Sandy Tun, MD FAAHPM

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Nobel Laureate (1923-2012) speaking of "getting political" in "Children of The Age" littlestarjournal.com/children-of-th…

Graduation dinner with our fellows: Dr. Patty Lee (Geri-Palliative ‘25), Dr. Abrahan Lara-Pacheco (Palliative ‘24), Dr. Maggie Putman (Palliative ‘24), & (not pictured) Dr. Melissa Marinelli (Palliative ‘24). I am so proud of you all & know that your futures are bright ❤️🥹

@Anand_88_Patel Congratulations!

I'll be missing #ASCO24 this year but I've got a good reason 😃

Me carrying my toddler 99% of the way after they refused to sit in the stroller & insisted that they want to walk on their own 🙃 #parenting

@thanh_neville Sending love, Doc. Thank you for your courageous vulnerability.

Did Dolly Parton manifest Beyoncé's "Jolene" cover two years ago?

@jamesjonesesq @Beyonce after being disrespected at the 2016 Country Music Awards where she performed her song Daddy Lessons. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Beyoncé’s country music villain origin story

@Beyonce after being disrespected at the 2016 Country Music Awards where she performed her song Daddy Lessons. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 bbc.com/news/entertain…

@marklewismd Go 👏🏽 off👏🏽 Doc👏🏽

Of course that’s your contention. You think in vitro physiology is completely recapitulated in vivo. You vaguely remember pH from high school chemistry but never got to the homeostatic dyad of the lungs & kidneys so you blame patients with cancer for not guzzling alkaline water.

A recent case study publication a/b serious illness conversations (helps get us to “What matters most”) w/ an elderly individual in the setting of an elective ortho surgery written by our fantastic Geri-Palli ‘25 fellow @PattyLeeMD (with guidance from @ljg_gleason & @SandyTunMD)

So proud of you @PattyLeeMD for all of your hardwork on this publication. Well done, Doc 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

🥹 So proud of our 2024 Palliative Med Fellows (Dr. Marinelli, Dr. Putman & Dr. Lara-Pacheco), Geri Fellows (Dr. Ing & Dr. Haferkamp), & 2025 Combo Geri-Palliative Med Fellow (Dr. Lee). Bravo, Docs for prioritizing connecting w/ each other throughout the academic year #MedTwitter

@MelissaAReed Sending love 🥺❤️ what a sweet little one she was ❤️

Today my girl unexpectedly passed away. She got me through so many hard times in my life and I can’t even tell you how sad this makes me.

We are so proud of our Dr. Shellie Williams (both a palliative medicine & geriatrics specialist, 3rd from right in green) who was recognized by @UChiPritzker’s Academy for Distinguished Medical Educators You represent the very best of our section, Doc ❤️👏👏👏 #meded #MedTwitter

So proud of you, Tony! It was such a privilege to have worked with you on this project. Thank you for bringing your impressive experience as a former NPR producer to this project that is about history & storytelling.

A privilege to have worked with @tonesliu & my colleague Annie Vernon-Cwik, LCSW on this project during spring-summer 2022. We had the honor of interviewing African American elders living in the South Side of Chicago doing legacy work & #oralhistory liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/pm…

“You can get palliative care while still getting potentially curative treatments”

@AshleyGWinter Happy Birthday, Doc! SMH at folks trying to police your joy with nonsense

Me: makes casual joke about turning 40 because of our societal obsession with that number. Tw*tter person: HOW DARE YOU. PEOPLE HAVE DIED AT 39. YOU INGRATE.

So universities make research professors pay for their entire salary & research through grant funding, but then the university also takes a cut of your grant funding? Seems like you’d have to always apply for grants, so when do you do research? Is this why you’re all kinda grumpy

@NitaKarnikLee @kturaga @Varun_VBSurg Thanks, Doc ❤️😘

@SandyTunMD @kturaga @Varun_VBSurg Fantastic model and work!

A big thank you to my friend & mentor @kturaga for his visionary leadership in embedding my palliative medicine clinic within his surgical oncology clinic way back in 2017. Kudos to @Varun_VBSurg & our team for getting the results published 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #PalliativeCare #MedTwitter

@kturaga @Varun_VBSurg Miss you, too, my friend!

@SandyTunMD @Varun_VBSurg I miss u Sandy