Awesome SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024! session this afternoon-HERnia: Gender Based Differences in Hernia Management! Especially the presentation from my future partner Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD. He’s doing important and eye opening work for our transgender patients with hernias OHSU Department of Surgery

SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024! ADOPT LCBDE hands on course! Thank you to all the participants and instructors! #FernandoSantos Eric Knauer Maggie Bosley, MD Kevin El-Hayek, MD, MBA, FACS Ezra Teitelbaum American Board of Surgery American College of Surgeons #SafeChole

Excited to join these guys and the entire OHSU Department of Surgery team in a few months! #herniageeks

“It gratified me to note that in twenty years I have probably not had a recurrence…It would weary you to have me discuss this subject farther”

Halsted on inguinal hernias

Going to try that line out at SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024! “it would weary you to have me discuss this subject farther”

Thank you to BehindTheKnife for featuring #HerniaGeeks on the channel. Excited to contribute to their growing collection of video based education. #OHSUHernia
BTK: app.behindtheknife.org/video-playlist…
YouTube: youtube.com/@HerniaGeeks?s…

Great job Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD! OHSU Department of Surgery #herniageeks

Putting my SAGES Is In Cleveland 2024! table scripts together right now. My favorite way to organize succinct thoughts for timed meeting presentations. Prints easily and allows for team comments #academicsurgeryhacks Wash U General Surgery Residency WFSM-Surgery Education

“Doc, if you wanna be famous or important, die at the right time. Otherwise, carry your own load.”

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
James McBride

End of rotation #lottotickets for the MIS team today! Robert MacGregor pictured here taking the Dr. Michael Brunt through his first scratch off experience. He won. It’s never too late Wash U General Surgery Residency

“We cannot tell people to trust us. We cannot instruct people to come up with big ideas. And we certainly can’t demand that people cooperate. These are always results”

Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek

Good Jeff Blatnik trick for closing large peritoneal defects during TAR-posterior rectus sheath rotation. In the words of the master “complex solutions for simple problems- just fixing holes”

The most effective therapy I have seen to prevent post ERCP pancreatitis is laparoscopic common bile duct exploration.

Shout out to Wake Forest and reclaiming the CBD at SESC as one the top papers of interest in 2023 #SESC24

Fun lecture today with Wash U General Surgery Residency -there’s not much better than a captive audience and gallbladders! And for those that don’t care about CBD stones, dot collection outside your silo can be powerful! Paul Wise

Working on my Wash U General Surgery Residency LCBDE didactic for next week. You won’t want to miss it! There’s even something for the chiefs going into colorectal and CT surg. And maybe even a lottery ticket or 2 for engaged participants 🤓😎

Got an email from a surgeon starting to do LCBDE who wanted to connect. Love the cart tally 😅 Luke Neff, MD FACS

Excited for this series and surgical education research being elevated by collaborations like this!

Pitfalls are common in surgical education research. Dimitrios Stefanidis with Drs. Torbeck and Kaji provide an overview of these common flaws for education researchers. ja.ma/3RIW6LJ

An inspiration! Marissa Howard-McNatt, MD

This simple technique for LCBDE allows ACS surgeons to manage the disease rather than simply a piece of it!