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PhiOanh Leia NghiemPhu
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Neuro-Oncologist, Neurologist, NF/SWN-ologist, VC Academic Affairs, IRB Chair | UCLA Neurology/Neuro-Oncology
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leia-n-md.bsky.social PhiOanh Leia NghiemPhu @leia-n-md.bsky.social · Sep 28
Our UCLA Health Brain Tumor Center Annual Conference will be Virtual this year, starting Oct 1st!
FREE to watch and join the LIVE WEBINAR Oct 3rd
#btsm #braintumor #GBM
October 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Our UCLA Health Brain Tumor Center Annual Conference will be Virtual this year, starting Oct 1st!
FREE to watch and join the LIVE WEBINAR Oct 3rd
#btsm #braintumor #GBM
September 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Figures showing deaths from smallpox and polio and cases of measles before and after vaccines were introduced for each respective disease. All three figures show declining rates after vaccine introduction
September 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Trump's demand of $1 billion from UCLA would devastate one of the nation’s best public universities...From medical therapies that save lives to technologies that grow the economy and research that protects our national security, Americans across the country depend on the University of California"
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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‼️Trump's demands of UCLA are far worse than you think.

His demands could result in thousands of trans people outside UCLA losing care, risking lives.

From Poppy Press on Instagram, an independent student-run outlet by UCLA students, reposted with permission
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Trump's demands O UCLA are far worse than you think. A His administration is demanding, among other thingS, ,more than $1 billion from UCLA, a catastrophic end to gender-affirming care at UCLA hospitals, banning of transgender women in women's dorms and women's sports, and an end to all race- and ethnicity-based scholarships. poppypress_. Following ... In an unreleased proposed settlement reviewed by CNN, the Trump administration demanded UCLA pay LS billion to the federal government, and pay p another $172 million to those claiming to be impacted by violations of the employment discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act. This is the largest demand for money_from any. <university, with Brown and Columbia Universities paying $50 million and $221 million respectively. These are also the first major federal demands of a public university. While UCLA is undoubtedly going to attempt to negotiate this amount down, it's a dangerous signal that the Trump administration expects a massive payout and will continue to gut higher education. poppypress_. Following While the numbers themselves are shocking, CNN also reported different elements of the proposed settlement that sound alarms. Some demands that Trump has given to these other universities are presented tenfold in the UCLA proposal, and the effects would be catastrophic. If agreed to, this proposal has terms that would < dleny_the UCLA hospital and medical school from providing_gender-affirming_care. Brown University gave into a demand that it end gender- affirming care to minors; this is a severe escalation, especially considering UCLA's role in providing care to the transgender community across the state and UCLA hospital's leading expertise in gender- affirming surgery. This provision would make it extremely difficult for the transgender population on campus to get the medical care they need. Q poppypress_. Following While the numbers themselves are shocking, CNN also reported different elements of the proposed settlement that sound alarms. Some demands that Trump has given to these other universities are presented tenfold in the UCLA proposal, and the effects would be catastrophic. If agreed to, this proposal has terms that would < dleny_the UCLA hospital and medical school from providing_gender-affirming_care. Brown University gave into a demand that it end gender- affirming care to minors; this is a severe escalation, especially considering UCLA's role in providing care to the transgender community across the state and UCLA hospital's leading expertise in gender- affirming surgery. This provision would make it extremely difficult for the transgender population on campus to get the medical care they need. Q
August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🚨 150 University of California law professors (and counting) have now signed this open letter to the UC Regents and other officials, explaining the flagrant illegality of the Trump Administration’s UCLA funding cut offs, and urging the UC to fight back. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...
Dear President Milliken, Regents, and Governor Newsom, As faculty members of University of California law schools, we endorse Governor Newsom's commitment to resist the Trump Administration's unlawful actions taken against the University of California, Los Angeles. The Governor is on firm legal ground. The Trump Administration's termination and suspension of federal funds has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in numerous ways. Governor Newsom and the University of California Regents will protect the vital interests not only of Californians but of all Americans if they defend the University of California's rights. The U.S. Department of Justice notified UCLA on July 29, 2025, that it had found that UCLA had "violated its obligations under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Chancellor Frenk subsequently announced that "the federal government claims antisemitism and bias as the reasons" for federal grant terminations. UCLA faces losses of at least $584 million, funding that has supported vital research on matters ranging from treatments for pancreatic cancer to advances in online security. The Trump Administration has made no pretense of following the law. Title VI permits a federal agency to terminate funding only if it has found that the particular program receiving that funding has violated the law's non-discrimination provisions. Funding cannot disappear just because the agency's policy or political preferences differ from the institution's. Moreover, the agency can act only after following specific procedural steps. Importantly, Title VI requires a formal administrative hearing—a proceeding much like a trial-before the agency can terminate funding. At the hearing, the agency would have the burden of proving the university's alleged violations of Title VI before an impartial decision-maker. If the agency prevails at the hearing, the university or other interested persons could appea… factually supported and consistent with civil rights laws. Without the steps Title VI requires, there is no protection against an administration alleging discrimination as a pretext to force compliance with its policy or partisan preferences. Title VI's procedures guarantee the constitutional due process requirement that no person can be deprived of liberty or property without fair notice and opportunity to be heard. They protect the university and its members' academic freedom, an endowment essential to scientific research, intellectual discovery, and open debate. We are deeply committed to the core principle of non-discrimination codified in Title VI and in the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. The principle that no person may suffer discrimination because of race, color, or national origin protects equality and ensures fairness in political as well as social life. Allegations of discrimination deserve serious and careful consideration and, where established, effective redress. But this enforcement effort must follow the law. We urge Governor Newsom and the UC Regents to continue to stand up for the fundamental principles of the rule of law, due process, and equal protection. A defense of the University of California's rights in court will model respect for these bedrock principles of equality and fairness, and it will ensure that the government honors them. The Trump Administration's failure to abide by the law subverts these principles by denying the University of California a fair opportunity to contest the government's charges of unlawful discrimination before an impartial decisionmaker. It is precisely because we cherish the principles of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution that we encourage Governor Newsom, the UC Regents, and the University of California to fight back. Through its grantmaking powers, the federal government wields vast influence over social and economic life. If not held to account by the procedural protections enacted by Congres…
August 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Research is central to our department's mission. This week, Dr. Abel spotlights studies ranging from reducing endocrine side effects in cancer immunotherapy to the impact of GLP-1RAs on dementia risk. Read the full newsletter here: uclahs.fyi/4mfULu0
August 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Excited to hear about future options for patients with NF2-Schwannomatosis from my colleague Dr. Jeremie Vitte. #NFConference #endNF #makeNFvisible
June 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Save the Date!
Oct 3-4, 2025
#btsm
#neurofibromatosis
#schwannomatosis
#EndNF 
April 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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@aanmember.bsky.social #NeuroOnc section members say thank you to our outgoing President Dr. Mohile and congrats to our incoming leaders Dr. Peters and Dr. Thomas at #AANAM.
April 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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#NeuroOnc sessions on Last day of #AANAM 2025.
It’s been a great meeting with so many brain heroes!
Looking forward to Chicago next year @aanmember.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Day 4 for #NeuroOnc at #AANAM.
Also come listen to me presenting the first oral abstract (on behalf of the author).
April 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Also catch On Demand if you couldn’t make it to this session which includes great #NeuroOnc imaging pearls at #AANAM.
April 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Day 3 #AANAM for #NeuroOnc
April 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Additional events for #NeuroOnc #AANAM2025 #AANAM
Networking session at Marriott Marquis Balboa Room 5:30pm and meet there after to head to opening party!
leia-n-md.bsky.social PhiOanh Leia NghiemPhu @leia-n-md.bsky.social · Apr 6
@aanmember.bsky.social #NeuroOnc section Day 2 events.

Also networking session at 5:30pm
April 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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@aanmember.bsky.social #NeuroOnc section Day 2 events.

Also networking session at 5:30pm
April 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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📣 Neuro-Onc Highlight for 4/5 Sat at #AANAM2025

12-2pm
Neuro Complications of Checkpoint Inhibitor (SDCC 25B & Online)
@aanmember.bsky.social #neuroonc #btsm
April 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The CDC's reported hire for a new vaccine study is a discredited misinformation agent
Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services Department is attempting to revive the debunked autism-vaccine link.
www.msnbc.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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This is horrifyingly correct.
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers .bsky.social). The post reads: "I learned this week that you can put our troops’ lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn’t like, you will be abducted on the street and disappear."
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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March 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This is just so embarrassing. The NIH rescinded a policy on SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY to be more aligned with this administration's idiocy. #medsky #saveourscience
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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March 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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It took detaining a white Canadian woman for the public to get a glimpse into ICE detention. The stories she tells—of her dehumanizing experience & that of so many other women—are horrifying.

This is America. Not new to this administration, just ramped up.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Today is a sad day for #NF research. Facing budget cut, the CDMRP has cut funding to the NF program. I was proud to be a part in bringing a drug to approval for #NF1 but it couldn’t have been done without this support. It’s still the top “latest news” on the CDMRP website.
Screenshot of CDMRP website showing latest news
March 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated
March 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM