Leigh Kimberg @LeighKimberg Twitter profile

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Leigh Kimberg

6 months

Saying "Do Not Bomb Hospitals" manifests our oath to Do No Harm Our response to an article in @JAMA_current that claimed possible 'ethical' justifications for this bombing was rejected- We will not be silenced 🙏 @yesmagazine @DrRupaMarya @jessghannam

There’s No Justification for Destroying Gaza’s Health Infrastructure - YES! Magazine Solutions...

In this op-ed—which the The Journal of the American Medical Association rejected—three doctors say the medical establishment should be morally unambiguous on bombing hospitals.

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Leigh Kimberg

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3 years

@cmclymer There is no excuse for dehumanizing, displacing, starving, & murdering anyone. My Jewish ancestors fled extreme violence to survive—mostly to US. What Israel is doing is committing genocide against the Palestine people—with US funding. There is no excuse for ignoring genocide.

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@LeighKimberg

4 years

“I don’t want to be a hero. I want to be alive.” @Cleavon_MD has saved countless lives, honored loved ones lost, beseeched us to protect one another & spoken truth to leaders who—instead of saving lives—have acted in ways that amplify historic injustice. LISTEN. @UCSF @PRIME_US

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@nytimes

4 years

The word “hero” also evokes bravery and superhuman strength but leaves little room for empathy, said one psychiatrist. When portrayed as stalwart saviors, health workers may feel pressured to avoid showing vulnerability.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

A student told me they fell in love with surgery & that in the OR everything falls away, nothing else is important, you focus completely. I recognize that feeling—the same one I get when I close the door, sit down & listen to a patient. Every word. Every gesture. Sanctuary.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

🙏 @sfchronicle 4 this ❓ & nuanced answer. Bottom line: If everyone wore masks indoors, always, spread would drop. 😷 (this emoji needs smiling eyes!) How long does coronavirus stay in the air after someone with COVID leaves the room? via @sfchronicle

How long does coronavirus stay in the air after someone with COVID leaves the room?

Can you get the coronavirus after an unmasked person with COVID leaves the room? Here’s...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 months

@sgbuggs @DrRupaMarya This is actually an extremely helpful article about implementing powerful project-based learning in the school system!

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

1 month

I could not be more offended. In the names of my family members murdered in Treblinka, my grandfather who survived antisemitic pogroms to find safety here, & my father who abhorred Zionist supremacism & shielded me from it, I condemn your genocidal actions. #NeverAgainIsNow

President Biden

@POTUS

1 month

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis during one of the darkest chapters in human history. And we recommit to heeding the lessons of the Shoah and realizing the responsibility of “Never Again.”

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

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The UCSF Palestine Solidarity Encampment is launched! Health students & workers demand that @UCSF divest from genocide. UCSF worse than silent while over 35,000 Palestinians killed, over 450 healthcare workers murdered, & HCW kidnapped & tortured. @ucsf4palestine on IG

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

11 months

“History repeats sometimes without rhyming. “Race neutral” is the new “separate but equal.”” Court-“Twenty years have passed since Grutter, with no end to race- based college admissions in sight.” “In actuality, 20 years have passed, with no end to racial inequity in sight.”

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

11 months

In banning affirmative action, the Supreme Court has *not* banned using race in college admissions. "Race neutral" is a legal fantasy, the latest to conserve racism. As Uma Jayakumar and I write @TheAtlantic , “race neutral” is the new “separate but equal.”

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 months

I will forever feel sickened to my core and heartbroken about how our medical institutions actually paved the way to excuse the bombing of hospitals, the murder of patients & our Palestinian healthcare worker colleagues.

Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

Saying "Do Not Bomb Hospitals" manifests our oath to Do No Harm Our response to an article in @JAMA_current that claimed possible 'ethical' justifications for this bombing was rejected- We will not be silenced 🙏 @yesmagazine @DrRupaMarya @jessghannam

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

8 months

@agelender Thank you. My Jewish relatives fled genocidal pogroms and were murdered in the concentration camp of Treblinka and I could not agree more.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

If you want to accompany people on their healing journeys find your sanctuary. Let your mind-body-spirit connect deeply with another being. With compassion. With focus. With joy—even when it is hard. Breathe. 🌱 Be present. 🙏🏼

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Today’s clinic at #SFGH Me: Do you have enough food to last to end of the week? Patients: No Me: Are you behind in rent? Patients: Yes Me: How many months? Patients: 3, 2, 1 @LondonBreed @sfbos #EvictionMoratorium is a good start but our community needs #rentcancellation & #UBI

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

11 months

@LincolnMitchell @christinevans Thank you. Am livid. This is state-sponsored abuse of children. Riot gear, threats with weapons, mass arrest, incarceration—of CHILDREN. These traumatic events have lasting impacts on children’s bodies and health. And, yes, forming a ‘police-county’ has nothing to do with crime.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

@cclareMDMPH @WeillCornell TY. Our medical institutions are broken. These “masking not required” hospitals need to change their informed consent form— “if you come to our facilities you accept the risk that one of our staff may infect you with COVID or another respiratory virus”

CDC advisers support masks in update to hospital infection guidelines, but critics say draft...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for...

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Heartbreaking & infuriating. For every governmental official & hospital administrator who is ignoring,obstructing, stalling, silencing, threatening instead of striving night & day to protect people working in healthcare I invite you to come to the ED & help out with no #PPE .

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

@kksheehan Yes. I’ve had it. People heal thru deeply compassionate, nurturing relationships—being seen, heard, cherished. This is just not possible in 15-20 min esp when people lack food/housing are facing severe impacts of racism & oppression including history of betrayal by healthcare.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 months

MUST listen—Introduction to “Forensic Architecture” & how it is used to document”humanitarian violence” by Israel—the violent, twisted methodology of using humanitarian principles to commit genocide. And much more. Architect Eyal Weizman via @democracynow

Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”

A new report by the research group Forensic Architecture counters Israel’s argument at the International Court of Justice that it followed humanitarian policies to safeguard civilian life in Gaza....

www.democracynow.org

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

I do not have words that are powerful enough to describe how important this movement & article are. This is healing-justice care. Please read carefully. #medtwitter Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. - The New York Times

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. (Published 2022)

A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.

www.nytimes.com

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

8 months

@Essiebanana @SFdirewolf Gratitude for your compassionate, righteous, powerful leadership! We are so lucky in SF to have you and your classmates organizing together on behalf of the Palestinian people.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

7 months

So proud of our Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, & ally community @UCSF !! As healthcare students, residents, staff, & faculty we gathered to mourn, educate, & implore all in healthcare to stand for *health*, against violence, genocide, & ethnic cleansing, & call for Ceasefire now!

Osaid - #NotATarget 🗝 🇵🇸

@OsaidesserMD

7 months

Walk out and demonstration by HCW and students at @UCSFHospitals calling for protecting their HCW counterparts in #Gaza and immediate ceasefire #MedTwitter #NotATarget

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

7 months

@rabbijilljacobs @Scott_Wiener May I ask (not rhetorically) how you are holding the compassion you speak about for Palestinians? And what responsibility you feel you have personally for stopping genocide and how you are acting on this?

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

5 years

Please join us in supporting @UCSF and @UofCalifornia PRIME programs. We are training diverse physicians to partner with communities to promote health and healthcare equity in California. Ask your legislators to support PRIME! #healthequity #MedEd

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

5 years

Grateful to @anydoubleyou New Lattivongskorn—graduate of @UCSFMedicine and @PRIME_US —for his social justice and health equity leadership! UCSF medical school graduates first undocumented student in its history via @sfchronicle

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

@ASlavitt @kinsa Thank you for sharing this!! So grateful to live in place with *decisive* leaders who base decisions on science, math and COMPASSION. Forever grateful to @GColfax @LondonBreed @TAragonMD @SF_DPH @UCSF #SFProud #SFGHProud #UCSFProud (view of 💜 of SF— #SFGH )

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@LeighKimberg

2 months

This is so deeply disturbing @Atul_Gawande People asked you to demonstrate moral & ethical leadership. Instead, you chose complicity with the US gov funding & supplying Israel with bombs to murder Palestinian children, families & hundreds of our healthcare worker colleagues.

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@IfNotNowOrg

2 months

Watch: Yesterday, at a DC event on “the critical importance of supporting and safeguarding health workers,” USAID rep Dr. Atul Gawande struggled to respond when activists asked him to condemn the US-funded Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed scores of health-workers.

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@LeighKimberg

2 years

Please take a few moments to help prevent the state-sponsored murder of Melissa Lucio, a loving mom who has been falsely accused & imprisoned for 14 years after the tragic loss of one of her children. Call @GovAbbott now: 956-446-2866. @innocence

Dorothy Roberts

@DorothyERoberts

2 years

Texas is set to execute Melissa Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her two-year old daughter based on false evidence, a coerced confession, and race, gender & class discrimination. Immeasurable state violence in family policing & the death penalty.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

💜🙏🏼💜to @jbullockruns for #disabilityjustice leadership.”Doctors have mental illness & other illnesses because doctors are human.The more stigmatizing & more traumatizing the systems are, the more harm we inflict on providers. And when providers are unwell, patients are unwell.”

UW Nephrology

@UWNephrology

2 years

Fellow @jbullockruns featured in @TIME article Doctors with Disabilities Push for Change as Long COVID Affects Their Workforce #UWNephrology Read more:

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

“...our country is in a state of collective trauma due to this virus — and government apathy toward our pain and suffering only deepens the wound.” @jahnavi_curlin I’m a contact tracer. Trump’s advice not to fear Covid-19 is dangerous. via @voxdotcom

I’m a contact tracer. Trump’s advice not to fear Covid-19 is dangerous.

“I talk to people with Covid-19 almost every day. Trump’s experience of the disease couldn’t be more different from theirs.”

www.vox.com

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@LeighKimberg

6 months

For anyone in the US who is still not actively engaged in stopping this genocide—SPEAK UP. Your tax dollars & political support are being used to send US BOMBS to Israel to murder thousands of Palestinians. Demanding this end now is our personal & collective responsibility

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي

@MariamBarghouti

6 months

The USA just armed Israel with new BLU109 bombs. These bombs 💥 BLU109 stands for “Bomb Live Unit” and it weighs around 2,000 pounds. 🔥can be dropped and it penetrates steel and then explodes. (Imagine the size of destruction). 💥it is also known as “bunker buster” The US

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@LeighKimberg

4 years

@MsPackyetti Please spread the word about social distancing and how effective it is at preventing the spread of #COVID19 These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

We are thrilled to welcome these mission-driven health equity leaders to #SFPC (SFGH Primary Care Residency) at @UCSF Our patients and community are so fortunate. Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉 #primarycare #healthequity #MedTwitter

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@LeighKimberg

6 months

Hi all who are standing in solidarity with a #FreePalestine —-Is there already a national movement to not vote for anyone who accepts AIPAC funding? If so, please LMK! Thank you! 🇵🇸

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 months

Are you trying to be sickeningly ironic & purposely cruel @NEJM ? A piece on your complicity during one genocide that—through omission of the current Israeli genocide—makes you complicit now. Through this omission the authors weaponize the Holocaust while reflecting on it. Wow.

NEJM

@NEJM

2 months

Between 1935 and 1944, NEJM remained all but silent regarding the heinous motives of Nazi science and medicine. What is the nature and significance of silence in the face of such oppression? Read the full Perspective:

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

“…pretending that the virus is no longer a threat will only prolong the pandemic, contribute further to mass disability and death and increase existing inequities.” Please keep wearing masks, people. Such a simple gesture of care for our collective wellbeing. 💜😷💜

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS

@oni_blackstock

2 years

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. @luckytran on this op-ed where we highlight the need to ensure COVID protections for all in order to keep society safe, open and accessible to *everyone*.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

5 years

To all the air traffic controllers, flight attendants, airline workers and their unions--The entire nation is grateful for your service, bravery and leadership! Thank you! @NATCA @afa_cwa

Robert Reich

@RBReich

5 years

Kudos to air traffic controllers at LaGuardia who essentially closed the airport by refusing to show up for work this morning. Within hours, Trump caved. Now, 38 years after Reagan fired air traffic controllers for striking, they've evened the score.

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@LeighKimberg

1 year

@jack_turban @AnneBranigin TY Dr. Turban. Inching towards truth @AnneBranigin @washingtonpost through your new edit since Dr. Turbin called you out. But not there yet, since the “few doctors” are bigoted extremists who are spewing hateful rhetoric that is dangerous, inaccurate & violates medical ethics.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

Grateful, joyful & *relieved* that my life partner, Dr. Melissa Lim, an ICU & pulmonary MD who has been caring for COVID19 patients since the start of this devastating pandemic, just received her 1st #COVID19vaccine 💜🙏🏼💜 to *everyone* who made this possible. #WearAMask

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

PLEASE spread this life-saving news that California has extended eviction moratorium (to 9/30 for now) & has rental assistance for 100% of past unpaid rent (and even future rent with anticipated inability to pay) & for unpaid utility bills. @SF_DPH @SFGH_Chiefs @ucsfdgimzsfg

Nancy Skinner

@NancySkinnerCA

3 years

Folks, If you are a CA renter unable to pay some or all your rent or utilities due to the pandemic, APPLY NOW for state rental assistance. You will get: - 100% of past & future rent paid - 100% of utilities paid - Eviction protections More info here-->

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@LeighKimberg

5 years

“And, then, Erica Garner died. And that changed everything”. Two heart attacks at age 27. And what about the health of her children? @RheaBoydMD asking powerful questions about racism as *intergenerational* toxic stress and the impact of exposure to police violence. #PEDSACT

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 months

Our Senator visits Israel as they have massacred 29,000 Palestinians—over 10,000 children, destroyed all the hospitals in Gaza, & are bombing a tiny area filled with starving families in tents. And then says he stands for peace? No. You have used your power to support genocide.

Senator Scott Wiener

@Scott_Wiener

4 months

🧵 Last week, I co-led a legislative delegation to Israel, with both Jewish & non-Jewish legislators & several community organizations. During this devastating time of war & violence, we met with a variety of leaders . . .

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

5 years

Inspiring, warm words of advice from our @UCSF Dean @TalmadgeKing for our incoming medical school class! *Medicine as a journey not destination. *Listen with respect. *Collaborate-we are better together *Caring for patients is why we are here *Take care of yourself #UCSFProud

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

Thrilled that #CALeg & @CAgovernor have approved $12.9 million to support & expand the brilliant @UofCalifornia #PRIMEs —new PRIMEs dedicated to #healthequity by & for Native/Indigenous & Black/AA communities. PRIME students are the powerful leaders we need! 🌱 @UCSF @PRIME_US

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@LeighKimberg

2 months

SHAME on @Columbia

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

@IBJIYONGI

2 months

This is many things but one of them is that this is so embarrassing for Columbia and its faculty. They are suspending students for … camping out to end a genocide. Imagine hating your students this much

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

10 months

@AlanDettlaff 💜 I prepared a curricular unit for a state initiative on childhood adversity with a slide that stated that colonization, white supremacy, racism, and oppression were the root causes of trauma and was asked to provide references for the slide. 😳

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@LeighKimberg

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

10 months

Happy Birthday to a life-saving program that is now being dismantled through Medicare “Advantage”. Advantageous for insurance companies, harmful for patients. As a birthday gift that will benefit people you love, support the efforts to #ReclaimMedicare

Ady Barkan

@AdyBarkan

10 months

Medicare turns 58 today! #HBDMedicare Check out the party @BeAHero team joined to #ReclaimMedicare earlier this week.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

How is the genocide against Palestinian people—funded through our US tax dollars—allowed to continue? And what role are you personally playing in that? Yes, there is Israeli propaganda brainwashing. Yes, there is overwhelming dehumanization of Palestinians. But, also…

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@LeighKimberg

7 months

@masters212 @Alyssa_Milano Yes. All the more. To protect all children. Who are all of our children. Always.

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@LeighKimberg

5 years

. @UCSF @PRIME_US is in the house!! We are at the state capitol advocating for the UC Regent’s budget proposal to support @UofCalifornia PRIME programs- building the diverse MD workforce to achieve health equity in CA @KevinMcCartyCA @UCAdvocacy

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

. @TheUSMLE Make no mistake. If you fail to make Step 1 pass/fail *now* it is you who will have failed the most critical test. Will you do your part to end structural racism in medical education? Will you act like #BlackLivesMatter ? The time is now.

Naomi Nkinsi, MD, MPH

@NNkinsi

4 years

As @JasmineSolola beautifully wrote earlier this week "To not make this exam P/F is an injustice to all students experiencing drastic inequities at this time" Stand with Black students by signing this open letter and sharing widely! @TheUSMLE

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

PRIME students @UofCalifornia are the future physician leaders we need to achieve health equity in CA! Funds will expand #PRIME & create Native American & Black/AA PRIMEs 🙏🏼 to our student leaders! & @GavinNewsom @NancySkinnerCA @AsmKevinMcCarty @PhilTing @SenJohnLaird

UC San Francisco

@UCSF

3 years

We did it! Gov. @GavinNewsom signed the state budget with $12.9M for @UofCalifornia PRIME & new programs focused on healthcare with CA Indian Tribes & Black communities. Thank you to all our advocates who stood up for health equity, access + workforce diversity. @UCAdvocacy (1/4)

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

Israel, aided in numerous ways by the US, is committing a massive number of war crimes & the US & Israel are trying to hide this for as long as possible to aid in total elimination & expulsion of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Another “stealth” move.

Amid U.N. Security Council Intrigue, U.S. Privately Moves To Block Another Option For International...

The Biden administration is finalizing plans to urge Switzerland to reject a request from Palestine and its supporters to hold a conference on violations of the Geneva Conventions.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

7 months

@DGlaucomflecken Quick note. The @JAMA_current piece you are highlighting talks about Hamas & omits any mention of genocide against Palestinian people & widespread destruction of healthcare system in Gaza and West Bank. Advise decoupling your statement from this wildly inaccurate article.

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@LeighKimberg

2 months

Again I call upon our @UCSFPediatrics to condemn a genocide in which Israel has murdered over 13,000 children and is starving millions of children and their families. #Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now

Mohamad Safa

@mhdksafa

2 months

Israel just bombed 11 children to death in a playground in Gaza…

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@LeighKimberg

11 months

Just imagine being a Department of Pediatrics at a major institution dedicated to “health equity” & not commenting on a traumatic mass arrest of *children*—whose rights & safety were endangered by police. ⁦⁦ @UCSFPediatrics ⁩

Hill bomb was biggest mass arrest of teens in years, SFPD says

The mass arrests from the Dolores hill bomb are largest of minors since 2017, chief says. Parents are furious and lawsuits are brewing.

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@LeighKimberg

5 years

☑️ Done. An opportunity to invest your $$ in ways that are aligned with your values. Support HBCUs. Support Black women. Now. #StandWithBennett @MsPackyetti @BennettCollege

Pod Save The People

@PodSaveThePpl

5 years

"HBCUs still serve as a beacon of hope, access and opportunity for so many Black young people across this country... This is an opportunity for us to support Black women." - @MsPackyetti #StandWithBennett

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@LeighKimberg

1 year

This is violence. This is what end-stage capitalism requires. Democracy is dead in Atlanta & so many other places. Corporations, police unions, police, & elected officials plan to destroy a forest in Atlanta to build a police military camp to practice terrorizing & killing people

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@micahinATL

1 year

Well, the Atlanta City Council passed $67 million in funding for Cop City, by an 11-4 margin, after over 15 hours of essentially unanimous public comment against it. Quick thoughts before I go to bed.

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1 year

Must read! Every word. “Eliminating race considerations will not erase racism or race, but will widen racial disparities.” “Let’s abandon the delusion of a race-free world, and instead start to build a world without racism. Our nation’s health and future depend on it.”

Michael Mensah, MD, MHS, MPH

@DrMichaelMensah

1 year

Published my first op-ed! Nothing controversial: just what the end of racial affirmative action might mean for healthcare for you and your loved ones. Enjoy!

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

@kksheehan This construct is the opposite of healing-justice and it’s gotta go.

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@LeighKimberg

4 months

I demand the #AMA break their silence on #GAZA and support our fellow HCWs. AMA must support physician values and speak out! @AmerAcadPeds @PublicHealth @BMukkamalaMD @TomMadejski @CDCgov @AmerMedicalAssn @MarilynHeineMD @AMAmedstudents @wvedwards @DrAlexDing @AmerMedicalAssn

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@LeighKimberg

2 years

@eberger32 @united On other hand, have also been on flights where savvy woman-identified staff have actually asked for what specialty MDs are & said “thanks, no thanks” to male dermatologist or other specialty irrelevant to the emergency and said “yes, can you please help!” to female internist.

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@LeighKimberg

6 months

If you truly care about peace, you must care about justice. Please read this. “take seriously the idea that none of us are free until all of us are free, & to understand that the “us” includes Palestinians. This means rejecting the supremacist logic of liberal Zionism…”

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

@IBJIYONGI

6 months

“Many Jews of colour interpret the language of Zionism through our experience with racism and colonialism, and we recognise the familiar supremacist logic that underpins it.” ⁦ @NewStatesman asked me⁩ to write about what it means to be Jewish & left:

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5 years

@davidhogg111 Sending love

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@LeighKimberg

1 year

@jbullockruns Yes. And this is so problematic for my young (and older) patients being given atypical antipsychotics without regard to the lifelong impacts. Multiple patients now with sleep apnea, high cholesterol &’blood sugar—>diabetes, arthritis, discomfort from rapid, severe weight gain.

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@LeighKimberg

2 years

Spending the morning feeling anticipatory grief as my mom loses her memories & comes closer to the transition from this physically embodied existence to whatever comes next. And then, this outside my door…

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@LeighKimberg

4 years

We celebrate our phenomenal @PRIME_US #UCSFgrads Mission-driven DOCTORS (!!!) who center the wisdom & expertise of historically marginalized communities & journey toward healing justice. Congratulations! @UCSF @MonicaHahnMD SOM 2020 Commencement Ceremony

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@LeighKimberg

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This needs to stop. We take an oath to serve all of humanity regardless of their beautiful or odious or any types of political beliefs. Those who advocate for anti-genocide, anti-apartheid, decolonization do this with compassion & skill for people of all backgrounds & beliefs.

Daniel Lide, MD

@jai_lies

1 month

typical harassment faced by medical trainees who dare speak out against apartheid Israel’s genocide

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@LeighKimberg

2 years

Power of primary care. Long time primary care patient—routine phone appointment & described 2 episodes of shortness of breath—lasting 2 min & 4 min. *Knowing her* and her medical problems so well, I had very strong suspicion of blood clot in lungs. Unfortunately accurate. /1

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

One of my dreams in life is to be an old woman with frizzy white hair with garden dirt under her fingernails. Feeling blessed to be on my way…

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

@uche_blackstock Was told by “leaders” at Harvard that I was “throwing away my career” to go into #primarycare —especially at a county hospital. And this was as #HIV #AIDS decimating the community & I was headed to #SFGH

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

Gratitude to @AnuvirSingh3 @PRIME_US @UCSF @UCBerkeleySPH student for sharing his observations & advocacy. @AnuvirSingh3 is a leader in #farmworkersrights —always centering the expertise, contributions, health & safety of our community members who feed CA, the US & beyond!

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

@KBibbinsDomingo

3 years

Fourth year @UCSFMedicine student @AnuvirSingh3 asks Senator @AlexPadilla4CA on addressing gap between intent & reality of protecting farm workers with critical PPE & other protections during pandemic #EssentialWorkers #healthequity #ucsfPROUD

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@LeighKimberg

4 years

Doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAll #UBI #rentcancellation #endcorporatewelfare #GreenNewDeal #AbolishThePolice #AbolishICE We are done with these racist, inhumane, destructive society. Tear it down and build the healing and just systems we need and deserve.

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@LeighKimberg

3 years

⬇️⬇️⬇️ #VerifyBlackWomenPhysicians

Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉

@Cleavon_MD

3 years

🧵Representation matters and this statistic is startling. There are only 10 Black women physicians @verified on Twitter #VerifyBlackWomenPhysicians

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@LeighKimberg

3 months

Five year old children want to commit suicide in Gaza. They are living in an Israeli-US-made hell. Meanwhile. I cannot find a US pediatric healthcare association or institution calling for a ceasefire. @AmerAcadPeds “hearts are with Israeli & Palestinian children”

Tom Gara

@tomgara

4 months

There was a video a few days ago where a man in Gaza found a small boy sleeping in the middle of a road at night, he picked him up and took him somewhere safe and the boy told him all his family were killed and he slept on the unlit road in the hope someone would run him over

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@LeighKimberg

1 month

This is our @UCSF @UCSFHospitals nurse midwife in Rafah now. Our @UCSFNurse are truly incredible people. This violence needs to stop. At least 124 nurses have been killed in Gaza already. UCSF needs to issue a demand for an immediate, permanent ceasefire & humanitarian aid.

Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her)

@ErinSandersNP

1 month

It’s national nurses week. Holding up and holding space for this courageous nurse midwife caring for the tiniest patients amid ongoing bombardment, famine, and genocide.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 years

California adding major immigrant rights protections, worker rights protections, changes to birth certificates so that gender identity need not be specified at birth and more! Read list and enjoy! Great start! #Resistance #HeretoStay #Immigrants #workers #LGBTQ #transgender

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@JoyAnnReid

6 years

California is the closest thing we have to an experiment in what a modern, future-embracing America would look like. There are huge challenges (extreme income inequality and sky high housing costs) but other states have that and worse for the poor. via @qz

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@LeighKimberg

5 years

Beautiful keynote by @LeticiaRolonMD to welcome our incoming @UCSF medical students. Gratitude to Dr. Rolon for sharing her parents’ and patient’s wisdom, love of lifelong learning and and the importance of mentorship. #UCSFProud

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

Israel knows exactly what it is doing—murdering children to prevent a future, healthcare workers/system to speed the process of genocide, journalists so no one will see, lawyers so no one will prosecute, & now internationally renowned academic leaders who are spokespeople as well

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

6 months

A brief summary about Dr. Sufyan Tayeh, the President of the Islamic University of Gaza, murdered today in the Israeli massacre in Jabalia: 🔹 The current president of the Islamic University of Gaza 🔹He was ranked among the top 2% of researchers around the world in 2021 🔹He

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@LeighKimberg

7 years

Parents who don't understand what sexual assault is & don't think it's their job to teach sons about consent. Their sons learned what they were taught by their parents and our #rapeculture @nytimes Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 years

So proud of and grateful to @UCSF graduate @LoggheMD Heather Logghe,MD for her leadership in intimate partner violence prevention in surgery and beyond! #ViolenceAgainstWomen #domesticviolence #Surgery

WomenSurgeons

@WomenSurgeons

6 years

Surgeons Address Intimate Partner Violence Head-on @ACSprez

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

1 month

Still waiting @UCSFPediatrics for you to call for Israel to stop murdering children and the US to stop supplying the $ and bombs to do this. This is unprecedented and your silence is excruciatingly and sickeningly complicit.

Pelham

@Resist_05

1 month

If we can allow over 15,000 children to be slaughtered in 207 days, while choosing to stay silent, because you might be labeled “antisemitic”… or pro-hamas Then we are creating a world where a child’s life holds no value..🇵🇸💔

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

This. Our Palestinian healthcare colleagues have stood by their oaths to serve humanity when they knew they would die by doing so. The thought of abandoning patients inconceivable. Leaders in medicine here who have 1st amendment protections won’t even say ‘don’t bomb hospitals’

Noor, MSc نور 🍉 🕊️

@_noor_z

6 months

I will remember Dr. Nujaila. Him, Dr. Alloh, & all other HCWs in Gaza unjustly murdered are my North Star in the kind of physician I should be. I do not revere those around me with their fancy titles & yet haven’t uttered one word. I don’t revere cowards; only those with humanity

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@LeighKimberg

2 years

To others, her symptoms would likely seem inconsequential. To someone who has known her for almost 20 years they were highly unusual. In medicine—as in life—close, strong, long-term relationships save lives. We need healing systems that honor & support these relationships.

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@LeighKimberg

1 month

💯 this People talking about “trauma informed care” & “resilience” who are all SILENT during genocide—sickening. What about dropping your #ACES & #resiliency studies & doing something to stop this slaughter? We need a world that doesn’t require resilience because it is just.

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@rayyabadran

1 month

The word "resilience" makes my skin crawl and I have been seeing it on here over and over again. In search for an antidote, I re-read this excerpt by writer Sara Mourad, written in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion: "Resilience romanticizes our loss and dispossession. 1/4

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

@JayCarney @kenbensinger @ceodonovan @amazon @BernieSanders @JeffBezos @RMac18 Will hold my praise until @amazon starts paying federal taxes. Soaring profits far outweigh any wealth re-distribution. @SenSanders #corporateaccountability #corporatewelfare

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@LeighKimberg

1 month

@mcbyrne @Penn This is not “getting it right”. Getting it right is divesting from genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. They just want to keep it quiet and “peaceful” and there is no peace without justice.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 years

@oni_blackstock 🙏🏼 to @SFPublicLibrary

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

5 months

@_noor_z Your heart, body, mind, soul and moral compass are completely rooted in compassion. Sadly, so many others have lost the capacity for empathy and adhere to dehumanization and ideologies that result in and further genocide.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

6 months

Please help rescue our Palestinian colleague, Dr Haytham Almallahi, immediately. Every moment that passes we are at risk of losing another beloved, courageous colleague who risked his life to care for others. @MSF_USA @RedCross @RedCrescent @cnnbrk @clarissaward @BBCBreaking

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Thrilling news! Dr. @MKushel is a tireless and powerful advocate for #SocialJustice & #racialequity who will not rest until we have housed every unhoused person in this country. #HousingIsHealthcare Boundless compassion & generosity! You inspire all of us @UCSF ! @ucsfcvp

UCSF CVP at ZSFG

@ucsfcvp

4 years

Congratulations to CVP & BHHI Director Dr. @MKushel on your 2020 Dr. Thomas N. Burbridge Award for Public Service!🙌We celebrate your unwavering dedication to public service & advocacy for underserved populations! #UCSFProud @UCSFMedicine @UCSF

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

20 days

Dear @UCSF patients—Our students-of all faiths & backgrounds-are protesting the killing of 45,000 human beings with US bombs. They cherish life, health & the dignity of all people. Tonight you are invited to Shabbat prayers at 5 pm. We apologize for our cruel UCSF leadership.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Such an honor to have our @UCSFMedicine Dean @TalmadgeKing inspire our @PRIME_US @UCSF @JointMedPrgrm 2020 Graduates with a call to dismantle the structural inequities that harm health. We are grateful for your brilliant leadership and generous mentorship!

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

16 days

“To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and culture”. 🙏🏼 to Alice for being one of our very best teachers in medicine & life. Every healthcare worker needs to read this & follow Alice. 🌱

Alice Wong 王美華

@SFdirewolf

17 days

Check out my latest @TeenVogue column on living in crip time, the experiences of being a new nonspeaking person, and the challenges I face using AAC to speak

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

2 months

People in positions of power in US medicine are morally bankrupt. While purporting to care about mental health our US Surgeon General @vivek_murthy doesn’t seem to think that genocide is harmful enough to make a statement. Your silence is complicity.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Brilliant, heartbreaking, inspiring talk by @dereckwpaul on structural racism, homelessness & how “structural determinants become social determinants of health”. Powerful advice re talking to patients about discrimination & “leading by example” to address racism in medicine. 🙏🏼

Dereck Paul MD

@dereckwpaul

4 years

Great to talk to the @UCSF Trauma-Informed Care course about structural racism and homelessness, an essential #SDOH . Thank you Dr. @LeighKimberg and coordinators for inviting me. 🙏🏾 Thanks always to my wonderful research mentors Drs. @MKushel and @kellyrayknight .

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

Thrilling news! @PRIME_US @UCSF faculty @MonicaHahnMD is a @NMQF 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health. Dr. Hahn, co-founder of @IHJM_ is on 🔥🔥-to end ‘race-based medicine’ & create anti-racist policies & practices in #healthcare & #MedEd 🙏🏼 for your healing-justice leadership

NMQF

@NMQF

3 years

💫 We are incredibly proud to announce our 2021 "40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health" honorees. Meet them now!⤵️ #NMQF40Under40 #healthcare #medicine

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

4 years

Especially in the most challenging times I can always count on being immensely #UCSFProud Students, staff & faculty—all mission-driven to prevent illness & eliminate inequities 4 CA & beyond. @UCSF is leading in preparing health professions students for #COVID19 & future! 🙏🏼

Peter Chin-Hong MD

@PCH_SF

4 years

NEWS- @UCSFMedicine has taken the #highroad . Will actively prepare our advanced #medicalstudents to serve in the #COVID19 #workforce by 1)identifying tasks (eg, scribing, triaging, screening) 2)training students 3)supporting early #meded as clinicians get deployed. #UCSFproud

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

23 days

While ⁦ @UCSF ⁩ Chancellor calls police to remove students protesting genocide, Professor Jess Ghannam & med student Cathy Gao amplify their demands for “an international call to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel for its crimes against humanity”.

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Leigh Kimberg

@LeighKimberg

3 years

Please SIGN! By centering the wisdom, expertise & leadership of students from communities historically excluded from medicine & supporting students in forming effective healthcare-community partnerships we promote health equity & social justice. Support @UofCalifornia #PRIME

UC San Francisco

@UCSF

3 years

CA has a growing shortage of physicians and #COVID19 has exposed deep inequities in health care. @UofCalifornia #PRIME prepares future doctors to care for underserved communities. Join UCSF in asking lawmakers to fund this critical program. @UCAdvocacy

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