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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 · 20h

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

Michael Sinha @drsinhaesq.bsky.social · 22h

🚨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 · 2d

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.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4d

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 · 5d

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
www.scheq.org/antonia-coel...

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...

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 6d

Classic performative type management speak!

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tundragranite.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

Bingo!!!

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Nephrology Times @nephtimes.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 9d

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

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 9d

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

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 14d

Awww, is that your dog?

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 15d

👀 #SurgSky

STAT @statnews.com · 15d

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.

www.statnews.com

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 16d

Check out the @medsky.social labeler and add a couple of labels to your bio such as pediatrics and rheumatology. There are quite a few individuals here already who in each of those clinical specialties #MedSky

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 17d

This is from @lubach.nl !!!

Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 18d

I was about to also post that if you use a personal computer these days which has the latest MS Office then you can also access Chat GPT (regardless of your location)!

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 18d

If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 19d

The US Federal government has commenced the shake up of the OPOs who are the agencies who are tasked with overseeing the recovery of solid organs for the purposes of transplantation. This will have all sorts of flow on effects. #Nephsky #Medsky

Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 19d

Federal regulators are moving to decertify the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a division of the University of Miami Health System.

A Miami-area organ recovery agency could close after ‘unsafe practices’ found

Federal regulators are moving to decertify the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a division of the University of Miami Health System.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 22d

An in-depth look at lymphatic reorganization!

This issue’s cover features 3D imaging and single-cell genomics by David A. Long, @daniyaljafree.bsky.social & team, revealing lymphatic rewiring in kidney tissue with chronic transplant rejection: buff.ly/BZEw4az

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