Chip Bowman

Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.

Vaccinating babies against hepatitis B is a simple recommendation that saves lives—one based on solid science, & that has led to a dramatic drop in preventable infections and deaths.

Ending this recommendation will cost lives. RFK Jr. must answer to Congress.

Had a great time at #TLM2025 this year! #liversky

Etsy has a lot of leather options!

Why does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? | AASLD Why does cirrhosis affect hemodynamics and cardiac function? Cirrhosis has a myriad of effects on human cardiovascular physiology. Many of the hemodynamic...

Another great addition to the #LiverFellowNetwork Why series on cardiac dysfunction in cirrhosis.
#Liversky #meded
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Excited to be attending the AST Fellows Symposium of Transplantation this weekend #ASTFellows2025

Happening now!

Pride webinar. Thursday June 26th at noon. Past present and future: LGBTQ+ health and hepatology.

This Thursday @aasldfoundation.bsky.social has a webinar for Pride month. Come check it out!
Past Present and Future: LGBTQ+ health and hepatology

#liversky #gastrosky #medsky

www.aasld.org/webinar-prid...

This administration genuinely doesn’t care if queer kids live or die.

Heads up to sign up for an AASLD Pride Webinar later this month! www.aasld.org/webinar-prid...

#liversky #medsky #gisky #gastrosky

An important message on naltrexone in patients with liver disease:

✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver.

🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver.

We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD!

@nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social

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Had a great experience presenting my senior talk as a GI fellow at Grand Rounds this morning talking about my passion of Quality Improvement in Hepatology

It’s a gorgeous day in San Diego for #DDW #DDW2025

One of many ongoing attacks on public health. Very disheartening to see

Encouraging #GISky and #liversky Fellows to apply!

📆 Apply by April 1st!

Happy #matchday to all the medical students! Whether or not you got your top choice you all deserve a great celebration! #medsky

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Struggled last night with a bit of research coding and finally got it right. The feeling is elation! (Until the next bit humbles me no doubt)

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

Fellows and faculty of Columbia GI at the NYSGE annual business dinner

This week had a lovely time at #NYSGE with the Columbia crew. Celebrated outgoing president Dr Poneros. #GISky #gastrosky

Excited for today’s Columbia Liver Summit on HCC Management! #LiverSky

Can’t wait to read!

We had a lively discussion on this! Most aren’t but some were very for and others quite against. Caveat of if have diabetes probably better managed with endocrine.

Fascinating GI grand rounds at Columbia on GLP1s. My take away - growing evidence of benefits in multiple areas, scarce significant side effects mostly GI, data on endoscopy/gastric emptying is limited, and no data yet accounts for rise in use via compound pharmacies. #GIsky #liversky

Machine perfusion strategies in Liver Transplantation: A... : Liver Transplantation uality from extended criteria donors and donors after circulatory death and expand the donor pool. This network meta-analysis investigates the comparative efficacy and safety of various liver MP strat...

Not long after my post for the #LiverFellowNetwork on machine perfusion, this meta-analysis comes out showing promise for use of HOPE/dual-HOPE. #LiverSky journals.lww.com/lt/pages/art...

Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity. New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.

“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
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AP Headline: "Climate Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do"

This is an excellent, in-depth article on what leaving the Paris Climate agreement means for the US by @borenbears.bsky.social

One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."

Dr Aneke-Nash standing next to a screen with her title slide on endobariatrics

Very excited to learn from the brilliant Dr Aneke-Nash with her grand rounds on endobariatrics.

#gastrosky

Read this

A review of reported adverse events for medications to treat alcohol use disorder

we must reduce alcohol use in people with liver disease

And to increase uptake of useful tools …

we need stop repeating that naltrexone is hepatotoxic

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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.