Shazia Siddique

Welcome to #AGAAdvocacy Day 2025! We’re excited to have our largest crowd ever in D.C. this year! Government Affairs Chair @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social is kicking off our day’s agenda.

Starting soon @amergastroassn.bsky.social session on the evolving landscape in GI! Room 20A at 4pm 👇🏽
#DDW2025 @ddwmeeting.bsky.social

My approach to recharging:
🔸 morning exercise & music (alone)
🔸if I'm giving a talk that day, block off an hour (anytime) before
🔸treat alone-time like a meeting (don't be late 😉)

Any other #DDW2025 survival tips for introverts? Pls share 🙈 @ddwmeeting.bsky.social

Fellow introverts - ready for Day 2 #DDW2025 ?

How's everyone finding time to recharge? I'll go first 👇🏽

Hope to see you @amergastroassn.bsky.social Central 📍Sails Pavilion today!

#AGAGastroSquad
@ddwmeeting.bsky.social

Nothing like a blender bike battle! Bring your #AGAGastroSquad to AGA Central for a little friendly competition at #DDW2025. Bonus: you get a gut friendly smoothie 🥤 at the end! @issakamd.bsky.social

Anyone else feeling uncertain & concerned reading rapid changes to health care in the past 100 days?

Join us for an important conversation Monday noon at @amergastroassn.bsky.social Central to discuss potential impacts & how to take action 📢 (including an activity to contact your reps!) #DDW2025

What lawmakers decide on Capitol Hill impacts you at home & in your lab or clinic.

Come to AGA Central during #DDW2025 for tips & resources from AGA advocates like @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social and @jessicakormanmd.bsky.social on how to fight for you & your patients!

📅 Monday, May 5, 12 p.m.

Congratulations 🎉 and thank you 🙏 to our guideline authors for all of their hard work on this document! Read the full guideline at @aga-gastro.bsky.social www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001... #GastroSky #GISky cc @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social @petersliang.bsky.social

🙏🏽 to represent the AGA at the FightCRC rally

The AGA @amergastroassn.bsky.social wants to hear about how NIH cuts are impacting you!

Share your story here: surveymonkey.com/r/AGANIH

#AGAadvocacy

Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments

Breaking: Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide, not just in certain states. My latest for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

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the yield on NIH research for economic activity

How to get 146% return on investment?
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.

NIH cuts aren't just a loss for "liberal woke" universities.

NIH plan to reduce overhead payments draws fire White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%

15%.
In 2018, 10% was tried, but it was blocked by Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/u...
www.science.org/content/arti...

@drsmeena.bsky.social @helenburstinmd.medsky.social @amergastroassn.bsky.social @drfolamay.bsky.social @issakamd.bsky.social

These funds are used to support labs and staff and researchers- they're what make our work viable. This cut is a huge blow to science advancement.

This will have a crippling financial impact on academic institutions, increase unemployment, & stifle science

The $47B NIH budget generates ~$93B in economic activity/yr. Unparalleled 2.46-fold ROI. nearly every new drug has an origin in science funded by NIH incl pharma/biotch

If this is real, it seems intended to cause confusion, fear, and panic.

I maintain that we should not self-censor pre-emptively until things settle down and more is known (criteria to flag vs reject etc).

Important thread by @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social on the danger of using race as a biologic construct.

#MedSky - I asked her to join us from X. Please follow her for insights on science, evidence, and equity!

The AHRQ website went down for 24 hours and when it came back up, two of our reports were taken down (algorithms impacting disparities, and implicit bias training on patient safety outcomes). The censorship is real.

Differences in disease prevalence and treatment response by race are NOT *because of* race.
If trends showed people from NJ (like me!) had different responses would you treat them all differently or figure out why (social, economic, genetic factors). This line of reasoning is dangerous (3/3)

Race-based medicine is antiquated, deepens disparities and has limited applicability to our fastest growing group in the US- those with mixed racial & ethnic background. We cannot go backward. (2/3)

Perpetuating the false notion that race is biologic is dangerous. We've sequenced the human genome & know there's more genetic variation within a racial category than amongst them. (1/3)