🚨Workshop Alert! #GEIGSGA2024 is your chance to learn from Prof Salome Maswime and Dr Julie A Sosa, MD how NOT to make diversity, equity and inclusion a checkbox exercise 🙌🏼 Register now for free and secure a spot:
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Great turnout from the Division of #GeneralSurgery at the UCSF Surgery faculty retreat. Welcome to our new colleagues and great to see everyone!!! Sandhya Kumar Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP, MHS Marissa Boeck MD MPH FACS Stanley James Rogers, MD Andre Campbell, MD, FACS, FACP, FCCM, MAMSE, FCCOS Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, MD, FACS Amanda Sammann Ron Tesoriero Rebecca Plevin, MD, FACS

We’re planning a session on #ArtificialIntelligence and scholarly publishing for the American Thyroid Association annual meeting. What topics should we discuss? Ideas will be shared with faculty! Julie A Sosa, MD Thyroid Journal Trevor E Angell MD Clinical Thyroidology #endotwitter Angela Leung

This National Women’s Health Month (& all year!) we celebrate amazing women. Meet clinical chairs Dr. Jacque Duncan, Dr. Shelley Adler, Dr. Megan Mahoney (@mahoneymegan_me), Dr. Andrea V. Jackson MD,MAS, Dr. Julie Ann Sosa (@Jasosamd), Dr. Catherine Park, & Dr. Amber Fitzsimmons. 🏥 😀

🌟 We're elated to announce our 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Residency Matches❗️A warm welcome to these two talented young surgeons as they begin this exciting chapter with us. Here's to a journey filled with growth and success! #Match2024 🎉👏

‼️We are overjoyed to share that Dr. Brittany Hasty Brittany Hasty, MD, MHPE (she/her/hers), a dedicated Pediatric Surgeon, will be joining our department as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery within the UC San Francisco Division of Pediatric Surgery at Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland UC San FranciscoBenioffOAK 🥳🥳

Huge congratulations to new members of #AATS from UCSF Surgery Drs. Ramin Beygui, Johannes Kratz, and Jasleen Kukreja! AATS #AATS 2024 We are so lucky at UCSF to have these three amazing surgeons and teachers!

We are overjoyed to announce that we matched Dr. Caroline Melhado from UCSF Surgery to our pediatric surgery fellowship!

It is our privilege to help train this accomplished rising star! Welcome to the family Caroline Melhado !!

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Day 3 CHESA Fellows Retreat✨
Faculty and collaborators discussed their efforts to advance health equity in perioperative care during the Career Development Panel. It was a fantastic opportunity for fellows to gain guidance from professionals making a real impact in the field!

The women clinical chairs of UCSF Health and @UCSF. Power of the ‘pride’: Women who support women are more successful. #MedTwitter

As we gear up for our Annual SSAT Digestive Disease Week meeting in DC in 3 weeks, we’d like to thank our Program Committee for their Yeoman’s effort in putting things together for all of us.

A greater team effort, but here are your Program Chair and the Subcommittee Chairs!

Amazing UCSF Surgery faculty support for our UCSF GS Residency interns on their lap skills competition day Julie A Sosa, MD Camilla Gomes, MD MS Adnan Alseidi Dominique L. Tucker, MD Russyan Mark Mabeza, MD, MPH (he/siya) Ron Tesoriero Brandon Cowan UCSF Surgical Skills Center

‼️We are happy to announce that Dr. Charles “Chuck” Rickert, currently an instructor in our Department, will be stepping into a new role soon as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery within our UCSF Transplant Surgery Division starting on July 1st, 2024 🥳🥳

‼️This is such a spectacular highlight of Dr. Alexander Lin Alexander Lin, MD, MBA, FACS — a Pediatric Surgeon in our department who is also Co-director, Craniofacial Center & Co-director, Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies 👇👇👇

Finishing up a rough 24 hrs where being a daughter/caregiver came 1st, surgeon/faculty 2nd. We need to support colleagues to be able to triage that way any day. Dad flew through better than I did. Exhausted but thankful for UCSF Surgery. #MedTwitter

Wonderful to see everyone from UCSF Surgery and UCSF Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at #AATS2024 🫀🫁 Danielle Holland, MD Alison Baskin UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery

‼️Congrats are in order for Dr. Jeffrey Velotta Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS. Today he was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery AATS! This recognition highlights his contributions to advancing the care & treatment of cardiothoracic diseases👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Sadly, NIH funding of thyroid research has decreased dramatically in the last ten years, from about $50M to $30M/year. What is going on???? AACE American Thyroid Association Endocrine Society Endocrine News
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‼️We're delighted to share that Dr. Lara Senekjian will be transitioning from the East Bay to our West Bay Department of Surgery at Parnassus this Fall as an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, joining the Section of Acute Care Surgery in the Division of General Surgery👏👏

I’m so thankful for these colleagues, who bring creative problem solving, organization & ultra-high EQ to everything they do for UCSF Surgery. Let’s all celebrate our staff: Happy #NationalAdministrativeProfessionalsDay ! #MedTwitter