Official handover of ⁦PCSA⁩ presidency from Ed Phillips to ⁦Stanford Surgery⁩ professor ⁦Sherry Wren⁩, congratulations to both on their contributions to the art and science of surgery.

The PCSA, @pcsa2020, #PCSA2020 is a great meeting to learn about surgery and see old friends like Melina Kibbe. Many presentations by UCSF Surgery residents and faculty. @ucsf,
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#PCSA2020 PCSA Dr. Yu-Hsien Chen from #Taiwan showed similar low complication rates of transoral endoscopic #TOETVA and robotic #TORT in propensity matched groups. TORT took longer but made central node dissection easier. Axilla useful for removing large tumors American Association of Endocrine Surgeons

Mingling with the bigwigs at #PCSA2020 - congrats to the new PCSA President Dr Sherry Wren! Sherry Wren #WomenInSurgery

#PCSA2020 PCSA Dr. Claire Graves Claire Graves showed total lesion activity TLA of choline PET scan correlates with size/biochemical activities of adenoma in primary hyperpara. Dr. Insoo Suh Insoo Suh et al are working on its approval by FDA for parathyroid localization.

Favorite moment of the weekend: PCSA VP Miguel Burch introducing President Dr. #EdPhillips . A moving speech chronicling his extraordinary life—a #pioneer in laparoscopic surgery and the support system that kept him going: his wife & family. #PCSA2020 #ThankYouDrPhillips

Inspiring panel on #healthcare #innovation arranged by PCSA president and my mentor Dr. Ed Phillips including my other mentors bruce gewertz and (hopefully) @pedssurgery as well as Dr. Sumbul Desai. All have some version of my #dreamjob ! #PCSA2020

Celebration by Stanford Surgery at PCSA presidential dinner, incredible showing on the program!

Next talk on #innovation PCSA is with Apple VP of Health Dr Sumbal Desai.

Apple Health is only 5 years old. 🤔 And started just before the #iWatch .

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Apple Health CMO, Dr. Sumbul Desai, shares that tech to detext AFib, tachycardia on #AppleWatch was made 3y before release.. time was spent clinically validating the device and ensuring that alerts generated were helpful (not harmful) to medical community PCSA #PCSA2020

Continuing the PCSA Presidential panel on #innovation , bruce gewertz addresses the dilemma of academic medical centers in competing with #biotech corporate venture activities.

Cedars-Sinai does a good job of it. 💪🏻

#PCSA2020 #VC

Some new technology coming at you if you’ve had surgery:

Use of #VirtualReality can reduce #pain including #chronicpain .

#VR #PCSA2020 PCSA Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Cedars-Sinai @techstars bruce gewertz

Loved this unique and hilarious talk by PCSA Historians Dr. Ryan and wen shen on little known aspects of #Halsted ’s life. #PCSA2020

.PCSA President Dr Edward Phillips has spearheaded a very amazing panel session on the future and #innovation .

Dr @pedssurgery starts the session. She’s such an amazing surgeon peer, mentor, and role model as @IBMWatson VP.

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Dr Wen Shen takes over the rest of the historian presentation on Dr William #Halsted , discussing his life and surgical contributions when he moved from NY to Baltimore.

#pcsa2020 ⁦PCSA⁩ ⁦Center on Halsted⁩

- William Halsted died of complications of common bile duct stones.
- Caroline Hampton Halsted does pneumonia

Thank you to Historians Dr Ryan and Dr Shen (and their wives) for making this an awesome presentation PCSA

#PCSA2020 #loveyourlovedone .

Congratulations Dorna Jafari, MD, FACS, FASCRS on your new member status PCSA Welcome to the family🥰

#pcsa2020 Miguel Burch UCI Health @UCIrvineSOM

Interesting work from the exceptional Ashley Titan and the legendary Dr. Norton on outcomes after resection of locally advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Vascular resection was not associated with long term survival and OS was 90% Stanford Surgery PCSA

Enjoying hearing Dr. Andre Campbell discussing a trauma presentation PCSA meeting! UCSF Surgery

Harbor & UCLA! The past, present, and future. Happy Meeting! PCSA Harbor-UCLA Surgery UCLA Health @UCLASurg Sohail Sareh Yas Sanaiha