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David Helfer

@DavidHelfer21

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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Tragic racial disparities impact survival from cardiac arrest. Important & beautifully written opinion piece from one our #emergencymedicine residents lays it out clearly: inquirer.com/opinion/comment… #CPR #damarhamlin @UPennEM @PennMedNews @PennMDForum @PennMedEVDCSO @ResusOne @JohnGreenwoodMD #disparities
Damar Hamlin shows the importance of CPR. Due to disparities, his outcome isn’t the norm. | Expert...

Damar Hamlin shows the importance of CPR. Due to disparities, his outcome isn’t the norm. | Expert...

I am a resident physician in West Philadelphia, and most of the patients I see who make a full recovery after cardiac arrest have been white. We can do more to erase these disparities.

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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!
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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
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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
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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
NM lung transplant team at work on Thanksgiving.

ALT NM lung transplant team at work on Thanksgiving.

COVID lungs

ALT COVID lungs

New beautiful lungs

ALT New beautiful lungs

Our off-hour thanksgiving meal at work.

ALT Our off-hour thanksgiving meal at work.

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.@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 wmar2news.com/news/local-new…
Facebook leads to organ donation

Facebook leads to organ donation

It was a lifesaving change for Rachel Rockwell.

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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 A thread
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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
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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
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I had a professor who always talked about "the necessity of existence." Basically, some things should be created just so that thing will exist in the world. So here's a thread to RT anytime some1 responds to #BlackLivesMatter with "but black on black crime" like this yahoo.
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Holy shit this Ben & Jerry's statement. benjerry.com/about-us/media-…
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@mentnelson30 May 2020
The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He’s verbalizing what a lot of us don’t know how to express
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We need your help to develop COVID19 testing in disadvantaged communities in #Philly - see link below to join us in the #COVID19 research effort! All donations directly support our Penn COVID19 team - givingpages.upenn.edu/CRSCor…
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Thanks for the opportunity @MSNBC - glad to be part of the huge team effort at @PennMedicine @PennMedEVDCSO working round the clock to apply rigorous research to this pandemic! @zacharymeisel @PennCECPR
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"We need to do rigorous science and that takes effort and that takes some time, but it's essential if we are going to say if a therapy works or doesn't work." #ICYMI: @BenjaminAbella spoke w/ @MSNBC about a new trial to test the efficacy of #hydroxychoroquine against #COVID19.
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#MSNBC cut out the clips of @Barbara_Biney and I but we are still happy dancing in the ED because we are SO proud of our PI! #PennPATCH
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Penn Medicine ⁦@PennMedicine⁩ what we do best! Treating patients with extraordinary care while advancing science and creating new treatment techniques. I am inspired by Our faculty everyday! pennmedicine.org/news/news-r…
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10/ Finally, if you’re still not motivated to limit social contact to #FlattenTheCurve, just know that there are thousands of EMS personnel, ER docs, nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, and housekeepers fighting #COVID19 and some of them will lose their lives doing their job
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Letter in @JAMAOto discussing medical student engagement in global surgery efforts with Dr. Trinidad and Dr. Zhang, Director of Global Surgery @MountSinaiNYC, in response to great viewpoint by Dr. Shaye jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Interesting read on GOT and why it wasn’t just the bad writing that threw us off. blogs.scientificamerican.com…
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New paper in @JAMAOto with investigators from @JHSPH_Hearing demonstrating hearing loss research on older adults lags behind that of children @JenniferADeal @DrFrankRLin ja.ma/2FUE5XN
Hearing Loss Research on Children Compared With Older Adults

Hearing Loss Research on Children Compared With Older Adults

This database study assesses areas of research on hearing loss in children and older adults.

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