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Chip Bowman

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Transplant hepatology fellow. NYC. Interested in healthcare quality. He/him🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/12/2025
Vaccinating 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.
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The 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.
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Had a great time at #TLM2025 this year! #liversky
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Another great addition to the #LiverFellowNetwork Why series on cardiac dysfunction in cirrhosis. #Liversky #meded www.aasld.org/liver-fellow...
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Why does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? | AASLD
Why does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? Cirrhosis has a myriad of effects on human cardiovascular physiology. Many of the hemodynamic...
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Excited to be attending the AST Fellows Symposium of Transplantation this weekend #ASTFellows2025
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Happening now!
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This 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...
Pride webinar. Thursday June 26th at noon. Past present and future: LGBTQ+ health and hepatology.
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Voters of Tomorrow @votersoftomorrow.org · 19/06/2025
This administration genuinely doesn’t care if queer kids live or die.
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Heads up to sign up for an AASLD Pride Webinar later this month! www.aasld.org/webinar-prid... #liversky #medsky #gisky #gastrosky
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Webinar: Pride Webinar LGBTQ+ Health and Hepatology: Past, Present, and Future
Moderator: Chip Bowman, Aly Strauss, Martha Bausch, BSN, MSN
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Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 29/05/2025
An 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....
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Had 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
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It’s a gorgeous day in San Diego for #DDW #DDW2025
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
One of many ongoing attacks on public health. Very disheartening to see
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Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 31/03/2025
Encouraging #GISky and #liversky Fellows to apply! 📆 Apply by April 1st!
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Happy #matchday to all the medical students! Whether or not you got your top choice you all deserve a great celebration! #medsky
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing 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...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 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...
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Struggled 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)
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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
98% 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
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This week had a lovely time at #NYSGE with the Columbia crew. Celebrated outgoing president Dr Poneros. #GISky #gastrosky
Fellows and faculty of Columbia GI at the NYSGE annual business dinner
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Excited for today’s Columbia Liver Summit on HCC Management! #LiverSky
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fascinating 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
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Not 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...
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Machine perfusion strategies in Liver Transplantation: A... : Liver Transplantation
uality 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...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The 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...
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Experts 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.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This 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."
AP Headline: "Climate

Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do"
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Very excited to learn from the brilliant Dr Aneke-Nash with her grand rounds on endobariatrics. #gastrosky
Dr Aneke-Nash standing next to a screen with her title slide on endobariatrics
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Elliot Tapper @ebtapper.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Read 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...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating 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.
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Out Magazine @out.com · 21/01/2025
Now, 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.
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WHO @who.int · 21/01/2025
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw

The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization.
WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, often in dangerous places where others cannot go.

The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948 and has participated in shaping and governing WHO’s work ever since, alongside 193 other Member States, including through its active participation in the World Health Assembly and Executive Board. For over seven decades, WHO and the USA have saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats. Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO.

With the participation of the United States and other Member States, WHO has over the past 7 years implemented the largest set of reforms in its history, to transform our accountability, cost-effectiveness, and impact in countries. This work continues.

We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe.
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The 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/...
Donald Trump stands at a podium with JD Vance behind
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
BREAKING: 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...
CORDER LIST: 604 U.S.)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025
CERTIORARI GRANTED
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BECERRA, SEC. OF H&HS, ET AL. V. BRAIDWOOD MGMT., INC., ET AL.
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The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.
DEPT. OF ED., ET AL. V. CAREER COLLEGES AND SCH. OF TX

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
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CIR V. ZUCH, JENNIFER
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Game changer
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Had a lot of fun learning about machine perfusion for this article on the #liverfellownetwork #lfn #liversky www.aasld.org/liver-fellow...
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Why machine perfusion has the potential to change the liver transplant landscape - and why hasn’t it yet? | AASLD
Why has liver transplantation grown significantly in recent decades? Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has been performed since 1963 with more routine...
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Not to brag but I had my Acls recertification today and I won the lunch break review game
Screenshot of a podium with animals in accessories with Chip at the gold medal
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Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH @blaneymd.medsky.social · 09/01/2025
Interesting 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)
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thrilled about todays GI/Liver grand rounds at Columbia #liversky #gastrosky
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s a chilly morning in #nyc
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2024 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!!
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Surprised our mother with us all visiting for her birthday!
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Had a blast at the Columbia GI holiday party. Love my cofellows! #gisky #liversky #gastrosky
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Making a breakfast for champions and a full day of endoscopy. My best sourdough loaf to date!
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Preparing a journal club and making fresh sourdough.
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Enjoyed some homemade s’mores ice cream today while catching up on some liver reading
Small cup filled with two scoops of chocolate s’mores ice cream
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Indulging again on the weekend with a nice latte
Latte with tulip pattern in front of baking and coffee books and family pictures
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Made a maple latte to help warm me up this cold morning. My latte art is slowly getting better!
Latte with a tulip pattern
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Got the first email to sign up for GI boards. Time flies! Really not looking forward to paying that much though #gisky #medsky
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In 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.
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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Medicine 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
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just 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
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Chip Bowman @chipbowman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
First post here. Enjoying #TLM and #liversky !
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