Peds Hem/Onc 🎗️ | Husband to @ArceneauxHayley 🚀 | Global Health 🌍 & Epidemiology 📊 | Product of @NotreDame ☘️, @DukeGHI, @GUmedicine & @StanfordChild
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
Anjana Nityanandam, PhD, came to St. Jude in 2016 to build the Human Neural Organoid Laboratory. Today, the lab develops human brain organoids that help researchers study development, disease and potential approaches to treatment.
Learn more: bit.ly/4zZswGw
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
A grim milestone: 10,000 confirmed #Ebola cases in DRC, the largest outbreak in the country’s history.
Every case is a person. Every death leaves a grieving family and community. We honor those affected, those lost, and the courageous frontline workers caring for them.
They deserve renewed global attention, solidarity, and sustained resources. We must turn that commitment into action.
Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries. apnews.com/article/ebola-dis…
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Something that’s stuck with me for years, & that I was reminded of while watching the #ElizabethHolmes documentary:
Of all the things Holmes is accused of and of all the ways Theranos potentially endangered patients, the crime that sent her to prison was NOT about patient harm.
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As a physician, there’s something profoundly unsettling about the fact that she was ultimately held criminally accountable for the financial losses of already extraordinarily wealthy investors, but NOT for the potential harm to vulnerable patients.
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
Science gives us hope. Today, in Bunia #DRC, the first participants were vaccinated in a new #Ebola vaccine trial called TUMAINI, which means “hope” in Swahili.
There is currently no approved vaccine against the Bundibugyo virus causing the outbreak. This trial will help us understand whether any of the vaccine candidates designed for Bundibugyo virus work.
In the meantime, the existing Everbo vaccine (licensed for use in preventing other Ebola virus disease) will be tested.
@WHO is supporting this DRC-led effort to find answers and save lives.
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
Genomic sequencing shows that the Ebola virus from Nigeria’s recently reported only imported case is highly similar to that from Kenya’s @MOH_Kenya reported first imported case, differing by only one mutation.
My thanks to the sequencing teams at @NCDCgov and the Institute of Genomics and Global Health @RedeemersUni , Ede, and to @christian_happi for this excellent work.
We are forging ahead with public health control measures while awaiting results of further investigations and testing.
Our approach is that of solidarity and global cooperation, appreciating the role our sister African nations, @AfricaCDC, Technical partners and experts @WHO, @DrTedros, @Dr_JeanKaseya, Prof. Aliko Ahmed @alikothe3rd, @Fmohnigeria as well key International partners especially The Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD) @StateDept.
We are determined to do our best to protect the lives and livelihoods of our people and we urge all Nigerians and our partners to work together with us. By the grace of we shall succeed and rise above this public health emergency as we did in 2014.
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
▶️ 𝗗𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲́𝗲𝘀. 𝗗𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗰̧𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮̀ 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿.
Être pays pilote, c’est transformer une ambition en expérience concrète : essayer, ajuster, apprendre et faire évoluer les pratiques.
🇸🇳 Au Sénégal, le projet FEM-7 a réuni santé, environnement, professionnels et partenaires autour d’un même objectif : tester des solutions et construire des réponses adaptées aux réalités du terrain.
➡️ Aujourd’hui, ces acquis peuvent aller plus loin. Car tout l’intérêt d’un projet pilote est aussi là : partager ce qui fonctionne, tirer les leçons de ce qui a été testé et permettre à d’autres pays d’avancer à leur tour.
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
Mfers will look you dead in the eye and tell you how deep the SEC is
And then you see this 😭😭😭
Mr Matthew CFB
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
This holiday season I’m offering signed/personalized copies of my books! Give your loved ones the gift of inspiration, hope, and fun space stories ☺️ I’m even happy to personalize with a message like “Merry Christmas!” or “Reach for the stars!”
My memoir Wild Ride (tan cover) is for adult readers, the young readers version of Wild Ride (blue cover) is for ages 7-13, and my children’s picture book Astronaut Hayley’s Brave Adventure is for our little readers!
Order by 11/25 🤩💫🚀 novelmemphis.com/hayley-arce…
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
I feel horrible for the real Dr. Salman, who has this scam artist impersonating her.
Impersonating a real physician with impressive credentials to take advantage of vulnerable patients to sell snake oil AND tell patients to stop their chemotherapy/radiation is diabolical.
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Read this 👇🏻👇🏻
There is an especially outlandish conspiracy theory that oncologists are hiding the cure for cancer
Its proponents must think us particularly noble, then, when we sacrifice our lives to keep the secret: forgoing a panacea and succumbing to the very disease we treat
Dr. Shroff is not the only “wounded healer” I’ve known, but her legacy is far more than the wretched illness that claimed her own life too soon
She did her very best to push oncology forward, especially for patients with notoriously difficult-to-treat biliary tract cancers (a close relative, anatomically and sometimes pathophysiologically, to pancreatic adenocarcinoma)
I remember her incredible humility to stand at the podium at one of our largest scientific conferences and admit that a triplet therapy had not produced the benefits she had hoped for, allowing biological plausibility to cede to data yielded from the clinical trial she conceived & ran
Our field is full of such examples of good ideas failing to reach fruition, but we can only get better by admitting what’s not working as well as promoting true advances
When the history books are written, most, if not all chemo will look like grand folly, akin to our modern view of, say, blood-letting
But it is because of visionary physician-scientists like Rachna that we are making any progress at all: doing the best we can today while realizing there must be a better way and testing rigorously our ideas of how we might get there
May she be remembered in part for her tireless work, born out of irrepressible hope and true caring for her own patients as well as ones she never met (she never failed to kindly & helpfully answer a question I posed to her when I faced a management conundrum in her niche of cholangiocarcinoma)
RIP to a dear colleague (link in post below to a fund for young investigators named & bestowed in her honor)
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
There is an especially outlandish conspiracy theory that oncologists are hiding the cure for cancer
Its proponents must think us particularly noble, then, when we sacrifice our lives to keep the secret: forgoing a panacea and succumbing to the very disease we treat
Dr. Shroff is not the only “wounded healer” I’ve known, but her legacy is far more than the wretched illness that claimed her own life too soon
She did her very best to push oncology forward, especially for patients with notoriously difficult-to-treat biliary tract cancers (a close relative, anatomically and sometimes pathophysiologically, to pancreatic adenocarcinoma)
I remember her incredible humility to stand at the podium at one of our largest scientific conferences and admit that a triplet therapy had not produced the benefits she had hoped for, allowing biological plausibility to cede to data yielded from the clinical trial she conceived & ran
Our field is full of such examples of good ideas failing to reach fruition, but we can only get better by admitting what’s not working as well as promoting true advances
When the history books are written, most, if not all chemo will look like grand folly, akin to our modern view of, say, blood-letting
But it is because of visionary physician-scientists like Rachna that we are making any progress at all: doing the best we can today while realizing there must be a better way and testing rigorously our ideas of how we might get there
May she be remembered in part for her tireless work, born out of irrepressible hope and true caring for her own patients as well as ones she never met (she never failed to kindly & helpfully answer a question I posed to her when I faced a management conundrum in her niche of cholangiocarcinoma)
RIP to a dear colleague (link in post below to a fund for young investigators named & bestowed in her honor)
We join the oncology community in mourning the passing of Dr. Rachna T. Shroff, a renowned GI cancers expert and a dedicated ASCO volunteer. We are humbled by her dedication and strive to honor her legacy of commitment and altruism.
Read more: bit.ly/4e7jBKu
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We join the oncology community in mourning the passing of Dr. Rachna T. Shroff, a renowned GI cancers expert and a dedicated ASCO volunteer. We are humbled by her dedication and strive to honor her legacy of commitment and altruism.
Read more: bit.ly/4e7jBKu
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Our newly published work in @ecancer! 🌍
Together with @assoGFAOP, we implemented a structured health-system assessment/improvement framework across pediatric oncology centers in Francophone Africa, identifying priorities & building a path to action.🎗️
ecancer.org/en/journal/artic…
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Happy PA Week to all the incredible PAs I’m lucky enough to work with everyday, especially my incredible wife @ArceneauxHayley!
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
PA Week starts tomorrow! 🎉 AAPA President David J. Bunnell, PhD, PA-C, DFAAPA, has a special message for PAs everywhere, with a few ideas for how to celebrate this week. Happy #PAweek! #PAsGoBeyond
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Ryan R. Lion, MD retweeted
In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature.
Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.
Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.
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