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‼️Introducing our latest @UCSFHospitals video featuring @UCSF Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Amy Fiedler @FiedlerAmy. From giving life-changing calls to stopping & restarting the heart—her everyday work is nothing short of incredible. Watch now👇 #womeninmedicine #HeartSurgery 💙
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We are thrilled to announce the 3 newest individuals of our UCSF Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Family. Congratulations to Greta Davis, Oblaise Mercury, and Casey Rhoades. Please join us in congratulating our incoming interns and welcome them to UCSF Plastic and Surgery.
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‼️Our Chair, Dr. Julie Ann Sosa & Dr. Heather Yeo, Assoc. Professor of Surgery at Weill-Cornell @WCMSurgery were awarded a $3.46 Million R01 grant to fund their multi-PI study: ‘Addressing surgical disparities at the root: Working to improve diversity in the surgical workforce’👇
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We are very excited to announce that Tom C. Nguyen, MD, FACS, FACC, of UT-Houston has been named the new Chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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Congratulations to Dr. Andre Campbell @TraumaDocSF on his appointment as the inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the @UCSFSurgery. Dr. Campbell is a Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon based at ZSFG. @UCSFMedicine @ucsf surgery.ucsf.edu/news--event…
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‼️Over the weekend, we learned that👨🏽⚕️Dr. Andre Campbell @TraumaDocSF, our Trauma Surgeon and Vice-Chair of #DEI at @UCSFSurgery, became President-Elect of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons @SocietyofBAS. Congratulations & much success in your new post‼️
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‼️We are excited to announce that Dr. Rochelle A. Dicker @rochelleami9 from UCLA will be joining our faculty as the inaugural Section Chief of Acute Care Surgery in the Division of General Surgery & Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Units at UCSF Health @UCSFHospitals🥳
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‼️Indeed, as it was so aptly declared, today bears witness to a momentous occasion. As Mayor London Breed @LondonBreed herself proclaimed, this day stands officially recognized as Dr. Andre Campbell Day @TraumaDocSF 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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✨🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Adnan Alseidi (@HPB_Surgeon); He was formally inducted on April 30th as President of the Association of Surgical Education. @Surg_Education is the global leader for surgical education across the continuum of education‼️ We're so thrilled Dr. Alseidi 🎉
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.@UCSFSurgery and Zuckerberg Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) are proud to announce the appointment of Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, as the new Chief of Surgery at ZSFG. Dr. Stein is currently R Adams Cowley, MD Professor in Shock & Trauma @UMmedschool @UCSFMedicine @SFGHFoundation
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‼️New Week, New Faculty Alert‼️We are excited to announce that👩🏼⚕️Dr. Amy Fiedler @FiedlerAmy from The University of Wisconsin will be joining The Department of Surgery as a Cardiac Surgeon & Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery with a focus in Heart failure/Transplant and MCS🎉
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‼️Our new General Surgery Categorical intern Dr. Ashley Campbell @campbellmed22, has been awarded the Dr. Patricia Numann Medical Student Award, which encourages & supports an outstanding female medical student pursuing a career in surgery by the Association of @WomenSurgeons🥳👏
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‼️Our Department Chair, Dr. Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd, is now President of the American Thyroid Association @AmThyroidAssn making her one of the few surgeons to be President. On Saturday, October 22nd, the ATA will present her with the Distinguished Service Award in Montreal 🥳🥳
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Dr. Hubert Luu, UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow & 2020 graduate of UCSF GS Residency, was selected for the Teaching Excellence Award for Cherished Housestaff (T.E.A.C.H.) by this year's graduating medical school class, the first surgery resident since Dr. Evan Werlin in 2017
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JUST IN‼️We are excited to announce that Dr. Joseph Cuschieri @JoeC_TraumaDoc, Trauma Medical Director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center & @UCSFSurgery Professor, has been named Chief of Surgery at @ZSFGCare. Congratulations Dr. Cuschieri 🥳🥳
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Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Ascher, world-renowned @UCSFTransplant surgeon & former Chair of the @UCSFSurgery, who received the Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service for 2020 from the @UCSFMedicine. @UCSFHospitals @UCSF @UCSFGSResidency #UCSFProud. great.ucsf.edu/holly-smith-a…
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Congratulations to Dr. Adnan Alseidi on being named Vice Chair for Education in the @UCSFSurgery. Dr. Alseidi, an HPB & endocrine surgeon at Virginia Mason Medical Center, brings a wealth of experience in surgical education. @UCSF @UCSFMedicine @Jasosamd surgery.ucsf.edu/news--event…
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‼️We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hillary J. Braun, one of our Chief Residents in General Surgery and future transplant surgeon, has been selected as a UCSF Health @UCSFHospitals Exceptional Physician Recipient for the academic year 2022-23🥳🥳
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‼️A few days ago, Dr. Adnan Alseidi @HPB_Surgeon, our Vice Chair for Education and Gastrointestinal Surgeon, was inducted as a Fellow into the American Surgical Association at their 143rd Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada🥳🥳
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The Department of Surgery would like to take this time to send a huge Congratulations to our chair👩🏼⚕️Dr. Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd, who is now President-Elect of the American Thyroid Association @AmThyroidAssn ‼️
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‼️BIG NEWS‼️Please join us in Congratulating👩🏻⚕️Dr. Jasleen Kukreja & the Lung Transplant team. It has been brought to our attention that UCSF CT surgery performed its 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th lung transplant. This is a remarkable moment for our @UCSFHospitals Lung Transplant program🎉👏
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‼️We are thrilled to announce & welcome our new Thoracic Surgery Fellow👨🏾⚕️Dr. Olubode “Bode” Olufajo, who comes to us from Howard University. We're incredibly impressed with Dr. Olufajo & honored that he matched with us and can't wait until he arrives this summer🎉#thoracicsurgery
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✨Big moves, bigger dreams‼️Help us give a warm @UCSF welcome to Dr. @QueenAbure, who officially matched into our @UCSFvascular Surgery Residency! The future is bright, and it starts right here, right now. 💫 #Match2025
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Congratulations to Drs. Linda Reilly and Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd who will be inducted in a virtual ceremony on 9-25-2020 as members of the prestigious @AmCollSurgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators for 2020. @ucsf @UCSFMedicine @HPB_Surgeon
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‼️We are thrilled to announce that The American College of Surgeons @AmCollSurgeons has awarded Dr. @LucyKornblith the highly prestigious George H. A. Clowes Career Development Award worth $225,000 for her "Post‐Injury Platelet Biology: Mechanisms and Outcomes" project🥳🥳
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‼️We are profoundly saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Orlo H. Clark. Dr. Clark was a beloved member of the @UCSF Surgery Family and an internationally renowned endocrine surgeon. Our thoughts are with the Clark family and all whom he inspired and touched🕊
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Congratulations to @UCSFSurgery Dept. Chair @Jasosamd on being awarded a prestigious NIH-FDA R01 Grant as Co-Principal Investigator on a multi-institutional study of medullary thyroid carcinoma with Co-PI @EGrubbsMDwith of MDAnderson CC. @MDAndersonNews
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🎉🎉Please join us in Congratulating Dr. Tippi MacKenzie @MackenzieTippi as she has reached yet another milestone in her career‼️It has been announced that Dr. MacKenzie has been appointed to a Benioff UCSF @UCSFChildrens Professorship in Children's Health.
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Wonderful news‼️3 of our Faculty Members were named Remarkable Women of UCSF in UC Berkley's 150 Years of Women. Congrats Drs. Tippi Mackenzie, Laura Esserman, and Nancy Ascher!! Read more about them and 45 other Remarkable Faculty, Staff, and Alumnae here ow.ly/L6or50E5m32
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‼️New Faculty Alert‼️We are thrilled to announce that upon her fellowship graduation👩🏼⚕️Dr. Clara Gomez-Sanchez @ClaraGomezSanc1 will be staying in San Francisco & joining our department as a Vascular Surgeon &Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at our Parnassus location🎉✨🎉
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Exciting News! The Department of Surgery is delighted to announce that Dr. Ian Soriano (@PhillySurgeon), a general/MIS surgeon from U Penn, will join our @UCSF team at Parnassus this winter & serve as our ACS-NSQIP champion! Here's an early welcome to the Bay, Dr. Soriano!
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‼️Thrilling News‼️We are excited to announce that Dr. Ian Soriano @FilipinoSurgeon, Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at @UCSF, has been named our new Director of 🤖 Robotic Surgery... Congratulations Dr. Soriano 🎉👏🥳👏🥳
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1/3 JUST IN‼️A new study from researchers at @Tulane, @GeorgiaStateU, & @UCSF, including our Chair and senior author Dr. Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd, was published in @NEJM🥳. The study “Cancer Screening after the Adoption of Paid-Sick-Leave Mandates” has found more people get ..
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‼️New Faculty Alert‼️We are happy to announce that👩🏻⚕️Dr. April E. Mendoza from Massachusetts General Hospital is joining our department as a Trauma Surgeon and Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at our @UCSF_EastBay Program at Highland Hospital @AlamedaHealth🎉🎉
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‼️We are excited to share that Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Amy Fiedler @FiedlerAmy has been chosen as Co-Medical Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic ICUs at @UCSF Parnassus, starting on August 1st, 2023, alongside Dr. Kristine Breyer 🥳
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Great News‼️Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the @UCSF VA Hospital👩🏻⚕️Dr. Elaine Tseng’s project titled: “Developing Biomechanical Predictors of Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Growth and Dissection” will receive $1.2 million dollars in funding provided by the VA Merit🎉🎉
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Today we announce that Dr. Joseph Cuschieri (@JoeC_TraumaDoc), Trauma Medical Director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center & @UCSFSurgery Professor, will be the interim Chief of Surgery at @ZSFGCare, starting September 1. Congratulations Dr. Cuschieri‼️
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‼️We are really excited to announce that Dr. Camille Jackson will be officially joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Vascular Surgeon at Highland Hospital in the East Bay @AlamedaHealth🥳🥳
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.@UCSFSurgery is proud to announce that Dr. Doruk Ozgediz of @YaleSurgery, and a founder of @Globalpas and @GICSurgery, has been named the Inaugural Director of #GlobalSurgery and Health Equity @UCSF. @UCSFMedicine @Jasosamd @IGHSatUCSF
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‼️We are ecstatic to announce that Trauma Surgeon, @UCSF Surgery Faculty member, and Co-chair of our Muriel Steele Society @UCSFMSS, Dr. Lucy Kornblith @LucyKornblith, has accepted an additional role in our Department as our Inaugural Director for Gender Equity🥳🥳
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We're delighted to share that on Sunday, October 24th, our Chief of Endocrine Surgery, Dr. Quan-Yang Duh @EndoSurgSF, will be formally inducted as the First Vice-President of the ACS during the American College of Surgeons @AmCollSurgeons Virtual Convocation‼️
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‼️Dr. Alexandra Highet @amkhighet has received the 2022 @ZSFGCare Krevans Award for the Division of Surgery. The award recognizes her excellence in patient care, professional conduct, compassion for patients, and outstanding interaction with all levels of staff. Brava!👏👏🏽
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Marvelous news‼️Dr. Adnan Alseidi (@HPB_Surgeon) accepts 2 honors this week. First the Excellence in Humanistic Clinical Care Award at the @SAGES_Updates meeting on 8.31 followed by an International Honorary Fellowship from the Brazilian College of Surgeon (@CBCcirurgioes) on 9.4
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Congratulations to @UCSF surgeon-scientist @LucyKornblith on being named co-investigator on a newly awarded $2M 2-year DOD @CDMRP grant in collaboration with the UCSF Dept. of Pathology. @ShibaniPati @UCSFMedicine @knudson_peggy @UCSFMSS #MHSSPACS surgery.ucsf.edu/news--event…
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‼️The Department of Surgery is proud to announce Dr. Andre Campbell @TraumaDocSF, has been named the Distinguished Master Educator Award recipient by the @Surg_Education. His contributions to surgical education will be honored at the ASE Awards Banquet on 5.9.2025, in Seattle🥳🎉
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‼️Dr. Julie Ann Sosa @Jasosamd, Chair of the Department of Surgery, has been awarded the Chancellor Award for Advancement of Women by @UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood 🎉.. Listen to her speak about it below👇👇Full Vid here➡️tinyurl.com/4f2sxb77
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‼️ We are deeply saddened to inform you that Dr. Lawrence W. Way, Professor Emeritus of Surgery and longtime member of our @UCSF Surgery faculty passed away peacefully in his sleep last night. Our thoughts are with the Way family and all whom he inspired and touched🕊️
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‼️This afternoon, within the confines of San Francisco City Hall, Mayor @LondonBreed graciously devoted her time to honoring the illustrious three-decade-plus career of Dr. Andre Campbell @TraumaDocSF, Trauma Surgeon, + our Vice-Chair of #DEI 🥳🎉
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‼️Thrilled to announce that HPB-Endocrine Surgeon & our Vice-Chair of Education, Dr. Adnan Alseidi @HPB_Surgeon, is now President of the Fellowship Council @FellowshpCouncl. The Fellowship Council oversees postgraduate specialty training in surgery, 200+ fellowship programs🥳🥳
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‼️Big news at @UCSF 💙 Dr. Amy G. Fiedler @FiedlerAmy, a Cardiac Surgeon and national leader advancing transplant, heart failure care & global health equity, has been named Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, effective July 1, 2025 🥳
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‼️Over the weekend during the 33rd Annual @SocietyofBAS Meeting, hosted by @UMichSurgery, Dr. Andre Campbell @TraumaDocSF, Trauma Surgeon and Vice-Chair of #DEI, was honored as he completed his service as the 28th President of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons 👏🏾👏🏼👏👏🏿
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‼️For her professionalism, clinical excellence, devoted patient care, and ability to succeed as a multidisciplinary team member, General Surgery Resident Dr. Sabreea Parnell @SabreeaParnell was awarded the 2023 Krevans Award by the surgery team at @ZSFGCare 👏👏
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Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday, March 24) at 7AM to hear a Grand Rounds lecture from our new Chief of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tom C. Nguyen, MD, FACS, FACC‼️ @tomcnguyen Link to join Zoom Webinar >> ow.ly/7VuW50E5Fuh
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‼️The Dept of Surgery is honored to be the inaugural institutional member of The Associate of Out Surgeons and Allies🏳️🌈@OutSurgeons. We celebrate all Diversity🫶🫶🏾, supporting affinity groups & members of our community as best we can. Please support AOSA & our #LGBTQ+ colleagues.
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Congratulations💫💫to our outstanding Department of Surgery Chief at @ZSFGCare & Vice-Chair of Trauma & Critical Care Surgery, Dr. Deborah Stein, on her induction into the prestigious American Surgical Association.
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Huge news‼️Dr. Tippi Mackenzie (@MackenzieTippi) of @UCSFSurgery, who’s been part of UCSF since 2007, is the new Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research (IRM), effective Aug 1, 2021. Congratulations Dr. Mackenzie🎉🎉
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The Surgeon's Cut, a four part documentary series produced by BBC Studios' premieres today on Netflix! Our own Dr Nancy Ascher is profiled. Among many other accomplishments, she is the first woman to perform a liver transplant. #TheSurgeonsCut piped.video/watch?v=Fft5igeE…
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We're very pleased to announce Dr. Willieford Moses, a graduate of @UCSFGSResidency, will be returning as a faculty member in the Division of @UCSFPedSurgery. He will be based at UCSF Benioff Children's Hosp. Oakland. @UCSFHospitals @UCSFMedicine @UCSFODO surgery.ucsf.edu/news--event…
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👏👏🏻👏🏾Round of applause for Dr. Jane Wang on being selected to receive @UCSF's Computational Innovator Post-doctoral Fellowship Award worth $75,000 from our university's Initiative for Digital Transformation in Computational Biology & Health. Congrats Dr. Wang‼️
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Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer Paul Kalanithi once said: "that words are the surgeon's only tool when there's no place for the scalpel."
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‼️Our MURIEL STEELE SOCIETY Mentorship Grand Rounds takes place tomorrow, May 19th, at 7am. Visiting Speaker👩🏻⚕️Dr. Minerva Romero Arenas (@minervies) from Weill Cornell Medical College will discuss “Diversifying in Surgery: Raising the Bar”👩🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️👩🏿⚕️“Join us➡️ ow.ly/oUFR50EPKjz
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Big News‼️The Wraparound Project at @ZSFGCare has awarded a $3.77 million California Violence & Prevention (CalVIP) Grant to Drs. @amanda_sammann & Rebecca Plevin @rplevin, both of @UCSFSurgery, and Drs. Nancy Anaya & Lauren Chalwell, Department of Emergency Medicine @ucsfdem🥳
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‼️At the American Pediatric Surgical Association Annual Meeting in Orlando this weekend, Dr. Doruk Ozgediz, Professor of Surgery at @UCSF & Director of the UCSF Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity @UCSF_CHESA, received the Donald E. Meier Humanitarian Award 👏👏
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‼️Today, the National Academy of Medicine unveiled its roster of new members. We are thrilled to share that Dr. Sandy Feng @SandyFeng8, our Vice-Chair of Research & @UCSFTransplant Surgeon, is one of the 100 elected as new members of @theNAMedicine Class of 2023🥳🥳👏
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🎉🎉Congratulations to Dr. Rita Mukhtar for her recent K08 funding from the National Cancer Institute (@theNCI)! An Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Dr. Mukhtar studies lobular breast cancer and is developing a treatment prediction tool.
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👨🏻⚕️Dr. Shareef Syed, Assist. Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplant Surgery has been selected 🥳 to receive 1 of 5 Teaching Awards 🎉 for Clinical Faculty. This award highlights how outstanding you've been to our medical students during their clinical years at UCSF‼️
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‼️We're thrilled to announce that Trauma Surgeon Dr. April Mendoza will assume the role of Trauma Medical Director at @AlamedaHealth System starting July 1, 2024 🥳🥳
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We are taking the time to celebrate 3 outstanding individuals & a fantastic fellowship match day. Rising Transplant chief residents👩⚕️Yvonne Kelly (@ymkelly), matched with @Columbia University &👨🏻⚕️Arya Zarinsefat (@AZarinsefat), matched & will be staying home with us at @UCSF 🎉🎉
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‼️Congratulations to Dr. @LucyKornblith, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Trauma Surgeon, Director of Gender Equity and Co-founder, Co-chair of the Muriel Steele Society @UCSFMSS, for receiving the Esteemed Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the School of Medicine🥳👏
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📢 Exciting news! Let's give a warm welcome to our newest our newest General Surgery Categorical Residents. Facing you are the 8⃣ individuals who matched into @UCSFGSResidency. Welcome aboard, we're thrilled to have you join our family. #Match2024
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Big News‼️Starting March 2025, Dr. Marc Ruel will become our new Chief of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at @UCSF. He'll hold the Helen & Charles Schwab Distinguished Professorship + serve as Medical Director of Adult CT Surgery & Co-Director of the Heart & Vascular Center🥳
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Congratulations to @UCSFTransplant surgeon Dr. Sandy Feng, Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair for Research in the @UCSFSurgery, on being named the next Editor-in-Chief of the @amjtransplant by @ASTSChimera and @AST_info. @ucsf @Jasosamd @UCSFMSS surgery.ucsf.edu/news--event…
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🎊🎊Our very own👩🏽⚕️Dr. Melissa Coleman (@MelissaHColeman), Assistant Professor of Surgery, is a part of @UCSFMedicine's 2021 class of John A. Watson Faculty Scholars & a recipient of a Dean’s Diversity Fund award. Congratulations, Dr. Coleman; we’re extremely proud of you‼️
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Congratulations to our very own Dr. Sânziana Roman @PheoSurgeon! She’s been selected as a new member of The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. Her induction to the distinguished @MedicalEducator community will take place on September 29th! Bravo Dr. Roman‼️
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‼️We're thrilled to share the news that Dr. Caitlin Collins @CRCollinsMD, currently a Senior Fellow, will be joining our department as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery this fall at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center @ZSFGCare🌟🥳
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‼️We are beyond excited to announce that The Department of Surgery now has its own cookbook. Yes, a COOKBOOK👩🍳👨🏽🍳👩🏻🍳! A sincere thank you to all of the Residents, Faculty, and Staff who brought these 80+ recipes to life. Cookbook distribution starts today🎉🎉
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‼️In more inspiring news, Thoracic Surgeon & Assistant Professor of Surgery Dr. Melissa Coleman @MelissaHColeman has accepted a new Medical Leadership position and is now the Director of @UCSFMedicine's Clinical Immersive Experiences (CIEx)👏👏
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We are very excited to announce that Joseph Cuschieri MD FACS of Harborview at U of Washington has been named the next Trauma Medical Director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). @UCSFMedicine @UCSF @ZSFGCare @Jasosamd surgery.ucsf.edu/news-events…)
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‼️We are eager to share that, following a comprehensive search, Dr. Ajay Maker @Maker_MD has been named Surgeon in Chief for the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive @UCSFCancer Center. This appointment marks the creation of a new & significant role within the organization 🥳🥳
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Excited to announce our 2021 Thoracic Surgery Residency Matches‼️Congratulations to Andrew Wisneski (@Wisneski_AD) & Bianca Bromberger (@bbrombergermd). Everyone, please join us in congratulating our incoming fellows & welcome them to UCSF Thoracic Surgery (@UCSFHospitals)🥳🎉
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‼️The Department of Surgery is thrilled to announce Dr. @LucyKornblith, UCSF & @ZSFGCare Trauma Surgeon, as the Elsbach-Richards Endowed Chair I in Surgery at @UCSF! Her groundbreaking work in trauma care, research, and commitment to gender equity inspires us all👏👏
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Tomorrow Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan – the first female African-American pediatric surgeon in the country, current President of Society of Black Academic Surgeons and UCSF-East Bay grad will lead our East Bay-West Bay combined Grand Rounds --> ow.ly/QOBC50E0GmG @AHayesJordanMD
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Marko Boskovski (@marko_boskovski) to UCSF. He joins our faculty from Brigham and Women's as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery on September 1st, 2021 & will be based at the San Francisco VA. See you soon‼️
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‼️New Faculty Alert‼️We are excited to announce that👩🏼⚕️Dr. Sarah Cairo @cairo_sarah will be joining our faculty as a Pediatric Surgeon & Assistant Professor of Surgery at both Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco @UCSFChildrens and Oakland @UCSFBenioffOAK 🎉🎉
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Big News‼️Dr. Adnan Alesidi @HPB_Surgeon has been selected as a new member of The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. He will be inducted into the distinguished @MedicalEducator Academy on September 21, 2022 at the Sandler Neurosciences Center Auditorium @ Mission Bay 🥳
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‼️Thrilling News! Dr. Wen Shen @wshen16 of @UCSFSurgery has been selected as one of the newest members of The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. On September 29th he will be inducted to the esteemed @MedicalEducator community. Congrats Dr. Shen 🎊
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1⃣ of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma $50,000 annual scholarships was awarded to Acute Care Surgeon Dr. Marissa Boeck @KickAsana for the proposed study, "Identifying and Addressing Unmet Needs of Injury Survivors at a Safety Net Hospital in San Francisco."🥳👏
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Congratulations to Drs. Rita Mukhtar, Wen Shen, and Lan Vu on their appointments as new associate program directors of the @UCSFGSResidency, effective 1/1/2021. @wshen16 @Jasosamd @UCSFMedicine @ucsfmed @HPB_Surgeon @Surg_Education @APDSurgery
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We are starting Tuesday off with a bang! Dr. Tasce Bongiovanni (@TasceB)🎉🎉has been selected as the recipient of the Pepper Center Research Education Core (REC) Scholar award (@PepperUcsf) worth $30,000. Congratulations Dr. Bongiovanni‼️
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‼️Great News! Dr. Shareef Syed from @UCSFTransplant has been awarded a $40,000 grant by @UCSF’s Mount Zion Health Fund’s (MZHF) to support the project titled, "Surgery Education for the 21st Century – Where Deliberate Practice and Cognitive Load Theory Meet to Build Skills” 🎉🎉
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‼️We are elated to announce that Dr. Seiji Yamaguchi, an Abdominal Transplant surgeon from the University of Texas Health Science Center, is returning to San Francisco & @UCSF to join our Department as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery. Dr. Yamaguchi, welcome back‼️
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‼️Today we applaud Cancer Surgeons, Dr. Mohamed Adam @mohamedadamMD & Dr. Adnan Alseidi @HPB_Surgeon for achieving another milestone for our Minimally Invasive Pancreas & Liver Surgery Program. They've completed @UCSF's First Pure-Robotic Whipple Procedure in the Bay Area👏🥳
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We are so excited to welcome this diverse group of exceptional individuals 🎉🎉🎉 - Welcome to UCSF‼️
We could not be more pleased to announce our new General Surgery categorical resident class of 2029! Huge congratulations to all – we can’t wait to welcome you to @UCSFSurgery this June and partner with you as you begin your journeys to becoming leaders in surgery!
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Celebratory News‼️This weekend in Atlanta, Dr. Lucy Kornblith @LucyKornblith received the @traumadoctors Peter C. Canizaro Award for the Best Paper from a new member at the annual meeting. "A New Trauma Frontier: Platelet Transcriptomics" Congrats Dr. Kornblith🎊🎊
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‼️For his work on "Mapping the Immune Microenvironment in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Using Single Cell Sequencing," Dr. @JoelRamirezMD was chosen to receive the 2023 Hellman Family Clinical-Translational Research Development Award from the Bakar @immunox Initiative at @UCSF 🥳🥳
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What's it like to be a Heart Surgeon⁉️Want to know how early someone in this field wakes up in the morning❓Check out this interesting + insightful video below of Dr. Tom Nguyen @tomcnguyen our Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery‼️Full video here➡️ ow.ly/6B5p50K5Rzo
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Wick has been named the inaugural Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for the Department of Surgery. @ucsf @UCSFMedicine @ucsfhealth @ucsf_ihps @aser_hq @AHRQNews @Jasosamd surgery.ucsf.edu/news-events…
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‼️We are more than delighted to announce that Dr. Kent Garber, @kent_garber, will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Acute Care Surgeon in the Division of General Surgery 🥳
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Hey there‼️ We’ve made it a priority to support family planning during surgical training with our UCSF "Parenting in Surgery" initiative in collaboration w/ the Muriel Steele Society @UCSFMSS, Office of Graduate Medical Education, & UCSF Lactation Accommodation Program @UCSF_cls
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👩🏼⚕️Dr. Tasce Bongiovanni (@TasceB) Assist. Professor of Surgery in General Surgery has been selected 🥳 to receive a Teaching Award 🎉 for Clinical Faculty. She wants you all to know that she’s super grateful to have had the opportunity to work with our amazing medical students‼️
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