Prof | MIS/bariatric/general surgeon @browngensurg | Surgery Clerkship Director | Alpert Med @BrownMedicine | #ilooklikeasurgeon | she/her

Rhode Island, USA
Joined September 2013
Congratulations to all of the hard-working medical students on this Match day! And an extra congratulations to the new members of our Brown Surgery family. We cannot wait to work and learn beside you all! 🤎💗🫶🏻 🩺 💯
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Viewpoint: #MandM conferences benefit surgeon moral development by fostering personal responsibility, reflection, and a mindset for improvement in #Surgery. @pangelos1 @seancwightman ja.ma/48M12rL
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Surg Ed week ✅Dr. Lynch had a poster on our URM mentorship program & Jorge, one of our MS3s, had a presentation on our vascular anastomosis lab. Can’t wait for program leadership to bring back some pearls to implement as they work to continuously improve our learning experience!
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Happy Match Day to all the fourth year med students out there who have worked so hard with this day in mind! We cannot wait to welcome our amazing new residents to our Brown Surgery family! Congratulations! 🩺✨ #NewBeginnings
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Shout out to Drs. Lynch & Ryder for presenting at Grand Rounds this morning! Thank you for this annual discussion on the clinical learning environment and providing tips and tricks to be better educators! It’s time to rewrite the narrative on what a Surgery clerkship should be!
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We are hiring a new bariatric/robotic surgeon. Send cv/letter to [email protected]!
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Updating the department on the local state of affairs in HERNIA surgery! Dr. Luhrs and Dr. Giorgi - our fellowship program directors - giving an update on our complex hernia center and now abdominal wall and hernia fellowship designation - 1 of 10 in the country !! @Brownsurgical @BrownMedicine @Browngensurg #medX #MedTwitter #surgery #roboticsurgery #hernias #AWR
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MIS fellowship applicants — Brown is Bariatrics and Abdominal Wall (brand new designation - 7th program in the country) AND we do advanced surgical endoscopy with high volume POP/POEMs. Plus... we have fun!! Apply starting by in December!❤️🤎 #MISfellowship #generalsurgery #surgery #MIS #fellowship #endoscopy #robot #MedTwitter @BrownMedicine @Brownsurgical @Browngensurg
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In this Viewpoint, @StanfordSurgery @JeffChoi01 and @DavidASpain offer insight on how to deliver impactful scientific oral presentations and maximize research impact. ja.ma/3XyFMAi
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The @AmCollSurgeons released Surgical Ergonomics Recommendations that apply directly to OR setups. Let this serve as a reminder to everyone that ergonomics matter, no matter the job! Poor body positioning can lead to musculoskeletal disorders and many other health issues. Read the full recs here: tinyurl.com/surgeryergonomic…
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🚨 New podcast episode alert! 🚨 Our residents recently came together to record an all new episode for our Brown Surgery Podcast. The topic? What it’s like being a surgery intern- and how to survive it. The episode is now live on Spotify and Apple- let us know what you think! 🩺
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This narrative review summarizes the current evidence on and recommendations for management of gallstone pancreatitis. ja.ma/3LoAWA3
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Super proud of these two! 🥳
Double trouble! Our admin chiefs, Eva Koeller and Chibueze Nwaiwu, matched into MIS fellowship this week! Eva will be heading to Baystate and Chibueze will be off to Stanford. We are so proud of them both and cannot wait to see what they accomplish next. 🩺🎉
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In 1897 Harvey Cushing gets appendicitis soon after beginning his surgical residency at Johns Hopkins. He ends up writing his own H&P. 🧐 He was eventually operated on when fever and abdominal pain worsened. Later he developed a wound infection and was discharged on day 17
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… Been excited to share our latest work in @JAMASurgery describing the parenthood experience of 82% of US Gen Surg residents. Female residents: ➡️ half as often become parents in residency (10% vs 22%) ➡️more often mistreated on basis of parenthood (58% vs 30%) (1/4) 🧵
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We had an amazing showing of Brown residents at NESS Resident Research Day! Special shout out to Dr. Shin who won 2nd prize for best clinical research and Dr. Ostertag-Hill who won 2nd prize for best basic science research! So proud of everyone who presented their work!🩺🥼🔬🧫
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Bach's Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I was brought by Princess Daazhraii Johnson (@ArcticDaazhraii). Full video at ▶️ bit.ly/4aJnjXb
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"My name is Ghazal, it's a style of poetry in Farsi and I identify with that because my family reads [it]," explains @GAghagoli’19 MD'24. "When someone takes time to pronounce my name correctly, it acknowledges my Persian culture and sometimes, it even starts conversation."
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Excellent discussion last night - looking forward to reading this book
RHODE ISLAND! I’ll be in Providence THIS Wednesday 3/6 at 6:30pm at the Lincoln School (@lincoln1884 ) discussing my @nytimes best-selling book LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine 👩🏾‍⚕️🩺 w/ @Brown_SPH's Jai-Me Potter Rutledge. Register: curiosityand.company/store/p…
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