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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD
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Cardiology Fellow🫀Ion Channel Biophysics⚡️Aspiring electrophysiologist physician-scientist #Cardiosky
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I'm Michael 👋

First year cardiology fellow in the physician-scientist training program at the University of Wisconsin 🫀

Goal to establish a lab studying the basic science mechanisms of arrhythmia ⚡️

Would love to make new research (ion channel biophysics) or clinical connections 😎
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Structure of CFTR bound to (R)-BPO-27 unveils a pore-blockage mechanism @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut @statnews.com
Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut
Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
www.statnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Phenomenal learning at the week long ACP board review course in Philadelphia!
July 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Physiological pacing: mechanisms, clinical indications, and perspectives🔓
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Physiological pacing: mechanisms, clinical indications, and perspectives
Abstract. Normal cardiac function depends on a highly efficient cardiac conduction system. Conduction system disease impairs cardiac function, which can re
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July 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Great to catch up with PhD advisor in Philly

Once a mentor always a mentor 👍
July 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Check out #PanEcho, now in @jama.com

✅ open weights
✅ multiview multitask reporting
✅ international validation
✅ works with POCUS

Amazing effort @cardslab.bsky.social
@giholste.bsky.social @rohankhera.bsky.social

+ @atlaswang.bsky.social, Márton Tokodi & Attila Kovács

#CardioSky #EchoSky
jama.com JAMA @jama.com · Jun 23
An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.

https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"A terrifying imbalance lies at the heart of every doctor-patient relationship: The doctor can ask practically anything about the patient... The patient knows almost nothing about the person in the white coat...” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/w...
Real Doctors of New York Spill Their Guts
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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What. The. Fuq. 😩

My previous #studentloan payment was ~$250. Even though no payment is currently required, I have faithfully made that same payment each month.

But now #Trump has killed my #science 🧪 job options through #NIH cuts and on top he wants a rent note.

How are other trainees coping rn?
May 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Innovation takes time

US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t
https://go.nature.com/44s6cc5
Renewal of NIH grants linked to more innovative results, study finds
Nature - Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.
go.nature.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.
May 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Amazing time at the m AAP/ASCI/APSA meeting with great science and friends!
April 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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🚨The application deadline for the 2025 SGP Excelsior Award is 1 June 2025. Learn more and apply at sgpweb.org/awards/excel...
April 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"American science is the envy of the world, but this global leadership is now threatened by draconian cuts to federal support of biomedical research through the defunding of grants and drastic reductions in funding for essential research costs and infrastructure."
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Contemporary management of HF with improved EF, specifically thoughts on who and when to peel back medical therapies. www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky
Management of Heart Failure With Improved Ejection Fraction: Current Evidence and Controversies
www.jacc.org
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"Those who do not accept vaccination remain susceptible to the infections against which the vaccines were developed, and they serve as vectors for the spread of the infections to unvaccinated individuals"

www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
I put the ‘R’ in the MMR vaccine, and I’m scared that, like measles, rubella could make a comeback under RFK Jr. |Opinion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to make the use of the MMR vaccine voluntary are not only letting loose measles but also will allow mumps and rubella to return to America.
www.inquirer.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Opinion | America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Michael Rockman, MD, PhD
Conduction system pacing: promoting the physiology to prevent HF

Background and Clinical perspectives of HBP and LBBP area in HF
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#HF #CardioSky #CardioEd @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @drrajivsankar.bsky.social @annakatebarton.bsky.social @vietheartpa.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM