What a week. Thanks to National Cancer Institute for awarding our #NIHLRP app studying molecular and image-based phenotypes of pancreas tumor biology! This wouldn’t have been possible without the unparalleled support of my mentors Hale Family Center For Pancreatic Cancer Research. Excited to continue this work w/ them Loma Linda U. Health

Congratulations to our very own chief resident Sameer Hirji elected TSRA 2024-2025 President! 🎉 Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery

🔬New insights in #SleeveGastrectomy!🔬 Our latest collab with Devlin Lab features postdoc Yingjia Chen and shows that SG increases small intestinal TDCA, decreasing bacterial production of LCA and improving glucose metabolism. Check it out and follow! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jTSj6t8JEqo…

Our 2-year MERITAS fellowship program provides surgical residents the opportunity to conduct research from concept to dissemination under the mentorship of multidisciplinary investigators and leaders in health services research. Applications open Sept. 1st bit.ly/MERITAS

Proud of our group’s new study featured in the inaugural issue of the newly launched AATS JTCVS Structural and Endovascular Journal highlighting the variability in catheter-based skills training for CT surgery trainees. Time for standardized training! Thais Faggion Vinholo

Research Spotlight: Identifying Potential New Protein Targets for Melanoma Therapeutics buff.ly/46DyC1G Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery

We welcome Omar Selim MD, MSc, FRCSC, RPVI as a new faculty member Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery BWH Vascular Surgery! bit.ly/4cwKxzL

It’s that wonderful time of the year again! Surgery applicants, want to learn more about the #BrighamFamily? Save the dates for our virtual meet & greet sessions to hear what it’s like to be #BrighamTrained from our faculty and residents. Stay tuned for more details!

If you are a surgery applicant and identify as URiM, LGBTQIA+, and/or come from disadvantaged backgrounds, join us for our upcoming virtual open house on Sept 3rd at 630pm EST! Meet and hear from our amazing faculty and residents, sign up here now: tinyurl.com/BrighamSurgery…

Join the #BrighamBEI for "#MedEd STARS: Showcasing Talent Among Residents, and Scholars." Thursday, September 12th, at 12pm with Prashanth Rajarajan, MD, PhD and Marinos Sotiropoulos, MD 🇬🇷🧠. More Info: bit.ly/MedSTARS Brigham and Women's GI Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery

Surgery applicants, we want to meet you! We welcome you to join us on Sept 5th 8pm EST for our virtual meet & greet to hear from faculty and residents about our program and what it’s like to be #BrighamTrained! Sign up here now: tinyurl.com/BrighamSurgery…

"To move toward true #healthequity, interventions must prioritize community needs over system needs." #SDOH Doing more cancer screening won’t reduce Black-white health disparities buff.ly/4dwtkb7 by Ade Adamson, MD MPP Vishal Patel via STAT CC: Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital

We are happy to announce that Dr. Sangki Oak (left), currently a Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery resident, and Dr. Michael Szymanski, a resident Stony Brook Medicine South Hampton Hospital, have matched to Boston Medical Center Surgical Critical Care Fellowship! Noelle Saillant tracey dechert, md Boston Trauma

Please join us in welcoming Nicholas L. Berlin MD, MPH, MS as a new faculty member Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery! Read about Dr. Berlin here >> bit.ly/3Xqimy5

Our latest in Annals of Surgery: we find that racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to forgo the opportunity for surgical cure when diagnosed with resectable cancer - an association that has remained unchanged for 💢two decades💢 Link: journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… /1

#Colchicine for CV & limb risk reduction in #PAD: emulation of target trials. Paper from #VESELab Patrick Heindel, MD, MPH Jim Fitzgibbon, MD BWH Vascular Surgery CSPH in collaboration w/ Eric Secemsky MD MSc Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt Mohammed Al-Omran Subodh Verma إبراهيم بن علي المغلوث | Ibrahim Almaghlouth CAUSALab. academic.oup.com/ehjopen/articl…

We welcome Dr. Arfry Marcelino as a new faculty member Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery! >>>bit.ly/47gjIPf

Department of Surgery Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery opening day ceremony! Warm welcome to our new interns Peter Tramontozzi, MD and Olivia McCloskey as well as our structural fellows Laura Scrimgeour and Thais Faggion Vinholo ! It’s going to be a great year!

#SITC24 Science Preview: Jennifer Guerriero, PhD @Brighamsurgery, Alberto Mantovani, MD, Instituto Clinico Humanitas, Lai Guan Ng, PhD, Shanghai Immune Therapy Institute, Miriam Merad, MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Renato Ostuni Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele explore myeloid cells in cancer. Details: ow.ly/lj5M50TguxT