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'NIH cuts could affect hundreds of medical studies at the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota' Minnesota and 21 other states have sued the NIH over the Trump administration’s steep cuts to grants that fund medical research in the United States. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/10/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The policy starts Monday and applies to already awarded grants. The UofM received a $59.2 million grant in *December*. Republicans just defunded cancer research in MN and blew a huge hole in our state budget. This isn’t a potential future problem. It’s here, now, and devastating.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I'm currently doing research on the diseases I treat as a surgeon. My research is paid for by small grants & donations, but the services & buildings where I do my research is funded by #NIH #indirect funding.Trump’s cuts to the NIH will stop research and close labs

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submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

We are excited to welcome amazing guest faculty to our 12th Mayo Clinic Sinusitis course for ENT, Allergy & primary care, March 6-8, 2025 Join us in beautiful Scottsdale in learning about the best approaches to tackle sinusitis! ce.mayo.edu/otorhinolary...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats are in order for my Mayo Clinic ENT colleague Dr Carlos Pinheiro Neto who is the new vice chair of ENT at NYU starting in March Which means we are actively recruiting a new anterior skull base & rhinology surgeon at Mayo Clinic Rochester

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Honored to be invited to the New England Resident Sinus course at Mass Eye & Ear at Harvard. I dig deep into the old literature to talk about the origins of sinus surgery (original Lothrop, Denkers, Caldwell Luc) and how the old ways were reinvented for endoscopic approaches

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The womeninmalefields trend is flipping the script on things said to and about women, including in MedSky, to highlight their absurdity.

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

My “flex”, back when the bird app was a good place, was being named the top #ENT influencer on Twitter (I wasn’t trying, it’s just the algorithm). But dipping my toe back into being social on social media, hoping #OtoSky or #ENTsky grows here so we can share research & patient care & advocacy again

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 101 days ago • 157 comments

It’s #GiveToTheMax day in Minnesota. Happy to donate to Channel One food bank and the Rochester Public Library, in support of a healthy and educated community

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Give me your examples of #microfeminism: -using “she” as the default gender for other physicians -vocally agreeing with another woman’s comments or suggestions at meeting -supporting another woman who is interrupted at meetings with comments like “I’d like to hear what she was saying”

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been checking pneumococcal titers and recommending Strep pneumo vaccination for patients with sinusitis after this paper found decreased healthcare visits & antibiotics for sinusitis after good vaccine response pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34962358/

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for @mayoclinic.bsky.social colleagues on the BlueSky app. Found new friends in Rochester (same huge medical center, different departments) on the old bird app, hoping to make IRL connections here where the skies are blue

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I’m an endoscopic sinus surgeon specializing in chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, AERD, and benign sinus disease. My research is in biomarkers and inflammatory cells in CRS

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments