmSky
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The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly.
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
2026 Call for Nominations - Assembly Leadership Elections
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September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly.
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
July 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo...
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
Bronchopulmonary Tree
Bronchopulmonary Tree - The Academic Genealogy of Pediatric Pulmonology
academictree.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo...
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk”
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
CHA Statement on Trump Administration Proposed Budget That Eliminates CHGME
Children’s hospitals urge greater investment in pediatric health care training.
www.childrenshospitals.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk”
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
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The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
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🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…
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If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Universities and the government: Which needs the other more?
From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I just want to come back to this post and say I called this a week ago…. smh ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July
4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked
1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr
Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted
Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July
4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked
1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr
Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted
If Harvard is blocked from bringing in international physicians .
Hospitals lose doctors July 1.
Patients lose care.
This isn’t just red tape—it’s a healthcare crisis in motion.
Hospitals lose doctors July 1.
Patients lose care.
This isn’t just red tape—it’s a healthcare crisis in motion.
everyone with undue power is playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
May 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I just want to come back to this post and say I called this a week ago…. smh ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July
4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked
1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr
Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted
Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July
4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked
1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr
Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
This was an awesome experience! Deadline June 16th! www.nationaljewish.org/getmedia/dbb...
May 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This was an awesome experience! Deadline June 16th! www.nationaljewish.org/getmedia/dbb...
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Hey everyone attending #ats2025 speak out to save science and protect the NIH! @atscommunity.bsky.social
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hey everyone attending #ats2025 speak out to save science and protect the NIH! @atscommunity.bsky.social
⬇️ #ATS2025 ⬇️
Diversity Forum
Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social
Diversity Forum
Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social
🌟 Join us at the Diversity Forum at #ATS2025 to celebrate the difference-makers leading us toward a more inclusive future.
Find out more: www.atsconferencenews.org/diversity-fo...
Find out more: www.atsconferencenews.org/diversity-fo...
May 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
⬇️ #ATS2025 ⬇️
Diversity Forum
Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social
Diversity Forum
Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social
Reposted by Erick Forno, MD MPH
Headed to #ATS2025 & want to advocate against the systemic attacks on science & public health? Join us on Tuesday May 20th @ 530pm at the Vigil for Lost Science.
May 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Headed to #ATS2025 & want to advocate against the systemic attacks on science & public health? Join us on Tuesday May 20th @ 530pm at the Vigil for Lost Science.