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Kevin Watson Jr, MD, FAAP

@kevinwatsonjrmd.bsky.social

Pediatric gastroenterologist & informaticist at Akron Children’s and NEOMED. Passionate about DEI and mentoring. ❤️✈️&🍱🥪. Opinions=my own. He/him/his 🏳️‍🌈

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Help me take steps toward cures for Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis I'm participating in Take Steps, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's largest, most impactful fundraising campaign. Funds raised through Take Steps help create a new future for people living with IBD — ...

Only a few days until Northeast Ohio Take Steps! Still time to help kids fight #crohns & #colitis! #naspghan

takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fu...

11.06.2025 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Help me take steps toward cures for Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis I'm participating in Take Steps, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's largest, most impactful fundraising campaign. Funds raised through Take Steps help create a new future for people living with IBD — ...

I am taking part in the Northeast Ohio Take Steps walk to work toward raising a cure for Crohn’s & Colitis. Any donation will help this tremendously important work for my patients and for the many who are living with IBD. #ccfa #ibd #takesteps

takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fu...

07.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The floor is lava is serious for a 3 year old 🤣

24.02.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Improving Evidenced-based Outpatient Order Set Utilization... : Pediatric Quality & Safety s with embedded clinical decision support tools. In 2022, the utilization of SmartSets in our hospital’s gastrointestinal division was only 1.9%, far below our organizational target of 50%. Methods: ...

So grateful to work on this quality improvement project for our #pedsgi division. ⬆️ use of standard order sets and ⬇️ time spent on orders. A great time saver! #MedEd #qi #pediatric

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13.02.2025 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

Indirect (facility and admin) costs are real. For 70 years, the US biomedical research enterprise has been structured on recovery of these institutional expenditures. Reduction of indirect costs recovery to 15% will cripple US biomedical research for decades.

www.science.org/content/arti...

08.02.2025 10:59 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Endoscopic and rectal tube management of pediatric sigmoid volvulus: A case series The process of the sigmoid colon twisting on its mesentery is known as sigmoid volvulus, a diagnosis rarely seen in the pediatric population. Volvulus can lead to blood flow obstruction of the colon ...

Recent publication by two former @akronchildrens.bsky.social residents, now #pedsgi fellows @nationwidekids.bsky.social #meded

Endoscopic and rectal tube management of pediatric sigmoid volvulus: A case series - Khemka - JPGN Reports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

05.02.2025 21:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Calling in Your Markers: Can Biomarkers Predict the Response to Anti-TNF Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Crohn’s Disease? - Digestive Diseases and Sciences Digestive Diseases and Sciences -

Thank you Digestive Diseases & Sciences Journal for the opportunity to write this commentary. Excited at the prospect of more precise markers to predict anti-TNF response in the future. #pedsgi #IBD #naspghan

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25.01.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An all new episode! 🎙

Dr. David Vitale, Director of #interventional #endoscopy Cincinnati Children’s, discusses indications for #EUS and #ERCP in #pancreatitis

🎧Listen here:

www.buzzsprout.com/581062/episo...

@temarahajjatmd.bsky.social @jenniferleemd.bsky.social

14.01.2025 02:25 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I used to wonder how the Dark ages were possible after the fall of the Roman Empire and now I totally see how it happened.

06.01.2025 02:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loving the collection. I have to get building more Lego sets!

01.01.2025 01:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! The things they make are amazing!

28.12.2024 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just realized there is a show called Lego Wars that I found on Hulu. 6 seasons!

27.12.2024 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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TNF Inhibitors Prevent Complications in Kids with Crohn’s Disease, Recommended as First-Line Therapies - Global Health News Wire Study confirms that the use of anti-tumor necrosis factor drugs dramatically reduces the likelihood of perianal fistulas Early treatment of pediatric Crohn’s disease with anti-tumor necrosis factor me...

Early Anti-TNF (infliximab, adalimumab) therapy prevents perianal fistulas in children with Crohn’s disease.

24.12.2024 17:24 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So true! If there is ever a fire there will be multiple medical personnel still working in the hospital and in denial about it.

23.12.2024 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can totally picture the weird camera angles as this is recited. “Real World… GI”

11.12.2024 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We stand with IBD warriors and caregivers to make #IBDvisible during #Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week. 💜 #CCAwarenessWeek

01.12.2024 17:30 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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After years of requests, it's finally here. 👀

In our first Bowel Sounds en español, hosts Dr. Jose Garza & Dr. Rosalyn Diaz talk to Dr. Marina Orsi about cow's milk protein intolerance and the upcoming #WCPGHAN2024 in Buenos Aires! 🇦🇷

🎧 👉 www.buzzsprout.com/581062/episo...

25.11.2024 11:00 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Saaaaaaaaangin 🎶🎤🎼🎵

24.11.2024 05:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👏🏾 Welcome to bluer skies #gastrosky

18.11.2024 22:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our latest episode is OUT NOW!

@temarahajjatmd.bsky.social and @jasonsilverman.bsky.social sit down with Dr. Sandeep Gupta for yet another fast-paced GI research Year in Review, live from the annual @naspghan.bsky.social conference.

Listen now!

🎧: www.buzzsprout.com/581062/episo...

18.11.2024 22:50 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Interesting. I’d love to see a follow up study where physicians had training on prompt engineering and if cognitive offloading affected this… Basically I’m trying to talk myself into believing Skynet is not happening 🤖🦾🦿

18.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Deanna. I’m new to sky. Always looking to make friends in #stem 🙌🏾

17.11.2024 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Me trying to remember to incorporate sky into hashtags. Practice makes perfect #gastrosky #medsky #pedsky

16.11.2024 20:38 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes props to these fine folks for helping #gastrosky prosper 💪

16.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Way to go Jason! 🙌🏾💯

16.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Slowly but surely getting there. Love the #gastrosky starter pack 💯

15.11.2024 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to start the transition to blue sky #pedsgi out there help guide me please 🙏🏾 #medtwitter

15.11.2024 00:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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