Honored to received the Trainee Excellence Award 🏅from the Academy of Resident and Fellow Educators at @bcmhouston. I’m thankful to my wife & family, program director @arunima_misra and my mentors at @BCMHeart for their unwavering support in my career and in life 😇 #ACCFIT
The @CiccaroneCenter is proud to announce the Promotion of Dr. Monica Mukherjee to Full Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations, Professor!! @MMukherjeeMD@hopkinsheart. Monica is an expert in echocardiography, pulmonary hypertension, the RV & so much more.
You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something.
Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it.
André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation.
Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test.
The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing.
This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it.
Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone.
The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start.
You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
Excited to be a Social Media Champion for #ASE2026 Scientific Sessions! Join us in Aurora: great science, even better people, and we’ll see what high altitude does to sound waves 🏔️. #EchoFirst@ASE360@CASEfromASE
I wrote this in a moment I never would have chosen. A sudden pause that made me see my life clearly.
The meaning of our work is profound. This experience simply helped me see more clearly what matters most.
“Time is Finite” JAMA
https://t.co/IwkKdyeEWx
As @ASE360's President, I'm grateful flto our almost 22,000 members from around the world, whose talents and selfless dedication advance cardiac ultrasound.
#HeartOfASE#ASEMemberDay#EchoFirst
Honored to be part of this group. Grateful for the mentorship and support I’ve received along the way, especially from @ASE360 and Leadership Academy. Such an incredible community to be part of.
We are proud to announce three of our ASE Leadership Academy alumni are featured on @CardioBusiness' 40 Under 40 Class of 2026!
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I'm excited to have accepted a role as an Associate Editor at @JACCJournals Advances under the direction of Dinesh Kalra @uofl! I'm excited for the journal's future as a broad, clinically relevant catalyst for top-notch impactful science. Send us your best work!
Calling for applications for our 2026-2027 Cardiac Amyloidosis fellowship. This is a joint University of Chicago and Endeavor fellowship that is multi-disciplinary and has both clinical and research components.
Email [email protected] if interested.
Best image competition- #SCMR2026
Seeing the heart in 4D flow status and Christ the redeemer in one image- how creative is that! Also proud of @vineetao17 for successfully running the early career section for two years and giving the meeting major social media uplift! Congratulations to the winners and the announcer! #whyCMR
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A small personal first, and something I have never shared here before.
Along the way in a career centered on cardiology and science, I found my way to dance. What began as a simple need to move and clear my mind gradually became something I truly cherish.
🛑 How many non–LV hypertrophy features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can you identify in this case?
📏 LV wall thickness is only one component of the diagnosis.
👀 Always look beyond LVH. #WhyCMR
Join us for an amazing @IllinoisACC CV Imaging Section Dinner: Case-based discussion of #WhyCMR#YesCCT and #ThinkPET in Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies ❤️🔥
🗓 Jan 15, 2026 | 🕠 5:30–9 PM CST
📍 Maggiano’s Little Italy, 516 N Clark St.
🔗 RSVP required: https://t.co/9aeeLcSCsY