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Tejas Sekhar

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As seen in: Wiley Online Library, St. Louis Business Journal, Healio, KevinMD.com, Daily Northwestern, The Podcast by KevinMD
Covers:  Healthcare policy & reform, technology & innovation, arts & culture, and social equity. Constantly thinking about how we can collectively be better!
MS3 @RushUMedCollege #Ophthalmology

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Tejas Sekhar’s Journalist Portfolio

An Examination of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Based on Classroom Distancing in Schools

An Examination of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Based on Classroom Distancing in Schools

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2022 Graduate Research Symposium

2022 Graduate Research Symposium

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Crowdsourced Assessment of Surgical Skill Proficiency in Cataract Surgery

Crowdsourced Assessment of Surgical Skill Proficiency in Cataract Surgery

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Rethinking nutrition policy on ultra-processed food

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By Hana Kahleova, Divya Srinivasan, Tejas Sekhar
| KevinMD.com
For more than a decade, the phrase “ultra-processed food” has functioned as nutritional shorthand for danger, a dietary villain blamed for rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The public message has been simple: If it is ultra-processed, avoid it. But science is rarely that simple.
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Why dietary advice changes: It is not the food, it is the world

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By Gerald Kuo, Monique Potvin Kent, Divya Srinivasan, Tejas Sekhar
| KevinMD.com
We owe patients a better explanation about food. The food didn’t change. The world did, and our guidelines followed. For many patients, dietary advice feels less like science and more like whiplash. Their breakfast looks the same. Their milk is the same. Their daily habits are exactly where they left them. What shifts, sometimes violently, is the label we attach to it: healthy, unhealthy, recommended, discouraged.
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Scientific literacy in nutrition: How to read food labels

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By M. Bennet Broner, Monique Potvin Kent, Divya Srinivasan, Tejas Sekhar
| KevinMD.com
Dr. Andrea Love wrote about the lack of basic scientific knowledge among the public, noting that only about 28 percent of people possess it. She highlighted the consequences of this, emphasizing how it can negatively affect people’s decisions and lives. Many of the articles I have written have dealt with scientific knowledge in one form or another.
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