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Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty & Outcomes Data Science Lab

Flint, MI
Joined February 2010
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Christian Bowers
5 months
Enough is Enough #stopthearmsrace. The exponential growth of pre-residency publications, frequently favoring quantity over quality, HAS to stop. Our automatic calculator ( permits rapid calculation. Programs in multiple specialties are already using ARCS.
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Michael Covell
5 months
New @NeurosurgeryCNS: a proposed solution to the publication “arms race” - #ArmsRaceControlScore. ARCS quantifies authorship effort, disincentivizes quantity over quality, and offers meaningful comparison of #ResidencyApplicants. Designed by @bowersbrainsurg @MichaelKogan20
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Christian Bowers
2 days
Hyperauthorship counterintuitively devalues true scholarship by handing authorship out unethically for free, based on relationships and not for true merit. Why it’s important to know who did what in a research paper
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Christian Bowers
7 days
This is vital work - exposing & illuminating those that are corrupting the scientific peer -review process .We in science have to clean this up before we can advance science as we ought to. We have been lazy as a field.
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WU Guangheng
8 days
More academic editors in PLoS ONE are suspected to get involved in manipulation of the publication process:
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Christian Bowers
19 days
It is really sad though…it’s almost like they learned the right things to say and learned that the system (the game) doesn’t really care if they do the right things, as long as they say them loud enough. Talk is superficial & cheap, people’s actions reveal who they really are.
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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA
19 days
Narrator: this finding was not shocking at all.
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Christian Bowers
21 days
Proud to continue supporting #REAMortho.as they define frailty within orthopedics, utilizing the RAI (risk analysis index). These papers provide a critical foundation for future ortho frailty research so that RAI, and not mFI, is used. Great work team! #frailtyfighter
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Christian Bowers
22 days
Thanks for your thoughtful comments & for the passion. This interest in the dialogue & discussion is what we need so we can all come together as a community and lead the way for medical education by fixing this problem! @EladLevyMD @MichaelKogan20 @NeurosurgeryCNS #ARCS.
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Sina Sadeghzadeh, MS
22 days
Honored to engage with @BowersNsgyLab on their thoughtful proposal to stop the neurosurgery publication arms race. A key concern: potential for ARCS to be artificially inflated via low impact, first-author papers in predatory journals. Grateful for their constructive response.
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Christian Bowers
24 days
Strong work @gilperezMD Dr. Sarah Menacho has been my of my closest neurosurgery colleagues & a great friend ever since I started residency & she was a pgy2 (2009). She is vice chair & director of the neuroICU @UofUNeurosurg & is an absolute star. Thx for your patience Sarah.
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Gilberto Perez Rodriguez Garcia, MD
24 days
Check out our latest study on frailty in shunt surgery for non-NPH hydrocephalus. RAI measured frailty emerged as a strong predictor of outcomes!. Big thanks to @bowersbrainsurg and Dr. Menacho for their guidance and mentorship. Great work by the whole team!
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Christian Bowers
1 month
This paper is going to be highly influential within orthopedics and #frailty for many years to come. The #RAI risk analysis index always outperforms the modified frailty index (mFI) with predicting adverse outcomes with surgical procedures. Huge # of pts in this study!.
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Nithin Gupta
1 month
Check out our latest study in @JAMANetworkOpen showing the utility of frailty in hip fracture patients!. We show in 100k+ older adults with surgically treated hip fractures, the RAI outperforms the mFI-5 in predicting 30-day mortality (AUC 0.73 vs 0.61).
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Christian Bowers
1 month
RT @doctarzz: I sit down with @DrDiGiorgio and discuss the Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid expansion, the future of medicaid and should salari….
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Christian Bowers
1 month
Amazing group…thanks for gathering!@SkullBaseMD.
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James K. Liu, MD
1 month
@UofUNeurosurg So proud to be an alumnus of @UofUNeurosurg and to have trained alongside such incredible talent. Thrilled to be named amongst other fellow Utah graduates, co-residents, and former faculty recognized on the Avant-Garde Health Research All-Star List! @AdamArthurMD @MichaelKarsy
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Named top 1% of all neurosurgeons that publish (volume x impact)! The names in this top 1% include so many people I have been inspired by throughout my whole career…I literally do not belong on this list with these superstars. My work was all done by my student leaders and I
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Can’t wait for this - revolutionary!.
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Samit Sen
2 months
@bowersbrainsurg @Jun_kiim Remarkable work, Dr Bowers! This can significantly influence research by promoting greater accountability among researchers.
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Christian Bowers
2 months
RT @samitsen1254: @bowersbrainsurg @Jun_kiim Remarkable work, Dr Bowers! This can significantly influence research by promoting greater acc….
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Huge thanks to @Jun_kiim for his time, support, & insights, as we discussed our new breakthrough, a patented AI/Deep Learning digital tool that assesses the time spent & quality of work done for each researcher contributing to a project. We will change science together #VEriFY
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Jun Kim
2 months
Great chance to meet with @bowersbrainsurg and hear his visionary work on disrupting the “research arms race” and encouraging meaningful, impactful science. Very important and impactful work not only for neurosurgery but for academic research as a whole. @EladLevyMD
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Thanks! We focus on costs, so department budgets & CME funds can be modernized above historical $5k. Most non-academics are employed & can’t simply “write it off” as W2 hires. We support research/conferences, but how many conferences/societies = excessive? Quality dilution?.
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Women In Neurosurgery (WINS)
2 months
In this #WINSxResearchMonday, we highlight a recent study showing the high cost of engagement in organized neurosurgery: upwards of $11K annually. As the field grows, how can we weigh the benefits of participation against rising financial demands? @NeurosurgeryCNS
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Important work on how frailty impacts brain tumor patients’ ability to recover from major complications. Phenomenal work by the incredible soon to be neurosurgery resident @Joannaroy99 (#match2026).& team members @Stefan_313 @AkshayWarrior2 & seanbhalla. @BowersNsgyLab keep it up.
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Joanna Roy
2 months
@NeurosurgeryCNS : Our NSQIP analysis of brain tumor resection patients identified RAI- measured frailty as an independent predictor of failure to rescue. Thank you @bowersbrainsurg for your mentorship and support over the years. Grateful to have worked on this with the team!
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Christian Bowers
2 months
Shocking. We r happy w/ the buzz generated by this pub, but it’s fascinating how many academic neurosurgeons have commented on how these costs “aren’t a big deal” because us non-academic surgeons “can just write them off”; but we are overwhelmingly W2 employees! Not an option.
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Uzma Samadani
2 months
So 2 society memberships, 2 meetings and board certification each year costs $11800. Wow! @NeurosurgeryCNS Costs of Academic Engagement in Organized Neurosurgery in. : Neurosurgery
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Christian Bowers
2 months
RT @DrSamadani: So 2 society memberships, 2 meetings and board certification each year costs $11800. Wow! @NeurosurgeryCNS Costs of Acad….
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