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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Watch @katyperry surprise our own @meganranney . (And try not to cry while you do.) Thank you to all who made this happen and big thanks to Dr. Ranney and all our faculty.
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Good Morning America
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SURPRISE it’s @katyperry ! The superstar sent a message of thanks to a front-line hero and mom of 2. #TellTJ @tjholmes
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@BrownMedicine
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The Warren Alpert Medical School affirms its dedication to anti-racism and we stand in solidarity with our community to condemn these acts of violence and demand systemic change. #GeorgeFloyd #RacismIsaPublicHealthIssue
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@BrownMedicine
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This is their lane: Prof @meganranney & other women in medicine are working to prevent gun violence to protect their patients & the public from more harm.
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@BrownMedicine
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A great roundup of all the reasons ⁦⁦ @meganranney ⁩ is a leader and role model ⁦ @BrownUniversity ⁩: The ER doctor and Brown professor who first gained prominence for her fight against gun violence is now a national leader in the COVID battle.
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Congratulations to Dr. Taneisha Wilson for receiving a Bannister Award from @RIMonthly for her work to develop the Discussing Anti-Racism and Equity in Emergency Medicine (DARE-EM) curriculum, which emphasizes an antiracist culture in the ED. @twilsonferrone @Brown_Emergency
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@BrownMedicine
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Congratulations, MD Class of 2022. The world needs you more than ever. #Brown2020 #Brown2022 #EverTrue
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@BrownMedicine
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The Senior Citation, the highest honor presented by the graduating class, is going to Associate Dean for Student Affairs Roxanne Vrees ’98 MD’03 RES’07. She has been a rock of support during this tumultuous year. Congratulations, Dean Vrees! #Brown2021 #BrownU
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@BrownMedicine
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Neel Shah '04 MD'09 is receiving the Early Achievement Award. @neel_shah #Brown2019
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@BrownMedicine
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R.I. doctor defends role in gun debate: 'Our focus is on stopping shootings...saving human lives' @meganranney @EmmyBetz @RealCedricDark
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@BrownMedicine
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It’s time: Congratulations to MD’22! #Match2022
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@BrownMedicine
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Four years ago these students got their first white coats. Today, they are leaving as physicians. #Brown2018 #AlpertMed
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@BrownMedicine
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Welcome to #PVD @ashishkjha ! @BrownMedicine is thrilled you’re coming on as Dean of @Brown_SPH . We're excited about your leadership and the collaborations ahead!
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@BrownMedicine
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Professor @drdonsdizon : a compassionate, thoughtful oncologist with style.
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@BrownMedicine
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Members of the Brown medical community came together to demand health equity for black lives at Sunday's Code Black march. Photos by David DelPoio. #CodeBlackRI
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@BrownMedicine
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You can't help but get a little emotional watching MD'21 finally make it to this day. Their medical education was upended by #COVID19 , but they have persevered. The whole Brown community is bursting with pride today! #Brown2021 #BrownU
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@BrownMedicine
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Dr. Mukesh K. Jain, new dean of medicine and biological sciences, shares what brought him to @BrownUniversity :
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@BrownMedicine
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Our own @meganranney is "one of 50 experts to trust in a pandemic"!
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@BrownMedicine
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Balloons are dropped, red envelopes in hand.... #MatchDay2019
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@BrownMedicine
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Physicians-in-training Tanisha Verneus ’18 MD’22 and Stana Nickolich MD’23 are helping fellow first-generation students navigate the challenges of med school. #WomenInMedicine #FirstGen
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@BrownMedicine
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Students in the second graduating class of the Primary Care-Population Medicine program will be receiving both a master's degree in population medicine and their MD today. @BrownPopMed #BrownU #Brown2020 #AlpertMed
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@BrownMedicine
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Congratulations, MD’21! The world needs you more than ever. We are so proud of you! 👏🐻❤️ #Brown2021 #BrownU #EverTrue
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@BrownMedicine
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Buoyed by an $11.1 million grant from the @NIH , a team of experts led by @BrownPsychiatry Professor Laura Stroud is examining the lifelong effects of childhood neglect, abuse, and food insecurity.
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@BrownMedicine
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Medical students join #MarchforOurLives in Providence. #docs4gunsense
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Ronald K. Akiki, MD
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@BrownMedicine
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The new Center for Digital Health brings together creative minds from @BrownUniversity and its hospital partners to accelerate digital health science--and solve some of society's most pressing challenges. Learn more at and @BrownDigiHealth .
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The class of MD'20 chose Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education Allan R. Tunkel, MD, PhD, to receive the Senior Citation, the highest honor bestowed by the class. Uncle Tunkel, as the students affectionately call him, came to Brown in 2013. #BrownU #Brown2020 #AlpertMed
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@BrownMedicine
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Today is the day: our fourth-year medical students will find out where they’re headed for residency training. Join us at noon today as we go live for #MatchDay2018 at the Warren Alpert Medical School!
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@BrownMedicine
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In a message to the community last week, The Warren Alpert Medical School leadership affirmed the school's commitment to teaching physicians to provide the full complement of reproductive health care.
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@BrownMedicine
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From collecting N95 masks to making thousands of vials of the viral transport medium needed to conduct COVID-19 tests, faculty and staff across the Brown campus are pitching in to help combat the pandemic. #GetMePPE
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The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Today's #BHM profile is our Associate Dean for Student Affairs Roxanne Vrees '98 MD'03 RES'07. Dean Vrees came to Brown through the Program in Liberal Medical Education, where she concentrated in psychology. @brown_alumni 1/4
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@BrownMedicine
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Tomorrow is Match Day for fourth-year medical students all around the country. This is definitely not the #MatchDay they envisioned ... let's be sure to show our students some extra love and support! #AMSMatch20 #NRMP #Match2020
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@BrownMedicine
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“We talk about heart attacks as a health problem, and we’ve set up whole systems to reduce the incidence and severity of heart attacks,” @meganranney told @KatherineJWu . “Why are we not doing the same thing for guns?”
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Congratulations, @meganranney !
@JSchuurMD
Jay Schuur, MD 🟧
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Congrats to Dr. Megan Ranney @meganranney on winning Lifespan’s researcher of the year award! One of only 3 awards given out at annual meeting. You are an inspiration to all of us and a great colleague.
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@BrownMedicine
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Here's to a new year filled with scientific discovery, community, and better health for the people of Rhode Island. Happy holidays from the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown. Gorgeous photo by @MikeCohea
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Join us for a discussion of the documentary film "Black Men in White Coats" with a distinguished panel of physicians and medical students including @DrQuinnCapers4 , @MethodTuuli , @CedricMBrightMD , @StephenBozier and more. Oct. 27, 6-7:30 p.m.
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@BrownMedicine
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New NEJM Perspective coauthored by emergency medicine faculty member @meganranney .
@NEJM
NEJM
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Perspective by @meganranney , Marian Betz, & @RealCedricDark : #ThisIsOurLane — Firearm Safety as Health Care’s Highway
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@BrownMedicine
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Lifespan and Care New England signed a definitive agreement to merge and create, with Brown and its Warren Alpert Medical School, an integrated academic health system, together for a healthier Rhode Island.
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Professor @ssuner has developed an app that can measure anemia in just two seconds without taking blood samples from the patient. All they have to do? Take a picture of their eyeball. More about this and Suner's path to @BrownUniversity :
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Keeping our health care workers safe with hand sanitizer made in Brown labs. #WeAreBrownU
@chematbrown
chematbrown
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@chematbrown @aetoumos @BrownUniversity - TODAY! another 50 gallons made by Profs Basu & Kim on top of the 35 gallons made on Mon by Profs Zimmt & Weber! Thanks to Ed Hawrot in Biomed, the Biomed stockroom, our partners at Lifespan! Ramping up to 100 gallons a week!
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After months on the frontlines fighting #COVID19 , Dr. Christian Arbelaez receives the vaccine live on @MSNBC @Arbelaez_MD
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Alpert Medical School is among the first in the country to make learning how to care for gender diverse and #LGBTQ patients part of the required curriculum. #PrideMonth
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The feeling of trying on your white coat for the first time >>> Small steps lead to big accomplishments. Our first-year medical students felt the joy that comes along with being fitted for their very own white coats on Friday. #MedED #MedStudent #MedSchool #WhiteCoat
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Congratulations to these and many more who were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society Thursday night! Your dedication to fostering excellence in the medical profession is remarkable in every way. #BrownMD50
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@BrownMedicine
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GoLocalProv | Brown Physicians Inc. Doctor Goldberg Secures $1.1M in Funding to Study Fall Prevention @LizGoldbergMD
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Make your way to the river for @WaterFireProv . The firelight, the music ... #AlpertMed #Brown2018 #BrownReunion
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
2 years
Congratulations, Doctor!
@TVerneus
Tanisha Verneus, MD
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I am what an Anesthesiologist looks like 👩🏾‍⚕️ Tanisha Verneus, MD
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@BrownMedicine
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A warm welcome to the MD Class of 2023! #FirstDayOfSchool #MD2023
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@BrownMedicine
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Happy National Women Physicians Day! #NWPD #IAmBlackwell #WomenDocsInspire
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@BrownMedicine
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Are you a match? Like this post if you are heading to Brown for your residency! #Match2023 #MatchDay
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@BrownMedicine
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A new combined pediatric and adult sickle cell program at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s hospitals led by @PTMcGann works to address the racism and medical neglect patients face. #SickleCell @HasbroChildrens @RIHospital
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@BrownMedicine
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Get your champagne flutes ready! Fourth-year med students find out where they’re headed for residency training at noon sharp. Join the fun on our livestream starting at 11:30 AM EST: #Match2023
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Today's #BHM highlight is an announcement: @SabinaHollandMD has been appointed the inaugural Assistant Dean of Medicine for the Program in Liberal Medical Education First Generation and Underrepresented in Medicine students (PLME-FURM). 1/4
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@BrownMedicine
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You’d expect to hear the high, melodic notes of a Mozart concerto in a grand orchestral hall, not in a small hospital room. But Cynthia Peng MD’20 thinks otherwise--so she designed a study to integrate music into patient care. #palliativecare
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@BrownMedicine
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The rain couldn't keep the Class of 2026 down at this year's White Coat Ceremony! #BrownMD50
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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As we kick off #sicklecellawareness month, take an inside look at how Professor @PTMcGann is working to address not only the needs of his patients but also the structural racism and neglect they face.
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@BrownMedicine
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Happy #MatchDay to the MD Class of 2020! See where our students landed: #AMSMatch2020 #NRMP #Match2020
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@BrownMedicine
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ERs "have served as the safety net for a broken system. But with the serial surges of #COVID we simply can’t do it anymore." The only solution, writes Prof @meganranney , is to rebuild the US health care system
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Congratulations to Kevin Connolly, @Brainy_Meg , @MollyxMcQuillan and @doudou_yu_ for being among the six @BrownUniversity students to receive graduate awards from the Robert J. and Nancy D. @CarneyInstitute .
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In new study in @JAMA_current Prof Leslie Gordon finds lower mortality for kids with #progeria on experimental drug
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@BrownMedicine
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Medical students at Brown have created a secure, online hub for COVID-19 updates, volunteer opportunities, and more. Log in to your Brown gmail account to access the site:
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"Four tests per family are not a lot," says Professor @meganranney . "But they are illustrative of a larger group of ongoing wins against Covid-19 – outside of vaccination – that should be celebrated and then examined closely for lessons learned." More:
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Please join us Sunday, June 14 at noon for "Code Black: Health Equity for Black Lives," organized by the Brown Minority Housestaff Association w/ the support of AMS. March steps off from @RIHospital and ends w/ vigil and speaking program at the RI statehouse. #CodeBlackRI
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Today's the day! The College, Graduate School, and Medical School Virtual Degree Conferral Ceremonies run concurrently beginning at 1 p.m. EDT To watch, go to #Brown2020 #BrownU #AlpertMed
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"The only possible road to reopening schools is with low rates of community transmission": public health experts like Prof @meganranney aren't surprised spikes in #COVID19 are closing schools
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Dr. Audrey Tyrka has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior ( @BrownPsychiatry ), making her the first woman to chair the department at @carenewengland . Here, she answers 5 questions about her work and ideas for her new role:
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Congrats to the MD Class of 2023 who submitted their rank lists for their residencies today! We know great things are ahead for you! #BrownMD50
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Continuing @BrownUniversity 's 251-year-old tradition of students speaking at Commencement, PLME student and El Paso native Patricia Rodarte '19 MD'23 will deliver a senior oration.
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The Warren Alpert Medical School
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When 2 @BrownUniversity undergrads thought they'd found the key to stop neurodegeneration, they didn't wait to test their idea. The result? A new way to treat #ALS & #Alzheimers @AmylyxPharma #ALSAwarenessMonth
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“We want to change the face of medicine. … The best way to do that is by being teachers. Each teacher has the impact to affect a student that may impact a thousand other students along the way.” -- @CedricMBrightMD in
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"There’s a lot of shame in being the target of racism": @choo_ek & other docs talk about patient prejudice.
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Today's #BHM profile is Galen Henderson MD'93. Dr. Henderson is a graduate of @Tougaloo1869 . After internship at @RIHospital , Dr. Henderson trained in neurology at the Harvard Longwood program and completed a fellowship in stroke and neurocritical care @BWHNeurology . #hbcu 1/4
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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In 2019, @weldeiry came to @BrownUniversity with the goal of filling a major gap in Rhode Islanders’ care. Just a few years later, he is now founding director of the Legorreta Cancer Center.
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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There's "zero doubt" national strategy for masks, testing & PPE would have prevented #COVID19 deaths, says Prof @meganranney #MaskUP #GetUsPPE
@NewsHour
PBS NewsHour
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The first thing we need to do help stem the rise in COVID-19: Wear a face mask, says @meganranney . "We need mandates to make that happen. We need it to be easy for people to wear masks," she tells @WmBrangham .
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@BrownMedicine
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We welcome @AmerMedicalAssn and the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium schools to Brown. #ChangeMedEd
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The Warren Alpert Medical School
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"We can create solutions that bring people together": Prof @meganranney talks gun violence research @ResearchAffirm on @Morning_Joe today
@RobinCogan
Robin Cogan 🟧
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Brief segment of @meganranney excellent segment on @Morning_Joe about the work of @ResearchAffirm
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Happy #MatchDay ! At noon sharp, medical students all over the country learn where they’ll do their residency training. @TheNRMP #Match2024
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The Warren Alpert Medical School
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A group of students is working to increase voter turnout by going to Rhode Island hospitals and clinics to help patients cast their ballots right from their bedsides.
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@BrownMedicine
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The calm before the #MatchDay2019 storm!
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@BrownMedicine
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The Vaccine Whisperer: Find out how Katrina Byrd F'22, MD, helped overcome COVID vaccine hesitancy in Rhode Island and beyond.
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Time to line up on Waterman St. #Brown2022 #Brown2020 Let's see some cap & gown selfies!
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Welcome to Brown, @SheldonLHolder ! A fantastic addition to our growing Cancer Center. RT @BrownUCancer : Welcome to Brown University @BrownUniversity @BrownMedicine @BrownUCancer @BrownOncology @BrownPathology @weldeiry @BrownUrology
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Sheldon L. Holder
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Day 1. New office. Now for new discoveries.... @weldeiry @BrownUCancer @BrownMedicine
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Alum @DrBrianTNguyen MD'10 talks to @ASlavitt about the impact male contraceptives could have on gender equity.
@inthebubblepod
In the Bubble
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Prevention of unplanned pregnancies is “a responsibility that is shared by all people, not just one single gender.” @ASlavitt asks @DrBrianTNguyen to explain the significance of widespread male contraceptives in terms of gender equity. Listen:
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@BrownMedicine
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Kavita Babu presents "Tackling the Opioid Crisis Together" at 9 in Smith-Buonanno Rm 106. #BrownReunion @kavitababu Watch the livestream:
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The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Dr. Mukesh Jain, who began his tenure as dean of the Medical School just this month, is here for his first #MatchDay celebration at @BrownUniversity .
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@BrownMedicine
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Congratulations! 🎊🎉
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@BrownMedicine
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Who is excited for the 50 Years of Medicine Grand Finale!? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ #BrownMD50
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Today's #BHM profile is Suzette Brown '00 MD'07. Dr. Brown won the $200K @DavidPrizeNYC to support the innovative pediatrics practice that she cofounded with her twin, Dr. Nicole Brown '00, and @DrOmolara Uwemedimo. 1/4
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Dr. Brian Clyne of @BrownEMRes reached out to his hockey buddies to see if anyone could help build these boxes to protect physicians from aerosolized virus particles during intubations. They delivered! #COVID19
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Kurtis, who also serves as chair of @BrownPathology and director of the MD-PhD Program, for receiving a new patent for his #malaria vaccine discoveries. More:
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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Ready for the balloons to drop! #Match2018 #alpertmedicalschool
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@BrownMedicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
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The Senior Citation will be presented Steven Rougas MD'09 RES'13, director of the Doctoring Program. This is the highest honor presented by the graduating class. @BrownEMRes #Brown2020 #Brown2022
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