Erick Forno, MD MPH
@efornomd.medsky.social
Peds pulmonologist. Asthma epi & genomics research. Vice-chair for clinical research IUSM DOP. (Opinions = own ≠ advice. Repost ≠ endorse) 🩺🫁🏳️🌈
#Medsky #Pulmsky #Pedsky #PedsPulmSky
#Medsky #Pulmsky #Pedsky #PedsPulmSky
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Big news from Al and Viola! Registration for #ATS2026 opens the week of Jan. 11, 2026. For more information, check out conference.thoracic.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Big news from Al and Viola! Registration for #ATS2026 opens the week of Jan. 11, 2026. For more information, check out conference.thoracic.org
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In this uncertain funding environment, your donation to the ATS is more critical than ever. The progress made in understanding, preventing, and treating lung disease depends on consistent investment. Every dollar advances lifesaving research.
Donate now: aeugmntn.donorsupport.co/page/Respira...
Donate now: aeugmntn.donorsupport.co/page/Respira...
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In this uncertain funding environment, your donation to the ATS is more critical than ever. The progress made in understanding, preventing, and treating lung disease depends on consistent investment. Every dollar advances lifesaving research.
Donate now: aeugmntn.donorsupport.co/page/Respira...
Donate now: aeugmntn.donorsupport.co/page/Respira...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? ⏰ be sure to register for this webinar: Managing your Time and Maximizing your Efficiency 💪🏻 @ats-assemblies.bsky.social @atsearlycareer.bsky.social
site.thoracic.org/events/manag...
site.thoracic.org/events/manag...
American Thoracic Society | Managing Your Time and Maximizing Your…
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
site.thoracic.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? ⏰ be sure to register for this webinar: Managing your Time and Maximizing your Efficiency 💪🏻 @ats-assemblies.bsky.social @atsearlycareer.bsky.social
site.thoracic.org/events/manag...
site.thoracic.org/events/manag...
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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It’s Fellowship Match Day!
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s Fellowship Match Day!
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“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
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Medicaid paid for 48% of pediatric hospitalizations and 51% of total hospital charges; pending funding cuts could strain health systems, especially in rural communities that rely heavily on Medicaid support. ja.ma/43Z3QAv
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Medicaid paid for 48% of pediatric hospitalizations and 51% of total hospital charges; pending funding cuts could strain health systems, especially in rural communities that rely heavily on Medicaid support. ja.ma/43Z3QAv
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The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
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Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.
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📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly.
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
2026 Call for Nominations - Assembly Leadership Elections
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September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly.
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!
Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!
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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
July 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
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Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo...
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
Bronchopulmonary Tree
Bronchopulmonary Tree - The Academic Genealogy of Pediatric Pulmonology
academictree.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo...
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)
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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk”
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
CHA Statement on Trump Administration Proposed Budget That Eliminates CHGME
Children’s hospitals urge greater investment in pediatric health care training.
www.childrenshospitals.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk”
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
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The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
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🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…
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If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
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Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Universities and the government: Which needs the other more?
From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...