SAGES 2025 Brandeis Award winners Drs. Maria Altieri and Nisha Narula at last week's course.

This week’s #PipelineFriday features transplant legend & former ASTS President Dr. Lloyd Ratner. His advice to trainees? 👉Do what’s best for patients 👉Speak up—for them & yourself 👉Have multiple mentors Watch the video to hear more! Kristina Lemon

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Amazing opportunity 👇to learn EUS and ERCP in 🇵🇰 from the masters of the craft! MK Hasan Mustafa Arain Nadeem Tehami Prof. ABED AL-LEHIBI/أ. د. عابد اللهيبي S Kadir Ghais un Nabi tayyab

2 and a half weeks left to submit your abstracts for #ASC2026 . academicsurgicalcongress.org/abstracts/ Join us in Orlando! The largest US academic surgical meeting has it all. academicsurgicalcongress.org Assoc4AcademicSurgery Society of University Surgeons (SUS)

🚨 Editorial Announcement! Dr. Robert Russell (UAB), Professor of Surgery and Director of Pediatric Trauma at Children’s of Alabama, has been named Associate Editor for Pediatric Surgery at JSR!@scottlemaire Colin A. Martin MD Welcome, Dr. Russell! 👏🩺📚

🚨REMINDER: Apply for the AAS Fall Courses Travel Award! Are you an underrepresented voice in surgery looking to advance your academic career? Apply now for the AAS Travel Award, which includes: 🎓 Complimentary registration to the 2025 Fall Courses ✈️ $1,000 in travel support

🎙️New data for management of #HCC What is new? What is in the works? Review this & more with Adam Yopp Amit G Singal & Katie Kelley in new #SurgOncToday podcast 🎧 A real masterclass in perioperative care for HCC 🔝 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sur…

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Register now to attend the SAAS Executive Healthcare Leadership Academy! 🗓 Early Deadline: Nov 29, 2025 📍 Meeting: Jan 24-26, 2026 📑 Details: go.uab.edu/ehla SocAsianAcadSurg UAB Surgery

Thank you SSAT and its leadership for this amazing opportunity!

📢 Registration is open for the 2025 ACS Simulation in Surgical Education course! Course participants will learn how simulation can teach and refine essential surgical skills. 🗓️: November 19–22 📍: Durham, North Carolina brnw.ch/21wUsCo

Congrats to Dr. Robert Russell, who was recently appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Surgical Research! 🖥️ :bit.ly/44RLBOb

More disappointing news in #HCC: Adjuvant pembrolizumab failed to beat surveillance in the global P3 #KEYNOTE-937 trial (NCT03867084). Merck disclosed the negative result quietly in an SEC filing. Not unexpected after #IMbrave050

Surgeon intuition + ASA score together predict postoperative outcomes about as well as a NSQIP data-trained model. Excited to see this work spearheaded by Maggie Berrigan & BIDMC Department of Surgery ACS division out in Journal of Surgical Research: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA Gabriel Brat

Congratulations Brian Longbottom, MD on a job well done !! University of Iowa Surgery University of Iowa

Dr. Wali Johnson found his passion for #transplant during residency at Vanderbilt, drawn by the mix of critical care, patient connection & surgery. 📽️Hear more about his journey and advice for aspiring tx surgeons #PipelineFriday Kristina Lemon Wali Johnson Vanderbilt University

🚨 LAST CALL: Abstracts for #ASC2026 are due Friday, August 8th at 11:59 PM ET! Don't miss your chance to be part of the 21st Annual Academic Surgical Congress, happening February 3–5, 2026 in Orlando, Florida! ✔️ All academic surgery disciplines ✔️ Oral + Quickshot formats 🚫

🔔 Residents, applications are now being accepted for 2-year residency research scholarships. You must be a member of RAS-ACS who has completed at least two postdoctoral years in an accredited surgical training program in the US or Canada. brnw.ch/21wUBPt

Special 📢 Please submit your work to our special edition on novel statistical methods and design in research ! Please consider submitting your work!! Extended deadline Nov 30!! Link : sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Scott LeMaire Kanhua "Kevin" Yin