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Rita Redberg @RFRedberg

UCSF cardiologist. NYC born and bred. Avid cyclist. Working to make needed health care accessible and affordable for all.

Joined July 2011
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I am honored! and in great company! thank you Samia, the #AHAWIC Mentoring Award winner!
Samia Mora@SamiaMoraMD
Feb 18
For #HeartMonth and @GoRedForWomen @AHAScience and #AHAWIC is highlighting impactful women in cardiology. Today's spotlight: Dr. Rita Redberg @RFRedberg Trailblazing advocate of evidence-based “Less is More" in cardiovascular medicine
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#handsoffherzogpark
Rachel Moiselle
@RachelMoiselle
29 Nov 2025
OK, everyone. Let’s try to get this trending. If you’re disgusted at Dublin City Council trying to erase Irish Jewish history and want to help the tiny Jewish community here in some way, please do quote tweet with the hashtag: #HandsOffHerzogPark Let it be known Irish Jewry is seen and supported 🫶🏼
Selfie.

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AHA Science
@AHAScience
8 Nov 2025
Presenting at American Heart Association conferences is more than a milestone—it’s a family tradition. #AHA25 Vice Chair @bnallamo proudly continues the legacy with his daughter Janaki, a high school student presenting a poster at #ReSS25. ❤️🫀
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Ritu Thamman MD
@iamritu
8 Nov 2025
Dr. Mora mentorship awardee shares #topten tips here are my favs #AHA2025 Be Persistent "Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not." J.R.R.Tolkien Be Resilient & Embrace New Fields "Out of life's school of war - what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" Nietzsche Be Prepared “chance favors only the prepared mind"Pasteur
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Fabulous work @bnallamo leading this important journal. Looking forward to seeing your next chapters!
Ritu Thamman MD
@iamritu
9 Nov 2025
Thank you @bnallamo for leading & inspiring us at @CircOutcomes Excited for the new name (change) #PopulationHealth #outcomes #AHA2025
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So well deserved! She has menteed so many far and wide, and so well and so generously.
Dr Roxana Mehran@Drroxmehran
8 Nov 2025
Meet Professor Samia Mora The 2025 AHA Women’s mentorship Award 🥇 ⁦@Harvard⁩ ⁦@BrighamWomens⁩ ⁦@AHAScience⁩ #AHA25
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Jennifer H. Mieres, MD , FACC, MASNC, FAHA
@DrJMieres
9 Nov 2025
Congratulations to @drstaceyrosen, President of the American Heart Association, on a powerful and inspiring Presidential Address. Even more special — the incredible Northwell Choir performing in her honor. #AHA2025 @KatzWomensHlth @avolgman @GarimaVSharmaMD @SharonneHayes
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Excellent article@sarahkliff Many women are having unnecessary C-sections which put them at higher risk of complications & later problems.Time to end routine electronic fetal monitoring . Flawed Technology Behind America’s High C-Section Rate nytimes.com/2025/11/06/healt… via @NYTimes

The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found.

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Great to connect with the old friends and new ones at#ESC2025.
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Great to work with my @UCSFDOM colleagues on this work, illustrating the importance of safety and effectiveness data before clinical use and ideally, before @FDADeviceInfo approval.
NEJM
@NEJM
17 Jul 2025
In a new Perspective, Benjamin Hyams, BA, Karla Kerlikowske, MD, and Rita F. Redberg, MD (@RFRedberg), write that AI mammography aids are being sold as additions to mammography screening, with direct-to-consumer marketing touting improved cancer-detection rates, despite a lack of evidence of clinical effectiveness. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/46yYOMP
Perspective "Marketing for AI devices may capitalize on breast cancer fears and an unfounded assumption that increased rates of cancer detection will lead to improved health outcomes." "New Mammography Tools — The Need for Clinically Meaningful Assessment Standards" by Benjamin Hyams, B.A., Karla Kerlikowske, M.D., and Rita F. Redberg, M.D.

ALT Perspective "Marketing for AI devices may capitalize on breast cancer fears and an unfounded assumption that increased rates of cancer detection will lead to improved health outcomes." "New Mammography Tools — The Need for Clinically Meaningful Assessment Standards" by Benjamin Hyams, B.A., Karla Kerlikowske, M.D., and Rita F. Redberg, M.D.

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Congratulations to @jholtzman3 and @ChrisBarnettMD for great work and a Blue Ribbon! @UCSFCardiology #ucsfqualityimprovement
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Honored to be part of the 100th Class of Guggenheim Fellows for this award in the category of Medicine and Health. I plan to write a book on healthcare, excited to share.
UCSF Cardiology@UCSFCardiology
22 Apr 2025
Congratulations to Dr. @RFRedberg on being named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow! This prestigious honor extends beyond the field of medicine, recognizing the most exceptional thinkers and scholars in our society. #UCSFCardiology @UCSF gf.org/stories/announcing-th…
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well said. i am so sad. Holly was an inspirational person, colleague and friend. May her memory be a blessing.
Bob Wachter
@Bob_Wachter
18 Apr 2025
With great sadness, I note the death of my friend & colleague Holly Humphrey, CEO of @macyfoundation. Holly's career was a model of integrity, grace, and joy, and her influence on medical training – and thousands of trainees – was profound. Rest in peace. macyfoundation.org/news-and-…
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✨Premarket approval: highest evidence requirement but lacking- no randomization, use of surrogate endpoints ✨very few sham comparison of devices ✨510k premarket notification- just had to show equivalence and is not intended to evaluate safety or effectiveness @RFRedberg
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Bogdan Enache
@bogdienache
30 Mar 2025
The curse of the 80% Pers AF-free curse of non-randomized trials lives on in the PFA era. #EHRA2025
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John Mandrola, MD
@drjohnm
30 Mar 2025
Patients lives don’t stop for a blanking period. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… @AndrewFoy82 @MRuzieh It’s time to jettison the blanking period altogether #ACC25 #ehra25

Patients' lives don't pause for blanking periods

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Henrike Hillmann@HenrikeHillmann
30 Mar 2025
Lukas Urbanek at the Young Investigator Award about Blanking times in PFA: ➡️ In PFA, too, ERAT predicts long-term recurrence ➡️ 2 months blanking period may be still too long for PFA ➡️ Appropriate blanking time for PFA may be 4 weeks or less @EHRAPresident
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Our paper in @LancetRH_Americ Barriers and solutions in women’s health research and clinical care: a call to action @WomensHeartCS @SmidtHeart @CedarsSinaiMed @JRegensteiner @LudemanCenter @drstaceyrosen @HadineJoffe @RFRedberg @StephFaubionMD 📎sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dr Roxana Mehran@Drroxmehran
8 Mar 2025
Happy International Women’s Day!! Never forget your #worth, #value, #strength,#intelligence,#impact, #influence #power We got this! Let’s celebrate today You deserve it all!! Keep Climbing and Stay #Strong and #United @WomenAs1 #WIC @ACCinTouch @American_Heart @escardio

ALT Women Empowerment Heart GIF by INTO ACTION

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
@SherylNYT
5 Mar 2025
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "People still think Elvis is alive.” -- @SenBillCassidy to NIH nominee Jay Bhattacharya, on why funding more research into whether vaccines cause autism is a waste of $$ and will not change any minds. w/@benjmueller nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/po…

Guarded N.I.H. Nominee Faces Sharp Questions on Vaccines and Research Cuts (Published 2025)

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, gained prominence during the Covid pandemic when he argued against lockdowns.

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