📢BREAKING NEWS📢

The 2024 #IStandWithHer award nominations are OPEN for people of all genders. Do you know someone who deserves to be recognized? Nominate them today!
#WIMStrongerTogether

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Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) CMSS AMA AOA AAMC ACGME ABMS NBME National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners NRMP® ACCME Thank you Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) for your leadership and for all 10 orgs for their dedication and commitment to equitable, just care

#Mifepristone is safe. Mifepristone is effective. Mifepristone is well studied. And mifepristone must not be taken from patients in need of abortion and miscarriage care because of the biases of a small group of activists. #SCOTUS

It is time to speak with one voice in support of #DEI in healthcare. CMSS proud to be among 10 medical organizations that issued this statement today.

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AMA AOA AAMC ACGME ABMS NBME National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners NRMP® ACCME

Please join us tomorrow 2/28 for a discussion hosted by the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) to explore how cutting-edge #AI tools can be used to enhance quality of care, empower the patient-clinician relationship, and reduce administrative burden.

Register here: lnkd.in/g4QhUHV9

Join Rasu Shrestha MD MBA Ritu Thamman MD (me) & Jennifer N Silva tomorrow Wednesday, February 21 7PM ET with #ACCWIC & #Healthcare #Innovation sections for a conversation about strategies for women & innovation
Register here-> Winnovation Webinar bit.ly/3I7cZeN

It was standing room only today to see Susannah Fox interviewed by Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) at the book launch event for Rebel Health! Our #WeAreNotWaiting movement & #LongCovid are among many stories she tells of #patient communities hacking & creating the solutions we need! #diabetes #T1D

So excited for & proud of Susannah Fox for her release of #RebelHealth !

Great interview with Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) at Politics and Prose today—joined by many pioneers & heroes of the #patient empowerment community both in person & in spirit.

#celebrate #healthcare #change

Please join us in welcoming Susannah Fox and Dr. Helen Burstin, at 3 p.m. this Sunday, February 18th Politics and Prose. Learn more about the health rebel alliance that is building up our collective capacity for better health. Link for details 👉🏻 bit.ly/3uwSl4H

Tomorrow, join Susannah Fox to discuss REBEL HEALTH, an action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care - with Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) - 3PM @ Conn Ave - bit.ly/3UEvpuV

Rebel Health author Susannah Fox is speaking in DC this weekend!

Q&A with Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵)
and the Politics and Prose
community.

3pm on Sunday, 2/18. Details: politics-prose.com/susannah-fox

fredtrotter #RebelHealth insights being served up, but no lunch.

Q&A with Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) and the Politics and Prose community.

3pm on Sunday, 2/18. Details: politics-prose.com/susannah-fox

CEO of CMSS and professor GW SMHS, Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵), will be joining our Feb webinar! As a physician leader committed to improving #HealthCare for all, she will share her insights on how #AI can be used ethically to foster collaborative #PrimaryCare . ow.ly/syHM50QAzEx

Interested in working on race and clinical algorithms/guidelines?

New full-time CMSS Civic Science fellow opportunity, supported by Doris Duke Foundation. The fellow will work with me and 50+ specialty societies to drive movement on this critical issue.
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My late father survived 18 months in #Auschwitz before the Death March to Mauthausen where he was liberated by US troops.

Here is his Auschwitz ID card from @holocaustmuseum and photo with his Auschwitz tattoo on his arm.

#NeverAgain #YomHaShoah

Deeply disturbing Medscape 2024 data on MD burnout and depression: medscape.com/slideshow/2024…

Respondents identified what leads to burnout (busywork, long hours) & how to fix it (comp, support staff, autonomy). Time to act. Burnout should be a required health system indicator.

Very proud of my better half’s work on pollster transparency
Mark Blumenthal

Back here for a minute to say I'm feeling very proud and appreciative that G Elliott Morris incorporated a Transparency Score, based on my research presented at AAPOR 2023, into FiveThirtyEight's newly updated Pollster Ratings, out today:

Read our new paper on how to keep track of your social & digital media contributions as part of promotions criteria journals.lww.com/academicmedici… Academic Medicine with Pitt Health Sciences Dean of Faculty Joe Losee, Dean for DEI C Pettigrew, led by Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD

Superb JAMA article on momentum to address race & clinical algorithms. Highlights CMSS convening w/ Doris Duke Foundation Moore Foundation National Academy of Medicine and progress to date from American Academy of Pediatrics American Society of Nephrology American Thoracic Society (ATS) & others

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