Infectious disease epidemiologist | Postdoctoral Fellow @UofUMedicine | @CPHHS @EmoryRollins @UMNews alum | She/her | Views mine
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Do you want Utah to improve #AirQuality?
EPA is reconsidering the PM2.5 standard & accepting public comments until Mar 28.
It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity & they need to hear from Utahns who are most affected.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 Reminder that the SER SPC is hosting a virtual meet and greet February 28th from 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Eastern Time)! All SER member and non-member students and postdocs welcome!
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Our overall predictive ability was moderate, but was remarkably consistent across settings, datasets, and patient subsets (check out the supplemental analyses, there are a lot!)
Surprisingly, our ability to predict growth faltering was similar even in healthy controls (7/10)
Thanks to a great co-author team! including @brintzbe, Patricia Pavlinac @uwdgh, Lubaba Shahrin & Sayeeda Huq @icddr_b, @adamcarllevine, Eric Nelson @UF_EPI, James Platts-Mills @uvahealthnews, Karen Kotloff @UMCVD, @GlobalGutHealth (10/10)
Then we could target nutritional interventions and potentially avoid stunting and its long-term health consequences (5/10)
Using #GEMS and #MALED data from @ClinEpiDB, we derived and externally validated a #ClinicalPrediction tool to identify pediatric patients likely to experience additional growth faltering after acute diarrhea (6/10)
#Diarrhea contributes to #malnutrition and #stunting. Parents often bring their children to the doctor when they have diarrhea. Aha!💡💡💡 What if we can use these diarrhea visits to identify which children will have their growth slowed down after diarrheal illness? (4/10)
🚨 New paper out in @eLife 🚨
Goal: Can we predict which children's growth will slow down after acute #diarrhea? 🧵(1/10)
elifesciences.org/articles/7…
These effects continue into adulthood, with higher risks of diabetes and obesity, and can even be passed down to future children through #LowBirthWeight (3/10)
Why? #Stunting affects millions of children every year, and is usually permanent. Children with stunted growth are at higher risk of infections and death, and may have developmental delays and difficulty in school. (2/10)
Sharia M Ahmed retweeted
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Sharia M Ahmed retweeted
Today at #TropMed22, @EpiPoopologist from our group will present on modeling impact of antibiotic treatment of moderate #cholera disease on community transmission at 1:15pm in Session 109. Collab w/@andrewazman @lindsay_keegan @SecGTFCC. @UofU3i @ASTMH
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Today at #TropMed22, @UofUInternalMed resident RJ Williams is presenting his work on applying population-level seroprevalence data to enhance individual-level clinical prediction of #dengue, Poster 1052. Collab w/@PDGCambridge @hsalje Thai MOH, AFRIMS. @ASTMH @UofU3i @UtahIMCMRs
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At #TropMed22? Our group's @MelissaPenderMD will be presenting her work on clinical prediction for protozoal GI infections today at Poster 456. @UofU3i @UofUInternalMed @ASTMH @ACCTMTH
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Congratulations to Dr. Md. Jobayer Chisti, clinician-scientist at @icddr_b, recipient of the @ASTMH Bailey Ashford medal. Well-deserved honor for an outstanding scientist, mentor, and clinician. #TropMed2022
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Great to have our PhD student @PaolaJoann12 representing our lab among the many from @UUtah attending #SACNAS2022.
#NDiSTEM2022 The University of UTAH is grateful to be a part of the #SACNAS2022 familia! Gracias por su hospitalidad Puerto Rico! OneU! #truediversity @SACNASUtah @utahbioscience @UofUCNC @uofu_science @uofuhealthedi @uofuedi @UofUBiochem @GSRM_UofU @UofUPopHealthEd @UofUMandI
Folks who've received an #NIHLRP RENEWAL, anyone willing to share tips/examples of the "Research Accomplishments" section? #LRPambassadors @NIH_LRP