Assistant Professor at #UCLARadOnc. Views are my own. Please don't blame them on these nice folks: @UCLAHealth, @OHSUSOM, @OregonMFA, @StanfordArts, @Stanford.
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29 Mar 2025
@TrudyWuMD, @AnnRaldow_MD, and I wrote a kindly worded letter about residency application personal statements. Our gratitude to all the med students who inspired it! @NEJM @dgsomucla @UCLAHealth nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Apr 17
Incredibly touched by this. Please take a minute to read today. An important message for physicians everywhere
Apr 16
"Medicine can have extraordinary meaning. But it cannot substitute for being present in your own life."
In #APieceofMyMind, a psychiatrist and residency program director reflects on an unexpected #LungCancer diagnosis.
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ALT Quote from JAMA, \"I thought I was healthy\u2014a lifelong nonsmoker. A wife and mother of 3. A psychiatrist and residency program director who loves her patients and her residents. And then I was diagnosed with lung cancer.\" - A Piece of My Mind, Jenna Taglienti, MD
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Mar 18
Thank you to the examiners from @UCLA, @cityofhope, and our extended community/friends for participating in our inaugural mock oral course. Your partnership is invaluable as we establish and build upon the program!
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Feb 9
T-2 months until oral boards.
The registration link is now open for our UCLA/COH mock oral course!
Spots are limited.
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Feb 3
Thanks to @IJROBP & @sueyom for allowing me to share my #mentalhealth journey, "After #Burnout: Reigniting the Flame." I hope this essay can help others out there in medicine that might be struggling.
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#physicianburnout #anxiety #depression #wellness
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22 Nov 2025
Fantastic visiting professor lecture @UCLAHealth from the visionary @max_diehn, presenting on features of radiation resistance, ctDNA, and cfRNA! @AnnRaldow_MD @TrudyWuMD @mattfarrellmd
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12 Nov 2025
Pleased to share the primary endpoint analysis of the LUNAR trial out in @JCO_ASCO ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO…. The addition of 177Lu-PNT2002 to SBRT improved PFS and HT-FS over SBRT alone, without a significant increase in toxicity, in men with oligometastatic prostate cancer
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14 Nov 2025
Such a joy for Dr. Puja Venkat and me to work with and learn from other artists in our rad onc community. Looking forward to reading and writing more poetry together! @IJROBP @ASTRO_org @UCLAHealthJCCC
13 Nov 2025
NEW on the ASTRO Blog:
"A Dose of Poetry," by Matthew J. Farrell, MD, MFA, Poetry Editor, International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics @mattfarrellmd @IJROBP
Read it now: ow.ly/7Zon50Xr95Q
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13 Nov 2025
NEW on the ASTRO Blog:
"A Dose of Poetry," by Matthew J. Farrell, MD, MFA, Poetry Editor, International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics @mattfarrellmd @IJROBP
Read it now: ow.ly/7Zon50Xr95Q
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28 Oct 2025
Hi med students! Join us for this @ASTRO_org Q&A Webinar on Tuesday Nov 4th at 8 PM EST. Excited to meet and chat about our field!
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/register/lwQ…
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24 Oct 2025
@AmarUKishan giving a masterclass lecture on oligometastatic prostate cancer in Trainees’ Day @FacRadOncology @RANZCRcollege
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Congratulations to @AmarUKishan on receiving the 2025 Steven A. Leibel Memorial Award, one of the highest honors in radiation oncology, presented by @ASTRO_org and @ABR_Radiology.
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29 Sep 2025
Join us today at Pie Punks! 3:30 PM
@AnnRaldow_MD @mattfarrellmd
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17 Sep 2025
Come hang out with us at @ASTRO_org! We look forward to meeting you!
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10 Sep 2025
Rad onc applicants- we would love to meet you and chat more about our program! ☀️🏖️
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2 Sep 2025
As personal statements get their final edits tonight, keep this in mind: ‘When your story is out there in the world, people will absorb it, be moved by it, see themselves in it. They’ll feel less alone. And a little more daring" @NEJM
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28 Jul 2025
Check out the new updates to #RadOncCalc and @RadoncTables available now on all platforms (iOS, Android, web)
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After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life. Read the Perspective by Grace Yi, MSPH: nej.md/4eQLkhD
ALT "It was gutting to contemplate the pain of losing a mother, my mother, and yet … here that experience seemed so ubiquitous, even mundane." Perspective "Avocado and Salt" by Grace Yi, M.S.P.H.
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28 Jul 2025
Check out this stunning, poignant, empathetic essay by Grace Yi, a medical student at @dgsomucla whom I had the privilege of teaching (but mostly learning from) in a recent narrative medicine workshop: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Weekend Briefing for July 19, 2025:
New Images in Clinical Medicine: Hydroxychloroquine Retinal Toxicity nej.md/4lYkvdK
Two New Perspectives:
1️⃣ The Promise of Real-World Data for Research nej.md/4f2Fqu8
2️⃣ Avocado and Salt nej.md/4eQLkhD
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