Isabel Bjork

@ColemanDM_vasc Agreed!

Incredible and congratulations!!! Always proud of you!!

@ColemanDM_vasc @DukeVascular @DukeSurgery @Adam_mdmph @leils So fabulous! Congratulations!

We got her!! Welcome to @DukeVascular Dr Minc! Great things ahead for our team and our patients! 💙 @DukeSurgery

@VascularCures @UNC So proud that @VascularCures is supporting @KateMcGinigleMD. Mining EHRs to bring real change to patients with PAD. No longer the future: using today's technology to fight disease with big data.

We are delighted to award Dr. Katharine McGingle, an Associate Professor at @UNC, the inaugural Binkley Research Award 📣 go.unc.edu/mcginigle 👩🏻‍🏫Read more about Dr. McGinigle’s work and watch her video: go.unc.edu/mcgin

Excellent show and timely! Thanks for raising awareness.

@VascularCures Impressive work Jim - would expect no less from you. It's an honor to work with you. Congratulations!

Patient Partner Jim Tietjens has published a book detailing his decades-long health conditions and the hard work/engagement that has helped him work through these challenges, including Chronic Limb-threatening Ischemia (CLTI). Read more: vascularcures.org/news/new-book-…

@VascularGirl212 Inspirational!

5 Superstar Vascular Surgeons in NYC- so strong 💪💪💪

@KateMcGinigleMD @VascularCures And... I heard your skittles presentation cited the other day. Way to change the world, one skittle at a time.

Big thanks to @VascularCures for putting together the Vascular Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco! Feeling inspired by this amazing community of vascular health innovators! #VascularHealth #VascularSurgery

@VascularCures This focus on scaling is exactly what is needed to effect real change for patients/better health for all.

#VascSummit23 recap: Wylie Scholar Mohamed Zayed highlighted the need for a synergistic scaling strategy to progress new discoveries in PAD. @WashUSurg

@PVDCouncil @KimGSmolderen @CarlosMenaYale Congratulations @KimGSmolderen and @CarlosMenaYale for bringing attention to mental health as an integral part of care and patient experience.

Congratulations to PVD Council members @KimGSmolderen and @CarlosMenaYale and all other authors on this excellent new #AHA Scientific Statement! #PADawareness shorturl.at/aiq57

@UCSFSurgery @UCSF @ClaraGomezSanc1 @ucsfhealth @UofCalifornia @UCSFvascular @UCSFHospitals @UCSFMSS @UCSFMedicine @MichaelSConteMD @UCSFGSResidency @HPB_Surgeon @PheoSurgeon Massive congratulations. They are lucky to have you!

‼️For her exceptional teaching @UCSF Vascular Surgeon, Dr. Clara Gomez-Sanchez @ClaraGomezSanc1, who practices at @UCSFHealth, has received the 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award from UCSF's Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators👏👏👏🥳

@DrAalami @ArjunMahadevan Data interoperability must be a priority for all players. Without it, health inequities will persist and all patient care will (continue to) suffer.

People can knock at EPIC all they want about it being a billing only machine. Of all the enterprise EHR players they have the most capabilities for data interoperability in place. Hospitals and health systems have to be willing to implement. Healthcare is complex. Documentation is necessary. Show me a better alternative.

What if I told you there is a billionaire who controls your medical records. She started Epic Systems in a Wisconsin basement in 1979. And now she's the richest woman you've never heard of. 10 matter-of-fact messages from the Midwest billionaire, Judy Faulkner: 1. “If you see a snake, kill it; don’t form a committee on snakes.” 2. “What you put up with is what you stand for.” 3. "One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available." 4. “I have never had any personal desire to live lavishly.  I’m probably among the billionaires who are indifferent to the lifestyle that great wealth can buy.  There is no apartment in New York or Paris.  There is no ranch in Aspen.  There are no private or even corporate jets.” 5. “I was a programmer, I thought it was fun.  I’m not sure in the beginning I felt that I’m here to save lives.  Why do you come to work?  For the paycheck?  For something interesting to do?  For customers?  For the competition?  For the mission?  If I had to circle one reason, it’s for my customers.” 6. “Programming is a mix of language, math and art, and I remain a software developer at heart.  And I have no plans to retire or even slow down.” 7. “[On living in Wisconsin] The first thing you’ve got to like is the people.  It’s the Midwest work ethic, the Midwest nice.  I was just in an area with gated communities.  I do like the Midwest where there is much more a feeling of… we trust each other.” 8. “I think it’s very interesting, the difference between ‘thank you’ and ‘congratulations.’  To me, ‘thank you’ makes it a personal thing, like you did it for me, and I don’t like to take that from a person unless it was something they did for me.  So, I prefer to congratulate them on a job well done if that was something they did themselves.” 9. “Many years ago I asked my young children what two things they needed from their parents.  They said ‘food and money.’  I told them ‘roots and wings.’  My goal in pledging 99% of my assets to philanthropy is to help others with roots – food, warmth, shelter, health care, education – so they too can have wings.” 10. “I took the route of higher education and took a risk starting a business.  My success didn’t happen overnight, but over time with steady improvement.” *** Remember: It's never too late to turn your dream idea into your dream business. *** That's a wrap. Hope you enjoyed these matter-of-fact messages from Judy. If you did: 1. Follow me @arjunmahadevan for more like this (and for more on how to turn your dream idea into your dream US business with @doolaHQ) 2. RT this, if you can, to share these messages with a friend

I am in awe of the phenomenal patients and caregivers who joined @VascularCures on 6/8 in SF. There was a fervor for advocacy, a bias toward action, and a prevailing view that the solution to the challenges they faced in their health journey rested with increasing awareness.