Chethan Sarabu MD

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Ameen.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends

Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV

I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.

We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.

In our already overflowing hospitals

The name of the game is "Publish or Perish" and some of our team's researchers have been playing it for decades.

In October, @ctlin.bsky.social, @thelizarmy.bsky.social and @epatientdave.bsky.social gathered in our Boston office and played this all-too-real board game from @chethan.bsky.social.

At the recent Princeton Systems Summit on HealthcareTransformation - Mitch Katz, CEO of NYC H+H brilliantly diagnosed the insidious ways in which technology has raised costs of healthcare and created more inequities in stark contrast to other areas of life. Important caution for the coming AI era

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)

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Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief:

Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Sustainably Advancing Health AI: A Decision Framework to Mitigate the Energy, Emissions, and Cost of AI Implementation The authors offer an exploration of AI’s growing impact on carbon emissions, electricity consumption, and cost implications for health systems; present a new framework for mitigation of environment...

Healthcare accounts for about 9% of carbon utilization, a pre-AI estimate. Thanks @chethan.bsky.social and team for this important discussion of the impact of AI on climate change. catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Sustainably Advancing Health AI: A Decision Framework to Mitigate the Energy, Emissions, and Cost of AI Implementation The authors offer an exploration of AI’s growing impact on carbon emissions, electricity consumption, and cost implications for health systems; present a new framework for mitigation of environment...

What is the environmental cost of Health AI?

@chethan.bsky.social recently coauthored a paper IN NEJM Catalyst with strategies for more sustainable AI adoption for health system leaders, technologists, and policymakers.

catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#MedSky #WhyInformatics #MedAI

American Medical Informatics Association Statement on the Recent Department of Health and Human Services Actions That Undermine Equitable Healthcare and Scientific Integrity Washington, D.C.

AMIA stands firmly with the scientific community in upholding the established gold standard for science, a methodological, evidence-based foundation built upon empirical rigor, objectivity, transparency, peer review, and continuous self-correction.

When you get great minds in a room, that's when innovation happens!

@chethan.bsky.social and @thelizarmy.bsky.social saw Christopher Longhurst, Executive Director of Jacobs Center for Health Innovation @jchi-ucsd.bsky.social at the AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference #CIC2025

#medsky #cansky

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics "They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel.

How are patients using AI to improve their health outcomes?

@cait-desroches.bsky.social @danamlewis.bsky.social and @chethan.bsky.social presented new research at the SAIL conference on integrating AI into the clinic.

Read more: academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

#cansky #medsky #patientsuseAI

This Earth Day is more important than ever for all individuals who care about protecting our home for generations to come. Centering conversations around Health helps to build coalitions and advance the adaptation and mitigation work needed. At the @nationalacademies.org Climate + Health event

Thank you to @swaay.health for recognizing @opennotes.org as Patient Experience Program of the Year!

We were honored to be nominated for the award by the community.

#PatientExperience #PatientEngagement #medsky #cansky

@thelizarmy.bsky.social @chethan.bsky.social @cait-desroches.bsky.social

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Would love to be there but can’t make this Thursday. Hope you host them again

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.

This Is One of the Most Important TV Episodes of the Year I had been dreading The Pitt’s foreshadowed mass-shooting episode. But it’s a vital watch.

Here’s me on that latest episode of The Pitt—one of the most shocking, graphic, and important episodes of TV I’ve ever seen.

If didn’t just feel like must-see TV; it felt like a public service. Every American who has tuned out gun violent should have to watch it. slate.com/culture/2025...

Futurism On Deaf Ears Mar 18, 10:15 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers "A user," the Google researchers cautioned, could be "persuaded to take their own life." Image: a collage of kids staying up late on their phones, with several hiding under their covers.

NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.

futurism.com/google-suici...

I’m a pediatrician and I love Medicaid pass it on.

Nobel Peace Prize 2021 The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting pe...

The quote shared above is at the 40 minute mark in the podcast. Made Jon Stewart stop as well. Highly recommend listening to the whole episode and also learning more about Maria Ressa - www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

More people need to learn the story of Taq polymerase and the need for public funding as it’s truly at the root of all true innovation

Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.