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Shikha Jain MD FACP

@shikhajainmd.bsky.social
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Expert in healthcare communication, gender equity & policy | Founder, Women in Medicine® | 2024 Illinois Physician Leader of the Year | Advocate for women & marginalized communities | Hem/Onc | TEDx Speaker| UI Cancer Center #MedSky #WIMStrongerTogether

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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
💉Vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives. ✅ Science > politics ✅ “Cumulative effect” = myth ✅ Skipping vaccines = risk ✅ Herd immunity matters ✅ Confusion may affect insurance coverage Staying healthy protects us all. 🇺🇸 🎥 Watch: www.fox32chicago.com/video/1668484 #VaccinesWork #TrustScience
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Vaccines: Ask the Doctor — The Truth Behind the Confusion and Controversy
There's plenty of confusion surrounding vaccines and the misinformation is spreading. Tonight in a special report, Sylvia Perez breaks down exactly what's changed under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secret...
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📺 Tune in to FOX32 TONIGHT! I’ll be joining the fab Sylvia Perez to talk about the latest updates in vaccines—and what they mean for you and your family. From measles to COVID to RSV, we’re breaking it all down. 💉 Bottom line: Vaccines are safe, effective, and they save lives.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
What does advocacy look like? Sometimes it looks like this. An Emmy nomination, a red carpet, and a story that desperately needed to be told. Honored to stand alongside the incredible team behind “What’s My Life Worth.” #Emmys #HealthCareVoices #NYT
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 10/06/2025
The AMA's House of Delegates has adopted an emergency resolution opposing RFK Jr.'s move to gut the federal vaccine advisory council. The nation's top doctors association will seek a U.S. Senate investigation of his action, as well as alternate vaccine advice from elsewhere to invest in.
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AMA opposes RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccine panel, seeks Senate investigation
Delegates resolved that the nation's largest doctors group will advocate in support of the longstanding ACIP structure.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Realized something today: maybe autotune got so popular because an entire generation was raised on Alvin and the Chipmunks. 🎶🐿️ #MindBlown #PopCulture
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 23/05/2025
When safe, effective vaccines exist, testing updated versions (e.g., annual flu/COVID shot) by giving some participants a placebo is withholding treatment and thus is unethical. Immunobridging is used instead to evaluate the updated version. 🛟😷 medsky
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Why placebos don’t belong in vaccine trials
Volunteers in vaccine trials help drive medical breakthroughs, but they don’t always get the real shot. In early studies, some received a placebo, a harmless injection with no active ingredient,
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Describing the corrupt wellness and influencer industry, how they buy in bulk, jack up the prices and bilk consumers through telehealth visits
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University of Illinois Cancer Center @uicancercenter.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Chicago’s NBC 5 News featured University of Illinois Cancer Center member @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, a @uihealth.bsky.social medical oncologist, discussing approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of an at-home #cervicalcancer screening test. #CanSky Watch the video here: bit.ly/42X8NcN
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News Features Jain
Chicago's NBC 5 News features University of Illinois Cancer Center Member Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, on at-home cervical cancer screening test.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
NBC: New At Home Test for Cervical Cancer Screening Chicago’s NBC 5 News recently featured Dr. Shikha Jain, a medical oncologist at UI Health and a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, in a segment highlighting a major advancement in women’s health. Dr. Jain discussed the U.S. Food…
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NBC: New At Home Test for Cervical Cancer Screening
Chicago’s NBC 5 News recently featured Dr. Shikha Jain, a medical oncologist at UI Health and a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, in a segment highlighting a major advancement in women’s health. Dr. Jain discussed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first at-home cervical cancer screening test—a development that could significantly increase access to early detection and prevention.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis is a reminder that 1 in 8 men will face this disease. As an oncologist, I hope his story sparks awareness around early detection, PSA screening, and access to care. Thinking of him and his family. #ProstateCancer #MensHealth #Oncology
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University of Illinois Cancer Center @uicancercenter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A New York Times video focused on the ramifications of prior authorizations and featuring University of Illinois Cancer Center member @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, a @uihealth.bsky.social medical oncologist, was nominated for a 2025 News Emmy Award. Watch the video here: bit.ly/4m4saYT
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 10/05/2025
*have brought back
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Asked who he is: “I am a sinner” www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview “Solidarity is a term that many wish to erase from the dictionary.” "I myself was born in a family of migrants..I could've wound up a discarded person.So i ask: Why them & not me? www.ted.com/talks/his_ho... RIPower Pontifex!
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Why the only future worth building includes everyone
A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to p...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one): So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One of the best healthcare leadership conferences in the nation. Join us to transform your career, learn new skills, and engage with an amazing community of #WomenInMedicine and ally’s. The long event of its kind and you don’t want to miss it this year. #WIMStrongerTogether
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
(The only deaths that I know of from the measles *vaccine*, are in places where it was mixed with the wrong diluent - not a fault of the vaccine at all. Feel free to correct me if you have good data to the contrary.) www.science.org/content/arti...
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At least 15 children in Syria die in measles immunization campaign
Human error thought to be to blame for deaths in measles vaccination campaign
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
& more 🤯🧪🛟🩺 (These statements are absolutely positively NOT TRUE) bsky.app/profile/atru...
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University of Illinois Cancer Center @uicancercenter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
March is #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth. Cancer Center member and UI Health oncologist @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, who specializes in colorectal cancer, was on hand at a UIC Flames Men’s Basketball game to share info about colorectal cancer screening and prevention. bit.ly/3ERhpZ0
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Flames: Colorectal Cancer Awareness
CECIL, the Cancer Center's giant inflatable colon, on display at UIC Flames women’s basketball for March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Colorectal Cancer Prevention: What You Need to Know Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable — and treatable — cancers, but only if it’s caught early. Alarmingly, rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially in younger adults. As a physician and advocate for cancer prevention, I…
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Colorectal Cancer Prevention: What You Need to Know
Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable — and treatable — cancers, but only if it’s caught early. Alarmingly, rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially in younger adults. As a physician and advocate for cancer prevention, I recently had the opportunity to speak with ESPN to help raise awareness about this critical issue. Early Detection Saves Lives Routine screening can detect colorectal cancer in its earliest stages — sometimes even before symptoms appear.
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University of Illinois Cancer Center @uicancercenter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Cancer Center member and UI Health oncologist @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, who specializes in colorectal cancer, will be available to answer questions from game attendees, as well as discuss colorectal cancer prevention during the halftime interview streamed live on ESPN+. #CancerResearch #CanSky
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KD Richardson @kdrichardson924.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thankful for the opportunity to speak with @shikhajainmd.bsky.social about my patient advocacy journey. Listen here - www.healio.com/news/hematol...
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Pioneering Changes in Patient Advocacy with Kimberly Richardson
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Mary-Margaret Fill, MD, MPH @mmfill.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I had the great privilege of serving in the EIS Class of 2015, responding to dozens of disease outbreaks and novel health threats. The program is a crowned jewel of U.S. public health and a model for other countries. Cutting this program does not, in any way, make our country healthier.
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Most Americans still have no idea about how F'd this country is about to get. I think if they knew it would be too overwhelming to process so they prefer maintaining the delusion, "It won't be that bad." It'll be very bad, folks. Hold on to your butts.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We need to shut ICE down until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
Post from "The Hill" reads, "ICE releasing migrant detainees as arrests exceed capacity: Report."
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PERSIST. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Here’s the start of our first starter pack! Go forth and follow and share - let’s build this resistance together! #Persist go.bsky.app/8BDn655
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Dem leaders need to start holding national security press conferences explaining to Americans how Elon and Trump are dismantling agencies and seeking sensitive information on federal workers and all Americans. What Elon and co are doing will endanger everything from flying to attacks in U.S.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Not having access to accurate scientific data and resources is not a way to protect the people of our nation.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I do not feel safe under a Trump presidency.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨 The CDC website is purging resources on LGBTQ+ health, diversity, equity, and health disparities. This is not just a bureaucratic change. It’s a dangerous decision with profound negative public health consequences. Let’s break down the harm this will cause. 🧵⬇️
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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Deb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 01/02/2025
FYI #Medsky #publichealth and anyone who is wondering about the relevant CDC documents
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Dr Linda Dykes @drlindadykes.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Our American #MedSky colleagues have been scrabbling around the #CDC website today trying to download resources and guidelines before they were taken down. I know some friends who downloaded PDFs in time. Is anyone collating these #CDCDownloads?
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We are so excited to be collaborating w ELAM on this important initiate. #Allyship is more important than ever and we are thrilled to see so many engaged #HeForShe allys stepping up and being #Upstanders #WIMStrongerTogether @womeninmedicine.bsky.social
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Dr. Don S Dizon @drdonsdizon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
These are shaping up to be challenging times for those of us in medicine and in Academia. It's a challenging time for anyone with empathy. Join me on TikTok with @shikhajainmd.bsky.social to talk about it, why it's so important we stay engaged. Tuesdays, 4pm EST www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2NgAAN1/
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Decided to do a weekly LIVE with @Shikha Jain Join us!
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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
What to know about hormone testing In my recent interview with @Fox32Chicago, I discussed the critical role hormones play in our health and well-being. Hormonal balance affects everything from energy levels and mood to long-term health outcomes. Understanding how hormones impact our bodies is…
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What to know about hormone testing
In my recent interview with @Fox32Chicago, I discussed the critical role hormones play in our health and well-being. Hormonal balance affects everything from energy levels and mood to long-term health outcomes. Understanding how hormones impact our bodies is essential for making informed decisions about our health. Watch the full interview to learn more about recognizing signs of imbalance and strategies for maintaining hormonal health. 📺 Watch here: Fox32Chicago Interview #HormoneHealth #WomenInMedicine #Fox32 #HealthMatters #EndocrineHealth #MedicalExpert #HealthAwareness
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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R-sky @fohmannn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Rates of cancer in women <50 are more than 80% higher than those of men in the same age range. This is an eye opening statistic
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
2025 Cancer Statistics: Progress and Challenges I had the privilege of speaking on CBS Chicago as an American Cancer Society spokesperson to discuss the latest cancer statistics for 2025. The report revealed both significant progress and critical areas of concern: Key Highlights ✅ Progress: Cancer…
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2025 Cancer Statistics: Progress and Challenges
I had the privilege of speaking on CBS Chicago as an American Cancer Society spokesperson to discuss the latest cancer statistics for 2025. The report revealed both significant progress and critical areas of concern: Key Highlights ✅ Progress: Cancer death rates have declined by 34% since 1991, averting approximately 4.5 million deaths. This progress is due to advancements in early detection, treatments, and reductions in smoking.
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Morgan S. Levy, MD, MPH (she/her) @morganslevy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Following the Dobbs decision, what factors are driving the practice location preferences of medical students and physicians? Our work in IJMR analyzes qualitative data from the PRACTICE study. Link: tinyurl.com/practicequalitative @shikhajainmd.bsky.social @drjessigold.bsky.social #medsky
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Elizabeth B. Malinzak, MD, FASA @ebmalinzakmd.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
New study on #sexualharassment in #anesthesiology in @iarsjournals.bsky.social by AUA ➡️60%♀️&30%♂️report harassment ➡️75%♀️report verbal/nonverbal harassment ➡️87%♀️&8%♂️feel clinical ability doubted ➡️source likely anesthesiologists buff.ly/42iYxfd @mayahastie.bsky.social @alyssaburgart.bsky.social
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🌟 Excited to be featured in USA Today highlighting the work of Women in Medicine®! We’re tackling burnout, equity, and leadership barriers to empower women in healthcare. Together, we’re transforming the future of medicine. 💡 Read more: www.usatoday.com/story/specia... #MedSky
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Ashley Newmann MD @ashleynewmann.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Intense burnout and cancellations, yes!
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As the holidays approach, I’ve faced these challenges in clinic: 1️⃣ Telehealth at risk for Medicare/VA patients. 2️⃣ Prior auth delays harm patients. 3️⃣ Clinician shortages delay care. 4️⃣ Reproductive care under attack. 5️⃣ Burnout crisis. 💬 Healthcare isn’t just a business—it’s about lives. #MedSky
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Shikha Jain MD FACP @shikhajainmd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Isn’t it amazing that when bullying behavior happens to others, it’s easy to give advice and guidance. But when it happens to you, it’s hard to figure out what to do in the moment.
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Women in Medicine @womeninmedicine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It’s not too late to shop Kendra Scott in support of Women in Medicine! Use code GIVEBACK-IDTSD through 12/11 and 20% of your purchase goes to Women in Medicine ✨ #WIMStrongerTogether @shikhajainmd.bsky.social @sincerelydreve.bsky.social
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