Published in Journal of Clinical Oncology! 🥳 There is widespread variation in the discontinuation of antibiotic prophylaxis post-mastectomy without immediate reconstruction but with indwelling drains 🤌 This nicely sets up our upcoming RCT on the topic, stay tuned! #BreastTwitter #BreastSurgery

I will be conducting a Course teaching advanced statistical analysis for healthcare research! 💪 📊 For anyone in PAKISTAN involved in any capacity in the healthcare sector, as students, trainees, or professionals! 🥳🥼 Link: forms.gle/3teB8R1kQk5gmp…. #MedStudents #MedTwitter

ATTENTION PRE-MEDICAL STUDENTS! 🥳 This Course if for YOU!😍 Join Asad Fatimi and me from 22-26th August, 2022 and equip yourself with essential research skills to get 🔴AHEAD OF THE CURVE🔴 when you join Medical School!😁 Link: forms.gle/bwtVSsJUfFyAPb…

In celebration of #EarthDay2023 🌍, here's a picture of me with my mentor presenting our abstract on #sustainability in #healthcare! 🌿 Healthcare professionals tend to only care about #data - lots of research is needed to change minds and policy for #greener #healthcare! 🏥🌍

Is Bigger always Better? Maybe not 🤭 Our paper in Annals of Surgery challenges the volume-outcome dogma 📈 Only 7-30% of IHM is due to hospital volume! Focus should shift to prehabilitation & exploring ❓unknown❓ sources of variation in IHM! 🏣 bitly.ws/DBJ6

Double armed multi-I RCT found no benefit to extended antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing breast surgery (sans recon). Clear and well executed study!!! Aga Khan University ASBrS #ASBrS23

We presented 1 Landmark RCT, 1 Quasi-Experimental study, and 1 major Public Health intervention - all work at our alma mater Aga Khan University - at this year's ASBrS conference! 🥳💖 Of course we also had some fun 😝

Congratulations to Abida Sattar, MD, of Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, recipient of the Scientific Impact Award. #ASBRS23

Congratulations! This is a huge achievement!

New in Annals of Surgery: ever wonder how much patient characteristics, hosp volume, hosp characteristics, etc contribute to hospital mortality variation? Russell Seth Martins, Chee-Chee Stucky, #DavidEtzioni, & #NabilWasif explores this in 80,969 pts. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Across 5🔪, pt characteristics contributed the most to in-hosp mortality variation, not hosp volume. ❗️: Unexplained sources resp for large variation% in select🔪. 🔦: Importance of preop optimization (prehab?) &✔️pt stratification to not disincentivize hosp treating these pts.

Fresh off the press! 🔥Collab b/w Aga Khan University's heavyweights in Depts. of Surgery, Psych, Onc, School of Nursing, & CHS x Uppsala University explores how psychosocial characteristics influence the ✨Quality of Life✨of patients with 🧠 tumors in 🇵🇰 shorturl.at/esHOU

Climate change is real. View from my office - photos taken 24 hours apart - no filters! #ForestFires #ClimateEmergency

My pleasure Usama Waqar - it's been terrific to watch you grow leaps and bounds on your own research journey! You're truly the engine driving sustainable student-led research at Aga Khan University!

Shedding Light on the Hidden Curriculum: A Systematic Review of Ethics Education during General Surgery and Subspecialty Training by Martins et al.: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #hiddencurriculum #ethics #generalsurgery #SurgEd #clinicalethics #medicalethics

What an absolute honor for our team to have received the ✨ J. Max Chamberlain Memorial Award for Thoracic Surgery ✨ at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons! 🏆 🎉 The single biggest moment of my academic career thus far! Endlessly grateful to my mentors and the STS! 🙌