med student, husband, dad, food lover, recovering a cappella nerd | MS-III @PennMedicine | Former CRC @ERGOT_JH | Alumnus of @JohnsHopkins & @HKIS
Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2016
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David Helfer retweeted
Tragic racial disparities impact survival from cardiac arrest.
Important & beautifully written opinion piece from one our #emergencymedicine residents lays it out clearly:
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#CPR #damarhamlin @UPennEM @PennMedNews @PennMDForum @PennMedEVDCSO @ResusOne @JohnGreenwoodMD #disparities
Heat is on to 90 degrees. Every door automatically opens from 10 ft away. The wall paper smells like soap. The front desk called me “Honey”. And there’s a Lipitor clock on the wall…Tell me you’re in Geriatrics clinic without telling me. 🤪🙂
Good luck to all those Matching today!! Wishing for the best 😀🚀
It’s Match Day!!! The excitement is building!!! Check back at NOON! 💙❤️#PSOMclassof2022💙❤️@PennMedicine
David Helfer retweeted
Today “officially” marks @AndrewMCameron 1st day as our director. Dr. Cameron has been with us for 15 years, attended medical school @JohnsHopkins & was even born at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. We’re excited to move forward with Dr. Cameron at the helm!
Our new research paper just hit the PubMeds!
Pre-arrest chest pain is strongly associated with the need for PCI after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Take a read 🤓😃
Hot off the press: new paper suggests pre-arrest chest pain is strongly associated with need for post-arrest coronary intervention.
EMS & EM friends: are we asking family "did they have chest pain before they collapsed?"
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@tbouthillet @kurzmc @ritty_pcas_md
An elegant display of humility and humanism, thank you Dr. Chaudhri for sharing with us your illness journey. Your message and wisdom lives on.
Thank you all.
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Hey we’re the new med students…Could someone show us the room where we can keep our bikes? @DGlaucomflecken @jackson_bowers #EMclerkship Day 1
David Helfer retweeted
congrats to MS2 David Helfer - fantastic presentation at @UPennEM research day! One of 4 #PSOM medical students presenting today - the future looks bright.
@DavidHelfer21 @CharlotteTisch @isabellesmullen @PennMDForum @PennMedEVDCSO
Not everyday you see a starting pitcher throw 101mph and hit a 450ft HR in the same inning! youtu.be/axoZha_zhEk
David Helfer retweeted
Emergency department visits declined significantly at the start of the #COVID19 pandemic📉 New research led by @PennLDI's Neil Ray, @AriBFriedman (@UPennEM) & @GuyDavid_HE (@Wharton) sheds light on who stayed home & what kinds of care they deferred bit.ly/3cKgMi7
David Helfer retweeted
A Thanksgiving gift for a critically ill man with #covid who got new lungs after ~5 tough months on #ecmo, longest in the world. Our off-hour thanksgiving meal at work to celebrate his courage and the success of 13 grueling hours. @SamKimMD @NMSurgery @NorthwesternMed
ALT NM lung transplant team at work on Thanksgiving.
ALT COVID lungs
ALT New beautiful lungs
ALT Our off-hour thanksgiving meal at work.
David Helfer retweeted
.@HopkinsMedicine surgeon Andrew Cameron and his team performed a life-altering liver transplant on a patient who connected with her donor via Facebook. @hopkinssurgery @WMAR2News
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David Helfer retweeted
Today was a very, very odd day
I testified before @senatehomeland
They held a hearing on hydroxychloroquine.
Yup, HCQ
In the middle of the worst surge of pandemic
HCQ
It was clear how our information architecture shapes questions of science and medicine of COVID
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David Helfer retweeted
I'm left pondering a quote from @barackobama
An idea any American, liberal or conservative, would understand
"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false... the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work"
Fin
David Helfer retweeted
MASKS WORK. Fresh data from Vanderbilt here are powerful. Chart shows growth in #COVID19 cases from Tennessee counties with or without mask mandates #MasksSaveLives #ScienceMatters #publichealth @PennCECPR @meganranney @jeremyfaust @choo_ek
Hey #MedTwitter you’re invited to join in the @PennPGSG discussion of “Ethical Issues in #GlobalSurgery” hosted by Dr Jordan Swanson (Peds plastic surgery). 10/26@12pm EST. *DM for meeting link.*
Working on an important COVID clinical trial in the midst of the pandemic has been one of my coolest research experiences to date! Check out our results.
Spoiler: #Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis doesn't prevent infection from #COVID19
First published pre-exposure prophylaxis for #COVID19 using #hydroxychloroquine now published in @JAMAInternalMed - thanks @AmaravadiRavi @Barbara_Biney @ElianaJolkovsky @PennMedicine @PennMedEVDCSO @PennMedNews and team! Details at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Great to see our PI @AmaravadiRavi following up Dr. Fauci’s keynote address to present our results at the @PennMedicine COVID update
