Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH
@blaneymd.medsky.social
Mom | Outdoor Enthusiast | Humanist |Hepato-centric | Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease | Transplant Hepatology Fellow I Liver Fellow Network Co-Lead Fellow | #liversky
An important message on naltrexone in patients with liver disease:
✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver.
🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver.
We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD!
@nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver.
🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver.
We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD!
@nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An important message on naltrexone in patients with liver disease:
✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver.
🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver.
We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD!
@nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
✅Naltrexone can help reduce alcohol use without harming the liver.
🚫Alcohol DOES harm the liver.
We do not need any more barriers to treat patients with AUD➕ALD!
@nejm.org @ebtapper.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
In an epidemic of alcohol-use disorder, alcohol-associated liver disease, and cancers driven partially by 🥂🍸🍺, click-bait headlines like these are extremely harmful for population health.
Let’s do better for our patients and public health.
@theguardian.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com
Let’s do better for our patients and public health.
@theguardian.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In an epidemic of alcohol-use disorder, alcohol-associated liver disease, and cancers driven partially by 🥂🍸🍺, click-bait headlines like these are extremely harmful for population health.
Let’s do better for our patients and public health.
@theguardian.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com
Let’s do better for our patients and public health.
@theguardian.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com
When did the hotel mini-bar get not-so-mini?!
As an alcohol-associated liver disease focused hepatologist, this trend is very concerning!
As an alcohol-associated liver disease focused hepatologist, this trend is very concerning!
May 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
When did the hotel mini-bar get not-so-mini?!
As an alcohol-associated liver disease focused hepatologist, this trend is very concerning!
As an alcohol-associated liver disease focused hepatologist, this trend is very concerning!
Home *slightly* early on this gorgeous Friday afternoon for some light reading with my 12.3 lb besties on enteral feeding in hospitalized patients. @nejm.org
This is the life!
@GISky @liversky @medsky
This is the life!
@GISky @liversky @medsky
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Home *slightly* early on this gorgeous Friday afternoon for some light reading with my 12.3 lb besties on enteral feeding in hospitalized patients. @nejm.org
This is the life!
@GISky @liversky @medsky
This is the life!
@GISky @liversky @medsky
“DEI and proud” “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare”
Happy to be in NYC and supporting ReelAbilities Comedy Night
Happy to be in NYC and supporting ReelAbilities Comedy Night
April 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“DEI and proud” “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare”
Happy to be in NYC and supporting ReelAbilities Comedy Night
Happy to be in NYC and supporting ReelAbilities Comedy Night
Naltrexone in 🍷🍸🍺-associated liver disease
✅ Overall, safe for treatment of alcohol use disorder in this population
Black box warning for chronic liver disease was REMOVED in 2013: 🚫 evidence of harm
🔑 Alcohol causes harm to the liver, naltrexone does NOT
Slides: #ALD-ALLY Lamia Haque #liversky
✅ Overall, safe for treatment of alcohol use disorder in this population
Black box warning for chronic liver disease was REMOVED in 2013: 🚫 evidence of harm
🔑 Alcohol causes harm to the liver, naltrexone does NOT
Slides: #ALD-ALLY Lamia Haque #liversky
April 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This picture reminds me how I have always been extremely goal oriented
(Also: So much fun to share this with my mini-me. Bonus: my dad teaching my son how to aim as well as fly fish in high desert streams!)
(Also: So much fun to share this with my mini-me. Bonus: my dad teaching my son how to aim as well as fly fish in high desert streams!)
March 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This picture reminds me how I have always been extremely goal oriented
(Also: So much fun to share this with my mini-me. Bonus: my dad teaching my son how to aim as well as fly fish in high desert streams!)
(Also: So much fun to share this with my mini-me. Bonus: my dad teaching my son how to aim as well as fly fish in high desert streams!)
Really liking this trend of puppies, especially given everything else going on with the world and science. Her is mine when she was a pup! Now is a ~13lbs.
March 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Really liking this trend of puppies, especially given everything else going on with the world and science. Her is mine when she was a pup! Now is a ~13lbs.
Amazing #liversky conference by @aasldnews.bsky.social @juanpabloarab.bsky.social + Mazen Noureddin on alcohol-associated liver disease and MetALD. So many great minds working in this area to improve our patients’ lives. Always 👌 time to be a Hepatologist! @vinayjaha.bsky.social #medsky #academicsky
March 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Amazing #liversky conference by @aasldnews.bsky.social @juanpabloarab.bsky.social + Mazen Noureddin on alcohol-associated liver disease and MetALD. So many great minds working in this area to improve our patients’ lives. Always 👌 time to be a Hepatologist! @vinayjaha.bsky.social #medsky #academicsky
FANTASTIC presentation by phenomenal patient advocate Jennifer Jones. Hearing from patients about their experience moving through our system is 👀. 👏
We need to take every opportunity to diagnose liver disease AND we need to continue to work on stigma: language matters!
@juanpabloarab.bsky.social
We need to take every opportunity to diagnose liver disease AND we need to continue to work on stigma: language matters!
@juanpabloarab.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
FANTASTIC presentation by phenomenal patient advocate Jennifer Jones. Hearing from patients about their experience moving through our system is 👀. 👏
We need to take every opportunity to diagnose liver disease AND we need to continue to work on stigma: language matters!
@juanpabloarab.bsky.social
We need to take every opportunity to diagnose liver disease AND we need to continue to work on stigma: language matters!
@juanpabloarab.bsky.social
Wonderful to present my project on prevalence of ceruloplasmin in patients with alcohol-use disorder @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
January 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wonderful to present my project on prevalence of ceruloplasmin in patients with alcohol-use disorder @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
Excellent talk by @luisantoniodiaz.bsky.social on public health policies and MASLD/outcomes 👌
✅ Policies on healthy eating, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are associated with improved outcomes and should be prioritized
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
✅ Policies on healthy eating, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are associated with improved outcomes and should be prioritized
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Excellent talk by @luisantoniodiaz.bsky.social on public health policies and MASLD/outcomes 👌
✅ Policies on healthy eating, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are associated with improved outcomes and should be prioritized
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
✅ Policies on healthy eating, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are associated with improved outcomes and should be prioritized
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
And some excellent slides from a 👌 Shira Zelber-Saga
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And some excellent slides from a 👌 Shira Zelber-Saga
From Dr Frank Murray:
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
January 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
From Dr Frank Murray:
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
From Dr Frank Murray:
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
January 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
From Dr Frank Murray:
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
♦️Alcohol is a major global problem ➡️ years of life lost
♦️⚠️Labels—cancer risk!
♦️Need for public health interventions: 🚫 ads, ⬆️ price, tax, implement POLICIES
♦️Challenges: powerful 🍸 lobbies
✅We need to 📣 for evidence-based policies!
@easlnews.bsky.social #liversky #SLDSummit
🔹Lots of hormone dysregulation in SLD, especially insulin and glucagon
🔹Gut hormones play important roles (GLP, GIP)
🔹Thyroid hormones are also implicated
🔹Lots of drug targets with an exciting future ahead for patients with MASLD!
@easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit #liversky
🔹Gut hormones play important roles (GLP, GIP)
🔹Thyroid hormones are also implicated
🔹Lots of drug targets with an exciting future ahead for patients with MASLD!
@easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit #liversky
January 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🔹Lots of hormone dysregulation in SLD, especially insulin and glucagon
🔹Gut hormones play important roles (GLP, GIP)
🔹Thyroid hormones are also implicated
🔹Lots of drug targets with an exciting future ahead for patients with MASLD!
@easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit #liversky
🔹Gut hormones play important roles (GLP, GIP)
🔹Thyroid hormones are also implicated
🔹Lots of drug targets with an exciting future ahead for patients with MASLD!
@easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit #liversky
🔸Associated with abnormal glucose tolerance/development of DM
🔸These 🧒 need to be followed for progression/development of MASLD
🔸Associated w/ cardiac risks, long term morbidity and mortality
🔸Differences from MASLD in 🧒 vs 🧑
🔸Need prevention, earlier screening, and treatment for peds MASLD
🔸These 🧒 need to be followed for progression/development of MASLD
🔸Associated w/ cardiac risks, long term morbidity and mortality
🔸Differences from MASLD in 🧒 vs 🧑
🔸Need prevention, earlier screening, and treatment for peds MASLD
January 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🔸Associated with abnormal glucose tolerance/development of DM
🔸These 🧒 need to be followed for progression/development of MASLD
🔸Associated w/ cardiac risks, long term morbidity and mortality
🔸Differences from MASLD in 🧒 vs 🧑
🔸Need prevention, earlier screening, and treatment for peds MASLD
🔸These 🧒 need to be followed for progression/development of MASLD
🔸Associated w/ cardiac risks, long term morbidity and mortality
🔸Differences from MASLD in 🧒 vs 🧑
🔸Need prevention, earlier screening, and treatment for peds MASLD
🔸MASLD is 📈 in pediatrics
🔸Not all steatosis in 🧒 is MASLD (inborn errors of metabolism)
🔸Gestational DM, PNPLA3, parental obesity ⬆️ risk, w/ PNPLA3 associated w/ advanced fibrosis risk
🔸🚫 fructose🥤
🔸⬆️BMI in 🧒 🔀 cirrhosis/HCC as 🧑
#liversky #pediatricsky #medsky @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
🔸Not all steatosis in 🧒 is MASLD (inborn errors of metabolism)
🔸Gestational DM, PNPLA3, parental obesity ⬆️ risk, w/ PNPLA3 associated w/ advanced fibrosis risk
🔸🚫 fructose🥤
🔸⬆️BMI in 🧒 🔀 cirrhosis/HCC as 🧑
#liversky #pediatricsky #medsky @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
January 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🔸MASLD is 📈 in pediatrics
🔸Not all steatosis in 🧒 is MASLD (inborn errors of metabolism)
🔸Gestational DM, PNPLA3, parental obesity ⬆️ risk, w/ PNPLA3 associated w/ advanced fibrosis risk
🔸🚫 fructose🥤
🔸⬆️BMI in 🧒 🔀 cirrhosis/HCC as 🧑
#liversky #pediatricsky #medsky @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
🔸Not all steatosis in 🧒 is MASLD (inborn errors of metabolism)
🔸Gestational DM, PNPLA3, parental obesity ⬆️ risk, w/ PNPLA3 associated w/ advanced fibrosis risk
🔸🚫 fructose🥤
🔸⬆️BMI in 🧒 🔀 cirrhosis/HCC as 🧑
#liversky #pediatricsky #medsky @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
👌 talk on extraheatic complications of MASLD
MASLD & metabolic disease are 🔗, w/📈 severity of MASLD correlates w/ severity of metabolic disease & MACE.
Both 🔗 & causality: patients w/ MASLD have different phenotypes w/ implications for treatment and personalized medicine #liversky #SLDSummit
MASLD & metabolic disease are 🔗, w/📈 severity of MASLD correlates w/ severity of metabolic disease & MACE.
Both 🔗 & causality: patients w/ MASLD have different phenotypes w/ implications for treatment and personalized medicine #liversky #SLDSummit
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
👌 talk on extraheatic complications of MASLD
MASLD & metabolic disease are 🔗, w/📈 severity of MASLD correlates w/ severity of metabolic disease & MACE.
Both 🔗 & causality: patients w/ MASLD have different phenotypes w/ implications for treatment and personalized medicine #liversky #SLDSummit
MASLD & metabolic disease are 🔗, w/📈 severity of MASLD correlates w/ severity of metabolic disease & MACE.
Both 🔗 & causality: patients w/ MASLD have different phenotypes w/ implications for treatment and personalized medicine #liversky #SLDSummit
In other non #liversky #medsky news, my sister’s film (non-profit producer Shine Global) was nominated for an Oscar! It will be coming out on @netflix.com soon! Her production company focuses on issues facing children, with all profits donated to NGOs supporting kids! 👏
January 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
In other non #liversky #medsky news, my sister’s film (non-profit producer Shine Global) was nominated for an Oscar! It will be coming out on @netflix.com soon! Her production company focuses on issues facing children, with all profits donated to NGOs supporting kids! 👏
Fantastic day of learning from the best of the best of #liversky with @luisantoniodiaz.bsky.social @majathiele.bsky.social @juanpabloarab.bsky.social and many more @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
January 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Fantastic day of learning from the best of the best of #liversky with @luisantoniodiaz.bsky.social @majathiele.bsky.social @juanpabloarab.bsky.social and many more @easlnews.bsky.social #SLDSummit
Excellent talk by THE @majathiele.bsky.social on finding fibrosis in the population.
🔑 Find the patients where they are and use the tests that you have at hand
#SLDSummit @easlnews.bsky.social
🔑 Find the patients where they are and use the tests that you have at hand
#SLDSummit @easlnews.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Excellent talk by THE @majathiele.bsky.social on finding fibrosis in the population.
🔑 Find the patients where they are and use the tests that you have at hand
#SLDSummit @easlnews.bsky.social
🔑 Find the patients where they are and use the tests that you have at hand
#SLDSummit @easlnews.bsky.social
Dear BlueSky: Contemplating a European move (if only)
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Dear BlueSky: Contemplating a European move (if only)
