Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD @rex_ahima
Professor of Medicine, Public Health & Nursing; @hopkinsmedicine;@johnshopkinsSPH; @JHUNursing;@JHU_BDPs; @theNAMedicine; @aaas;@americanacad;@TheEndoSociety hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/detai… Baltimore, Maryland Joined December 2016-
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Preexisting incretin defect predicts pancreatic beta cell impairment in patients to undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy jci.org/articles/view/…
Health risks of AI wellness apps nature.com/articles/s4159…
Causal machine learning…what’s in a name? nature.com/articles/s4159…
Vitamin D: questions and more questions academic.oup.com/edrv/advance-a…
Thyroid hormones: physiology and disease nature.com/articles/s4225…
Curious issue of primrose…Charles Darwin promotes team science nature.com/articles/d4158…
Connecting Laron syndrome (dwarfism) and aging nature.com/articles/d4158…
Salary increase for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows nature.com/articles/d4158…
Adipocyte PI3 kinase and insulin secretion cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Ultradian rhythms and mouse physiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Selectivity cellular vulnerability and neurodegenerative diseases nature.com/articles/s4158…
Bone-brain crosstalk and Alzheimer disease nature.com/articles/s4225…
Fasting activates brainstem neuronal regulation of T cell and autoimmunity nature.com/articles/s4159…
MAFLD: emerging therapies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Beware of alpha and beta cell dogma…3D imaging of human pancreas reveals 50% of islets have no glucagon producing cells. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Semaglutide reduces weight and heart failure symptoms in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Placental IGFBP1 levels in early pregnancy predict gestational diabetes nature.com/articles/s4159…
Risk factors for mortality during heatwave nature.com/articles/s4159…
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417 Followers 185 Following Official Twitter Account for the Division of #Endocrinology, #Diabetes and #Metabolism | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine @HopkinsMedicineJohn Speakman @JohnSpeakman4
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692 Followers 480 Following Professor, Associate Director for Basic Sciences, Neuroendocrinologist at USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of MedicineJeffrey Flier @jflier
29K Followers 3K Following Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Former Dean of HMS.Bloomberg Distinguish.. @JHU_BDPs
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364 Followers 222 Following Associate Professor; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism; Co-Medical Director, Diabetes Prevention & Education Program, @HopkinsMedicineTed Kyle @ConscienHealth
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383 Followers 344 Following Endocrinologist & Physician-Scientist @HopkinsMedicine | Passionate about research in obesity & the influence of sleep/circadian biology on metabolismJim Johnson, PhD @JimJohnsonSci
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39K Followers 8K Following VP for Research @JohnsHopkins, T.H. Smoot Professor @HopkinsEngineer & @HopkinsMedicine, Co-founder @INBT_JHU, Lab: https://t.co/9OtmgB6InU Tweets are my own.Division of Endocrino.. @EndoHopkins
417 Followers 185 Following Official Twitter Account for the Division of #Endocrinology, #Diabetes and #Metabolism | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine @HopkinsMedicineJohn Speakman @JohnSpeakman4
11K Followers 565 Following Scientist working in China and the UK. Studies energy balance: esp #obesity and #ageing. Likes #photography #wildlifephotography. Co-EiC: @lifemetabolism2Ashi_W @AshaniTW
12K Followers 3K Following Chair, JHBSPH BMB Advocate women/POC in STEM. Wife, mother. Opinions (lots!) mine. She/her. Author: Is Cancer Inevitable? https://t.co/3qWFIzOCEv 🇱🇸🇱🇰Jeffrey Flier @jflier
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33K Followers 604 Following The latest advances in diabetes, obesity, nutrition, thyroid and more from the editors of Nature Reviews Endocrinology, a review journal.Nestoras Mathioudakis.. @NesMathioudakis
364 Followers 222 Following Associate Professor; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism; Co-Medical Director, Diabetes Prevention & Education Program, @HopkinsMedicineJohns Hopkins Univers.. @JohnsHopkins
240K Followers 5K Following America’s first research university. Leading discovery and sharing knowledge to better the world since 1876.Daisy Duan, MD @daisyduanmd
383 Followers 344 Following Endocrinologist & Physician-Scientist @HopkinsMedicine | Passionate about research in obesity & the influence of sleep/circadian biology on metabolismOzanne lab @ozannelab
2K Followers 841 Following Professor Sue Ozanne's lab @ University of Cambridge. We study how the environment during pregnancy & early life programs metabolic & cardio disease riskTheRealZigmanLab @ZigmanLab
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2K Followers 1K Following Associate Professor @hopkinsmedicine & @GWSMHS| Director of #EndocrineHospitalists | Chief of #Endocrinology @SuburbanHosp | Medical Expert WitnessLilah Morris-Wiseman,.. @lilahfran
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7K Followers 293 Following Physician-scientist interested in the causes and adverse consequences of obesity. Director MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge. Views mine.Nature Metabolism @NatMetabolism
65K Followers 218 Following Nature Metabolism publishes studies that advance our understanding of metabolic and homeostatic processes in physiology and disease.Lisa A. Cooper, MD @LisaCooperMD
7K Followers 465 Following MacArthur Fellow Bloomberg Distinguished Professor @HopkinsMedicine @HopkinsSPH @JHhealthequity @jhurbanhealth https://t.co/f1lYyMS7ANFarooqi Lab @Farooqi_Lab
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473 Followers 445 Following Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Columbia University. Research interests - Mechanisms of Diabetes and NASHNoemi Malandrino @Noemi_Malandrin
18 Followers 38 FollowingThis interview I gave to @VinayPrasad in April 2021 is the best opportunity I have had to describe my professional life and career. youtu.be/GLmocxPI5BY via @YouTube
Finlin, Memetimin, et al. @UK_HealthCare reported that mirabegron treatment improved glucose homeostasis and produced favorable changes in both white adipose tissue and muscle in 13 subjects with obesity jci.org/articles/view/… (end thread)
O’Mara, Johnson, et al. @NIDDKgov observed that chronic mirabegron treatment increased metabolically active brown adipose tissue, thereby enhancing resting energy expenditure and improving insulin sensitivity in 14 healthy women. jci.org/articles/view/…
In cities across the U.S., water systems are under threat as aging infrastructure is being stressed by climate change. jhsph.edu/news/stories/2…
DYK rises in temps is linked to a rise in infectious diseases & heat related deaths?Read what @JohnHopkins Professors @rex_ahima & @ACasadevall1 wrote in @jclinicalinvest about the dangers of bad heat waves & the need to drastically reduce carbon pollution ow.ly/hWH950yasOx
Ahima Elected to Interurban Clinical Club …ine-matters.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2018/11/ahima-…
Diet quality versus nutrient quantity dm5migu4zj3pb.cloudfront.net/manuscripts/13…
REVIEW: Biological basis for efficacy of activin receptor ligand traps in myelodysplastic syndromes buff.ly/2GcqQAm Amit Verma et al. describe how these novel fusion proteins can mitigate pathologic overactivation of SMAD2/3 signaling in myelodysplastic syndromes.
American Heat Association Centers for Cardiometabolic Health and Type 2 Diabetes newsroom.heart.org/news/more-than…
In a @ghn_news Q&A, @GlobalHealthOrg president and @JHU_Alumni @globalgamechngr (MPH '05) uncovers the challenges in democratizing global health and why it should be a rallying point for the field. globalhealthnow.org/2020-01/power-… #GHNExclusive
And William Dietz discusses strategies to mitigate agriculture-driven climate change, which exacerbates food insecurity and undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (buff.ly/39L4P9u).
My most cited paper, with then fellow Rex Ahima, demonstrated the fundamental role of leptin in signaling starvation to the brain. It was published in @Nature in 1996. While cleaning old files today, found the initial rejection letter. #nevergiveup
Welcoming our guests Drs Mike Schwartz and Rex Ahima for the @BBDC_UofT Scientific Day in Toronto!
The heat is on: Physician perspectives on the climate crisis Rising temperatures and sea levels pose a major threat to human health. Multiple viewpoints address physicians’ concerns and the medical community’s responsibilities in the midst of this global crisis. THREAD:
JCI’s Editor-In-Chief @rex_ahima discusses the impact of global warming on human thermoregulation and the deadly effects of extreme heat (buff.ly/2utvTKn).
JCI’s Editor-In-Chief Rex Ahima discusses the impact of global warming on human thermoregulation and the deadly effects of extreme heat (buff.ly/2utvTKn).
Deputy editor @ACasadevall1 describes the potential for new infectious diseases to arise as a result of microbial adaptation to higher temperatures (buff.ly/2T1Jsek).
JCI's editorial leadership enacts new policy to reduce gender bias in the order of co–first authors. jci.org/articles/view/… cc: @ACasadevall1
The physician-scientist's role in defending vaccines and combating antiscience jci.org/articles/view/… @PeterHotez @cdc #VaccinesWork #measlesoutbreak