Time to practice those #robot 🤖 and #laparoscopy skills!! No better way than to display your skills on the big screen 📺 for everybody to see 👀 Or, watch the master Yijun Chen, MD complete #FLS tasks

Congrats Jordan Rook for winning the Young Investigator’s Best Clinical Presentation on his work “Drug Screening in Adolescent Trauma Pts:A Missed Opportunity in Public Health at #wptc2024. Finding ways to decrease a leading cause of death in teens. Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, FACS, FAAP Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium

BIGGEST congratulations to Jordan Rook for winning the Young Investigator Award at #WPTC2024 for our project examining drug screening in injured teens!! Children's Hospital LA UCLA General Surgery Residency Program APSA Surgeons Institute for Addiction Science at USC Jess Barrington-Trimis Romeo Ignacio HOPE Lab

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to Dr. Nikhil Chervu (PGY-5) for being awarded the Paul Samson Resident Award at the #WTSA Conference! Western Thoracic Surgical Association UCLA CORE Lab

Every year we give out awards for #residents with #outstanding performance! For the 2023-2024 academic year, we want to congratulate the following residents! Bravo for your hard work and thank you for the amazing care you give! 👏👏👏👏

And how can we forget the Chief Resident Awards! How lucky #MSK, #OHSU, #MtSinai, and #Cedars are to have you all as fellows! Rivfka Shenoy, MD, MS Michael Mederos, MD Gabe Oland

When you’re rounding at #SantaMonica Hospital on a ☀️☀️ Saturday and Dr. #Chandler drives you around in his Porsche 911 🏎️🏎️💨

Thank you so much Lisa Newman, MD MPH for such an inspiring & powerful UCLA Surgery Grand Rounds this morning!! Also thank you for spending dedicated time sharing your expertise with UCLA General Surgery Residency Program !! You are #goals!! 👑💐

Thank you Dr. Lisa Newman, MD MPH for the amazing talk on Oncologic Anthropology in #BreastCancer and all your insight during the resident education hour!!

📢We want to 🥳 congratulate our Chief Residents for matching into these #fellowship programs! Zach_Weitzner_MD matched #MIS at Duke Surgery #BenTranMD matched #TransplantSurgery at Mount Sinai Surgery

It takes a team to take care of trauma patients! Thank you to the #Nurses, #NurseAssistants, #SocialWorkers, #CaseManagers, #PT, #Pharmacists, #MedicalStudents, #Residents, #TraumaSurgeons and so many more that allow us to provide top quality care to our trauma patients!!

Intern shoutout⚡️⚡️: Dr. Ami Hayashi Hometown: Oxnard, CA Medical School: UCLA Fun fact: I lived in Cameroon for a year! "My parents are my biggest supporters. They inspire me with their tenacity to move from China to Japan to the US for a better future for me and my sister"

Intern Spotlight 💡: Dr. Vanessa Mora Molina Vanessa Mora Molina ! Hometown: Fowler, CA Medical School: UCSF UCSF School of Medicine Interests: Surgical / Breast Oncology "I love playing tennis, reading books, and going on long walks in the sun with Maverick - my chocolate lab!"

Best of SAGES 2024: Robotic Transabdominal Preperitoneal Repair of Perineal Hernia generalsurgerynews.com/Video/Article/… General Surgery News UCLA General Surgery Residency Program UCLA Surgery

Thanks Dr. Rowe for the opportunity to visit UCLA Surgery this week to discuss pelvic venous disorders! Great to see what your outstanding team is up to!

Our favorite furry visitors always bring joy to our campuses and hospitals. Grateful for our therapy dogs! Tag a friend to share the love. 🐶💙 UCLA Health

Absolutely thrilled to have matched at CU Department of Surgery CU GITES for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery fellowship! So excited to join the team next summer Clay Cothren Burlew, MD 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Huge thank you to my mentors Catherine Juillard Rochelle A. Dicker! Couldn’t have done it without your support.

📢📢We will be hosting a virtual #InfoSession for prospective applicants!! If you want to learn about us or just want to hang out - sign up for the link below! #Match2025 #GeneralSurgery #MedTwitter uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bI…

Thank you Dr. Formosa Chen for hosting a #ceramics class with the residents 🥣🥣. What’s harder, #operating or throwing #clay ? So mich talent either way!!

🗓️Save the Date : Wed, Sept 11 6pm. Hang out with us and learn about #UCLAGeneralSurgery at our Virtual #Infosession!! Sign up here: uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bI… #Match2025