Johnny Hourmozdi

HF & Transplant Cards Fellow @WeAreNUHeart via @UWMedicine | AI and Bioethics @NUFeinbergMed | he/him | Opinions = mine ≠ advice

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

I may be biased, but we’ve got a crazy talented division. So much fun! @WilcoxHeart @QuentinYoumans @SarahChuzi @LWilsbacher @SchimmelHeart @M_Leya27 @YasminRazaMD @ManingJennifer @mhillmd

[Susan Quaggin @SusanQuaggin]

Cardiology 🫀 ⁦@NU_IntMed⁩ brings it home #BattleoftheBands 2 💜💜!!

[Nausheen Akhter, MD @nakhtermd]

Proud of @IllinoisACC ‘s #community commitment - packing up recovered food from today’s annual scientific session for Chicagoans in need. Wouldn’t it be great to do this at every scientific meeting? @ACCinTouch @docbfreed @avolgman

[Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh، (عاطفه) @AtefehGho]

✅New #CardioNerds episode! Dr. @SteveOmmen discusses diagnostic approaches to restrictive cardiomyopathy and the management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Inspired by @AmyPollakMD, @jeffreygeske @MichaelCullenMD
https://t.co/c2aBijqVZe

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

I second @JennaSkowronski — this was such a fun experience, and I’ve already seen the impact of @SteveOmmen’s excellent teaching on how I approach HCM. So grateful for fellow @CardioNerds @AmitGoyalMD @Dr_DanMD putting this high yield series together!

[Jenna Skowronski MD @JennaSkowronski]

I learned a ton from being part of this episode and had so much fun recording. Thanks @CardioNerds, @SteveOmmen, @JHourmozdi, @TDonisan, @AmitGoyalMD, @Dr_DanMD! #CardioTwitter #MedEd 🫀

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

@bfrains https://t.co/9t8hL4MIt4

Oh yeah. We’ve been polluting the internet since gen AI’s arrival.

[American College of Cardiology @ACCinTouch]

Dr. Jonathan Hourmozdi addresses bias and equity in #AI during today’s Virtual Innovation Summit: AI-Enabled Clinician. https://t.co/JSBLJZixaI #ACCInnovation #TransformCVCare

[Senthil Selvaraj, MD, MS, MA @senthil_selv]

Simpub late breaker #HFA2024 & @JAMA_current
V142I TTR CV burden
HFH risk @ 63 (mostly HFrEF) and dth @ 72
Women/men similar
Carriers live 2-2.5 years less ➡️loss of ~1million years of life in US
🙏 @scottdsolomon @SvatiShah @robmentz @HeartDocSadiya @ParagGoyalMD @dr_m_fontana

[Jennifer Maning, DO @ManingJennifer]

✨🫀 Such a pleasure collaborating on this piece with such a talented group! Invaluable perspectives
💜💜 @JCardFail

[Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc @NMHheartdoc]

Warm shoutout @WeAreNUHeart - outstanding synopses led by @ManingJennifer - special thnx @dranulala @robmentz - expert leadership; really fun to collate and then summarize all things #HF #ACC2024 - offering our views to the #HF community and especially all #FITs @ACCinTouch

[Quentin Youmans, MD, MSc @QuentinYoumans]

We are so fortunate to have a #Legend in medicine Dr. #BobBonow @NorthwesternMed!

Loved celebrating him at our Bonow Society event @ACCinTouch #ACC24!

#Inspiration #DoctorsDoctor #Humanism #PurplePride

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

Grateful to be home to celebrate with family this year. Mama outdid herself with the #Nowruz_haft_sin! Nowruz Pirooz!

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

@hcg_md Honestly GitHub copilot makes it hard for me to want to try anything else for coding. Vscode integration is so slick.

[NEJM @NEJM]

A 66-year-old man was transferred to a hospital after a cardiac arrest. Coronary angiography (shown in a video) revealed 50% stenosis in the middle LAD coronary artery during diastole with complete occlusion during systole. Read the full clinical case: https://t.co/K8pdwlevXC

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

@MenInBlazers Take a tip from @MoSalah and change your boots at half time, lad. You got this @Darwinn99

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

Moving tribute. #YNWA

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

ROG ON KLOPP LEAVING LIVERPOOL ✍️

❝The news is overwhelming. Partly because there were no hints of the manager standing down early. Two years remain on his contract, and the announcement totally blindsided us amidst the ambitious wonder of a quadruple chase, arriving after neither rumor nor leak. Secondly, Jürgen Klopp was more than a football manager, he was a leader, a transformational change agent, and a deep empath in a chaotic world where that has become all too rare a currency. What he has achieved at Anfield since arriving like a Teutonic Care Bear in 2015 has been nothing short of alchemy.

Back then, Liverpool was a club reeking of tradition, aspiration and haunted nearlies. Klopp transformed it with his singular brand of passion, faith, and bombast, unleashing that audacious, demanding collective pressing game which soon overwhelmed all-comers. Klopp’s Liverpool took the field with power, determination and exuberance—as if driven by their fans' very passion—as the manager demanded his players "must fight with the last drop of fuel in their machine,' and then rewarded them with a big, big hug.

To watch Liverpool was to feel alive. Champions League triumph in 2019 was followed by long-yearned-for Premier League glory in 2020. I know I am an Everton fan and meant to despise everything in red, but the small percentage of me that is still human could only marvel at the joy Liverpool fans were experiencing along the way, and the memories they made as they "conquered all of Europe." I was reminded of this on Wednesday night, when the Reds reached another Wembley final and their traveling fans raised a banner proclaiming, "Imagine Being Us." I stared at that statement for longer than I care to admit, before realizing that I honestly can't. That it does seem like under Klopp, Liverpool fans have journeyed to so many places both real and emotional, witnessed so many magical moments, and had so much bloody fun. Whatever you want to call the footballing style, "Gegenpressing," "Heavy Metal Football," or "Mentality Monsters," it has been humanly transcendent to watch Klopp forge that connective trinity: the unity built between team, fans, and himself on the sideline with his fist-bumps and ecstatic body jerks, always conducting the emotion.

Ultimately, The Hug was Klopp’s most most powerful tactic of all—and I hope one day, there is a statue of him delivering one outside of Anfield, like a giant German Elmo that fans can just slip into and take a selfie. Indeed, as someone who has been on the receiving end of a Klopp hug, I can confirm they are better than any drug Aaron Rodgers has dabbled in. The Klopp hug communicates belief, gratitude, and infinite love. Life Affirmation without words. A reflection of the truth of the man who has delivered it

What now? Klopp said this morning he hopes this news will be the ultimate motivator for his players. "Let's now really go for it. The outside world wants to use this decision, laugh about it, wants to disturb us. We are Liverpool, we went through harder things together. And you went through harder things before me. Let's make a strength of it. Let's squeeze everything out of this season and have another thing to smile about when we look back in the future." It is unknown if he will manage again. He said this morning, "If you ask me, 'Will you ever work as a manager again?' I would say now no. But I don't know obviously how that will feel because I never had the situation. What I know definitely—I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool." For their part, the club have said, even though they found out in November, they are yet to approach a replacement. While I hope they will give Roy Hodgson (my favorite ever Liverpool manager) an emotional return, or throw the bank to tempt that tactical maestro Stevie Gerrard back from Al-Ettifaq, expect former midfielder Xabi Alonso, who has propelled Bayer Leverkusen to the top of the Bundesliga, to be the subject of tabloid conjecture, and Liverpool fans' fever dreams.

A quick word to Liverpool fans reading this: I send you my love today. I can't even imagine the feeling of hope and happiness and glory this man has brought into your life, now singed by that sudden shocking sting of loss. Take strength from the memories you have made together though, because it has been a marvel to watch this bloke—a culture builder, a serial transformationist, a deeply authentic, empathetic human—do his thing. If anything, this announcement is a reminder that nothing is forever, and that we should not take a moment for granted. It is also fascinating that while every Liverpool fan I know has been agonizing about Mo Salah and his future—it is Jürgen that is the first to step off citing exhaustion. A reminder that the caregivers often pass on first, and a brutal truth that Rory Smith talked to me about when I saw him in December—it does not look that fun to be a Premier League Manager. It is a brutal job, lived out in the bright-lights of a global crucible with hysterical stakes, knee-jerk overreaction, and trial by tabloid, that grinds down all those that do it. I actually love that Klopp will sign off in a style befitting his unique personality, on his own terms, departing after a quadruple chasing-high.

There will be more, much more to come on this story. Liverpool’s innocuous Fourth Round FA Cup clash against Norwich City on Sunday morning now becomes must-watch theater for the emotional outpouring that will begin—setting the tone for the rest of a season that is going to feel like equal parts Crusade and McNulty’s Wake Scene from the Wire. Jürgen Klopp deserves that. Not just for the footballing memories he has given us, but the life truths he has dispensed along the way. I have interviewed him many times over the years, and honestly, learned so much about life from each conversation. I want to leave you one conversation I went back to this morning in the immediate wake of hearing the news. On the eve of lifting the coveted first title for Liverpool, I met with Klopp in his office, and asked him, a deeply religious man, if winning is, indeed, the most important thing. Jürgen did not have to wait a beat before telling me, "If life should be judged at the end, when we stand in front of the (heavenly) door, they ask, 'Did you win something or not?' That would be really strange. They should ask, 'Did you try everything to improve the place you have been, the house you have lived in, the mood, the love?' And I will say, 'Yes, I tried it everyday.'"

YNWA ❤️

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

@JJheart_doc @hvanspall @OtavioBerwanger @JimmyPage Now I really wish I could come, but unfortunately I won’t be there.

My vote is that a live band jam room should be a part of every cardiology conference going forward! #ACC24?

[Johnny Hourmozdi @JHourmozdi]

@hvanspall @OtavioBerwanger @JimmyPage @JJheart_doc This thread is giving me gear envy! Only my ES-339 and an old Washburn acoustic survived the moves for training. I’ve never played a danelectro, but I love the look of them.

That jam session in Cleveland did inspire me to finally buy a bass, and it’s all I want to play lately.

[Susan Quaggin @SusanQuaggin]

Enough said - awesome tunes 🎶@NU_IntMed #HolidayParty - #CARDS brought the 🏠 down - many more posts to follow!! @QuentinYoumans @WilcoxHeart @dmljmd +++ 💜 💜 🎸 🎤 🪘

[Ajay Haryani, MD @ajayharyani]

Care doesn’t exist without a relationship, and relationships don’t exist without communication

Along with the entirety of our patients' lives, true primary care lives in between our visits - where we can reverse the historically oppressive power dynamics of the care relationship