Ehete Bahiru MD, MS
@ehetebahirumd
Cardiologist and passionate about global health. Tweets are my own opinion
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23-06-2017 20:34:42
102 Tweet
191 Followers
408 Following
We are grateful to our program and division leadership for their incredible support of our fellowship program! UCLA Health #BruinHearts Gregg Fonarow MD Karol Watson Eric H Yang, MD Kalyanam Shivkumar MD PhD
Shocking differences in #socialvulnerabilityindex between a largely white and largely Black census tract within 10 miles in Chicago Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc teaching us the real cause of disparities - place not race #socialdeterminantsofhealth
Dr. Bhavin Desai S.L. Beach Pratyaksh Srivastava, MD jhollowedmd Daniel Jimenez Daniel J. Philipson Dhananjay Chatterjee, MD @SubeerWadia Prashanth Venkatesh @PeterHa52024490 @ehebahiru Nikhil Bassi, MD Negeen Shahandeh, MD Manyoo @dustin3lee Xinjiang Cai, MD, PhD 🫀 Rebecca Chester Duc Do, MD Aron Bender Justin Hayase
When my husband leaves for emergency surgeries at night...I worry. I know that at any moment, the color of his skin can make him a #victim. I know some would easily mistake him for a thug or thief rather than a Harvard trained plastic surgeon. The killings must stop. #GeorgeFloyd
I’ve felt powerless recently...like there is nothing we can do to fight the racial injustices of this world. But that’s not true. Every bit of effort to support our brothers and sisters helps. STRIVE Mentorship Program is one small part in the fight of which I am proud. JAMA Internal Medicine
Join me there. I. Will. Be. There. Period. You will find me kneeling next to @traependergrast #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
#Racism is often subtle, and sometimes so blatant that it stuns. The words of Quentin Youmans, MD, MSc, FACC are powerful: Ten years of training and . . . no coat would ever be white enough to overcome my black skin in some patients' eyes. ow.ly/cdrJ50A2URy #endracismnow
Chadwick came to the White House to work with kids when he was playing Jackie Robinson. You could tell right away that he was blessed. To be young, gifted, and Black; to use that power to give them heroes to look up to; to do it all while in pain – what a use of his years.
Best #UNGA speech ever? ● Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia’s (1963), set to music by Bob Marley; “until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned… the #African continent will not know peace.”
