Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD

The New Clinician Scholars: A Q&A with Vinayak Jain and Kayla Zamanian Why the intersection of medicine & the humanities produces better research, better healthcare, and better thinking

I sat down with @vinayakjain.bsky.social & Kayla Zamanian to talk about our new piece in @jama.com & why the humanities & social sciences are fundamental to health research and innovation.

Check out the article:
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I can't believe acetaminophen is main character right now

"Let's boil this down: AI for back office and admin tasks? Yes. AI for diagnostics and training? Perhaps, but we need to understand the impact on patient care."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social on the future of medicine
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This is great! Looking forward to reading.
Bridging this gap is what Indigenous scholars have been advocating for decades: calling for recognition of the value and legitimacy of bridging methodologies across disciplines AND worldviews to answer complex health questions.

Mira por donde, siempre he pensado que soy un bicho raro y resulta que ahora sale en el JAMA que no es tan malo ser de ciencias y letras a la vez, cuando te dedicas a la medicina

Sure, I’m biased, but it’s amazing how often my Linguistics background is relevant or adds context.

Working with the Medical Humanities Initiative has been one of the highlights during my time as a resident - Medical Humanities The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of Ella Castanier's academic experience at Georgetown.

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This project was extra special as I got to work with two brilliant alums of Georgetown's Medical Humanities Initiative @vinayakjain.bsky.social (now a pulm fellow and MedHum rising star) & Kayla Zamanian (now a law student). Enjoyable, and mind expanding from start to finish. Thank you both.

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Note: "Clinician-scholar" often means MD / DO + biomedical training. We're arguing for expansion: clinician + humanities as a vital formation. As someone who was a humanist before becoming a physician, I see & am grateful for the many humanists who've done foundational work on health campuses.

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AI overlords, waning public trust, and funding/information outages demand we reimagine medical research. We NEED the interpretive skills, historical perspective & structural / contextual analysis humanities bring. Humanists are the OG translational scholars.

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Dual Training in Medicine and Humanities Drives Health Research Innovation This Viewpoint explores how training in both the medical and health humanities complements biomedical research, expanding clinician-scholars’ understanding of human health.

Excited to share our @jama.com Viewpoint on dual-trained clinician-scholars in medicine & humanities.

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#medicalhumanities #healthhumanities

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Always a treat to have @profgoldberg.bsky.social's take!

Face Value The Mask as Symbol from COVID-19 to ICE raids

Masks serve both power & resistance. ICE agents mask to avoid accountability or, if we take them at face value, protect themselves. Protesters mask to subvert surveillance. We wear them voluntarily & through compulsion. We hide behind masks, we survive through masks.
My latest: tinyurl.com/vpyfdzjs

A thing that is good and safe and wholesome and fair in a world that is anything but

Cannot bear the news but popping onto the sky of blue to say:
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There once was a dream that was the NHS On watching Michael Sheen play Aneurin Bevan, and reflections on universal healthcare during an American crisis

As always, @thelakshmik.bsky.social blows my mind with her excellent analysis. Perfect example of how #histmed & #medhum impact health policy (& culture) today.

Checkout her latest post: drlakshmikrishnan.substack.com/p/there-once...

🥹 too kind

Vaccine skepticism used to be more grassroots; it's now fortified with federal power. Check out my new post on RFK’s clean sweep.

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IT'S OUT!

"Don’t Pick Up Your Binoculars Unless You Know What You’re Looking At” A detective walks into the White House and immediately tells everyone they’re wrong about everything.

"Don't pick up your binoculars 🦅 unless you know what you're looking at."

What watching THE RESIDENCE revealed abt the connections between birdwatching, microscopes, & medicine -- & what we do with our attention

My first Substack is live! Please read & subscribe to The Workup

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🔄 Our socioecological framework reveals how multi-level factors shape diagnostic journeys and identifies new pathways to diagnostic health equity!

#DiagnosticEquity #HealthDisparities

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Roads diverge: mapping the journey towards diagnostic health equity Background Diagnostic disparities significantly impact health outcomes, with various factors influencing differential access and treatment across communities. This paper explores the complex landscape...

📊 Our new paper introduces the "diagnostic environment" model:

🌫️ Atmospheric: Societal factors
👥 Surface: Healthcare interactions
🔍 Subterranean: Hidden structures / norms

Now out in #BMJOpenQuality @bmj.com! ⬇️
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Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief Read online, download a free PDF.

Just published! 📊 Thrilled to see our findings from the @nationalacademies.org workshop on "Advancing Equity in Diagnostic Excellence to Reduce Health Disparities" now available. Download the proceedings brief: nap.edu/28573 #HealthEquity #DiagnosticExcellence

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship [Williams, Dana A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

Quieting the noise for a sec to spotlight a colleague, wise woman, scholar-leader par excellence, a very great writer and an even better friend @danaawilliams.bsky.social. Pre-order Toni at Random NOW!

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Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

- Joy Harjo, Perhaps The World Ends Here

Join us Monday, Feb. 10, 3:00 PM - Annual Carlton Haywood, Jr, PhD Memorial Symposium. Keynote - Keith Wailoo, PhD, "Sickle Cell Disease – A History of Peril and Progress" - w panel Lydia Pecker, Yoram Unguru, Teonna Woolford. Open to all. Link for free registration: mailchi.mp/jhu/registra...

Cool to see my piece on diagnosis and AI out @statnews.com. Thanks @thekibosch.bsky.social for brilliant editing.

Event, Jan 31, 2025, 5p | Rx: Conversations about Medicine and Writing, featuring Lenny Grant and Lakshmi Krishnan, and moderated by JHU’s own Jeremy Greene. Open to all. Link for free registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

NAVSA 2025 now open for submissions! (Deadline 3/17) Please reach out to me or our brilliant digital genius @lindseyeroneil.bsky.social with any questions at all 💜

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.

The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw

Migrated from Twitter. Literary scholar by training, physician by trade, friend of history, and believer that poetry might be the only thing that saves us.

Following #medicalhumanities, #historyofmedicine, #poets, and #medsky