The Jefferson Health SICU recently received the AACN Critical Care gold-level Beacon Award 🏆

We are so proud & appreciative of our SICU nursing colleagues and nursing leaders!

Many thanks to Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM (@Penn Penn Anesthesia) for presenting our Inaugural Annual DEI Grand Rounds lecture this morning - as well as Olugbenga Okusanya MD and the Jefferson Surgery DEI committee for coordinating 👏

Recording coming soon...

🩸 #BloodDonation is easy at our Jefferson Health Blood Donor Center on 10th St. Appts preferred but walk-ins are welcome. Post donation you will get juice, cookies & a thank-you gift 🧦 #GiveBlood

Make an appointment online: jeffersonhealth.org/locations/bloo…

.Edith Mitchell, M.D. will be greatly missed. She was a tremendous leader and collaborator during her exceptional career. Our thoughts are with her patients, family, and coworkers.

ICYMI Last week's Mini #GrandRounds by Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS on event response options is now available to view online:

▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/271/

Many thanks to our incredible multidisciplinary team Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University who attended and presented at our 18th Annual Pancreatic Cancer & Related Diseases Patient Symposium Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health

I know the patients & their families look forward to this event every year. 💜

Congratulations to Drs. Gerald Isenberg and Orlando Kirton Orlando C. Kirton on their induction into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators at the American College of Surgeons meeting in Chicago last month 👏

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Are you a patient, caregiver, clinician, administrator, employee, teacher, or student in the Jefferson Health community/neighborhoods who identifies with the LGBTQ+ community & its allies? 🏳️‍🌈

Submit a story, poem, or essay: brnw.ch/21wDWZY
Due Dec 31 | 1 entry per person

A wild time at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia last night! Joining Terry and me are past @JeffSurgery faculty member Gene Kennedy and his wife Debbie, on their 25th wedding anniversary! What better place to be to watch a 10 - 0 Phillies victory! #RedOctober #RingTheBell

ICYMI: This morning's 13th Annual Lady Grace Revere Osler #GrandRounds Gibbon Surgical Society SKMC Thomas Jefferson Univ lecture by Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, FACS (@IU_Surgery SOQIC) is available to watch online:

▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/263/

Thank you to Dr. Karl Bilimoria for an excellent 13th Annual Lady Grace Revere Osler #GrandRounds Lecture @JeffSurgery this morning 👏

📸Karl Bilimoria IUSM Department of Surgery (center) with Gibbon Surgical Society SKMC Thomas Jefferson Univ student leaders Thomas Jefferson University

Thank you to our incredible APPs. You are an invaluable part of the Jefferson Surgery team.

Many thanks to Dr. Lee Swanstrom for presenting the 12th Annual Philip E. Donahue, MD, Lectureship in Benign Gastrointestinal Diseases yesterday.

If you missed it, you can view it online now:
▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/262/

If you missed my Jefferson Surgery Town Hall Meeting last Thursday, it is available to view online now:

▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerymeeting…

I'm honored to share the latest volume of Advances in Surgery that I co-edited with several esteemed colleagues:

ICYMI: Yesterday, I presented the first mini #GrandRounds of the new academic year on Jefferson Surgery's Clinical Operations Optimization Committee and our 'Ten Commandments' Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University Andrea (Anj) DelMastro

▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/257/

ICYMI: My mini #GrandRounds presentation from last Thursday is available to view online.

▶️ jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/256/

Please join us tomorrow in person if you're able. In the last year, this group of @JeffSurgery residents published 25 papers, gave 41 presentations, and won 5 awards. 👏

We'll share recordings of their talks soon.