Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc

June is Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈🌈 ASA is committed to providing meaningful support to all of our members, including those in the LGBTQ community. We celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to medicine and society.

#Pride #PrideMonth

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.

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"Sustaining this progress will be especially vital to future domestic medical advances & the prosperity of millions of Americans in future generations."

Could not agree more. Investing in research makes America great. Suppressing it makes America weak.

ASA has joined over 20 national medical specialties to express concern about the impact of recent Congressional proposals on Medicaid beneficiary coverage. Members, learn more from ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold: community.asahq.org/mmo/5-19-25

#anesthesiology #anesthesiology

Richard Suzman, 72, Dies; Researcher Influenced Global Surveys on Aging (Published 2015)

Thinking today about the visionary Richard Suzman, who saw the necessity of cross-national data to understand health in the US and embedded values of data & research sharing in HRS and intn'l sister studies. A credit to #NIA and a force still. #PublicHealth #EpiSky
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This is how it should work!! Thank you for correcting the record. 💕

Inspiring start to the FAER MRTG meeting! I don't find FAER on Bsky, but shout out to @asahq.bsky.social 's support of US anesthesiology's research arm. Deeply needed especially in today's climate!

Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did.

Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

Yikes. 😳 I feel for the SROs who are going to try to handle this, elegantly and with the highest integrity as they always do, but somehow 3x as fast as usual? 😬 They are acutely aware of how critical this is. It's a tough position.

“Target trial emulation” is an observational research framework that helps investigators avoid pitfalls in study design and analysis. In a new Readers' Toolbox, Messinger et al. present an overview of the framework and considerations for research: ow.ly/teg450VfPLQ

Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.

A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore

The Anesthesia Research Council steering committee formed an AI expert workgroup to evaluate the current state of AI in anesthesiology, provide examples of future AI applications, and identify barriers to AI progress. Read their recommendations: ow.ly/Lhka50VfOrt

If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free • Minnesota Reformer History shows us the dangers of suppressing opposing views.

Fantastic article about suppression of intellectual freedom, starting with science and universities, from a fellow academic/research mom. 😓 Scary, scary times. Call, write, demonstrate, communicate the importance of science as part of America's freedom!!
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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...

👋 me too! shopping locally & intentionally has been good in all possible ways except for how my kids are assholes in a store bc we inadvertently neglected to teach them how to behave while shopping. 😐 too much delivery during critical neural plasticity periods.

ADRCs provide incredible care to people w healthy aging & w cognitive complaints, AND are driving the next therapeutics and strategies to help preserve cognitive health.

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will affect nearly all of us if we're lucky to live long enough, btw.😐 We need these!

Curious George finds a bottle of ether in the hospital, and gets curious about it.

The man in the yellow hat finds Curious George passed out, happy as a clam.

Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out.

I use PubMed, oh, I dunno, 80 times a week?? If they wanted to cripple research this is a horrifically effective move. 😓

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

Opinion: Science funding cuts are based on flawed logic. Here’s the truth. Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…

Very grateful to our @scripps.edu President/CEO Pete Schultz, for this OpEd in @sandiegouniontribune.com on the key importance of research institutions in U.S. biomedical science and how federal support is critical to fuel new discoveries and medicines.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...

Hey... That's a causal interpretation of an analysis which wasn't designed for causal inference. When the abstract says "association," it's incorrect to conclude the antidepressants "accelerate" the decline. Please be careful; oversimplifying distorts messages & risks worsening mistrust of science.

Here's an example of "government waste"

In 1982, at least 7 people in the Chicago area died from poisoned Tylenol

The killer was never found, but government scientists figured out how the packages were tampered with

That's why we have safety seals

*Regulations are one way we protect ourselves*

President Trump vs. Medical Research (Gift Article) How government cuts are slowing research.

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Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has "brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year."

Article gifted from @nytimes.com - read it for free without a subscription.

Rep. Mullin, you're the only one of my 3 Congressmen who, when I've called to discuss the catastrophic NIH interference, has had a *real-life staffer* immediately answer the phone. 💕 I've appreciated that very much. I hope you stay safe & feel better soon, from this UCSF physician-researcher!!

We met with policymakers about the importance of federal programs that support biomedical research and discovery. Proposed NIH F&A cuts to 15% would cost UCSF ~$200M annually, threatening life-saving research. We urge protecting the current rate negotiation system.

The Value of Academic Health Research In the past month, the academic health research community in the US has been rocked by the new administration’s efforts to curtail health research expenditures. In the form of “Supplemental Guidance t...

"In a world of ideological and partisan division, health should be the ultimate nonpartisan good. We do the research we do so that more people can live long, healthy lives, and live them as they wish to live them." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1/ When using observational data for #causalinference, emulating a target trial helps solve some problems... but not all problems.

In a new paper, we explain why and when the #TargetTrial framework is helpful.

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Joint work with my colleagues @causalab.bsky.social