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Mitchell Wong

@mitchwongmdphd

UCLA Professor. Identifying sustainable interventions to reverse the negative health effects of poverty through better public education and schools.

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Proud of my amazing colleague. One of the smartest doctors I know. Read what he has to say about caring for patients during the pandemic.

Alice Chen MD (@atychen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thinking this morning about how this pandemic feels in some way like a test of our capacity for love, compassion, generosity, willingness to tie our fates to the fates of 8 billion other people. I know we are capable of more than we realize. (1/)

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Great reference for trainees and early career GIs - Endoscopic mucosal resection: Best practices for GI endoscopists 👉pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35506001/ 🖊️Sushrut Thiruvengadam Brian Fung, MD Monique Barakat @Tabibian_MDPhD

Great reference for trainees and early career GIs - Endoscopic mucosal resection: Best practices for GI endoscopists 

👉pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35506001/
🖊️Sushrut Thiruvengadam <a href="/BrianFungMD/">Brian Fung, MD</a> Monique Barakat @Tabibian_MDPhD
Mitchell Wong (@mitchwongmdphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Schools can change the trajectory of health. Our new study shows that differences in health and behavioral outcomes were immediate, substantial, and persistent beyond adolescence depending on which high school you attend. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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Study used random public school lottery system to find students from different high schools had different rates of substance use, physical health and obesity through age 21. Improving schools may be an effective/scalable strategy to improve health outcomes ja.ma/3T4GPDY

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Congratulations to Vivek Shah who wrote this as a UCLA DGSOM student with the goal to help inform post ED telemed policy: In-Person vs Telehealth Follow-up and Rates of Repeated Hospital Visits ja.ma/3DwXHyk via JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network

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This makes sense to me. Having health systems fix social determinants of health is like asking the person repairing your air conditioner to solve global warming. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Mitchell Wong (@mitchwongmdphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are all of the NIH grants that Katalin Kariko ever received as PI, and now she is a Nobel Prize Laureate. Maybe something is wrong with the NIH review process. reporter.nih.gov/search/ZA-HQIY…

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💡Catherine Sarkisian Richard K. Leuchter, MD and colleagues project a significant #hospitalbedshortage in less than a decade due to #healthcarestaffingshortages across the U.S. Read full story at 🔗👇 bit.ly/4gWfzmF

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Food stamps don't make people fat, poverty does. Food insecurity is real. Unhealthy eating is consequence of healthy food availability, stress, adversity... wsj.com/opinion/do-foo… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

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No mention of prevention? Improving mental health and addressing poverty and other social determinants of health should be discussed. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…