Ann L. Jennerich, MD MS ATSF

It’s been a whirlwind of a month…

✅ Year 4 of my R01 is officially funded—excited to keep the momentum going.

📝 The new R01 we submitted in February was reviewed earlier this week… and it wasn’t discussed. Not the outcome we hoped for, but we’ll regroup.

Science is a long game. Onward.

Saving the best for last! #ATS2025

D102 IMPORTANT TOPICS IN CRITICAL AND ACUTE CARE

Expertly led by Curt Weiss, Liz Viglianti, and Bob Lee.

Great discussion about heterogeneity in healthcare. Thinking about the concepts of justified versus unjustified variability!

It doesn’t get any better than this.

Excellent presentations, expert discussion, great audience engagement.

C83 END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE ICU: CONTROVERSIES AND CONVERSATIONS

Thanks to all who made it happen!

#ATS2025 #PalliativeCare

Great @atscommunity.bsky.social session on EOL care in the ICU @ #ATS2025 where Chris Cox broke the record for most
unicorns in a talk!

Congratulations to our #ATS2025 Ziskind Clinical Research Scholar Award winner!

@laurenkearney.bsky.social

@jackykruser.bsky.social @ajadmon.bsky.social @kellyvrana.bsky.social

What a great session! #ATS2025

Expertly moderated by Andrew, Jacky, and Kelly.

My thoughts? In the ICU, start with values, not goals. Goals change with prognosis; values don’t. Knowing what matters most to a patient anchors care in what’s meaningful, not just what’s possible.

We’ll tackle some of the most complex questions in ICU care: withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies, and navigating the gray zone between cure and comfort.

We’ve got a phenomenal speaker lineup and have built in ample time for discussion.

Don’t miss Session C83 at #ATS2025 – End-of-Life Care in the ICU: Controversies and Conversations
Tuesday, May 20 | 2:15–3:45 PM
Room 2010/2012 (Moscone West, Level 2)

A T32. So sorry to this team @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and the trainees this supported.

By the time the consequences are undeniable, recovering what we’ve lost will be incredibly difficult.

And those same people who didn’t notice or care at the start won’t connect the dots in coming years when the U.S. has fallen behind in biomedical research. Worse, they’ll take that lack of awareness as proof that the cuts never really mattered.

My real concern isn’t just the NIH funding cuts, it’s that people are right when they say no one outside academic medicine will notice (or really even care).

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH study sections are being canceled or postponed at the last minute, wasting countless hours of scientists' time and delaying critical research funding. This instability threatens scientific progress and patient care. NIH needs to fix this - fast. #NIHStudySection

Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Family-Centered Care for Adult ICUs: 2024 - PubMed Our guideline panel achieved consensus regarding recommendations and best practices for family-centered care in adult ICUs.

Excited that our guideline on family-centered care in the ICU is now available on PubMed!

Proud to contribute to the mission of creating a more compassionate and effective ICU environment.

Check out our work here:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39982184/

Hearing wrapping up. TRO stays in place for now. Judge to rule on whether to issue a preliminary injunction within the next few days, previously said she'll work "as quickly as I can given the importance of the case."

Judge closes with: "Thank you--I have a lot of work to do."

Yeah.

View from Harborview, downtown Seattle!

So much negative news, it’s nice when something brightens your day.

MVP of the Neuro ICU, with the nicest thank you card.

It’s a pleasure to work with such thoughtful, kind individuals.

Apparently, the University of Washington School of Medicine has frozen all non-clinical hiring in response to the Trump/Musk administration attacks on science and science funding.

Destroying healthcare to own the libs.

Louisiana Health Department Says It Will Stop Promoting ‘Mass Vaccination’ “Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.

The new administration and its devotees will do everything except protect public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Louisiana Health Department Says It Will Stop Promoting ‘Mass Vaccination’ “Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.

Keeps getting worse by the day ...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Happy Birthday Randy.

Your wisdom and guidance are missed, now more than ever.

We’ll also need one for all sorts of other infectious diseases. Adding brucellosis to the list of diseases I never expected to worry about in 2025. Feels like we’re speed-running a public health regression.

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/11/25): In response to a lawsuit from 22 state attorneys general, a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order on NIH funding …

Members asked how they can make their voice heard re: NIH medical research funding cuts. Here's resource matching your location to your federal representatives, so you might call their office to explain impact of cuts to research facilities, equipment, admin. 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

Interventional Strategies for Children with Progressive Pulmonary Hypertension Despite Optimal Therapy: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
@atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky

🔓 Open Access

🔗 shorturl.at/kvpoD

I’ve never seen a case of measles as a physician. Yet here I am in 2025, looking up pictures of measles rash. It may be time to refresh our knowledge of communicable diseases many of us have never had to diagnose in adults.