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.UND Surgery kicking off joined #2025NDSDACS Annual meeting. Great to see great turnout by ND & SD surgeons. American College of Surgeons

Thank you ACS President Dr. Sutton for an excellent talk on “ACS Perspectives on Rural Surgery” and the unique challenges surgeons face in rural and resource limited regions. American College of Surgeons

Dr Wade Hopper PGY2 and future research fellow presenting his research on “Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use in Damage Control Laparotomy.” Great presentation and great discussion!

Great job to UND med student Sandi Zukanovic on presenting his research with our surgery faculty and residents on “Timely Follow Up After Positive Stool-Based Testing: Evaluating Diagnostic Colonoscopy Delays in Rural and Non-Rural Populations.”

Dr Anthony Duncan, Current UND Research Fellow, “A Mature Transfer System Promotes Equivalent Emergency General Surgery Outcomes for Rural, Micropolitan, and Metropolitan Population.” Excellent work on improving our trauma system and your multiple publications this year!

Congrats on a blowout victory for UNDs Surgical Jeopardy team (Drs Sam Bloomsburg PGY4 and Wade Hopper PGY2) against South Dakota! Dr Tuvin playing the role of Trebek!

An unfortunate loss in the robotics competition for Drs. Audra King and Nicole Lee, both PGY3. We’ll get them next year!

Dr Mentor Ahmeti, APD and Research and Academic Chair (and new President of the ND American College of Surgeons President) presenting on “Research in Our Environment” regarding the challenges, achievements, and future steps for research projects in North Dakota! Mentor Ahmeti

Dr Anthony Duncan, current research fellow, presenting on another one of his many projects, “The Impact of Social Vulnerability Index on Trauma Patients,” finding no significant difference in trauma outcomes for patients with higher vulnerability.

Guest speaker Dr Eric Anderson, former UND resident and current Thoracic Oncologist at Allina Health speaking on “Future in Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment” and his pioneering development of a more efficient program for diagnosing and treating lung nodules.

Dr Mallory Vesling, PGY1 presenting on an interesting case of “Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in a Patient with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma” with mentor Dr Mistry

Dr Bhargav Mistry, one of our Transplant and Critical Care surgeons closing out the weekend with “The Final Frontier Breached: Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) in Solid Organ Transplantation.” So cool to hear about the latest in robotics and transplant! Bhargav Mistry MD FRCSEng FRCSI FACS

Congregations to our two successful residents matching into terrific CT programs. Proud of you Elena Danielson MD and Hunter Row MD UND Surgery UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Congratulations goes out to Elena Danielson, MD for matching to the University of Iowa Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship program! We are excited to have you join our team. Thoracic Surgery Directors Association

Fantastic news for Dr Elena Danielson (PGY4) matching into cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at University of Iowa! We are so proud of her and excited for her next steps! NRMP®

A big congrats to Dr Hunter Row (PGY4) for marching into cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Loyola University in Chicago! It’s so gratifying to see your hard work and research pay off! NRMP®

Dr. Sugong Chen, bariatric surgeon at Sanford, looked into the future for his Grand Rounds talk this Friday discussing the current trends and next steps of bariatric surgery especially with the widespread use of GLP1 agonists!

Chief resident photo shoot. Time is counting down to graduation! @ryandbeard_ Adrian Sarli, MD @drjudebarber

A great job to all the poster and podium presenters at the first joint General Surgery and Internal Medicine UND Clinical Research Colloquium!

Exciting lab on negative pressure therapy with our UND Surgery residents. Huge thanks to our partners for all the equipment and educational support on this! UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Sanford Health