This weekend is my great-uncle's Centennial.
His story is remarkable - born in a village of <100 people, mostly illiterate, dodging Partition, to @NobelPrize for cracking the genetic code & synthesizing the first artificial gene.
Alok Khorana, MD
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Alok Khorana, MD
@aakonc
Hardis Endowed Chair, FACP, FASCO, Prof Med, Vice Chair Taussig Cancer Ctr, Dir GI Cancers, @ClevelandClinic. Writer. Opinions my own. I have #FCOI.
- New data #COVID19 in Italy. In chart review of 355 deaths, 20.3% had active cancer. Seems disporportionate? (age-standardized cancer incidence in Italy is 291/100k). Kudos to authors for putting this out for rest of world to learn ja.ma/2UAJ858
- As a patient/family, what makes a good doctor? Grateful to @JAMA_current for allowing us to share our family's story in this week's issue ja.ma/35Ut81S @GDSFoundation @DSiupdate @NDSC
- Excited to report CASSINI is now in @NEJM Rivaroxaban for Thromboprophylaxis in High-Risk Ambulatory Patients with Cancer | NEJM
- Incredibly proud dad here Lesson that you don't need power or titles to effect real change ‘It is our duty as American citizens to push our elected officials:’ Tri-C essay winner Ethan Khorana changed police policies cleveland.com/news/2021/01/i…
- Replying to @GavinPrestonMD @medicalaxioms and 2 othersLove all 3, but may I gently suggest expanding to include many wonderful women docs who we tend to underRT and underamplify on Twitter eg @choo_ek @ndenduluri1 @DrLindaMD #choochek
- Honored to be receiving FASCO award with my #CleClinicCancer colleague David Adelstein #ASCO18 @CleClinicMD
- Delighted, honored to receive (w K McCrae) @nih_nhlbi funding to elevate our work on biomarker screening & risk assessment of cancer #thrombosis newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2018/08/08/cle… via @clevelandclinic
- Grateful to @nih_nhlbi for funding our R01 @Keith_R_M + Marcela Diaz-Montero @ClevelandClinic on understanding mechanisms of immunotherapy-associated #thrombosis, a problem we first identified during course of our U01 grant
- Excited to report an important 2023 update to @ASCO VTE cancer guidelines which now incl 1. apixaban as treatment option and 2. Rivaroxaban/apixaban as post op px options (weak rec) @AnnaFalanga19 @gary_lyman @NicoleKuderer (I have #FCOI) now in @JCO_ASCO
- Spent a rather surreal afternoon socially-distanced protesting #BlackLivesMatter #whitecoats4blacklives
- Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.
- Our new paper documenting high rates of #VTE w/ IO in solid tumors + new candidate biomarkers incl elevated MDSCs now out in @CellPressNews
- My paean to #JamesBaldwin and his importance to our current moment in medicine ja.ma/38rF3Hl @JAMA_current @JAMANetwork Hope this resonates #medtwitter #medhumanities
