We found that after traumatic injury language minorities experience increased mortality (controlling for patient demographics, mechanism of injury, etc) and hope this work serves as a call to action to do better for our non-English speaking patients #interpreterssavelives

‼️If you missed our 1st General Surgery virtual info session, join us next Tuesday or on Fri 9/23, from 5:30-6:30pm PT to learn about our UCSF GS Residency Program & meet our awesome UCSF Surgery leaders & residents.🔗Register: tiny.ucsf.edu/22UCSFGSRESINFO‼️

Maria Castro finds that following traumatic injury, non-English language preferred patients experience increased hospital LOS & in some cases even mortality - work to be done to provide trauma care to vulnerable populations

authors.elsevier.com/c/1fehW578XaMZ2

Hope Schwartz Julie A Sosa, MD

Outstanding study in SURGERY Journal from Patricia C. Conroy Lucia Calthorpe American Surgeon @stedavis21_MD Timothy Ullmann, MD wen shen Julie A Sosa, MD Quan-Yang Duh UCSF Surgery UCSF School of Medicine UCSF Health @UCSF surgjournal.com/article/S0039-… Endocrine Society BTF Thyroid American Thyroid Association Thyroid UK

Read this interesting article on the kinetics of liver function related parameters in the first week following major hepatic resection! 🚨🚨🚨📈📉📈📉

Lucia Calthorpe Adnan Alseidi Mohamed Abu Hilal SAGES American College of Surgeons ILLS @HPBjournal

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Using the Comprehensive Complication Index to rethink the ISGLS Criteria for Post-hepatectomy Liver Failure in an International Cohort of Major Hepatectomies journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Using the Comprehensive Complication Index to rethink the ISGLS Criteria for Post-hepatectomy Liver Failure in an International Cohort of Major Hepatectomies journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Quick Shots Session I – Paper 2 - #EAST2022
bit.ly/3EKKwrA

Maria Castro Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP, MHS UCSF Surgery Hope Schwartz Sophia Hernandez Rebecca Menza, RN, PhD, ACNP-BC Sharon Stein's Little Sister (Deb Stein) Alicia Fernandez Lucia Calthorpe

New work led by Dr. Kayla Karvonen: Black birthing people (BP) delivering preterm are more likely to have a mental health ED or hospital visit postpartum compared to White BP:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog…
Thank you Dr. Karvonen for working to address these disparities.
California Preterm Birth Initiative @UCSF

Read this interesting paper on a new CCI index to predict liver failure in liver surgery published in Ann Surg by the International Post-Hepatectomy Liver Failure Study Group
Annals of Surgery Adnan Alseidi
Mohamed Abu Hilal AHPBA
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34913896/

Nostalgic for this trio! Maeva مايفا Adoumie Maria Castro

Association b/w preterm birth & postpartum mental health care among CA birthing people:
50% incr risk of hospitalization for mental health w/i 3 mos postpartum, 30% w/i 1yr; 40% incr risk of ER w/i 3 mos pp, 30% w/i 1yr. PTB takes signif toll on mothers! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33932629/