Damian Borbolla
@dborbolla.bsky.social
Health Informatics, Digital Health, Medication Decision Support
🇦🇷 living in Utah
Posting in English or Spanish depending on the need
🇦🇷 living in Utah
Posting in English or Spanish depending on the need
@billhersh.bsky.social is another great example…. he’s practically the king of volunteers @amia.org He has contributed immensely to the organization over the 40 years he has been participating on the conference.
#amia2025
#amia2025
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@billhersh.bsky.social is another great example…. he’s practically the king of volunteers @amia.org He has contributed immensely to the organization over the 40 years he has been participating on the conference.
#amia2025
#amia2025
For example, @smcgrath.phd began as a student working group member, which led him to become a working group chair. That experience opened major professional opportunities for him and unlocked new leadership roles within AMIA too!
#amia2025
#amia2025
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
For example, @smcgrath.phd began as a student working group member, which led him to become a working group chair. That experience opened major professional opportunities for him and unlocked new leadership roles within AMIA too!
#amia2025
#amia2025
Interested in leadership opportunities at AMIA?
AMIA offers over 1,000 volunteer roles across the organization, and we’ve built clear pathways to help you grow into leadership positions.
come get involved and make an impact!
#amia2025
AMIA offers over 1,000 volunteer roles across the organization, and we’ve built clear pathways to help you grow into leadership positions.
come get involved and make an impact!
#amia2025
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Interested in leadership opportunities at AMIA?
AMIA offers over 1,000 volunteer roles across the organization, and we’ve built clear pathways to help you grow into leadership positions.
come get involved and make an impact!
#amia2025
AMIA offers over 1,000 volunteer roles across the organization, and we’ve built clear pathways to help you grow into leadership positions.
come get involved and make an impact!
#amia2025
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Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
March 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
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A study led by a University of Utah professor shows increased immigration enforcement would slow down construction, increase home prices and could even reduce job opportunities.
Mass deportation negatively impacts housing availability, affordability, jobs, Utah study says
A study led by a University of Utah professor shows increased immigration enforcement would slow down construction, increase home prices and could even reduce job opportunities.
www.ksl.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A study led by a University of Utah professor shows increased immigration enforcement would slow down construction, increase home prices and could even reduce job opportunities.
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When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10%
Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made.
I think it’s worth it.
Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made.
I think it’s worth it.
February 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10%
Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made.
I think it’s worth it.
Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made.
I think it’s worth it.
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
Strongly disagree. Health Informatics has been training professionals in this space for over 50 years, with established certifications, accreditation requirements, conferences, and professional organizations. Let’s unify efforts!
Our essay today @jama.com for why we should develop a Master of Digital Health (MDH) degree
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Advocating for a Master of Digital Health Degree
This Viewpoint discusses the need for the establishment of a standardized Master of Digital Health (MDH) degree, modeled after the well-known, time-tested Master of Public Health degree, which has a w...
jamanetwork.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Strongly disagree. Health Informatics has been training professionals in this space for over 50 years, with established certifications, accreditation requirements, conferences, and professional organizations. Let’s unify efforts!
Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat.
Important and timely editorial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Important and timely editorial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Health in the age of disinformation
Health misinformation (false or misleading data shared unintentionally) and disinformation
(deliberately deceptive information) are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic marked
a turning point. The sense...
www.thelancet.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat.
Important and timely editorial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Important and timely editorial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Americans spend much less time socializing today compared to 20 years ago — perhaps a driver of discontent in the US.
A notable exception is the rich, whose decline is miniscule compared to every other group.
cc:@dkthomp.bsky.social
A notable exception is the rich, whose decline is miniscule compared to every other group.
cc:@dkthomp.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Americans spend much less time socializing today compared to 20 years ago — perhaps a driver of discontent in the US.
A notable exception is the rich, whose decline is miniscule compared to every other group.
cc:@dkthomp.bsky.social
A notable exception is the rich, whose decline is miniscule compared to every other group.
cc:@dkthomp.bsky.social
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Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
scim.ag
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
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🔬 Harvard Medical School Postdoc in AI & Computational Health
Join CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital to advance healthcare with multimodal data—clinical, molecular, environmental, and more.
🌟 Be part of the future of medicine. Apply now:
www.chip.org/training/nih...
Join CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital to advance healthcare with multimodal data—clinical, molecular, environmental, and more.
🌟 Be part of the future of medicine. Apply now:
www.chip.org/training/nih...
NIH-funded Harvard Medical School Postdoc in AI | Chip
Build your research career in computational health at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital. CHIP, the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard ...
www.chip.org
December 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM
🔬 Harvard Medical School Postdoc in AI & Computational Health
Join CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital to advance healthcare with multimodal data—clinical, molecular, environmental, and more.
🌟 Be part of the future of medicine. Apply now:
www.chip.org/training/nih...
Join CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital to advance healthcare with multimodal data—clinical, molecular, environmental, and more.
🌟 Be part of the future of medicine. Apply now:
www.chip.org/training/nih...
Physician burnout, clinician turnover, stress, workload and emotional exhaustion are all too common in today’s medical practice
Opinion: “It’s too late for our William, but we know that people can recover from suicidal ideation. There is hope, and some of us have come out on the other side of this.
“I want to honor his wishes by pushing for change.”
“I want to honor his wishes by pushing for change.”
Voices: My son died by suicide while in his medical residency. We must work together to create a health care system that values its caregivers.
“Losing William has left a hole in our family that will never be filled. But by pushing for change, we can ensure that his life sparks a transformation that saves others. We owe it to those who care f...
www.sltrib.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Physician burnout, clinician turnover, stress, workload and emotional exhaustion are all too common in today’s medical practice
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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a cabinet choice. nyti.ms/41uQueD
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 AM
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a cabinet choice. nyti.ms/41uQueD
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Trump says RFK Jr will “investigate” the link between vaccines and autism as “somebody needs to find out.”
We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT
- >600,000 kids in Denmark
- >90,000 in the US
- >1.2m kids worldwide
NO LINK.
How many more of these does he want us to do?
We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT
- >600,000 kids in Denmark
- >90,000 in the US
- >1.2m kids worldwide
NO LINK.
How many more of these does he want us to do?
December 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Trump says RFK Jr will “investigate” the link between vaccines and autism as “somebody needs to find out.”
We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT
- >600,000 kids in Denmark
- >90,000 in the US
- >1.2m kids worldwide
NO LINK.
How many more of these does he want us to do?
We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT
- >600,000 kids in Denmark
- >90,000 in the US
- >1.2m kids worldwide
NO LINK.
How many more of these does he want us to do?
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Not every day a leading US academic health system partners with @costplusdrugs.com, bypassing PBMs, to save drug costs for their patients
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
Penn Medicine partners with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs
Penn Medicine has partnered with Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company through its innovative Cost Plus Marketplace in a strategic alliance that will allow Penn Medicine to secure the top 100 most frequ...
www.pennmedicine.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Not every day a leading US academic health system partners with @costplusdrugs.com, bypassing PBMs, to save drug costs for their patients
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
One of the greatest strengths of the U.S. is its innovation and breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology. Eliminating the NIH would be a catastrophic mistake
Eliminating the NIH would eliminate essentially all biomedical research in the US. And this effects not only blue states like ours, but also red states like Texas, Alabama, and Florida whose academic medical centers get a lot of that funding.
December 7, 2024 at 1:28 AM
One of the greatest strengths of the U.S. is its innovation and breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology. Eliminating the NIH would be a catastrophic mistake
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Imagine the 2034 Olympic Games with no snow on the ground and air pollution. A great way to showcase Utah to the world! I see zero urgency to address this issue (for the games or otherwise).
Circling around the beautiful skies of Salt Lake City!
/s — inversion is horrible right now.
/s — inversion is horrible right now.
December 6, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Imagine the 2034 Olympic Games with no snow on the ground and air pollution. A great way to showcase Utah to the world! I see zero urgency to address this issue (for the games or otherwise).
Add this to #UTleg plans to cut the higher education budget by 10%
☠️☠️☠️
☠️☠️☠️
So Musk and Ramaswamy want to cut
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Add this to #UTleg plans to cut the higher education budget by 10%
☠️☠️☠️
☠️☠️☠️
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If you live in Utah and hate the inversion, here are the sources. And you probably guessed it right: cars are the biggest source of pollution, followed by buildings. Transit and heat pumps are the most sensible solutions. If you care, please consider contacting your state legislators.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 AM
If you live in Utah and hate the inversion, here are the sources. And you probably guessed it right: cars are the biggest source of pollution, followed by buildings. Transit and heat pumps are the most sensible solutions. If you care, please consider contacting your state legislators.
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📢 Deadline Extension 📢
Need more time to finish your submission? Good news, we're giving you another month to write your stories about #CDS failures for this ACI Special Topic! @pediatriccds.org
📅 Deadline: Jan 2, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48ngTfg
Need more time to finish your submission? Good news, we're giving you another month to write your stories about #CDS failures for this ACI Special Topic! @pediatriccds.org
📅 Deadline: Jan 2, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48ngTfg
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 PM
📢 Deadline Extension 📢
Need more time to finish your submission? Good news, we're giving you another month to write your stories about #CDS failures for this ACI Special Topic! @pediatriccds.org
📅 Deadline: Jan 2, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48ngTfg
Need more time to finish your submission? Good news, we're giving you another month to write your stories about #CDS failures for this ACI Special Topic! @pediatriccds.org
📅 Deadline: Jan 2, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48ngTfg
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Additional great news for @bsky.app!
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD
Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:
We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!
We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.
Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.
Let's get into it!
Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:
We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!
We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.
Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.
Let's get into it!
December 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Additional great news for @bsky.app!