A big thanks to Zara Cooper from Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery for her enlightening Grand Rounds lecture on geriatric surgery! Dr. Cooper highlighted the importance of prioritizing care for the elderly, stating, 'If you aren't treating pediatrics, you are treating geriatrics.'

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Amazing Shukri Khuri MD visiting professor VA Boston HC by surgeon leader Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS executive director and CEO American College of Surgeons . Mentorship, teaching, education, policy , leadership were all on the agenda. Many new ideas and continued #acsquality .Thank you Dr Turner

We welcome Dr. Edward Cornwell from HU Department of Surgery as the inaugural Stepping Strong Injury Prevention Visiting Professor from Stepping Strong Center! Dr. Cornwell will present #GrandRounds tomorrow April 10.

Pookie was looking absolutely FIRE today! 🌑☀️🌎

Our GI and bariatric surgery teams coming together for a C-TIF! Great to have another option for management of reflux!

Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery Brigham and Women's GI Chris Thompson, MD Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD, MPH Abdelrahman Ali Nimeri MD

Today Mass General Hospital has announced the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig (porcine) kidney into a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease.

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Welcome and congratulations to our Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery categorical interns 2024-2025!

Thrilled to reach this milestone, well on our way to 1000 robotic pancreas/liver/upper GI cases. Special thanks to the Satter family for their support and to Agim Aliaj robotic coordinator extraordinaire.

'I haven’t really achieved anything,' said the boy.
'you are kind' said the mole,
'Which is everything.'

Artwork by Charlie Mackesy

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The cub thought for a moment...
'Maybe,' he said quietly, 'we each have our own gifts to offer the world, and we should celebrate them, rather than wishing we had someone else's.'

Art by James Norbury

We are incredibly appreciative of our residents and the integral roles they play in the success of our health care teams. Let’s show our gratitude every day, but especially on this special day honoring their commitment and dedication to our patients and our residency programs.

A key to steady progress is prioritizing goals over moods.

Whether you aim to get in shape, learn the guitar, or write a book, the question is not whether you feel like it today. It's who you want to become tomorrow.

Enthusiasm fluctuates. Consistent action accumulates.

A core skill of emotional intelligence is observing feelings before internalizing them.

Emotions are messages from your past self to your present self. They're best interpreted by your future self.

Feelings don't define who you are. They reveal what you value right now.

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

40 years ago today, Brigham and Women's Hospital made medical history by successfully completing the first heart transplant surgery in New England. This successful milestone was led by doctors Lawrence Cohn, John Collins, Richard Shemin and Gilbert Mudge. #HeartMonth

Two. Fold. Higher.

“The rate at which black people are dying, compared to whites, is really just astounding. There are patterns at this intersection of race and socioeconomic status that make it very clear this is just not a story about poverty.” - Courtney Cogburn apnews.com/71d952faad4a2a…

It was really wonderful to do an operation with three African American Women Surgeons and one Latinx Surgeon. Never thought I would see this ever happen to me in my career. #BlackwomeninMedicine , Society of Black Academic Surgeons, #BlackmenInMedicine , UCSF Surgery, @ucsf, #ZFSG , UCSF School of Medicine