Reposted by Chip BowmanDr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today. 829654
Reposted by Chip BowmanSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/12/2025Vaccinating babies against hepatitis B is a simple recommendation that saves lives—one based on solid science, & that has led to a dramatic drop in preventable infections and deaths. Ending this recommendation will cost lives. RFK Jr. must answer to Congress.washingtonpost.comRFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood scheduleThe new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies. 1224468
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Had a great time at #TLM2025 this year! #liversky 050
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Another great addition to the #LiverFellowNetwork Why series on cardiac dysfunction in cirrhosis. #Liversky #meded www.aasld.org/liver-fellow...aasld.orgWhy does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? | AASLDWhy does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? Cirrhosis has a myriad of effects on human cardiovascular physiology. Many of the hemodynamic... 040
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Excited to be attending the AST Fellows Symposium of Transplantation this weekend #ASTFellows2025 010
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This Thursday @aasldfoundation.bsky.social has a webinar for Pride month. Come check it out! Past Present and Future: LGBTQ+ health and hepatology #liversky #gastrosky #medsky www.aasld.org/webinar-prid... 061
Reposted by Chip BowmanVoters of Tomorrow @votersoftomorrow.org · 19/06/2025This administration genuinely doesn’t care if queer kids live or die. 24718
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Heads up to sign up for an AASLD Pride Webinar later this month! www.aasld.org/webinar-prid... #liversky #medsky #gisky #gastroskyaasld.orgWebinar: Pride Webinar LGBTQ+ Health and Hepatology: Past, Present, and FutureModerator: Chip Bowman, Aly Strauss, Martha Bausch, BSN, MSN 020
Reposted by Chip BowmanHanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 29/05/2025An important message on naltrexone in patients with liver disease: ✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver. 🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver. We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD! @nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 0114
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Had a great experience presenting my senior talk as a GI fellow at Grand Rounds this morning talking about my passion of Quality Improvement in Hepatology 010
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025It’s a gorgeous day in San Diego for #DDW #DDW2025 010
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025One of many ongoing attacks on public health. Very disheartening to see 121
Reposted by Chip BowmanHanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 31/03/2025Encouraging #GISky and #liversky Fellows to apply! 📆 Apply by April 1st! 033
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Happy #matchday to all the medical students! Whether or not you got your top choice you all deserve a great celebration! #medsky 0111
Reposted by Chip BowmanAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...thelancet.comContribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on ImmunizationSince 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50... 5135111679
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Struggled last night with a bit of research coding and finally got it right. The feeling is elation! (Until the next bit humbles me no doubt) 030
Reposted by Chip BowmanSteven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/202598% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule 4935241261
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This week had a lovely time at #NYSGE with the Columbia crew. Celebrated outgoing president Dr Poneros. #GISky #gastrosky 050
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Excited for today’s Columbia Liver Summit on HCC Management! #LiverSky 040
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Fascinating GI grand rounds at Columbia on GLP1s. My take away - growing evidence of benefits in multiple areas, scarce significant side effects mostly GI, data on endoscopy/gastric emptying is limited, and no data yet accounts for rise in use via compound pharmacies. #GIsky #liversky 130
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Not long after my post for the #LiverFellowNetwork on machine perfusion, this meta-analysis comes out showing promise for use of HOPE/dual-HOPE. #LiverSky journals.lww.com/lt/pages/art...journals.lww.comMachine perfusion strategies in Liver Transplantation: A... : Liver Transplantationuality from extended criteria donors and donors after circulatory death and expand the donor pool. This network meta-analysis investigates the comparative efficacy and safety of various liver MP strat... 020
Reposted by Chip BowmanBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comExperts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident. 23262803026
Reposted by Chip BowmanDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This is an excellent, in-depth article on what leaving the Paris Climate agreement means for the US by @borenbears.bsky.social One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy." 30975593205
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Very excited to learn from the brilliant Dr Aneke-Nash with her grand rounds on endobariatrics. #gastrosky 060
Reposted by Chip BowmanElliot Tapper @ebtapper.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Read this A review of reported adverse events for medications to treat alcohol use disorder we must reduce alcohol use in people with liver disease And to increase uptake of useful tools … we need stop repeating that naltrexone is hepatotoxic doi.org/10.1016/j.cg... 3185
Reposted by Chip BowmanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise. 791242107818
Reposted by Chip BowmanOut Magazine @out.com · 21/01/2025Now, more than ever, we must stand united against these injustices. Together, we can build a future where everyone is celebrated for who they truly are. 🏳️⚧️ If you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed, please remember that you are not alone. There are resources available to help. 13015
Reposted by Chip BowmanWHO @who.int · 21/01/2025WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7 24948231950
Reposted by Chip BowmanThe BMJ @bmj.com · 21/01/2025 In a major blow to global health, the US administration has announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization @who.int. @kentbuse.bsky.social and colleagues propose urgent actions for the international community to mitigate the damage www.bmj.com/content/388/... 34224
Reposted by Chip BowmanChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025BREAKING: SCOTUS takes up 3 new cases, including a challenge to PrEP and contraception coverage that led to an order from Judge Reed O’Connor, affirmed by the 5th Circuit, that would end a wide variety of preventative care coverage under the ACA. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/biden-admi... 80959590
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Had a lot of fun learning about machine perfusion for this article on the #liverfellownetwork #lfn #liversky www.aasld.org/liver-fellow...aasld.orgWhy machine perfusion has the potential to change the liver transplant landscape - and why hasn’t it yet? | AASLDWhy has liver transplantation grown significantly in recent decades? Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has been performed since 1963 with more routine... 031
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Not to brag but I had my Acls recertification today and I won the lunch break review game 040
Reposted by Chip BowmanHanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 09/01/2025Interesting thoughts on the low yield endoscopies we frequently perform and the high environmental costs. I knew endoscopy generated a lot of waste, but 🤯! Let’s work to make endoscopy a bit more green (and study where endoscopy provides the most theuraputic and diagnostic value) 192
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Thrilled about todays GI/Liver grand rounds at Columbia #liversky #gastrosky 170
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 31/12/20242024 was a fantastic year for me. Closed some chapters and am on a good roll. Looking forward to what 2025 brings - including becoming an uncle!! 020
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Surprised our mother with us all visiting for her birthday! 010
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Had a blast at the Columbia GI holiday party. Love my cofellows! #gisky #liversky #gastrosky 020
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Making a breakfast for champions and a full day of endoscopy. My best sourdough loaf to date! 150
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Preparing a journal club and making fresh sourdough. 090
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Enjoyed some homemade s’mores ice cream today while catching up on some liver reading 030
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Made a maple latte to help warm me up this cold morning. My latte art is slowly getting better! 160
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Got the first email to sign up for GI boards. Time flies! Really not looking forward to paying that much though #gisky #medsky 130
Reposted by Chip BowmanCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In a little known fact, many of the subsidies that drive the Affordable Care Act are set to expire at the end of 2025. Republicans have already signaled they will not extend them. That means millions of Trump supporters are now on track to lose their health insurance. Whoops. 2232574712
Reposted by Chip BowmanEric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Medicine focuses a lot on the question “will this help my patient” but not on the question “when will it help my patient.” The latter becomes important as we age. We’ve developed a “time-to-benefit” tool on eprognosis.ucsf.edu to help answer this question. Here is a snapshot #MedSky #FOAMed #meded 1114654
Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Just attended a phenomenal session at #TLM24 on liver POCUS. So much hands on practice and teaching will definitely be transferable skills for patient care. #Liversky 010