Ashley Pournamdari
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Ashley Pournamdari
@APournamdari
Incoming @UCLA Heme/Onc Fellow @UCLAIM @UCSFMed // lover of R, python, saffron, cardamom & Hafez
Los Angeles, CA Se unió Ocak 2017
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Please show your support for this petition started by @UshmaNeill and @RMedzhitov Scientists: Support for the innovation engine of American science: immigrants - Sign the Petition! chng.it/QfvxSGV9 via @Change
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A commercial algorithm used to identify high risk patients for allocation of healthcare resources carried significant racial bias. Work from @oziadias,
@m_sendhil, BrianPowers, & Christine Vogeli demonstrating the importance of careful label selection:
science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…
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Machine learning cheat sheets: bit.ly/2Lk46yL (credit: @shervinea and @afshinea) #BigData #DataScience #DeepLearning #AI #Algorithms #machinelearning

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@Bob_Wachter @atulbutte @UCSF @UCSF_BCHSI Sad I can't be there in person, but incredibly excited to watch later!
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if you're at @UCSF Parnassus today & interested in #DigitalHealth, #AI etc, I'll be interviewing my amazing colleague @atulbutte, who leads @UCSF_BCHSI. Part of Fireside Chat series (Prior chats: bit.ly/2GbaZmv). Room M989, noon. Space limited, lunch served. Can't wait!
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@BonKu Porto’s and anything on Sawtelle street in Culver City!
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Participant applications for @mithackmed Grand Hack 2019 are now open. Join hundreds of others in solving some of our most pressing healthcare issues on May 3-5 at the Media Lab!
grandhack.mit.edu/participant-ap…
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A fact from my favorite quadrant of the useful * cool 2x2
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary
Here's why blood turns green underwater at about 10m (30 ft)
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Kudos to my @UCSFMedicine colleagues: #1 (again) in @NIH grants to Schools of Medicine. Our Dept. of Medicine also remains #1 among DOMs, with >$200M in NIH support. Real tribute to our @ucsf faculty, trainees & staff

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Great turnout for @HarvardMIT_CRS Regulatory Science Student Symposium at @HarvardHBS! Introduction and welcome from @arieldora @HBSHealth!

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Great to help the new third year students get ready for the Shelf Exam. New and innovative ways to guide their review have been instituted by the Surgery 110 Clerkship! Keep on studying. #ILookLikeASurgeon @UCSF @UCSFSurgery. Making a difference.


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This year UCSF scientists invented a technique to disrupt target proteins in living cells. This video, showing a cancer cell trapped in a cage of light, was one of our top videos of 2018!
See more of our most popular science stories of the year: tiny.ucsf.edu/mjagrP #scicomm
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Incomprehensible. Insane. Inhuman. And the consequence of the Trump administration decision to not support the ACA’s most basic protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley
The Texas decision on the Affordable Care Act is out. The individual mandate is unconstitutional, the court rules, and the mandate can't be severed from the rest of the Act.
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Do you know a thoughtful design forward thinker? Doesn't have to be a designer or someone working in tech, academics, behaviorists etc welcome. I'm selecting a diverse jury to judge the Service Design awards for @Core77Awards this year and want to open up the floor to nominees!
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Massively troubling example of politics trumping science: federal government threatens to shut down research @ucsf that has been responsible for crucial advances in #HIV/#AIDS treatments wapo.st/2roAVTD @washingtonpost @NIH @NIHDirector @NancyPelosi @AAMCNews
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Incredibly grateful to have been a part of Mrs. Obar's care and privileged to learn from amazing scientists and physicians like Tippi MacKenzie.
nytimes.com/2018/05/25/hea…
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