Humans of UCLA IM Series: featuring our chair of medicine Dr. Abel
@IntMedAbel
- check out our instagram page (uclaimchiefs) for more on this series (and for the full video)!
My phone has been ringing off the hook since this afternoon with news of my election to the
@theNASciences
. Grateful for the support of many colleagues, but more importantly for the many mentees who contributed to our research over the years.
Woke up feeling warm and a little sore in my arm. temp 98F (37C). Took two Tylenol. Good to go. Temp 97.6F now. Won't skip my workout this morning.
#CovidVaccines
#CovidVaccinesideeffects
Day2. Manageable.
Looks like the news of my appointment
@UCLAHealth
@dgsomucla
@UCLA
has gone viral in Jamaica 🇯🇲. My mom’s phone has been ringing off the hook. Sorry mummy, but thanks for your call ☎️ to tell me UR proud 🥲 💕
My mother called me today. This is how she learned about the National Academy of Sciences. Her neighbor showed her this local article on her phone. Grateful for our neighbors, who break news to my mom, before I can explain what it all means.
#Mothersday
Thank you
@dgsomucla
@UCLAHealth
@UCLA
for the warm welcome and kind words that you have shared with me personally today! Hopeful for the next journey.
We are incredibly proud to announce
@IntMedAbel
has been appointed chair of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Abel is a distinguished endocrinologist with a lengthy record as a researcher and clinician, and as a
#mentor
to young scientists.
@UCLAHealth
➨
Intensive
#grandpa
duty past 3 wks, lending a hand to our daughter & son-in-law. Parenting is hard work especially when multitasking & balancing career & family. My granddaughter wanted to work on her own manuscript as I edited mine (now accepted). Our grandson- less interested
Welcome to
#Grandpa
chronicles chapter 2. The joy experienced when meeting your second grandchild is as preciousl as meeting the first one. Welcome to the world little one!
Grateful for the kind words from friends and colleagues and to my many trainees who contributed to our discoveries. The membership book
@theNASciences
is now signed. Onward.
With a 100% success rate for our senior residents AND 100% of our core fellowship slots filled (bucking national trends!) in the fellowship match AND 43% of our residents staying
@uiowa
and
@uihealthcare
, it is no wonder residency PD Dr. Manish Suneja is doing a happy dance!
Tomorrow at 7:00 pm EDT I'll be inducted in the
@theNASciences
. It will be live-streamed. Share the link () and
#NAS160
if you want to watch live the introduction of the class to our colleagues in the Academy and my signing the NAS book.
Day 3/ learned in
#Civics
class yesterday from
@RickDomann
about the “right to bare arms”. The arm (left) on Monday is the same as the arm (right) today Wednesday. Feels great! Pls "bare arms”, take
#Covidvaccine
and
#maskup
in the meantime to beat
#Covid19
once and for all.
Grandpa chronicles, what a difference 7 months make. A one week visit with our granddaughter just ended all to quickly. Planning already for the next visit.
#Grandparents
Mom turns 88 only once. Happy that she was in town and that 2 doting sibs, in-laws and grandson could take her out to dinner for her B'day. The restaurant owner was so impressed that he comped the wine! Wishing you many more.
Update. Went to bed early. Took 2 Tylenol so not to dream about a sore arm. Good night’s rest to build immunity. Feeling great this morning. So I am done! I might not now get severely ill from
#COVID19
, but there is a
#pandemic
out there and until it is over I will
#WearAMask
.
My mom, wife and I were privileged to meet
@NobelPrize
winning
@Malala
Yousafzai at
@MPTF
night-before-Oscar gala last night. Rooting for your documentary Stranger at the gate nominated for an Oscar tonight!
At the
@FASEBorg
Molecular Metabolism Mtg. Transgenerational mentorship on display during a hike in a break.
@BarbaraKahn20
@BIDMChealth
was my post doc mentor and I served on
@JudithSimcox
thesis committee
@UUtah
3 professors on a beach
My mom turned 87 recently,we connected via video call this pm. A call from
#Jamaica
🇯🇲 that I readily interrupted, start of
#SuperBowl
to take! She wanted to let me know that she walked 3.5 miles today. Grateful for her health, mobility and for her new smart phone.
#healthyaging
When the clock strikes midnight (Central) tonight, in addition to being a Hawkeye, I become a Bruin. Happy New Years to all my friends old and new! My best wishes for 2022!
Pleased to give Medicine Grand Rounds
@Brighamwomens
,
@Brighammedres
@harvardmed
today. Honor to do this in memory of Bob Utiger & to be hosted by
@TheEndoSociety
president Dr Ursula Kaiser. Great to see colleagues & mentors and meeting with the talented trainees.
Introducing the inaugural holder of the E. Dale Abel endowed chair In diabetes research
@foedrc
@IowaMed
Dr. Kamal Rahmouni ! Congrats Kamal and thanks to the
@FOEGrandAerie
for your tireless support for
#Diabetes
research!
Thank you
@DrGaryHammer
and Dr Dolores Shoback for nominating me for the Koch award of
@TheEndoSociety
and to my beautiful wife of 35yr. For undying support!
August 6 was Independence Day In Jamaica 🇯🇲. Or family celebrated the 60 yr milestone in LA at a favorite Culver City eatery. The deejay played music that took me back to my childhood and my mother to her feet & dancing on the sidewalk! “1 pound 10 for de wedding cake…🎤🥁
Leadership has happy and difficult parts. This was hard, but necessary. The
@TheEndoSociety
lives on. Our members are amazing and our staff are outstanding. Viruses may slow us down, but will not stop us!
@DrGaryHammer
I'll get the gavel to you!
Today, following the latest reports from the
@WHO
), the
@CDCgov
and local health authorities in San Francisco, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel ENDO 2020:
#ENDO2020
Honored to be the recipient of the A Ross-Mcintyre Endowed Lecture from
@UNMC
. It was 1ºF this morning when I woke up in
#Omaha
#Nebraska
. The brown fat has atrophied, but the
#Iowa
muscle memory kicked in!
Today I chaired for the last time as director, the fall retreat of
@foedrc
@uiowa
@IowaMed
. Thanks for the surprise gift at the end &
@lingyanguiowa
for the selfie. Privilege to serve you these past 8.5 years. Amazing progress and terrific future. Will miss you..
Difficult to believe that after penning nearly 160 posts for
@IntMedatIowa
over 6 yrs, this is my last one. Thx for your generosity, collegiality, support & kind wishes. I'll be watching from the west, knowing that the sun always rises first in the east
My colleagues, in
@IntMedatIowa
wanted to celebrate the
#grandparents
milestone with surprise gift after I came back from rounds. Note the walking stick! Do the other grandparents out there agree with this???
Honored to receive this award last week from the University of Graz. Pleased that one of my mentees Professor Heiko Bugger (L)
@UniGraz
joined the presentation ceremony with Prof. Andreas Zirlik (R).
Yesterday was Juneteenth and today we recognize this as a Federal holiday. In reflecting on the significance of this day, let me share with you excerpts from words that I penned to my department
@IntMedatIowa
a couple years ago.
Picked up our Fearless program director Manish Suneja to join me for the last 3 miles of my 11 mile run💪🏿⛹🏾♀️ huffing and puffing but staying alive!!!
Today I had the pleasure of handing the Robert H Williams Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award to
@DOM_UCLA
@dgsomucla
@UCLAHealth
very own chair emeritus Dr. Alan Fogelman. Highest honor of the Association of Professors of Medicine! Congrats Alan. Fitting tribute.
Guess what? For the 3rd year running, the Internal Medicine Boards pass rate for
@IntMedatIowa
residents and
@IM_Iowa
here at
@IowaMed
was 100%. The national average boards pass rate is 91%. Off to do my happy dance!
This is a tree, not just any tree. Planted in the church yard of my ancestral village in the Jamaican hinterland in 1834, the yr
#Slavery
was abolished. In the same hole shackles were buried. Look closely, the bark knots evoke pain of oppression but also victory and resilience
Good to see
@TIME
writing about something that many of us have known for a long time.
#Diabetes
increases
#HeartFailure
. The piece starts by noting, heart failure is an "under appreciated complication of diabetes". Spread the word, prevent and investigate
It was an honor and privilege to be awarded an honorary degree from my alma mater
@UWImona
@FMS_UWI
and give the commencement address to the graduates. Should I feel happy or old?
I do not usually tweet videos of pets, but when my sister’s poodle Rolly who we were dog sitting began singing opera, he opened up a new perspective on living. A moment of levity for the week ahead...
Your mentor is very very proud right now
@phdgprotein86
. Congratulations on this stellar achievement!! AJ is also a distinguished alumni of the
@TheEndoSociety
#FLARE2022
program.