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Happy #Thanksgiving! 🦃 Today, we give thanks to our incredible residents and program. Your dedication to UCLA, and most importantly, to our patients, inspires us every day. We are so grateful for each and every one of you! 🍁🥰

Today’s #GrandRounds was a battle of surgical minds! 🧠💥 Zach_Weitzner_MD & #BenTran debated medical vs surgical #weightloss therapies, while KJ Blair, MD MSc & Dennis Zheng tackled #REBOA vs thoracotomy in trauma. Can they convince us? 🤔 Thanks for an engaging discussion! 👏

✨Congrats to Brittany Robinson for being awarded the 2025-2026 @UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship! 🌍 With this award, she’ll dedicate 12 months of research in Cameroon, advancing global health alongside expert mentors. We're so proud of you! #UCLASurgery #GlobalHealth #Research

Shoutout to resident Dr. #HaleyTupper for organizing two impactful #HealthyLungsCA events!🫁🎉 Nov 10: Raised awareness about #LungCancer screening in the community. Nov 12: Educated providers through a focused #CME session. Amazing teamwork with Dr. Sha'Shonda L. Revels! 👏

What I heard at Grand Rounds Clifford Ho American College of Surgeons on Surgical Quality Improvement Do we have perfect data/metrics: No, but we still need to act Hope is not a strategize. Many quality projects fail because there is not high quality planning before launching the project.

FUN FACT: A thoracic surgeon is now the residency program director for UCLA General Surgery Residency Program. Her name is Dr. Jane Yanagawa. 🫁uclahealth.org/departments/su…

The holiday cheer was in full swing at our Residency White Elephant Party! 🎁🎄Residents brought creative gifts, and faculty added to the fun with generous donations - thank you for making it extra special! 🥰 A heartwarming day filled with laughter and surprises. #UCLASurgery

Endocrine surgery team UCLA Health completing our 13th adrenalectomy in 3 weeks. Pheopalooza, the revenge. Masha Livhits Joshua C. Chao, MD, JD James Wu UCLA General Surgery Residency Program

The holiday spirit lives on! 🎄✨celebrating the incredible people who make our residency special and looking forward to the adventures of 2025! 🎉 #UCLAResidents #UCLASurgery

Dr Serena Lofftus UCLA General Surgery Residency Program wins the best trainee paper at #PCSA2025 PCSA for her project on Patient-Based Decision Making for Narcotic Prescriptions after Ambulatory Breast Surgery. James Wu JAMA Surgery

New Pub Alert! Jordan Rook highlights incr risk of #PerfAppendicitis for kids w High Deductible Health Plans. Incr LOS and costs follow. Great cross town collab bw UCLA General Surgery Residency Program Keck School of Medicine of USC Children's Hospital LA RAND Annals of Surgery journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

I was 17 when I scrubbed into my first surgery at OHSU. 17 years and (literally) half a life later I’m overjoyed to share that I will be starting my first attending job where it all started as an Assistant Professor of Surgery focused on Bariatrics and Foregut OHSU News

After a 9 year intermission in the Midwest including 1 MD and 1 PhD, I'm going back to LA! I can't wait to become a surgeon at UCLA General Surgery Residency Program! #Match2025

We are thrilled to have matched this incredible group to our UCLA Surgery family! We can't wait to welcome you to sunny Los Angeles 😎🌴 #Match2025

Join us in celebrating APSA's 2025 award winners! Congratulations to this year's recipients of the M. Judah Folkman Award. View the full list here: buff.ly/y9L2hhA