🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 👨🏻‍⚕️ Hey everyone! I’m Juan, currently a PGY5 on the Gender rotation. Here we get to see the full breadth of gender medical and surgical affirming care. Come join me for the day! #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 ☕️ Our mornings starts with some coffee to go over our cases. Our stellar PGY2 Dr. Shay Nguyen always brightens the morning bringing some pre-op snacks. #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 ⏱️ We then play the waiting game while our anesthesia colleagues do their thing. #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 Our attending surgeon Dr. Nguyen never fails to provide excellent guidance and surgical pearls. 👩🏻‍⚕️ #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 👨🏻‍⚕️ In the afternoon we headed to clinics to evaluate new consults with Dr. Pang. #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY5 Dr. Juan A. Ballester-Maldonado 🌟 🏃🏻‍♂️ The evening ends with a workout before prepping for another day of exciting cases. 🌟 Thanks for following along. Hasta pronto!! #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 🌎 Hi, I’m Farrah Liu. Our program offers unique opportunities like surgical missions. This week, I joined Dr. Khosla on a cleft lip & palate mission in Antigua, Guatemala. Join me to see the experience firsthand! #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 🍳 🌋 We start the morning with some breakfast and our daily walk to the hospital which is filled with beautiful views. The city is surrounded by 3 volcanoes, one of which is actively erupting! #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 👩🏻‍⚕️ We then round on our patients status post cleft lip and palate repairs from the prior day. #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 🩻 For patients who need their imaging reviewed, we look at the scans on the X-ray light box - the old fashioned way! #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 This week, we performed a range of repairs based on patient needs, including Fisher anatomic subunit repairs, Furlow Z-plasties, Bardach palatoplasties, vomer flaps, and Tajima sutures. #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 After the last case, we check in on our patients from the day. This patient is peacefully resting 😴 #surgerydayinthelife

🌟 Resident Takeover: PGY6 Dr. Farrah Liu 🌟 After a rewarding day of surgeries, we debrief with the missions team and enjoy the scenery! #surgerydayinthelife

🔍 Skipping the mesh in abdominal donor-site closure for breast reconstruction can lead to shorter hospital stays and lower narcotic use, with no added complications. Authors: Farrah Liu, MD; Dung Nguyen, MD; Arash Momeni, MD Arash Momeni pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39168135/

Dr. Dung Nguyen, clinical professor, has received an R01 grant in the amount of $2.7M from the National Institutes of Health for her research project, “Development of a Bioengineered Therapeutic Device for the Prevention of Lymphedema.” 🔗 Read full story: tinyurl.com/4nk6wrhv

📣 Calling all graduating surgical fellows:. Start your career as a junior faculty with the best foundation possible. Attend our Career Development Workshop surgery.stanford.edu/career-develop…

AI-based Cleft Lip and Palate Surgical Information is Preferred by Both Plastic Surgeons and Patients in a Blind Comparison new study finds. Author: Derrick Wan, MD et al. 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39091088/?sf19…

Dr. HyeRan Choo was recognized with the David Precious Memorial Science Award at the 16th World Congress of the International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation. 🔗 Read story: tinyurl.com/yc87wczr

🔬 A new meta-analysis reveals key gene signatures in fibroblasts and macrophages during the foreign body response (FBR), highlighting potential therapeutic targets to improve the longevity of medical implants. 🧫🔧 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39056733/?sf19… @longakerlab

⚡️ Flashback Friday: 👏🏽 Our own Dr. Arash Momeni was invited to present cutting edge technology on perforator mapping in autologous breast reconstruction at the 12th International Breast Symposium Düsseldorf (IBSD). Over 530 surgeons from 34 countries were in attendance.