3D optical measures for Body Composition are coming of age! Check out the recent work of our group! Styku #bodycomposition #bodyshape linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

We are continually looking for a means to screen women for breast cancer in the Pacific when advanced cancer rates are from 50 to 80%. This device, the iBreast, wasn't up for the job. Onto the next candidate technology! aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Should be good! Join in! Monday, March 28, 1:30pm ET, webinar on PEDIATRIC PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS spanning from clinical application to policy, part of the National Cancer Institute-sponsored series on obesity and cancer. Register: go.usa.gov/xzTDm NCI Cancer Control @NCIprevention

This is so powerful

Giving our participants a 3D action figure of themselves was a big success in our Shape Up! Kids Recruitment. See this Instagram post by @ instagram.com/p/BxOuz4chwOL/…

I’m getting angrier at every new piece of info. Had CBP Border patrol agents not been there, how much longer would it have taken?

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

Our most recent paper on being agnostic! aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mp…

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Our next speaker in the Artificial Intelligence Precision Health Institute )AI PHI) Affinity Group will be on Dec 2 and is Adam Yala, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Register below!

I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI! Here’s how! 🧵

My first day serving as a director University of Hawaii Cancer Center. View from my office. Feeling the responsibility.

Shepherd Research Lab in Uganda. Leila Kazemi, our Program Manager, visited the Baylor Uganda site for the IMPAACT network to cross-calibrate their DXA system. Good work!

I pledged a paid subscription to Jessica’s Substack jessicashepherd.substack.com/?utm_medium=em…

The NIH has decided that scientists can only submit 6 grants a year. OK. But you need a score that’s < 10% at least to get funded. Meaning, at best, 1 out of 10 grants you submit will have a chance (YMMV of course). 🫠

It not a statement of modern healthcare systems in general, but that of the US healthcare system. Performance metrics for Canada are either the same or better than the US and they spend abut 29% of what the US spends on administration. ( NEJM 2003 349(8): 768-775)

Excellent article by Margaretta Colangelo and Lambert Leong on the ever increasing number of AI-enabled medical devices, 1247 and counting. linkedin.com/pulse/1247-fda…

If NIH payline is 10% that doesn’t mean you have a 1 in 10 chance. It means if your grant isn’t better than 90% of others, it gets nothing. Write an average grant? You get nothing. Write 1000 average grants? You still get nothing. It’s not roulette. It’s a ranking.

I like the term they used for neuroinflammation, the Flame of the Brain, but not as good as Piglet telling Pooh that the stuffing between his ears is getting too hot from thinking!

"To the scientists wondering if there will even be an NIH by the end of this administration: this committee’s resounding message is yes” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). Glad congress recommends replacing suggested 40% cuts with $400M increase for NIH. statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih…