James Swanson

Fourth year medical student at Stritch School of Medicine - Aspiring psychiatrist - Creator of @MedResearchPod

[Medical School Research Podcast @MedResearchPod]

Our episode with M3 Alex Strelko is out now! In it, we talk about his experiences in basic and clinical science research, and we discuss the residency research arms race.
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[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@Joshua_Roshal Great overview. I wish I had seen this when I started my general surgery rotation! I never understood the rotation aspect of driving the camera, but it made sense with the house analogy.

[Kate R Kuhlman, Ph.D. @teenresilience]

Excited to share new findings from our lab elucidating the role of childhood maltreatment in immune-related gene expression! https://t.co/ATnMJ3bFTQ

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

Thank you @acsJACS for featuring my team's work on early-stage ampullary cancer

[Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) @acsJACS]

A new large-scale risk-adjusted comparison of local excision relative to radical resection found that local excision has statistically comparable overall survival rates to radical resection in patients with cTis-cT2N0 ampullary cancer.

Read more at: https://t.co/8GzHTUOeap

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@suvithav17 Congrats! Welcome to Stritch!

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@MDCathy2025 Go Cathy!!!

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@ZaidAbdelsattar @CentralSurg @LoyolaSurgery thank you!

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

Really enjoyed my time at the @CentralSurg conference last weekend with the @LoyolaSurgery team and getting the opportunity to meet other surgeons

[Manni Mohyuddin @ManniMD1]

Just out in @JAMAInternalMed, we highlight a mechanism to detect selection bias/confounding in observational studies by looking at Kaplan Meier curves.

If the curves separate implausibly early, the findings are too good to be true!

https://t.co/qhptGVAIev

@VPrasadMDMPH

[Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine @BrownJHM]

Electrolyte imbalance symptoms @OsmosisMed #MedEd #Medtwitter #FOAMed

[NEJM @NEJM]

A 44yo man with a history of human immunodeficiency virus infection and intermittent adherence to antiretroviral therapy presented to the ID clinic with a 1-month history of fevers & pruritic skin lesions. Read the full case details & submit your answer: https://t.co/tlCb8YpWRp

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@ryancwhitemed I've actually done this so many times because the procrastination is at its highest haha

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@Path4People Are you ever unable to determine margin status due to electrocautery artifact? I've heard that electrocautery can shrink the resected tissue (e.g., an ampullectomy), or I would assume that it could distort the specimen

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

Congrats to @LaHekky for an important review of the state of urological training and medical education more broadly. It was great working on this article with you!

[Lauren Hekman, MD @LaHekky]

Thank you to my mentors at @LoyolaUrology , Dr. Larissa Bresler and @DrDenise_ !

Feeling very grateful to have been a part of the AUA Special Diversity issue, especially to discuss this topic.

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[Sanam Loghavi, MD صنم لغوی 🔬🧬 @sanamloghavi]

Sanam’s Substack: Bony mimickers https://t.co/4RuHCpjSM3

[Kamran Mirza MD PhD - کامران مرزا @KMirza]

Cool images by @AaronGoodman33 - piggybacking off image of Heinz body (supravital stain in original tweet)

When the spleen interrogates cells with Heinz bodies it will 'bite' out a piece of the cell, leaving blister/bite/apple core cells (shown here)

#hemepath #hematology

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@abronsonabx Definitely concerning to see ID so low, but I wonder how this chart looked during pre-covid years. also would be interesting to take a single specialty and run the same analysis and see whether higher compensation within e.g., ID is positively associated with satisfaction

[Medical School Research Podcast @MedResearchPod]

Great biostats refresher from @AaronGoodman33 on the relevance and interpretation of KM curves! Med students should check this out

[James Swanson @J_Alex_Swanson]

@jakedcunningham @BiophysicalSoc this makes me miss SoCal!!!!