Thanks to TODAY for having me on this morning to talk about the importance of female representation in medicine! 🫀👩‍⚕️‼️ cc: UCSF Surgery UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Health

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What an amazing group of super cardiologists! Coming to work everyday and collaborating on patients and innovative care with this crew is just one of many reasons why UCSF Health UCSF Surgery UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery is the best! 🫀🔥‼️

Honored to receive the Michael J. Davidson Structural Heart Fellowship Award from the The Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) at the #STS2024 and excited to learn from the transcatheter experts next year! UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Surgery

📢SAVE THE DATE for the 2024 UCSF Vascular Symposium‼️ August 11 - 13, 2024 at Silverado Resort in Napa, California. Registration is now open. Program and faculty to be announced. 🔗vascularsymposium.ucsf.edu #UCSFVascularSymposium

Quick Update‼️We concluded 2023 with Breakthrough Achievements in Lung Transplants: 9️⃣5️⃣ Procedures, Top Rankings with UCSF positioned #1 in California for 2️⃣ consecutive years and #1 in UNOS region 5 & 6 in 2023, placing us #5 in the country✨✨✨

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our heart transplant🫀team UCSF Health UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Surgery

Ended 2023 with a ‼️RECORD BREAKING ‼️ 79 🫀tx..up from 49 in 2022 and 23 in 2021. #TheTeamTheTeamTheTeam
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‼️Delighted to share that our UCSF Vascular Surgery Division was selected as the Vascular Innovation Partner of the Month by the Vascular SVS Foundation. Their pioneering efforts and commitment have earned them the spotlight as this month's distinguished VIPs 👉 tinyurl.com/2act3pm3

‼️35 Minutes with our Chair, Dr. Julie Ann Sosa Julie A Sosa, MD👇

It’s been a remarkable year for UC students, faculty, staff, and alumni. I’m proud and grateful to be part of this community of trailblazers, inspirational leaders, and big thinkers who are changing the world for the better. Fiat lux! youtube.com/watch?v=LEcnFj…

👋 any graduating #ctsurgery fellows out there interested in joining us UCSF Health UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery for a 1 year SUPERFELLOWSHIP in 🫀🫁 #transplant ?! Both programs are ~80+ per year with amazing colleagues and a fab city! 🌁 DM me for details

Dr. Edward Gerstenfeld performed the next generation of treatment for #atrialfibrillation : Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA). Learn more about the patient's story and how he has benefited from this innovative therapy. UCSF Health ucsf.edu/news/2023/12/4…

Proud to have our work featured in this issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 🫀🫀

Cc: Jason W. Smith, MD. FACS. UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Surgery UCSF Health

🎉 Our Mount Zion and Parnassus hospitals have received the prestigious Top Hospital award from The Leapfrog Group!
The award recognizes the best hospitals in the nation for patient safety and quality of care! 🎉 ucsfh.org/485Z2sE

🌟Impactful Cardiology #GrandRounds on Dec 13: Prof. of Med. & Director of UCSF NURTURE & Assoc. Dean for Admissions Dr. Michelle Albert will present Adversity in Academic Medicine: Career Truths, Recruitment, Retention, and Success According to Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. #WIC

Last yr was exhausting. Being a surgeon & Chair is hard but doing it as an (only) daughter caring for aging, ill parents seems impossible. We MUST create a more supportive community, inventory/avail resources & provide paid eldercare leave. #MedTwitter
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Always happy to see a patient doing well after major surgery. Single-stage total thoracic aortic replacement from the sinotubular junction to the distal descending thoracic aorta.
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End of Day 2 in Rwanda 🇷🇼 with Team Heart

3 lives saved 🏥, 5 valves fixed 🫀many more to go. Honored to be here making a small contribution towards a better future for some amazing patients 🇺🇸🇷🇼🫀

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Our first triple valve 🫀🇷🇼 patient catching some fresh air with his mom 2 days post-op. True honor to have make such an impact on these young lives 🇷🇼🇺🇸🫀💯🔥
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Dr. Binh An Phan presented to a group of UCSF School of Medicine students during a session on Exploring General Cardiology. The Cardiology Division is helping to fund 7 in-person sessions for those who are interested in exploring cardiology as a career. #ZSFGCards Priscilla Hsue