I am very excited to announce that I will be joining @VCU_Liver following my graduation from Transplant Hepatology fellowship. As someone who loves caring for patients with liver disease, teaching, and researching the best organ ever, I cannot think of a better place to be! 🎉🤩.

✅ 7 years of Medical Training. Thank you to my patients for trusting me and allowing me care for and learn from you. Thank you to my co-trainees and faculty for the many lessons and being by my side. Thank you to my husband and son (now 7!) for loving me (and sharing most of me)

RT @ebtapper: Tides turning.

RT @ebtapper: VCU so lucky to land Dr Blaney. Congratulations to everyone. How is VCU landing all these awesome people? Is it the force? Or….

There are many ways to have an impactful career in Medicine. We need excellence in: . ✨Patient Care.✨Research .✨Medical Education.✨Leadership.✨Policy and Public Health. Find and follow YOUR passion!.

RT @AdamMGrant: The most enduring marker of success isn't wealth, fame, or power. It’s what we create and contribute to others. In the sho….

Just gave an engaging talk on treating AUD in patients w/ alcohol-associated digestive disease to the University of Rwanda 🌟GI fellows. I learned stigma for AUD & mental health is universal. 👉This next generation of global GIs/Hepatologists is the change we need to improve 📉.

I know @SarahKhan9894 @SarahUttal are going to continue growing LFN and I cannot wait to see what they do for the next generation of Hepatologists as the new LFN leads! 👏👏👏.

My time @LiverFellow has been one of my most impactful career experiences. As I 🎓 from training, I will take the friendships made through LFN working with a fantastic group of learners (including 🌟 faculty editors) to improve Hepatology patient care. What an all-🌟team!.

Some of you know I have started a patient-forward #MedEd social media account. Just getting started with 166 followers, all of whom I know. Pretty sure “Big Wellness” had my post removed for dispelling misinformation!.Me, a doctor making 85k/year in DC….@theliverdr @SecKennedy

Me: “I’m doing way too many peer reviews. I need to start declining”. Also me: “Oh, this looks really interesting!”. …Accepts 3 more peer reviews in the same 24 hour period where I was going to stop/slow doing peer review.

Congratulations to those who were selected to the @AASLDFoundation #ELS program! This program is 💯/10. To those not selected: It is very competitive with limited spots + lots of 🌟 applicants. I was not accepted the first time I applied. Move on from rejection and Keep Trying!.

RT @ebtapper: Gideon is the best of us. Truly infectious enthusiasm for hepatology. 👇 management of pbc.👇 clinical philosophy.👇 how to bui….

RT @HowardTLeeMD: 🌈 Join us for the 2025 @AASLDtweets 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride Webinar this Thursday 6/26 🕛 Noon ET. #LGBTQ+ Health and Hepatology:….

Excellent workshop on AUD in ALD at Research Society on Alcohol’s annual conference. Led by giants in the field w/🌅 🌟s (Dr Brian Lee not pictured). I love the collaborative nature of ALD w/ so much integration & crosstalk. I learn so much from these wonderful people! @lykhaque

RT @stevenbollipo: I love reading my paper journals and occasionally find gems 💎 that I would have missed if I was reading things online. G….

RT @scottisaacsmd: Alcohol use is widespread. 72% of U.S. adults drank weekly in 2019–2020, and consumption rose during the pandemic. Recen….

Important slide from ⁦@lykhaque⁩ on the importance of language. From Research Society on Alcohol Conference

I tried to avoid the 🎂 but I’m listening to some of the loudest fireworks I have heard all the way in Chevy Chase/Bethesda (the sound of my tax dollars going up in flames). We also have a lot of veterans and dogs in this area who I am sure are loving this thoughtful serenade.

For patients presenting with gastric variceal bleeding, pre-emtive TIPS should be considered as it reduces the risk of rebleeding and/or death at one year compared to on-demand glue and NSBB, 77% compared to 29%, respectively. Very nice practice-changing French study!.