Theodore Pak

Assistant Professor @UCIMedSchool. Former @mgh_id @bwh_id fellow, @mghmedres, @SinaiMSTP MD-PhD. Now on Bluesky 🦋 #IDSky tedpak dot bsky dot social

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

🚨 My lab is hiring! @UCIrvine Seeking full-time data scientists & machine learning engineers.

We apply LLMs and AI tools to clinical data, rapidly scaling up epidemiological analyses of sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, and more. https://t.co/wGbJ8xpKlt #MedTwitter 1/x

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

🚨 My lab is hiring! @UCIrvine Seeking full-time data scientists & machine learning engineers.

We apply LLMs and AI tools to clinical data, rapidly scaling up epidemiological analyses of sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, and more. https://t.co/wGbJ8xpKlt #MedTwitter 1/x

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

If you are experienced in managing Python, R, and SQL software projects; use data science and ML best practices; love research on infectious diseases; and want to join a growing computational lab based in SoCal...

➡️ Apply today! https://t.co/xSRWn4OXr6

#MedTwitter 2/x

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

🚨 My lab is hiring! @UCIrvine Seeking full-time data scientists & machine learning engineers.

We apply LLMs and AI tools to clinical data, rapidly scaling up epidemiological analyses of sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, and more. https://t.co/wGbJ8xpKlt #MedTwitter 1/x

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

Maybe AI Knows Something That We Do Not!
🆕💫 Cohort study
LLM accurately extracted presenting signs & symptoms from admission notes that clustered into syndromes differentially correlated with infection sources, MDR infections, and mortality #IDXposts
https://t.co/qL1flVTpGR

[Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell]

#MedTwitter
NEW Analysis of 641K hospital admissions in 3.5y finds ending universal masking & #COVID19 testing was assoc w/ a 25% ⬆️ in hospital-onset resp viral infections (w/ longer stay & ⬆️ mortality) & resumption of universal hospital masking with a 33% ⬇️. #WearAMask /1

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

New: Universal masking&testing reduce hospital infections, so does staff masking

Stopping universal masking&testing led to 25% increase in respiratory viral infections
Restarting staff masking led to 33% decrease

8 out of 100 (random sample) died

https://t.co/BQVY0eAJ1w

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

"Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals"

"When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%"

Study: https://t.co/jcn9LzcM3u

Source: https://t.co/Gw4lnQK7c9

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

@JAMANetworkOpen Tagging folks who might be interested in a study of COVID precautions at 10 @MassGenBrigham hospitals

@DrJudyStone @larazjmd @MAHealthEquity @EricTopol @MGBospital @NightShiftMD @PeoplesCDC @DeptPopMed @RobbieForChange @JuliaKoehler13 @AWangMPH @bijayacharya @AbraarKaran

[JAMA Network Open @JAMANetworkOpen]

Stopping universal masking and SARS-CoV-2 testing at 10 US hospitals was associated with a substantial increase in hospital-onset COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. https://t.co/PjHHLbjkqb

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

@JAMANetworkOpen Author here, my tweet thread on this article: https://t.co/uRnG5jcHmd

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

This Thanksgiving, let's thank hospitals that use masking during winter respiratory virus season.

Out in @JAMANetworkOpen—Hospital-onset flu, COVID, and RSV rates when 10 Mass Gen Brigham sites stopped universal testing & masking, then restarted staff masking in Jan 2024. 1/🧵

[MaskTogetherAmerica @TogetherWeMask]

👉@MassGenBrigham ending masking/testing in May2023 was associated w/a 25% increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections (RVI) cf. Omicron-dominant period
👉Resuming mask requirement for staff in Jan 2024 was associated w/a significant 33% decline in hospital-onset RVI

[MaskTogetherAmerica @TogetherWeMask]

🚨A study analyzed changes in the frequency of nosocomial (PCR-confirmed) #COVID, Flu & RSV cases due to policy changes in masking & testing at 10 @MassGenBrigham hospitals shows targeted universal masking + routine screening essential in protecting patients + healthcare staff🧵

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

Full article @JAMANetworkOpen here: https://t.co/bly5F7wKZ9 #OpenAccess

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

This Thanksgiving, let's thank hospitals that use masking during winter respiratory virus season.

Out in @JAMANetworkOpen—Hospital-onset flu, COVID, and RSV rates when 10 Mass Gen Brigham sites stopped universal testing & masking, then restarted staff masking in Jan 2024. 1/🧵

[Theodore Pak @theodorepak]

Last point! When patients in the hospital get flu or COVID, they are at much higher risk than the average person. In our recent study at MGB, hospital-onset Omicron associated with a 60% increase in mortality. https://t.co/L5aadOr7K9

These infections are worth preventing. fin/🧵