#DrLyons crushing it at #SAGES2024!

Saher Khan Christina S Boutros and Megan Zaiyi Chiu, MD (she/her) showing off their posters at #SAGES2024

My junior fellow Megan Zaiyi Chiu, MD (she/her) presented our lab’s work on a novel I-Fastener for tissue apposition in minimally invasive procedures at #SAGES2024 last week! Watch out, world, for this amazing surgeon engineer 👏🏼 BCH Department of Surgery Eliza J. Lee, MD Heung Bae Kim Farokh Demehri SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025!

My amazing friend and colleague Donna Koo, MD sharing her impressive and thought-provoking presentation on “Trends in Insurance Coverage in Pediatric Liver and Kidney Transplantation” Eliza J. Lee, MD Heung Bae Kim BCH Department of Surgery #ATC2024

Last night we celebrated these 6 phenomenal graduating chiefs! What a joy to celebrate these talented, compassionate, intelligent surgeons! Congratulations! You will always have a home at UH surgery 💙

Huge congratulations and kudos to my senior cofellow Donna Koo, MD on her podium on Botox Enhanced Foker for Long Gap IPEG #IPEG2024 Needless to say she did an incredible job! #womensurgeons #pedsurg

My first international conference presentation done and I got to do it with my senior cofellows Donna Koo, MD and Claire Ostertag-Hill, MD! Thank you thank you to my incredible mentors Farokh Demehri and Ben Zendejas for the opportunity! #IPEG2024 IPEG BCH Department of Surgery

Single port laparoscopic appendectomy using a glove port in 4 year old girl. Excellent team. #pediatricsurgery

Feeling very lucky to have such an amazing mentor! Heung Bae Kim what an inspirational talk! Can’t wait to continue innovating! SocAsianAcadSurg BCH Department of Surgery Boston Children's #saas2024 #surgicalinnovation

Always so impressed by William Lee 🤩 Another stellar talk at #SAAS2024 on an important quality improvement and sustainability initiative looking at instrument tray standardization for pediatric laparoscopic appendectomy! #SAAS2024 SocAsianAcadSurg Eugene Kim Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's

So so proud of my co-fellow, Megan Zaiyi Chiu, MD (she/her), presenting important work looking at outcomes after diaphragm plication via open compared to minimally invasive approaches at #SAAS2024!! BCH Department of Surgery Farokh Demehri SocAsianAcadSurg

Incredible talk by my former senior co-fellow Donna Koo, MD! Fantastic presentation on vacuum bell therapy for pectus! SocAsianAcadSurg BCH Department of Surgery Boston Children's #SAAS2024 Making Farokh Demehri proud! As always an inspiration! 👯‍♀️

What a way to kick off PGY🔬 with 1st conference at #SAAS2024 ! So grateful to Prathima Nandivada lab BCH Department of Surgery for this experience ❤️

So impressed with Leah Froehle at the podium this morning teaching us that tight junction proteins are deficient in ganglionic and aganglionic colon in children with Hirschsprung disease! Making Prathima Nandivada lab and BCH Department of Surgery proud at #SAAS2024

Even got a cute little WTS pin to put on my white coat!

I have been SO inspired by Dr. Ala Stanford MD ever since I was a medical student. Thank you for sharing your journey, your book, and such important lessons with us at SocAsianAcadSurg #SAAS2023

My residency other half Christina S Boutros is such a rockstar! WomenInThoracicSurg The Society of Thoracic Surgeons as always an inspiration and role model!

"As a surgical discipline, I hope that we can get past the belief that we do not have enough qualified women to serve." Read this editorial from JAMA Surgery Editor Melina Kibbe. ja.ma/3MCcbAU

💪Throughout September, the Department of Surgery will be highlighting women faculty, staff, APP's, residents and fellows in honor of Women in Medicine Month!  ⭐Our first #WomenInMedicine spotlight is Jennifer Choi. Read more about Choi's role as a wife, mother, surgeon, senior

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA Surgery: In this Editorial, JAMA Surgery Editor in Chief Melina Kibbe discusses implicit and explicit bias associating man with surgeon. ja.ma/3MKFvFf