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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 25

Day 1 of our new Endocrinology Practice in sunny San Mateo! Grateful for the collaborative spirit. Dr. Myat Soe and I were there today with commutes of 10 min each & free parking! UCSF Health Endocrinology and Diabetes will now see you on the peninsula!

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just chaired, with Lisa Morselli (MCW), a cool session #ENDO2025 on cardiometabolic health in people with HIV. Steve Grinspoon (MGH) on mechanistic benefits of statins; Celestine Wanjalla (Vandy) on pathologic T cells; & Heidi Crane (UW) on clinical management. @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wonderful event last night in Downtown San Francisco for all our UCSF endocrinology faculty, fellows, and fellowship alumni. Wonderful to see so many amazing friends and colleagues from across the last 50 years! We nailed it!
#ENDO2025 #DowntownSF @ucsfdc.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thrilled last night to see Bob Farese, Jr., an outstanding mentor in whose lab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social trained as a UCSF postdoc. A scientific friendship between 2 academic endocrinologists spanning 21 years! #ENDO2025 #downtownSF

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 13

Chinese Dragon Dancers officially welcoming #ENDO2025 to the meeting! @endocrinesociety.bsky.social @ucsfdc.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 13

Uplifting to see the science presented by our UCSF early stage investigators in Endocrinology #ENDO2025. Congrats Drs. Karin Wu (bone metabolism) and Rob Weber (mineralocorticoid physiology)!
@endocrinesociety.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 12

Always enjoy connecting with the public about diabetes. Deep dive on new CDC data today with KCBS radio in San Francisco. @ucsfdc.bsky.social #prediabetes

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jul 12

From UCSF Endocrinology & Metabolism, welcome to our home #ENDO2025! Check out our 24 speakers & session chairs here: diabetes.ucsf.edu/Endo2025. We’re also presenting an amazing 33 posters! Find them here: eppro01.ativ.me/web/planner.ph…
Enjoy our City! @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

Endo2025 | Diabetes Center at UCSF

diabetes.ucsf.edu

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jun 21

A great part of #ADASciSessions is getting to see one of our UCSF endocrine fellows present her first poster at her first ADA meeting! Congrats to Dr. Aye Khine and her mentor Dr. Zoe Quandt! Had to wait to catch them (foot traffic!). Love our @ucsfdc.bsky.social faculty who came to support!

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jun 21

UCSF Diabetes is out in force in Chicago at the 85th ADA #ADAscisessions! Amazing posters from trainees and faculty, talks, sessions, panelists, and symposia! We’re doing our part and loving it! @ucsfdc.bsky.social @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social #Chicago !

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jun 19

Loving #Chicago following a scientific ad board meeting this am, ready for #ADA scientific sessions tomorrow! My afternoon? Art Institute of Chicago! See you tomorrow, diabetes community. @ucsfdc.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jun 17

Atul Butte was wonderful. I treasure our many collaborations on diabetes and big data & mentoring emerging scientists with him. Here’s a current one: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Every meeting was inspiring and each shared meal was a joy. What a force. Crushed. RIP, friend. @ucsfdc.bsky.social

Real-World Type 2 Diabetes Second-Line Treatment Allocation Among Patients

Objective This study aimed to evaluate the impact of socioeconomic disparities on the allocation of second-line treatments among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Materials and Methods We conducte...

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Apr 4

If “Great” = “Poor”, then I believe our president may have truly found his sweet spot.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 28

Texas measles outbreak now at 400 cases and 41 hospitalizations.
It was at 327 cases 3 days ago. Unclear how many of the hospitalizations are due to Vitamin A liver toxicity, as promoted by RFK Jr. The number of actual cases surely exceeds 1,000 at this point
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

Measles Outbreak – March 28, 2025 | Texas DSHS

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Mar 27

#endocrinology in the house last night! Great time talking science, medicine, and the state of our field. Outstanding UCSF Endo GR today by Dr. Susan Mandel of @pennmedicine.bsky.social on thyroid nodule assessment & triage. @jasosamd.bsky.social @americansurgeon.bsky.social @endosurgsf.bsky.social

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thanks!

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thanks, @cellpress.bsky.social for a nice QA with me and @mvaldearcos.bsky.social. It’s a great narrative about our work on hypothalamic microglia, and a great scientific collaboration. #mentorship #microglia @ucsfdc.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Q&A with Suneil Koliwad and Martin Valdearcos

Suneil Koliwad (S.K.) and Martin Valdearcos (M.V.) spoke with Cell Reports about their scientific journeys leading to their recent paper investigating the role of microglia in shaping blood glucose ho...

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Mar 14

From “preprint” to “in press”!

Congrats @MValdearcos @RachelLippert and the rest of our outstanding team. @AtUcsf @UCSF #microglia #hypothalamus

Microglia mediate the early-life programming of adult glucose control: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Microglia mediate the early-life programming of adult glucose control

Valdearcos et al. show that microglia shape the hypothalamic perineuronal network during early postnatal life, ensuring that hypothalamic neurons projecting to the pancreatic β cell compartment during...

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Feb 22

Sigh.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 21

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Feb 10

Please note also that even in this outstanding example, many US scientists were involved in those initial fundamental discoveries. NIH dollars were right at the center of it! As a diabetes researcher and clinical leader in this area, I THANK you for voicing this!

So many more like it!

Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Feb 8

Similar to the LOOK-AHEAD outcomes for people with T2D (albeit not a telemedicine-based study), and underscoring the concept that lifestyle interventions for folks with established CHD and/or T2D are much less effective than they are for primary prevention of these diseases.

Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Feb 6

Is this in the “pump the brakes on GLP-1RAs being effective for everything” category? Thanks for sharing!

Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Feb 3

We can’t allow this. Journals, societies, universities, industry… we can’t be idle. What’s to stop this “list” from shape-shifting? Or expanding to any studies receiving federal funding? Publication lets us all see! That’s freedom! tinyurl.com/ynkph5z5

Opinion | CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals

Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jan 29

Now please rescind the pause on federal communication so those of us dedicated to helping our country in our areas of expertise can know what the hell is going on.

We’ve already wasted enough time with this nonsense.

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Suneil Koliwad @skoliwad.bsky.social · Jan 22

When you’re at a scientific conference listening to the keynote during the closing minutes of a nail biter between your alma matter and Wisconsin….Go Bruins!