Justin Mott

UNMC's faculty awards announced for 2024-25 The UNMC Faculty Senate will recognize faculty for meritorious teaching, mentoring and community service at its annual meeting.

Congratulations to Dr. Pooneh Bagher for winning the UNMC Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Junior Faculty award.
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@gundrylab.bsky.social @unmc-chvr.bsky.social

Kung hee fat choy! Happy New Year from UNMC!

The first Young Investigator selected talk @ the #SLDSummit is pure basic science 😍

Erika Paolini used spatial transcriptomics to map the metabolic zonation of hepatocytes in MASLD, showing that PNPLA3 affects zonation by impairing periportal function

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@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky

This suicide risk assessment & safety planning workshop from @medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social improved #medstudents perceived knowledge & comfort managing suicidality using didactics, flipped learning, SP encounters, & group discussions. www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766... #MedEd #Medsky

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Honored to be interviewed for this piece in Time…

Cognitive load refers to how much working memory or short-term memory someone is using at a time. Minimizing the cognitive load it takes to use your site makes it more accessible for people with cognitive disabilities. Limit what you're asking users to remember to use your site.

Graphic made from data and images from NEJM, 2024. Upper part shows left side pneumonia that progressed to the right side image in 1 day! With severe bilateral pneumonia. Timeline below shows organ failures, respiratory, renal, cardiorespiratory. 1 month ICU stay.

Been masking up more often. Mostly due to having a disability & working near vulnerable patients.

Also: saw the CXRs below: complete whiteout from influenza A, H5N1.

I'm careful but not fearful right now, cases are mostly mild & mostly not person-to-person.

H/t NEJM 2024, Dec 24

Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care - PubMed More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, o...

In a survey about physicians' attitudes towards people with disabilities, some admitted to refusing care.
Reasons cited
✅ Found patients entitled when asking for accommodations​
✅ Felt unequipped to care for patients​
✅ Felt uncomfortable with communication​
#DisabilitySky
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What are the origins of the gender gap in career advancement between men and women GI physicians and how can we remedy these disparities?

AGA President Dr. Maria Abreu addresses this in a new @aga-gastro.bsky.social commentary. https://buff.ly/3Po5mUP

When submitted by researchers, GI presentations are equally divided F:M.

When invited or industry supported, women are underrepresented. Compare the center chart to the other 2.

UEG and DSW are major conferences presenting cutting edge findings on gastroenterology.

Remembering pulmonologist, researcher, mentor Joe Sisson, MD Dr. Sisson was respected as 'the best of what it means to be a physician-scientist.'

Joe was one of the pillars of our college. As his colleague Dr. Wyatt put it, "He was my friend, and I loved him." Please read this tribute to our mentor, colleague, physician and friend, Dr. Joe Sisson. We will miss him. #pulmonary #cilia
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Oh no.

At the risk of responding to a potentially rhetorical question, I have a thought.

Your guide dog is good because her motivation is to meet your expectations. Can you communicate the rules of the change you want, and rely on her already-present motivation?

And for my US Followers wondering what you'll see after dark ...

“For last year's words belong to last year's language,
And next year's words await another voice.”

-T.S. Eliot, “Four Quartets.”

Here’s to leaving what needs to be let go, and holding on to what needs to be kept.

Happy New Year everyone.

The first #UNMC Student Engagement Advisory Council (SEAC) Holiday Party was a huge success! The SEAC aims to foster a sense of belonging and promote inclusion for all students. Thank you to my fellow UNMC AAPISA members for representing the #AAPI community with me!

IDK, better living feels like there are productivity metrics.

Wellness is sitting by the pond. I might hold on one more year

Campus remembers Dr. Cowan, former director of cancer center Services set for Tuesday for Ken Cowan, MD, PhD, whose 'legacy will be felt for generations.'

As Dean Britigan said, Dr. Cowan was a trusted and visionary colleague. There was no better mentor and advocate for our faculty than Dr. Cowan, and he will be greatly missed by us all.
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Ableism looks like building a world that doesn’t consider people with disabilities, then blaming them for not fitting in. It's the constant belittling, the exclusion, the 'inspiration' label slapped on them for existing, and the refusal to make basic accommodations because it’s 'too much effort.

The disability community is the the largest minority group in the country and often the most ignored. It’s also the only minority group you can join at any time. You can become disabled and most likely will with age. To care about the disability community is to care about your inevitable future.

A picture of William Shakespeare with a speech bubble which reads LOL.

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The Humanities and their use within the sciences.

It is common to separate the Humanities from the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. Today we look at how they can intersect and how one provides succor or inspiration to the other.
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Counterclockwise: teaching, patient care, scholarship/research, and service. This faculty member is preparing for P&T. Work is never finished, never enough.

Best work life balance I've seen so far was my colleague who left academic research -> non-science career.

Fiercely defend your boundaries.

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When someone with a #Disability shares a struggle,

Say this: "What is that like for you?"

Not that: "I struggle with that too. One time, I [insert something that is not even close]."

Totally get that you are trying to relate, but that invalidates the person's experience.
#StopBeingAwkward

Practical advice to acknowledge that a person with a disability has a complex &personal experience. Not something that can be grasped in a moment.

Empathy without diminishing their lived experience.

I’ll say it again.

Vaccines are LIFESAVING MIRACLES.

Blindness is on a spectrum.

When someone says they are blind, ask “ How much vision do you have?”

This opens up the conversation and prevents it from being built on assumptions.
#Disability
@docswithdisability.bsky.social

Great reminder to share the load and get the help you deserve.

Therapy and mental health care save lives and are vital to health.
@drhowardliu.bsky.social

Congratulations Dr. Drakowski! Brilliant study of community resources and structures affecting health and lives. Great presentation and can't wait to see what she does next! Congrats to @aandersonberry.bsky.social proud mentor.