We are hiring physicians, APPs, PharmD’s, nurses, etc etc at our growing
@HCAhealthcare
Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Network; DM me at
#Tandem24
to learn more about our opportunities or stop by our booth
#501
Patient I saw recently: “12 yrs ago I was terrified that I will not be able to see my daughter enter kindergarten, today I am terrified that she has a driving permit” 😀
❤️ what we do in
#BMT
My perspective on
#COVID19
as
#BMT
doc who cares for immunosuppressed patients - pls ignore anyone who says don't worry about
#CoronaVirus
! The last time docs/healthcare folks cancelled conferences and travel was ... NEVER (at least in my lifetime)!!
According to my parents in 🇮🇳, WhatsApp is the most reliable source of medical information - they forward several important messages to me daily so that I can stay up to date about latest advances in healthcare!! 🤦♂️
❤️ our
#CleClinicBMT
patients!! Got a personalized bobble head 👳🏽♂️ from a patient who is post-transplant (don’t miss the base with my twitter/insta handle 😂)
Real honor and privilege to lead the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy -ASTCT (
@ASBMT
till 1 hr ago) through such an exciting time in
#bmtsm
#CARTcell
#celltherapy
🙏
Patient with leukemia for new
#BMT
consult - went through process, prognosis, outcomes, risks, benefits, complications, etc
Me: Any questions?
Pt: Can you keep me alive till Nov 3?
Me: 🧐🤔
Pt: I need to vote - make it count! 🗳
As I clean up my office, I go thru my “Gratitude Drawer” - notes, cards, greetings from patients, mentees, colleagues that I tuck away - grateful that I am blessed and get to do what I do! 🙏
Fellow docs, what is in your
#GratitudeDrawer
?
Funny story
@BeTheMatch
:
Me to patient: Congrats, we have a donor for you through
@BeTheMatch
Pt: Yes, someone called from there …
Me: …
Pt: I told them I am married and not in the dating scene - and then I hung up
😂
#MarrowMatesForLife
#bmtsm
🙏🙏🙏 to all
#Tandem22
tweeps asking about my well-being since I am not physically or virtually present at the meeting - I’m kinda occupied at the moment, will see y’all tomorrow
Lot of 🎉🎊🥂 about
#HIVcure
with bone marrow transplant; brief tweetorial on how this works and why we won't be doing
#BMT
for
#HIV
anytime soon (thread 👇) 1/
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic
@nytimes
Finishing a busy week on inpatient leukemia/BMT service and a nurse comes up to me: “Pleasure working with you - you listen, always ask if I need anything for our patient, and you address me by my name”
It’s the small things that matter!
#WhenOnService
This lucky girl got a bone marrow transplant for
#AplasticAnemia
today in a
#Ukraine
hospital basement by Dr. Oleksandr Lysytsia while Russian rockets fell outside. She’s cured of her rare disorder. I hope she survives this war.
#StartWithHillary
🇺🇦
Ok, our 7 yr old just introduced me to his friend over for a playdate: "This is my dad, he is president of the American society for bone marrow transplant and cell therapy" 😎😂
#bmtsm
#celltherapy
#CARTcell
tweeps, if he can say
@ASTCT
's new name (close enough) - so can you 🙏
Dr. Anthony Fauci: "When all this is over, and as we've said, it will end. We will get over Coronavirus, but there will still be health disparities, which we really do need to address in the African American community."
Full video here:
#IGotTheShot
feeling hopeful, grateful, humble, privileged; pls get
#COVIDVaccine
when your turn comes - that is how we will beat this pandemic; also 🙏
@CleClinicMD
for very transparent and efficient process for vaccinating our caregivers
I am a
#BMT
doctor that cares for profoundly immunosuppressed bone marrow transplant patients (0 blood counts + 0 immune system) - we ask patients/caregivers to 😷 all the time to PREVENT bacterial and fungal pneumonia. 🙏 Please ignore 👇
Congratulations
@KamalaHarris
for making history: first woman Vice President, first African-American Vice President, first Indian-American Vice President - 🙏🙏🙏 for finally breaking the glass ceiling - for our daughter
This election is about so much more than
@JoeBiden
or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.
#BMT
clinic highlights this wk:
- bad MDS, mid-70's, 1 yr after allo, back to 🏸🎾⛳️
- bad leukemia, 4 yrs after allo, 🤵👰💒 soon
- myelofibrosis, 2 yrs after allo, spleen gone (was in pelvis), back to 🛠️🔧
- bad lymphoma, CR after
#CARTcell
♥️♥️♥️ what we do at
#CleClinicBMT
My first monthly column as
#ASTCT
(previously
@ASBMT
) President 🙏! (
#CleClinicBMT
team member asks if any other president has used supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in their message 🤔)
Looking Forward to a New Beginning as a New President
Blood Donation by Gay and Bisexual Men — The Need for a Policy Update |
@NEJM
- endorse 💯% - donor selection should be based on risk for infectious disease transmission, not on sexual orientation
BREAKING: President Biden passes executive order making post-transplant cytoxan as the preferred GVHD prevention regimen after all allogeneic stem cell transplantations
#BMThumor
😂
30% mortality among
#BMT
recipients with
#COVID19
-
@CDCgov
need to prioritize these patients for
#COVIDVaccine
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 in haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation recipients: an observational cohort study
Mine (from resident mentor [non-BMT doc] in 2001; FDA was reviewing imatinib for approval):
"You are committing career suicide by going into BMT - in 5 yrs there will be no transplant - the field is dead"
PS: fast forward to 2019, I am President
@ASTCT
🙏
HT
@DavidSteensma
What’s the worst career advice you’ve ever received?
Mine:
(1) Don’t waste your time helping others
(2) Drop 90% of your projects, because you can only do one at a time
(3) Don’t write a book
Honored to edit 👇 book on how to set up a comprehensive cancer center, pragmatic tips including a focus on resource constrained settings, with co-editors Dr's
@aljurf100
@MKD_BMT
Koh and Chao
@DukeHMCT
Book is open access and free to download:
Last night I spoke to a patient who is transitioning to hospice - 👍 reminder that life and health are the best and most important 🎁 on
#Christmas
#HappyHolidays
During my transition from Cleveland to Nashville, one of the hardest things was saying goodbye to patients - 👇 waiting
@SarahCannonDocs
as I start in my new position 😀
Official Twitter congratulations
@jamecancerdoc
👏🎊😀
🙏🙏🙏
@MattKalaycioMD
for ur service as 👍🙌 serving leader - looking fwd to having u back full time in
#CleClinicBMT
Cleveland Clinic Appoints Jame Abraham as Dept Chair of Hematology Oncology
Completed
#CovidVaccine
series - feel grateful and privileged
#💉 - Did not feel a thing
#💉💉 - Felt run down with body aches and fatigue x 2 days, but ibuprofen worked like magic
#igottheshot
🙏 get
#CovidVaccine
when offered
“No one reads your CV when you die.”
@TomMihaljevicMD
In the end, it’s not the title you hold that matters; but the work you do and the lives you touch every day
@WPSA1
Saw patient for
#BMT
consult - went through donor search process and that we will go through
@BeTheMatch
and try to find someone who matches to the patient
Patient: I am already registered at and I did "match" to a lot of people 😂
Today is World Blood Cancer Day
#WBCD
: 🙏👍🙌👏🗣️ to our
@ASTCT
members - physicians, APPs, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, administrators and many more - who are involved in research, education, and clinical care of
#BMT
#CellTherapy
patients
In a heated exchange, Dr. Fauci challenges Sen. Rand Paul's assertion that New York's current low positivity rate is attributable to "community immunity": "If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that"
Dr. Fauci says health care workers are “brave warriors”: “The American public owe a phenomenal debt of gratitude to these people and they should just salute them in every way you can”
Kudos to my father-in-law Brig Grewal who has picked up Hawaiian 🎸 after retirement - if you are into
#Bollywood
oldies 🎶, check 👇 and other songs on his YouTube channel out (+ 👏👏👏 to mom-in-law who discovered her talent as videographer)
This message from leukemia patient who is many years out from bone marrow transplant just made my day:
"Hi, today is my birthday. I turned XX. Thank you for helping me reach this milestone. I am so grateful to be alive."
Really proud of
#CleClinicCancer
team
#CleClinicBMT
#ASH20
Subtext as presenter responds to questions:
➡️“Thx for that Q” = Yasss, I was expecting that Q, I’m ready
➡️”That’s an interesting Q” = Umm, that is an absurd thing to ask
➡️”Thx for that background” = Don’t know why you made that long winded comment with no underlying Q
This rule will hurt 🇺🇸 excellence in biomedical research and healthcare - as example, immediate past-president 🙋♂️, current president and president-elect of
@ASTCT
are immigrants
#immigrantscience
President Trump will extend a freeze on green cards for new immigrants and sign an executive order that will suspend a variety of temporary work visas through the end of the year.
#ASH20
listening to oral abstract session on
#AML
Rx excluding
#BMT
, and I am struck by survival rates of 10-20% even w/newer drugs, which is much lower than
#AlloBMT
; w/caveats that all pts are not candidates, there is a strong case for
#BMT
consult soon after diagnosis