Endovascular profiles linked to neutrophil activation in children and young adults with long COVID -elevated endothelial biomarkers even in kids - increased microclot burden - Neutrophil activation - Combo of may serve as biomarker for Long COVID. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love to see this :) ☕️

Our first lab publication from UT Southwestern! Phage-Based Approaches to Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infection in #CysticFibrosis www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/15...

An update! I’m thrilled to have joined UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health! Stay tuned, lots of work in progress, exciting times ahead!

Wow, ATS 2026 is going to be good!! Over 400 pediatric abstracts slotted for sessions or posters! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Working hard at the American Thoracic Society International Conference Committee meeting. We’re lining up some amazing pediatric pulmonary content for #ATS2026! Stay tuned! @ATSPeds @ Christian Rosas-Salazar

Honored to discuss long COVID in kids at the Canadian Symposium on Long COVID! @LongCOVIDWebCA Key take homes from conf: 1) organized advocacy is key 2) funding for clinical support & research is critical 3) please don’t minimize LC, esp in kids 4) Newfoundland is beautiful

'Drug for celiac disease shows promise in treating severe post-COVID syndrome in children' 'In a small trial, Mass General Brigham researchers have found that a drug designed to treat celiac disease supported a more rapid return to normal activities...' medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07...

Our MISC clinical trial results, just published! “Clinical Trial Finds Safe, Effective Treatment for Children with Severe Post-COVID Syndrome” massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsr…#COVIDID @ScienceTM @biotium.bsky.social

Viral spike antigen clearance and augmented recovery in children with post-COVID multisystem inflammatory syndrome treated with larazotide | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @laelyonker.bsky.social et al. 🏷️ @buonsenso.bsky.social

“Routine vaccination of ~117 million children from 1994-2023 likely prevented around 508 million lifetime cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1 129 000 deaths, at a net savings of $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in societal costs.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

For many adults *and kids*, COVID is not just a cold www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Abnormal metabolic profiles in MISC and pediatric COVID: “Despite milder clinical respiratory symptoms, children’s metabolic disturbances mirrored those seen in severe adult COVID-19 patients, indicating a shared inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2.” pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Even 2 years after post #COVID19 MISC, kids still have more somatic symptoms than control children. Those with severe MISC also had worse executive functioning. Great work by Caitlin Rollins @Bostonchildrens doi.org/10.1001/jama... #pedsky #longcovidsky

Congratulations to Pediatric Pulmonologist, Yanki Okuducu (off to Montefiore) and Adila Abulhamail (returning to Saudi Arabia)! @mgfcpedipulm.bsky.social

Excited to be presenting as part of Top Abstracts session, Conference on Shock 🤩 —> Increases in Monocyte Distribution Width portend sepsis in febrile children presenting to ER

Our global effort to raise the urgency of research into Long Covid in children published in The ERJ ⬇️ Huge thanks to @buonsenso.bsky.social and @laelyonker.bsky.social for leading on this. #longcovidkids @longcovidkids.bsky.social publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...

Efforts are urgently needed to intentionally address inequity in long COVID research to include children early in clinical trial design. bit.ly/3RMGmYz #LongCovid @buonsenso.bsky.social @resiapretorius.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social @petterbrodin.bsky.social @putrinolab.bsky.social

Excited to co-chair the #ATS 2026 Pediatric Program Committee with chair, Christian Rosas-Salazar! @crosassalazar.bsky.social Mark your calendar- #ATS2026 is going to be a great one! 🤩 @ats-peds.bsky.social

Best part of #ATS2025- hanging out with my former co-fellow Sze Man Tse! @smtrespmd.bsky.social

What an incredible crew: 🤩🤩 The 2025 ATS Pediatric Assembly Executive Committee, led by our fearless leader (and amazing role model) @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social #ATS2025

SIC awards! 👏👏👏 Huge congratulations to the Rising Star Awardees and SIC Abstract Awardees! @divyabhatia.bsky.social @sophieecollins.bsky.social @lurod8.bsky.social @meretelong.bsky.social @wonnie1981.bsky.social Jehan Alladina Thomas File Taylor Coston

@ats-sic.bsky.social talks are my favorite - really fun moderating this session!

Join us! Looking forward to hearing the latest advances in #LongCOVID. I’ll be sharing new findings in kids with long COVID.

The SIC has an exciting slate of sessions programmed for #ATS2025. Join us to hear about One Health, AI, Wearable Technology, and more! @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social

stay tuned for this piece soon out on ERJ on very imp topic, hoping to wake up politics & funding agencies about the urgent need of facilitating pedi #longcovid trials w @putrinolab.bsky.social @binitakane.bsky.social @sammiemc.bsky.social @laelyonker.bsky.social @resiapretorius.bsky.social

TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Shout out to all the brilliant women doctors and scientists out there! @mgfcpedipulm.bsky.social #pediatric #research #STEM

JAMA Viewpoint: “Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety.”

Nice discussion in Nature Medicine of existing frameworks successfully used to establish and support clinician researchers, and recognise their value, within the workforce including an outline of the potential return for investment @atscommunity.bsky.social

Journal A rejected my paper. Now Journal A is “conducting a short research study to see how satisfied you are with the way your article was managed” Ummmmmm….. 🤔

In other news… ⬆️ monocyte distribution width (MDW) is seen in sepsis/immune dysregulation, including severe burns. Resolvin, ex vivo, can ⬇️ IL-1B and restore monocyte MDW. Great to collaborate with Daniel Irimia and Saaed on this ongoing work! faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...

Please join us! I’ll be discussing long COVID in children with @binitakane.bsky.social , live tomorrow (Jan 22) at 1pm ET!

🔥1/3 Fireside chat series from The Long Covid Clinic - What you CAN Do, continues! 🌟Weds 22 Jan 2024, 6pm GMT ‘Lessons from the US: #LongCovid in Children - Latest Research” @binitakane.bsky.social & @helenoakleigh.bsky.social with Dr Lael Yonker! See⬇️ @longcovidkids.bsky.social #LongCovidKids

Diagnosing #LongCOVID in kids is challenging. We know because we asked pediatric providers! Here is what we found: - there’s ambiguity of signs/symptoms - high variability on work up and referrals - there’s some bias in who to evaluate www.frontiersin.org/journals/ped...

So very honored to have been awarded the Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Brigham Early Career Investigator award! Congrats to Priya Gupta, Sara Bates, Kate Powis, and Dan Hall (not shown) on their awards too!! ☺️🤩🙌🤩🙌☺️

I recommend watching it all, but if you have limited time/energy, the talks that gave me the most new insights: @buonsenso.bsky.social: connecting good POTS drug outcomes to HRV data @petterbrodin.bsky.social: Powerful pathobiology data @laelyonker.bsky.social: Larazotide as a LC drug target

Congrats @laelyonker.bsky.social on publishing in @thelancet.bsky.social!!!

Diagnostic challenges of long COVID in children: a survey of pediatric health care providers’ preferences and practices @laelyonker.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/ped...

More holiday festivities! The Yonker Lab gift swap! ❄️🎁☃️🎄 The holidays are great reminder to balance hard work with fun- and give yourself time to enjoy the people you work with!

The annual MGH Cystic Fibrosis Center/ Pedi Pulmonary Holiday Cookie Swap! 🍪🎄🤶🏻❄️ @mgfcpedipulm.bsky.social

COVID vaccines are great at protecting against severe disease. BUT we need to do better at reducing infection - probably by boosting mucosal IgA. Here is our recent publication from @jidjournal.bsky.social With Tia Ying Tang and Bruce Horwitz. 🙌 academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

If anyone is looking for inspiration, look no further than @pedlungdoc.bsky.social Dr Christy Sadreameli!! www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/article...

“This is in turn is consistent with a proposed model for MIS-C in which there is a persistent reservoir of virus in the gut, demonstrated by viral RNA in stool in other studies of MIS-C” @laelyonker.bsky.social

@laelyonker.bsky.social This is an exciting expansion. #LongCovidKids Thank you @polybiorf.bsky.social

It is important to get new treatments because an estimated one in four people with Long COVID are kids! We cover the only active U.S. drug for LC in kids being run by @laelyonker.bsky.social, comments from parents and families @longcovidfam.bsky.social, experts from @patientled.bsky.social + more.

Celebrating the many (6!) November birthdays in the lab! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 Happy birthday, Scorpios!

Why are there almost no clinical trials for kids with Long COVID? Excellent question! Read the article below- #LongCovid #LongCovidKids thesicktimes.org/2024/11/19/w...

Front row seats with @resiapretorius.bsky.social @laelyonker.bsky.social Mark Faghy (needs to sign up) and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!) #longcovidkids #conferencing

Very excited as I head to the International Meeting on Long COVID in Children, directed by @buonsenso.bsky.social Looking forward to connecting with the long COVID community, sharing some of our research, and building collaborations to advance care for kids!