We did it! In the past year, we held 4 academic writing retreats featuring intensive writing, mentoring, and community building within a group we call the Hive. Fresh off our most recent retreat, here's what we’ve learned across all 4, and what we’ll do differently in 2024: 🧵

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several. This is what it looks like: A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are

Change is hard. Sustaining change is even harder. Thank you @chris_bonafide for sharing effective strategies for removing health services that are unproven and harmful to kids. @ChildrensPhila

📢Advocacy in Action! Check out @PolicyLabCHOP faculty member, Dr. Aditi Vasan, who testified to @PADemPolicy about the the positive impact tax credits can have on families with children. Studies have shown they can even prevent pre-term births!

Couldn't be more proud of Dr. Katie Hoskins on leading this incredible and impactful work!!!!! 💜🫶 #impsci

So grateful for this opportunity from @AcademyHealth and @MooreFound to improve diagnosis for kiddos with rheumatic diseases (and excited to learn more from @UCSF_CoDEx)!!

CVP's Drs. Vivek Ashok & Ashlee Murray have received pilot grants from @ClinFuturesCHOP & @PolicyLabCHOP to drive change in policy & practice. Read more about their projects, which focus on firearm violence & intimate partner violence, from @CHOP_Research: https://t.co/BWUzGWzQOo

It’s #WorldLungDay, so let’s talk about #bronchiolitis and continuous #pulseoximetrymonitoring—why are guidelines not being followed? In a recent study, researchers, including Drs. Halley Ruppel & Chris Bonafide, investigated. Read their results here: https://t.co/GTp3y2Ebe2.

Great to see pediatric hospital medicine colleagues @MirnaGiordano and @DrNikki4Kids highlighted in @SocietyHospMed’s The Hospitalist! @PRISNetwork

Why do clinicians use continuous pulse ox outside established guidelines in bronchiolitis? Congrats to Dr. Halley Ruppel and the EMO Study team on this publication on this challenge! Over 70% of instances had non-clinical reasons. Could this guide better strategy development?

Really nice scoping review featuring @CHOPPHMFellows @MarkMcShaneMD!

So fortunate to work with this incredible team to understand key barriers to deimplementation! @JHospMedicine

@chris_bonafide @chris_bonafide Hi! the unroll you asked for: https://t.co/2pIOiCF5su Have a good day. 🤖

@threadreaderapp unroll

So, many of you have shared theories on how 80 pig knickknacks ended up closed up behind the walls of a house in the suburbs. Most of the theories have been wholesome and cute. But some have been very, very dark.

This was such a fun, wild surprise and a new core memory for everyone involved. Friends, be on the lookout for pig knicknack gifts from me this holiday season!

More faves

Some of my faves. As a huge fan of @WhistlePigRye, finding 80 pig knickknacks was perhaps a higher calling to more formally establish our relationship as exclusive and stop playing the field

After the unboxing was over, we counted a total of 80ish pig knicknacks dating as far back as the 1930s!

We opened the first box to find a bunch of carefully, individually wrapped things. Someone cared deeply about saving these, at some point. Until someone thwarted that plan by closing them off with walls on all 4 sides