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🎉 Congratulations to our #SGIM26 Award Winner! 🎉 Please join us in celebrating Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, recipient of the ACLGIM Chief’s Recognition Award. His outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine. 👏 Help us congratulate Mitchell in the comments! #SGIM26 #AwardWinner #AcademicMedicine #InternalMedicine
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Happy to share our new NIH-funded MOSAAIC Study design and methods paper A new Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander longitudinal cohort sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @NIH @fredhutch @UW @nyulangone @UChicago @UHawaiiNews @StanfordMed @FoxChaseCancer @TempleUniv

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Today, the JAMA Network launches @JAMAplusTrials, a new online platform that highlights the vision, innovation, and resilience of clinical trial research. Designed for clinicians, investigators, trainees, and others engaged in clinical research worldwide, JAMA Trials is an interdisciplinary resource for enhancing insights and promoting dialogue in clinical trial research. 🧵
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For graduating IM & med/peds residents looking to expand skills as clinicians/educators, we are still accepting apps for our Clinician Educator Fellowship! This program grants protected time to explore academic areas of interest while doing primary care. tiny.ucsf.edu/clined

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Glad to discuss this widespread symptom in older adults. For most, nocturia doesn’t lend itself to a single magic bullet....
nytimes.com/2025/11/04/well/… Check out today's NYT article on Nocturia, still a hot topic!
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Neither panacea nor poison: the swinging pendulum of menopausal hormone therapy
Viewpoint: Menopause care should extend beyond hormone therapy, emphasizing individualized care, clinician training, and evidence-based management. ja.ma/47RGQ8A
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🚨 New from our HEARTY Lab! Our new publication uncovers real-time predictors of nicotine vaping, cannabis vaping, and same-occasion co-vaping among young adults
Real-Time Antecedents of Young Adults’ Vaping and Co-Vaping of Nicotine and Cannabis: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study dlvr.it/TMVBnD
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Our @UCSFDGIM @UCSF_DOCIT faculty investigator @LisaRotenstein sharing her findings about understaffed physician teams with colleagues and journals at #SGIM25:
Editorial: At #SGIM25, JAMA Internal Medicine featured studies on physician well-being, health equity, and end-of-life care practices. ja.ma/3SsT4fy @pdfriedmann
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Glad to discuss the evidence for efficacy and safety of newer non-hormonal treatments for hot flashes with @lindseybever at @washingtonpost, who highlights the need for affordable and well-tolerated options for women with debilitating symptoms: washingtonpost.com/wellness/…
Estrogen therapy remains the most effective treatment for menopausal vasomotor symptoms, but our @JAMAInternalMed insights article describes evidence-based non-hormonal treatment options for women who are not candidates for or wish to avoid hormones: doi.org/10.1001/jamainternme…
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Next weekend, DoC-IT is headed to #ARM2025! Stay tuned for session reminders to catch @j_r_a_m Abimbola Fadairo-Azinge @AJHolmgren and @LisaRotenstein if you'll be in Minneapolis from June 7-10.
🚨#ARM2025 is less than a month away! Plan on joining DoC-IT experts sharing cutting-edge research on digital tools, clinical data, and health equity. 🗓 June 7–10 | 📍 Minneapolis, MN 🔗 Full DoC-IT session lineup: docit.ucsf.edu/events/academ… See you there! @AcademyHealth
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So proud of our @UCSF_DOCIT @UCSFHospitals team presenting back to back talks in the #cic25 @AMIAinformatics meeting. Talks show that rigorous research on AI scribe complements operational efforts to monitor impact. @LisaRotenstein @SaraMurrayMD AI scribe -> lower burnout.
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Excited to share the first time ever 🥁 "Sex-Specific CAC Percentiles Across South Asian Adults in U.S." 65% of men and 30% of women have CAC >0 by 55 ~75th percentile for 55yo SA men or 65yo SA women is absolute CAC score of 100 link: bit.ly/43l9TOw @JACCJournals
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Happy to discuss the health issues and needs of Asian Americans and NHPI populations today #AAPIHeritageMonth @AAPCHOtweets @AAPIData
5/16 on Samantha Heller's Health & Nutrition Show, @NYUDocs, 12-2 pm ET: @joansalgeblake #registereddietitian, on #weightloss medications eg,#GLP1 agonists. @alka_kanaya w/ research on the health needs of our #AsianAmerican #PacificIslander population. Open phones. 877-NYU-DOCS
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So grateful to @SGIM, my mentors, nominators, and collaborators for this award and the opportunity to advance the science of GIM! @DBatesSafety @AlisonHuangMD @UCSFDGIM @j_r_a_m @Bruce_Landon @UCSF_DOCIT
🎉 Congratulations to our #SGIM25 Award Winner! 🎉 Please join us in celebrating Lisa Rotenstein, MBA, MD (@LisaRotenstein), recipient of the Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in general internal medicine. 👏 Help us congratulate Lisa in the comments! #SGIM25 #AwardWinner #AcademicMedicine #InternalMedicine
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Chicago Diabetes Day ⁦@alka_kanaya⁩ speaking on MASALA insights into type 2 DM in non-obese populations. She is receiving Donald F Steiner Award for Translational DM Research ⁦@ucdiabetes⁩ ⁦@KovlerDiabetes⁩ ⁦@ChicagoDRTC⁩ ⁦@ChronicDiseaseU
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A gripping documentary-drama, "The Brown Heart," sheds light on the silent crisis of early, severe, and often fatal heart attacks affecting Indian communities globally. Directed by Drs. Nirmal Joshi and Renu Joshi, the film features 40 health experts (including Drs. @alka_kanaya and @PSatishMD), personal testimonies, and voices from the entertainment industry. It is now available for streaming on @JioHotstar in India and worldwide at thebrownheart.com. Beyond raising awareness, the film offers prevention strategies and practical tips, emphasizing the critical need for action. This non-profit endeavor is supported by philanthropic donors from Pennsylvania, with @makeadentorg contributing expertise in the medical field.
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Estrogen therapy remains the most effective treatment for menopausal vasomotor symptoms, but our @JAMAInternalMed insights article describes evidence-based non-hormonal treatment options for women who are not candidates for or wish to avoid hormones: doi.org/10.1001/jamainternme…
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The Brown Heart 🤎 A docudrama told by personal stories, uncovering the reasons for skyrocketing rates of heart disease in young South Asians thebrownheart.com Please amplify @VigneshR @AnilOza16 @anahadoconnor @RepJayapal @RoKhanna @Amibera1 @ashishkjha
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One group of women receiving little attention in menopause research is South Asians. But as shown by our new @ClimactericIMS report from the @masala_study, women of South Asian ancestry may undergo natural menopause earlier than other women in the USA: shorturl.at/jr9ze
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