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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 2d

From October 6-12, we celebrate National PA Week! 🩺

National PA Week celebrates the PA profession. We join PAs across the country in taking advantage of this opportunity to increase awareness of the second-fastest growing health profession and its importance in transforming the nation’s health.

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 5d

Eye spy a new study! Shiley Eye Institute researchers mapped iris colors across the U.S.: brown/black tops the list, then blue, hazel, green, other colors, and grey. Data could be used for future eye disease and sociological research. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Iris color distribution in the United States of America

Objective To document the distribution of iris color in the United States of America. Design This original investigation is an epidemiologic assessment of eye color data from all 50 states’ Departme...

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 6d

Out now in @jamapediatrics.com, research shows giving steroids before birth in twins born late preterm can help reduce breathing problems. Experts including, Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS, recommend routinely using this treatment in high-risk twin pregnancies. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Expanding the Evidence on Late Preterm Steroids to Twin Pregnancies

Nearly 60% of all preterm births in the United States occur in the late preterm period, defined as a birth after 34 weeks but before 37 weeks of gestation.1 In 2022, nearly 280 000 pregnant individual...

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 7d

"On this National Latino Physician Day, we celebrate our resilience and reaffirm our commitment to paving the way for the next generation of Latino leaders in medicine. 6% is not enough!"

📸 Jeffrey Garcia, MS1

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Contagion® @contagionlive.bsky.social · 15d

In our continuing conversation with @nizet.bsky.social, MD, he discusses how his lab is studying how to repurpose antibiotics that susceptibility testing had shown to not be efficacious against certain infections. @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social #IDsky

What’s Old is New: Rediscovering Antibiotic Utility

In our continuing conversation with Victor Nizet, MD, he discusses how his lab is studying how to repurpose antibiotics that susceptibility testing had shown to not be efficacious against certain infe...

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UC San Diego Health Sciences @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social · 14d

Researchers at @UCSDMedSchool.bsky.social and colleagues across the nation have announced the first data release from the #HBCD Study offering a detailed look at childhood #braindevelopment. Data could inform new interventions & improve health outcomes for children.

New Data Release Offers Unprecedented Look at Early Childhood Brain Development

UC San Diego and colleagues across the nation have announced the first data release from the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study, offering a detailed look at early human brain…

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Xu Zhou lab @ BCH & HMS @xuzhoulab.bsky.social · 19d

Super excited to see our recent @cellcellpress.bsky.social paper featured in a Life Metabolism preview! Huge thanks to Christoopher Glass @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social for the thoughtful highlight. 🔗 academic.oup.com/lifemeta/adv...
#inflammation #macrophage #chromatin #pH #biomolecularcondensates

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks @contagionlive.bsky.social for letting me put in some unscripted words

UC San Diego is the ideal place to receive your dream education or pursue a faculty career in collaborative medical or pharmaceutical sciences
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UC San Diego’s Collaborative Research Efforts, Community-Based Care Initiatives are in its DNA

Victor Nizet, MD, discusses how students can thrive at the university’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He discusses the school's features including its rigorous coursework, foc...

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 16d

Each medical student is enrolled in a course entitled Compassionate Action and Real Engagement in the community (CARE). The core course provides first- and second-year medical students with the skills needed to sustain a humanistic approach to medicine.

🗞️ go.ucsd.edu/46z9g5o

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 20d

The wait is almost over—#IBDCuttingEdge2025 starts tomorrow!

Join @scrippshealth.bsky.social, @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social & @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social for a three-day CME event on translational science, clinical trials, surgery & drug discovery in IBD care.

🎟️ Secure your spot: ow.ly/4FPU50VFUGW

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 21d

Our inaugural class of PA-S2s are off to their clinical rotations! 🥼

Here, PA-S2 Anna Roche poses outside of @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social's Jacobs Medical Center with Judd M. Laraway, PA-CU of the Division of Hospital Medicine on her first day of clinical rotations. 🩺

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 23d

Follow along with MS2 and Health Sciences Center of Excellence (HSCOE) scholar Daniel Alexander as he conducted summer research at NYU Langone in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery Research! 🔬

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 26d

"I recently received a scholarship to attend the @aadskin.bsky.social Legislative Conference and explored opportunities to integrate my public health background into dermatology to advocate for my patients outside of the exam room." - Raj Fadadu M.D., M.S., Dermatology Resident (PGY-3)

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UC San Diego Department of Surgery @ucsdsurgery.bsky.social · 27d

The #UCSDSurgery 2025 REIMAGINE Symposium keynote speaker will be Amy Purdy, a Paralympic medalist, bestselling author, and kidney transplant patient who challenges us to think bigger and consider new possibilities! @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social

2025 REIMAGINE Symposium Keynote Speaker Amy Purdy + Photo of Amy Purdy

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UC San Diego Health Sciences @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social · 27d

Researchers at the @cmcr-ucsd.bsky.social at @UCSDMedSchool.bsky.social have found that after at least two days' abstinence, frequent #cannabis users show no #drivingdeficits

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 27d

In honor of the School of Medicine Alumni Reunion taking place this weekend, we asked some @ucsandiego.bsky.social alumni what some of their favorite medical school memories were. 💙🔱

This year, we celebrate the milestone reunions of the Classes of 1975, 1985, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2015!

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UC San Diego Department of Surgery @ucsdsurgery.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations, Joel Baumgartner, M.D., and Priya Lewis, M.D., on receiving the @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social 2025 Exemplary Professionalism in the Clinical Learning Environment Award! This award recognizes exceptional professionalism, integrity and leadership in the clinical learning environment 🎉

Congratulations, Joel Baumgartner, M.D., and Priya Lewis, M.D., on receiving the 2025 Exemplary Professionalism in the Clinical Learning Environment Award + photos of Joel Baumgartner and Priya Lewis

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UCSD Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs @ucsdfacaffairs.bsky.social · 29d

👏 Join us in congratulating the honorees for 2025 UC San Diego Health Sciences Excellence in Mentoring Awards: Drs. Ami Doshi, Jack D. Bui, Sally Liu Baxter, and the Department of Psychiatry!

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 29d

Lindsey Yourman, M.D., associate clinical professor in the Department of Geriatrics has been appointed by Office of @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social to the California Commission On Aging. 🩺

Read more ➡️ go.ucsd.edu/46ByOPF

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 29d

"Stem cell regenerative capacity was diminished but with some variability between bone marrow donors, suggesting that anti-aging resilience factors are activated in stem cells from some individuals but not others," said Dr. Catriona Jamieson, professor of medicine.

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 8

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Spaceflight accelerates the aging of human blood-forming stem cells

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has revealed that space travel accelerates the aging of blood-forming stem cells crucial for blood and immune system health.

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UC San Diego School of Medicine @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social · 29d

Ph.D. Candidate in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use at @ucsandiego.bsky.social and @sdsuresearch.bsky.social, Will Eger, has been named the @hartwickcollege.bsky.social Alumni Association's Outstanding Recent Alumnus! 🏆

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UCSD Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology @ucsdpccm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Busy and exciting times! This week marks the start of our first Clinical Pathology Conference during Grand Rounds and the beginning of the PCCM Fellowship Interview Season. Best of luck to everyone! #MedEd #PCCM @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social

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UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social · Sep 8

With the symbolic donning of their first white coats, the newest class of @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social students marked the beginning of their journeys. 🥼 bit.ly/4m436js

Group of medical students at a white coat ceremony, smiling and holding their white coats, inside an elegant hall.

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UC San Diego Health Sciences @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social · Sep 8

Out now in @JAMANetworkOpen.com: @UCSDMedSchool.bsky.social researchers discover blood biomarkers that could lead to a simple test for #Alzheimer's & related #dementias, especially in underrepresented communities.

Blood Test Could Streamline Early Alzheimer’s Detection

UC San Diego researchers identify blood biomarkers linked to cognitive decline in Hispanic/Latino adults, paving way for simple blood test to detect Alzheimer's.

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UC San Diego Health Sciences @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

A new discovery from researchers at @UCSDCancer, @UCSDMedSchool.bsky.social, and their collaborators have helped answer a major question in #cancer care: Why do some tumors not respond to immunotherapy?

Cancer Breakthrough Sparks New Vaccine

Researchers at UC San Diego and their collaborators have helped answer one of the most difficult questions in oncology: why do some tumors not respond to immunotherapy?

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