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Lilia Cervantes

@cervantes-lily1.bsky.social
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MD, MSCS, #MedSky and #NephSky, #immigrant and #LatinSky 🇲🇽 Favorite research: #healthjustice, #kidneyhealth, #Implementation Science and community-partnered research. Love long-distance running. University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Because policy shapes health, research on policy is health research." Great article from some giants in the fields of public health, social epidemiology, and health policy research: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront
Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please read this letter with important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists. Its powerful that so many organizations came together. Thanks to everyone involved. Consider commenting on the NIH RFI by the 9/30 deadline: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-095: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL TRIAL INVESTIGATORS
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL ...
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We joined The American Society for Clinical Investigation and more than 30 other organizations to support early career clinician scientists because we believe patients deserve to see steady development of new treatments far into the future.
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today the American Society for Clinical Investigation published an open letter to NIH leadership on proposed changes to K awards, co-signed by 30 professional societies and foundations. Thank you to the ASCI working group and every society and foundation that signed beta.the-asci.org/news/advocac...
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Open letter to the NIH regarding proposed changes to K awards - The American Society for Clinical Investigation
Read more about Open letter to the NIH regarding proposed changes to K awards at The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let NIH know that we need pathways to train future clinical trialists. We must not remove the current pathway before a new model is available. Thank you to @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social , @jeremymberg.bsky.social and University of Colorado based advocates for leading this effort.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My quote of the day Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Gold standard" is a turd-polishing dog whistle foisted on real physician -scientists by those destroying the NIH, who are replacing it with policy-driven "science" (aka Lysenkoism 2.0) I hope those affected (such as here) can make it through to the other side.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a very important read
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“…the new policy creates a catch-22: investigators must demonstrate independence to successfully compete for larger trial funding, while the K award can no longer support the career development needed to demonstrate it.” Excellent piece, please read.
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Out today in @jama.com: "On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist: The Importance of Pilot Clinical Trials. I was honored to co-author this with Drs. Fesintein, @dramyhuebschmann.bsky.social & @russgl.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist
This Viewpoint discusses the recent National Institutes of Health announcement that its Career Development (K) awards cannot be used to conduct clinical trials, feasibility studies, or ancillary studi...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are people still telling scientists that we need to compromise with MAHA? How about if we tell MAHA that they can come to the table when they respect the scientific method instead.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My quote of the day The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My quote of the day Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see Freddy Mercury
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My quote of the day Respect shouldn't have to be fought for. But if we have to fight for it, then we will. Dolly Parton
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wash Examiner: Trump wants to cut NIH. What future medicines will your family lose? By David Adler @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social bit.ly/467WQSv
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was a great conversation!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CMS isn’t even collecting race and ethnicity data on the 2728 form for end stage kidney disease. That’s been a primary source of research data in ESKD. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Nonreporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Research Harms Us All
At JAMA Internal Medicine, we have become increasingly aware that some US researchers are unable to report on race or ethnicity as demographic variables to describe their sample or to conduct stratifi...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My quote of the day If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honored to be part of this panel. Please listen in if you can!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Of the 6580 K awards (more or less equal numbers of K01, K08, and K23 awards), 877 were associated with a clinical trial by this method. The results for this subset of investigators is shown here: 6/13
A line graph showing transitions for K awardees with clinical trials to other NIH awards. More than 20% of the awardees transition to R01s associated with clinical trials.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Over 60% of the awardees transitioned to other NIH support including over 40% within 10 years of the start of the K award. NIH Exporter has a file that links grants to clinical trials in ClinicalTrials.gov ((reporter.nih.gov/exporter/cli...) 5/13
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RePORT ⟩ RePORTER
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I looked at K01, K08, and K23 awards from 2010-2020 (to allow time for follow up). The first result is shown here: 4/13
A line graph showing the time course of K awardees transitioning to other grants including R01s. Overall, approximately 60% transition to other grants with more than 40% transitioning to R01 support within 10 years.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Since I learned that NIH was discussing changes to K awards, I started to look at the results of the awards with an emphasis on those that were associated with clinical trials. One big question was how often and how fast to K awardees transition to R01 or other substantial awards. 3/13
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is in response to this recent NIH Notice. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 2/13
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NOT-OD-26-098: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs NOT-OD-26-098. OD
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at Science on K award changes. www.science.org/content/arti... 1/13
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Agency will no longer allow K career awards to fund clinical trials
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Getting rid of clinical trial K awards will reduce the number of clinician scientists, a critical part of our research workforce. This will especially impact the group of folks doing implementation science (where we figure out how to get evidence into practice). www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Agency will no longer allow K career awards to fund clinical trials
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
3) they almost always require NOFOs which are basically extinct or at least drastically reduced in the current environment as @elizabethginexi.bsky.social has shown us with her analyses. substack.com/@formernih/n...
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The NIH Forecast Graveyard, Revisited
An Update on NIH's Stalled Funding Pipeline, as the Fiscal Year Runs Out
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another mechanism is supposedly in the works, but I have not been able to get many details. Getting rid of K clinical trials might have come up in the before times, but in the before times we likely would have had the replacement ready to go first.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The idea to drop K trials (& to curtail NOFOs) both came up pre-2025. They are championed by a civil servant, Jon Lorsch, who has the unfortunate habit of thinking he’s the smartest person in the room, even on subjects where he is not an expert. He has of course been promoted under Bhattacharya.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
But in Bhattacharya’s NIH (or perhaps more accurately the Memoli/Lorsch NIH), the rule seems to be break it first, hopefully find a way to fix it later (not sure fixing it has ever been the goal), and with no care for those who suffer during the transition.
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This week, NIH announced that K career development awards will no longer support independent clinical trials. These are the awards that train clinicians to lead their own trials. Eliminating the on-ramp doesn't strengthen the pipeline, it shrinks it.
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ASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#ASNJASN: >50% of ESRD beneficiaries are now in Medicare Advantage, yet only 1 Star measure assesses kidney care. Major gaps remain in CKD screening, nephrology referral, kidney-protective therapies, and transplant referral. kidney.pub/JASN1200?... @asnkidney.bsky.social @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
⭐This is one of the best implementation science conferences with stellar leadership from @monica-p-jolles.bsky.social and many others. Please share and consider attending.
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📜Proud to share our study in @jamainternalmed.com on moral injury among physicians caring for immigrant patients ⭐️Physicians described moral injury and worsening patient health. Advocacy helped restore agency. @marlenemartinmd.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Moral Injury Among Physicians Caring for Immigrant Patients Amid Anti-Immigrant Policies
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of primary care physicians regarding their own well-being and the health and well-being of their immigrant patients after anti-immigrant policy changes...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Beautiful and important article from @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social on providing compassionate and trauma-informed care for undocumented patients. Please read! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Exam Room as Sanctuary — Caring for Undocumented Patients | NEJM
Caring for undocumented immigrants at a time of heightened fear requires actionable frameworks guided by compassion and respect. Trauma-informed care is a vital approach for physicians.
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Feeling energized after visit to @nyulangone.bsky.social Honored to deliver Emergency Medicine GR and engage with undergraduate and medical students, and residents with IEHE. Grateful to to many including Drs. May Li, Gbenga Ogedegbe for the warm welcome and thoughtful conversations #HealthEquity
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Happy to share our 📜 "The Exam Room as Sanctuary - Caring for Undocumented Patients" Led by Dr. Miguel Linares at UCLA. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes Among Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients bit.ly/AJKD25Giusti (FREE temporarily) @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social
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CU Anschutz Department of Medicine @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Congratulations to @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social on receiving the Helen M. Ranney Award from the Association of American Physicians. 🎉 The award recognizes a new AAP inductee whose work advances research, patient care, education, and mentorship in academic medicine. 🌟 @cudivhospmed.bsky.social
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Rachel Fabi Ph.D. @fabioethics.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine on the maternal/child health implications of the attempt to reinterpret the constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... @journalgim.bsky.social @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social @trishasantos.bsky.social
Stateless at Birth — Birthright Citizenship and the Safeguarding of Immigrant Maternal and Child Health 
Rachel E. Fabi, PhD 
Patricia Mae G. Santos, MD, MS
Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD
ABSTRACT This perspective discusses the public health implications of the recent executive order (EO), and subsequent court challenges, regarding the termination of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The EO threatens to undermine the justification that undergirds many state and federal policies regarding access to maternal healthcare for immigrants: the expectation that babies born in the USA will become US citizens. In so doing, the EO creates conditions under which many children born in the USA may be rendered stateless and thus ineligible for public benefits.
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ACCORDS @accordsresearch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
TOMORROW! Join us for an informational webinar about the D&I Science Graduate Certificate Program. Register at ucdenverdata.formstack.com/forms/dicert... #ImpSci #CUAnschutz
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Grateful for the opportunity to co-present with Dr. Stacey Simon at the CFSP Fortitude Lectureship @cuanschutz.bsky.social ! Grateful to CFSP mentors like Drs. Adit Ginde & Dr. Anne Libby who helped me with a successful K23 that formed the Navigate-Kidney trial! cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/training/cfs...
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Grateful to see the Navigate-Kidney, a community health worker-led intervention highlighted! This work was the culmination of 10 years of community-partnered research with individuals with kidney disease! In this RCT we reduced IDWG and improved patient activation news.cuanschutz.edu/medicine/nav...
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New Research: Culturally Tailored Intervention Improves Dialysis Care for Hispanic and Latino Patients
A decade of work led by CU Anschutz professor Lilia Cervantes, MD, and her colleagues reveal specially trained community health workers can improve dialysis adherence.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 24/11/2025
And a low tech solution, using community health workers helps reduce ID Weight Gain @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social And the GBD finally tackles CKD? @paddymark.bsky.social www.nephjc.com/news/kidneyw... #TopNephrology
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Kidney Week in Houston: Day 2 — NephJC
in this edition: Fish Oil, GBD, Flozination meta-analysis, CHW intervention in Hispanic/Latino patients, and much more
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Grateful to Drs. Germaine Wong & Nicki Scholes-Robertson for inviting me to the BEAT-CKD annual workshop in Sydney to speak on #advocacy and #implementation science! 100+ patients, caregivers, clinicians & researchers joined forces to explore #kidney policy priorities & community-partnered research
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14/11/2025
And now this. A clear violation of free speech. Jay Bhattacharya likes to talk about censorship, but he doesn’t actually care about censorship or free speech: he just wants to weaponize those principles to censor others. Like @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH. 🧵🧵🧵
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