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TJ Florence MD PhD

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neurosurgery resident @UCLA | ex @ColumbiaPS & @HHMIJanelia | I'd like to know how the brain works and how to fix it. Views are mine alone; not medical advice.

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TJ Florence MD PhD
5 years
@UCLANsgy class of 2026. First week of R2 year. Goals: run a tight ship, take the best possible care of our pts @MayaHarary
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TJ Florence MD PhD
4 years
Welcome to this amazing class of docs healing the brains and spines of LA starting this July!
@UCLANsgy
UCLA Health Neurosurgery 🧠
4 years
We would like to offer the warmest of welcomes to our 3 incoming residents, Drs. Diana Chang from @NeurosurgUCSF, @AislynDiRisio from @MountSinaiNeuro, and Sheantel Reihl from UCSF! We are beyond excited to have you all join our family! #Match2022 #Neurosurgery #UCLA
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TJ Florence MD PhD
4 years
When the front desk tells you there’s not enough staff to get your add on going
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TJ Florence MD PhD
5 years
A project from the last month: This Anki deck builds on @Tufts Rhoton 100 deck to cover the complete knowledge base of the new #ABNS neuroanatomy exam. Please share w/ co-residents and med students. We’ll all be better surgeons if we know this cold https://t.co/aUMwmhY8NN
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TJ Florence MD PhD
5 years
one way to let the graybeards know you’re coming to change the field is to plant your own data like a flag above the fold of the wikipedia page @casa_tuthill https://t.co/kA3otxq6z9
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TJ Florence MD PhD
6 years
This paper supports a big important point - neurobiology is obsessed with topology (at the scale of our experimental devices) but the brain may not care. Synapses may be intermingled, but information may not. Great work by led by @MaiMMorimoto @MichaelBReiser
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Mai Morimoto
6 years
1.Our paper ‘Connectivity establishes spatial readout of visual looming in a glomerulus lacking retinotopy’ is on biorxiv! We used in vivo calcium imaging, functional connectivity and EM connectomics to ‘untangle’ an optic glomerulus in Drosophila. 1/11 https://t.co/KQJD0nPJTG
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TJ Florence MD PhD
6 years
Best medical school prep for residency would have been carrying a pager during all exams, and getting paged every 5-10 minutes with questions to a completely different exam
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TJ Florence MD PhD
6 years
I want to double emphasize this paper. It’s beautiful data & a massive team effort. Jayaram is a consummate scientist; every paper he drops is a deep contribution to neurobiology.
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An efficient pipeline for brain-wide imaging and morphological reconstruction of individual neurons, including long-range projection neurons, is presented along with a searchable database containing...
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TJ Florence MD PhD
6 years
Proud to start @UCLAHealth Dept of Neurological Surgery with Drs @MayaHarary, Casaos, & Samarage Our coats are too big, with crease lines fresh from the packaging. Strong metaphor for #InternYear
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TJ Florence MD PhD
7 years
If Sydney Brenner would be at Janelia during a trivia night, he’d sheepishly whisper answers to the closest team - always declining an invitation to join. It was very hard to argue with “Hey guys Sydney Brenner just said the answer is ‘Bach’”
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TJ Florence MD PhD
7 years
Some personal news: I’ll be joining the @UCLA neurosurgery residency program at the end of June. I really want to thank everyone who made this possible, esp @MichaelBReiser
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TJ Florence MD PhD
9 years
Thanks everyone for the thoughts today. Thesis successfully defended. Most important slide from the talk:
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