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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 16h

After 17 years in her field, #StanDOM's Patricia Del Rosario says one visit with a clinical trial participant is when she understood what she had actually been doing all along. stanford.io/3VyOrFs

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Surveillance is the absolute underpinning of every single thing in medicine and public health. If you don't know where diseases exist, you can't practice medicine well," said #StanDOM #InfectiousDisease physician & #epidemiologist Julie Parsonnet during this week's Medicine Grand Rounds.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Naw Nilar Lynn Myint helps maintain lifelong follow-up records for transplant patients in #StanDOM's Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy. "I feel that I am part of a large effort to improve healthcare," she says. stanford.io/4AFAw0o

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social & Purvesh Khatri, who are part of two Stanford Medicine teams awarded Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) contracts for their work using artificial intelligence for better patient outcomes. stan.md/4yqnhyZ

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meet Joanna Liliental, the executive director building Stanford's Master of Science in Translational Research & Applied Medicine (M-TRAM) program into a model for #TranslationalMedicine training. #StanfordWIM #WomenInMedicine stanford.io/3QV2SSq

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#StanDOM's Ami Bhatt & her team are decoding how hospital #superbugs evolve in real time, using "jumping genes" to survive. This #WomenInMedicineMonth, we're celebrating the women driving discoveries like hers. Read more: stanford.io/4d5QO8Q

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Odette Harris, a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford & national leader in #TraumaticBrainInjury research, has spent her career asking, "How do we get more people in medicine that look like me?" Watch on The Future of Medicine with #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social: bit.ly/3TyTGV5

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this Q&A, #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social explains why genome sequencing standards need to evolve, & how approaches like the pangenome could improve precision medicine: stan.md/3V5F2oF

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another September, another powerful group of women leading medicine forward. These photos represent the physicians, researchers, educators & staff who showed up this September to celebrate, inspire & lead. Thank you to everyone who joined us. #WomenInMedicine

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Katherine High delivered this week's Stanley Schrier Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds. The Spark Therapeutics co-founder & 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winner led the team behind Luxturna, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited disease.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wildfire smoke does more than irritate eyes & lungs. #StanDOM's Sharon Chinthrajah explains how it may alter gene expression, inflammatory signals & immune cells, with effects that build with each exposure. stan.md/3T1la5z

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This Women in Medicine Month, we're highlighting #StanDOM's Mukta Awasthi, who leads the My Life, My Story program at the Palo Alto VA. The initiative adds veterans' first-person life stories to medical records to give them a voice. #WomenInMedicine stanford.io/4AnvcP4

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Addressing #AntimicrobialResistance requires more than changing prescribing practices, according to research from Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health's Ashley Styczynski, who found that it also requires understanding the local conditions behind them. stanford.io/4hcc4uQ

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is linked to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. #StanDOM's Victoria Parikh is helping test a gene therapy designed to correct its genetic cause: stanford.io/4yTJsxB

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#StanDOM's Hlaing Moh Moh Thu ("Moh") once worked on cancer data and registry in Myanmar. Today she brings that expertise to our transplant team as a clinical data specialist. Read her story: stanford.io/4iJ9Rcx

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New on The Future of Medicine with #StanDOM's Errol Ozdalga: Stanford researcher Pascal Geldsetzer discusses a remarkable body of evidence connecting #shingles vaccination with a lower risk of #dementia: youtu.be/lpraA-mGD3M

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I am excited by the LUCIDITY results & the potential to have the first treatment for patients with PBH," says #StanDOM's Marilyn Tan, who led the Phase 3 trial of avexitide for #PostBariatricHypoglycemia. bit.ly/3SPZppg

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Our work is about more than just data. It is also about people feeling recognized, represented & heard," says #StanDOM's Annesa Flentje who co-directs @pridestudy.org, following 30,000+ LGBTQIA+ participants nationwide. #StanfordWIM #WomenInMedicine stanford.io/4rBmHw5

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gary Ruvkun, 2024 Nobel laureate for the discovery of microRNA, delivered this week's Rubenstein Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds: "How a Tiny Worm Reveals Big Insights for Medicine."

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#StanDOM's Amelia Sattler is reshaping #PrimaryCare by integrating #BehavioralHealth into everyday practice, so patients receive the right amount of support at the right time. We're celebrating her impacts this #WomenInMedicine Month! #StanfordWIM stanford.io/4xYjx7X

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Congratulations to Sidhartha R. Sinha, MD, recipient of the 2026 Sherman Emerging Leader Prize! The $25,000 national award recognizes rising leaders advancing IBD research and care. Sid was honored for innovative work addressing unmet patient needs: shermanprize.org/prize-recipi...

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Sidhartha R. Sinha, MD - The Sherman Prize

Dr. Sidhartha Sinha turns unconventional ideas into new possibilities for IBD, pioneering treatments and technologies designed around patients’ needs. Growing up in Duncan, Oklahoma, a small town near...

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New on The Future of Medicine with #StanDOM's Errol Ozdalga: Stanford Medicine allergist Jyothi Tirumalasetty explains how propellants used in many inhalers act as greenhouse gases & why reducing the emissions requires more than switching medications. youtu.be/lQARVSlt7D0

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You don't need advanced medical training to save a life. Meet #StanDOM Administrative Specialist Tawny Bagnol, who championed hands-only CPR training for her Cardiovascular Medicine colleagues. stanford.io/4A9ZPHK #WomenInMedicineMonth #StanfordWIM #WomenInMedicine

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can a short, animated video help lessen stigma around drug & alcohol use disorder? Early findings from #StanDOM's Maya Adam & colleagues indicates yes. More on her work that seeks to disseminate health messages through digital pathways: stan.md/4ygcoiU

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For #WomenInMedicine Month, we're celebrating #StanDOM's Faraah Bekheet & Morgan Shannon, members of Stanford Medicine's 2026–27 Chief Resident class. These two women are already making an impact across research, education & patient care. More about them: stanford.io/4AjATOa

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This week's Medicine Grand Rounds featured a fireside chat with Tara Narula Cangello, at Lenox Hill Hospital, professor at Zucker School of Medicine, Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News & New York Times best-selling author.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A new study by #StanDOM's Eran Bendavid & @healthpolicy.stanford.edu's Qinqin Kong, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, examined how age affects heat tolerance & developed the first-ever global map of who is at risk from dangerous heat, broken down by age. stanford.io/4gLXkUx

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This #WomenInMedicine Month, we're spotlighting #StanDOM's Marina Basina & Stanford's milestone #IsletCellTransplant breakthrough — a new path toward a #Type1Diabetes cure. Read her story: stanford.io/4xfpps2 #StanfordWIM #WIM

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Stanford #LiverTransplant Program at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley, led by #StanDOM's Deepti Dronamraju, helps critically ill patients access complex liver transplant evaluations closer to home &, when needed, move more quickly toward transplantation. stanford.io/467m17I

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New on The Future of Medicine: #StanDOM's Ami Bhatt & @euanashley.bsky.social discuss how the #microbiome shapes human health, why certain microbes evolve into hospital superbugs & more. youtu.be/d1kVMz5a3Bk

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Work from #StanDOM's Christina Curtis has redrawn the molecular map of breast cancer. She opened the 2026-27 Medicine Grand Rounds season with "The Long Game: How Hereditary Variation Shapes Immunity and Breast Cancer Trajectories."

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Music of the Meadow," arranged by #StanDOM's Diana Farid, an award-winning author & poet, is a participatory poem created from words & phrases contributed by 27 Stanford Medicine faculty, staff, trainees & students in celebration of #WomenInMedicine month. #StanfordWIM stanford.io/4xA57dM

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#StanDOM staff member Jonathan DeVore placed second in the Stanford Medicine Spark Tank competition! He presented the Faculty Affairs Management Enterprise (FAME) system, developed to streamline workflows for faculty affairs staff. stanford.io/4gCuvbO

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#StanDOM's Yann Le Guen & team studied people who remain cognitively healthy as they age, despite having strong genetic risk factors associated with #AlzheimersDisease. He discusses the study & what it may teach us about natural protection against Alzheimer's: stanford.io/4wXDj1S

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

September marks #WomenInMedicineMonth, which celebrates women's contributions & leadership across healthcare. All month, we're highlighting the resilience, innovation & impact of women across #StanDOM! Dive in: stanford.io/46BK92c #StanfordWIM #WIM

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New on #FutureOfMedicine: #StanDOM's Ash Alizadeh & @euanashley.bsky.social discuss the promise & limitations of multi-cancer early detection tests. They unpack what cancer blood tests can already do, what remains unproven & more. Watch now: bit.ly/4xZXkWC

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Ann Mullally @mullallylab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Check out my conversation w/ @rosslevinemd.bsky.social Whether you’re a student, resident/fellow, hematologist/oncologist, cancer biologist, drug discoverer or patient, this #TheFutureofMedicine podcast is for you! @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social youtu.be/KNB27ZRqABI?...

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stanford Medicine's recent Spark Tank Administrative Showcase gave 25 innovators the stage to share ideas, in just 5 minutes each, that colleagues across departments can adopt, adapt & amplify to streamline their work.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A new #StanDOM-led study evaluated an #EHR–integrated LLM tool designed to identify #SurgicalPatients who may benefit from hospitalist co-management. Results suggest AI could help more consistently identify patients needing additional support before surgery. bit.ly/4hSitxa

The image shows a section of a webpage from JAMA Network Open. The header reads "Original Investigation | Health Informatics." Below is the title of a research article: "An Electronic Health Record-Integrated, Large Language Model-Powered Tool to Triage Surgical Patients." A list of authors with their credentials is presented, including Jane Wang, Timothy Keyes, and Jason S. Lass.

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just a few snapshots from #StanDOM's recent Staff Barbecue! We hope everyone else had as much fun as we did! 😎

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At the Stanford Valley Fever Clinic, #StanDOM's Shanthi Kappagoda & Dean Winslow treat complex cases & explore critical questions behind Valley Fever, a life-threatening disease, often mistaken for the flu & caused by a common soil fungus. stanford.io/4gCtBMu

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New on #FutureOfMedicine with #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social: @mskcancercenter.bsky.social Chief Scientific Officer Ross Levine discusses how a microscopic change in a single gene (JAK2) helped reshape how doctors understand & treat a group of #BloodCancers. bit.ly/4hGuq93

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A study led by #StanDOM's Yann Le Guen flips the typical question behind #AlzheimersDisease & asks: What protects some people from Alzheimer's, even when they carry strong genetic risk factors? The team's findings identify potential targets for prevention-focused research: bit.ly/4i3zQLF

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Supporting community health & wellbeing often means working beyond clinics. Stanford Medicine's $1.2 billion in community investment last year reached food security programs, mental health services & expanded care access for local residents. stan.md/4fTtflr

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Two Stanford projects, led by #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social & another by dermatologists Jean Tang & Anthony Oro, aim to make personalized #GeneticMedicine faster, more affordable & more scalable for patients with #RareDiseases: stanford.io/3ScugvR

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Through the My Life, My Story program at the Palo Alto VA, #StanDOM's Mukta Awasthi weaves patient stories into medical records. "Stories are a part of humanity & help us understand each other in ways nothing else can," she explains. stanford.io/4xGMEfb

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On The Future of Medicine, Clarence Braddock, a nationally recognized medical educator & former executive vice dean at @dgsomucla.bsky.social joins #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social to discuss what he has learned from decades in medical education. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJzevl2fb0

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How #StanDOM's Lekha Mikkilineni is working to make CAR T-cell therapy safer, faster & accessible to more patients with #MultipleMyeloma --> stanford.io/4zsF7CL

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"The use of compounded drugs in patients using GLP-1s without medical supervision pose significant risk & can result in significant consequences," says #StanDOM's Marina Basina in this Stanford Medicine article on concerns associated with compounded GLP-1s. stan.md/4z3FqUc

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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Research by #StanDOM's Sharon Chinthrajah & Sayantani Sindher indicates #omalizumab, alone or combined with oral immunotherapy, helped people with #FoodAllergies safely eat foods that once triggered severe reactions. stan.md/3THgBgB

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