TJ Florence MD PhD

@UCLANsgy class of 2026. First week of R2 year. Goals: run a tight ship, take the best possible care of our pts @MayaHarary

@jerjohnson with teeth!

I would like to point out to @brainbro / spinebro that Kunal is smiling in these photos 🙃

Congratulations Azim Laiwalla, Kunal Patel and Jasmine Thum (@JasNsgy) for an outstanding 7 year run through @UCLANsgy residency training. It was an honor to participate in your training and watching your careers promises to be epic! #neurosurgery #graduation2023 #neuroscience

Welcome to this amazing class of docs healing the brains and spines of LA starting this July!

When the front desk tells you there’s not enough staff to get your add on going

@UCLANsgy : if the team has a long night the attending may show up like this for rounds! Thanks @jerjohnson !!

A project from the last month: This Anki deck builds on @Tufts Rhoton 100 deck to cover the complete knowledge base of the new #ABNS neuroanatomy exam. Please share w/ co-residents and med students. We’ll all be better surgeons if we know this cold dropbox.com/s/0dj4mo9ljprn…

one way to let the graybeards know you’re coming to change the field is to plant your own data like a flag above the fold of the wikipedia page @casa_tuthill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioce…

This paper supports a big important point - neurobiology is obsessed with topology (at the scale of our experimental devices) but the brain may not care. Synapses may be intermingled, but information may not. Great work by led by @MaiMMorimoto @MichaelBReiser

Best medical school prep for residency would have been carrying a pager during all exams, and getting paged every 5-10 minutes with questions to a completely different exam

I want to double emphasize this paper. It’s beautiful data & a massive team effort. Jayaram is a consummate scientist; every paper he drops is a deep contribution to neurobiology. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Proud to start @UCLAHealth Dept of Neurological Surgery with Drs @MayaHarary, Casaos, & Samarage Our coats are too big, with crease lines fresh from the packaging. Strong metaphor for #InternYear

If Sydney Brenner would be at Janelia during a trivia night, he’d sheepishly whisper answers to the closest team - always declining an invitation to join. It was very hard to argue with “Hey guys Sydney Brenner just said the answer is ‘Bach’”

Some personal news: I’ll be joining the @UCLA neurosurgery residency program at the end of June. I really want to thank everyone who made this possible, esp @MichaelBReiser

@nytimes @mikiebarb Monday: “we never hold back stories bc it might make an administration look bad” Tuesday: “we will not be running audio of Stephen Miller on child detention bc Trump admin was uncomfortable w/ it”

@afriendlywhit @schoppik @AgateFossilBeds Even weirder: the man pictured is FC Kenyon, for whom “Kenyon cells” are named

Thanks everyone for the thoughts today. Thesis successfully defended. Most important slide from the talk: