Jason Weatherald MD
@AlbertaPHdoc
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Associate Prof @UAlberta_DoM #YEG #Edmonton 🫁 🫀 Pulmonary Hypertension & Lung Transplant MD, Researcher in #PAH #CTEPH #PulmonaryEmbolism #LungTransplant
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined December 2020
Sotatercept for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension within the First Year after Diagnosis | New England Journal of Medicine
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Sotatercept, an activin-signaling inhibitor, reduces morbidity and mortality among patients with long-standing pulmonary arterial hypertension. Its effects in patients with pulmonary arterial hyper...
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New in the Alberta Health Care Scandal According to a confidential report, a procurement official with Alberta Health Services also represented a private surgical facility in negotiations at the same time. Report states Alberta Health Services knew this and had no objections
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Please read this folks. This from someone who knows. Our system is collapsing and the problem is that it is *not integrated*. The right hand does not know what the left is doing. And that is the consequence on our premier dismantling the very glue that kept us together.
https://t.co/V0RCLo4wh3 It's been almost ONE THOUSAND days past the Premier's 90 day promise to fix things... even if you never took that promise seriously you should know that all objective HC Access metrics are getting WORSE Ex: EMS offload and Red Alerts are worsening. 🧵
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Drugs targeting novel pathways in pulmonary arterial hypertension https://t.co/MPmTrr3XFy
@OSitbon @AlbertaPHdoc
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@ATS_PC @PHAssociation @PHACanada @accpchest @CHESTPulmCardio @escardio @ERSpublications @ACCinTouch
📢 A NEW #ISHLT Consensus Statement on risk stratification in pulmonary arterial hypertension (#PAH) is now available. 📖 Check out the top 5️⃣ takeaways ⏬ & read the publication at 🔗 https://t.co/OR2q4BsHXc
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Happy to be a part of this massive collaboration on risk stratification in #PAH led by @SandeepSahayMD and @RaymondBenzaMD
@UAlberta_DoM
📢 A NEW #ISHLT Consensus Statement on risk stratification in pulmonary arterial hypertension (#PAH) is now available. 📖 Check out the top 5️⃣ takeaways ⏬ & read the publication at 🔗 https://t.co/OR2q4BsHXc
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nolite de bastardes carborundorum
Hi kids .. #HandmaidsTale (the book not the series!) has just been banned in #Edmonton…don’t read it, your hair will catch on fire! Get one now before they have public book burnings of it.
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Germline and somatic variants in DNMT3A and other clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential genes contribute to pulmonary arterial hypertension | European Heart Journal | Oxford Academic! @queensutime @KingstonHSC
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AbstractBackground and Aims. Multiple germline gene variants promote familial and idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); however, none are consi
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10k patients is an unusual achievement in rare diseases like pulmonary hypertension. Here we hit that milestone in work investigating inflammation and obesity
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We establish a relationship between CRP and BMI across all-cause PH, though CRP and BMI associate with diverging clinical outcomes. Inflammation and obesity are relevant phenotypes for consideration...
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We did it! The first approved medication for bronchiectasis Brensocatib approved by the FDA in the United States. A great day for patients and the scientific community that made this happen. Thank you Insmed, all investigators and participants https://t.co/T5XthQtIRI
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Pericardial Effusions And Sotatercept Therapy in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Multicenter Real-World Experience https://t.co/vsck1uGuef
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RV response to exercise in PH: homeometric (↑contractility, preserved coupling) vs. heterometric (↓prognosis). ΔsPAP and peak CI distinguish patterns. Heterometric adaptation linked to deterioration and mortality. @RyanTedfordMD @RRVdpool
https://t.co/ys5S7XYyQz
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Excited to finally share our @LindAlliance #Top10 Research Priorities for #LungTransplantation 🫁🔬👩🏽🔬 Supported by @CNTRP @AlbertaLung @AB_OTDT A Canadian 🇨🇦 collaboration @UAlberta_FoMD @UCalgaryMed @ubcmedvid
@UHNTransplant @med_umontreal
https://t.co/nIMeNCZqpX
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This study employed the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership methodology to identify and prioritize research priorities in lung transplantation through engagement of pre- and post-lung...
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Now we need everyone’s help. Please, register here and help us collect petition signatures everywhere in Alberta. This is an existential moment in our history and Canada needs all hands on deck. Let’s boot separatism to the curb. https://t.co/u0Az0JzosT
#ForeverCanadian #AbLeg
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Good news for Albertans and @LukaszukAB.
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📢 Good news! 📢Our #PHGPS, the largest global survey exploring the perspectives of #PulmonaryHypertension patients, has identified 10 key global priorities for improving #PulmonaryHypertension care in adult patients. These 10 calls to action aim to enhance equitable access to
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📢WSPH Association is proud and happy to announce that the next World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension will be held in Amsterdam on July 1-4, 2029. Stay tuned for more details!📢 #WSPH2029 #WSPH #WSPHAssociation #PAH
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EDM Zone avg LWBS is actually 16% for ALL of its EDs and objectively getting worse. Three of the ED's have LWBS numbers over 20%, and as overcrowding gets worse all of them could be over 1 in 4 leaving without care. Why?🧵 1/11 https://t.co/88pn1jP2Bs
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Edmonton is also a major transplant centre that not only serves AB, but Saskatchewan and Manitoba
EDM ZONE: - serves all of northern AB (Red Deer north, AND the territories) - it has 3-4x # of out of zone transfers of any other zone - it hasn't had any new hospital capacity in >50 yrs (GNH in 1988), since then AB population has DOUBLED... (UCP cancelled planned new Hosp) 2/11
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The cycle of private healthcare. It is now one of the biggest industries in the US. The outlier, first world country with the worst life expectancy. Perhaps privatization is a failed experiment?
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John I agree with you but also have some definite beliefs of my own here. I'm going to put them out in a short thread. Many of you will have heard them from me before. In the end we need to train our own health professionals. Why? /1
@JMeddings @timescolonist Option 7 makes the most sense. But that will require govts to spend money, which means more taxation or reallocating resources from somewhere else. Poaching other jurisdictions is borderline unethical.
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