11/13/2025
Just reviewed this interesting paper for publication. I’m on the editorial panel for several top journals, which is an honor because I’m helping to determine which papers get published and which don’t. So I’m serving as a “gatekeeper” for what gets into the literature, and what doesn’t because it doesn’t look “real” or is unimportant. I wish Robert Kennedy Jr had more of a scientific background, because him & Trump saying vaccines or Tylenol causes autism is really junk science😱I’m also submitting my own research about the new Pneumo-LASEK technique that I invented 3 years ago with one of my premed interns & medical students. It’s very gratifying knowing that I’m contributing to the advancement of my field, and we’re all suitably proud, because most doctors never publish anything in their lifetime, because they’re followers, not leaders. I got this desire from my dad, who was Chief of Neuroradiology at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital & Clinical Professor of Radiology at Columbia Medical School, where I got my MD. I had the pleasure of publishing a paper with my father in the journal Radiology 30 years ago. We also started the Chynn Family Foundation together, and donated $100,000 to sponsor an award in perpetuity for radiology research at Columbia, and another $100,000 for a similar perpetual award with RSNA, Radiological Society of North America. Those awards will be part of dad’s legacy forever. And I suppose in some way, everything I’ve accomplished in medicine is also part of that legacy