Member Anthony Charles UNC Surgery considers the implications of a preoperative antiseptics study on global surgery: "This study should prompt a change in WHO guidance.” UNC School of Medicine globalhealth.unc.edu/2024/06/anthon…

Absolutely right thing to do.

I’m extremely proud of our President, and I endorse this endorsement.

🎉 Congrats to Liz Nazzal from UNC School of Medicine for winning the Amer. Urol. Assn. Medical Student Fellowship! 🏅 Her research on how past discrimination affects patient-surgeon communication in urologic cancer is groundbreaking. ow.ly/R3LC50SO9uj

Incredibly excited to be part of MUSC Department of Surgery Faculty! medicine.musc.edu/departments/su…

The department of surgery welcomes our new faculty member, Dr. Laura Purcell to the division of Pediatric Surgery!

I’m overjoyed that WCHL & Chapelboro has selected my friend and co-worker Michelle Dunevant as this week’s Hometown Hero! Michelle is retiring at the end of this month after 30 years of state service and while I’m so happy for her, we’re all really going to miss her!

Putting us in sun belt makes no sense but we get way more sun than Oregon!!

Just think, in a perfect world, each state could play a Sufjan Stevens song off his 50 States project.

📣Jim Murphy, MHA named next #UNCSurgery Associate Chair of Administration!   Read more about Jim's 18 years of experience at UNC, including roles as ACA for the Dept of Neurosurgery and UNCHC System Director for Specialty Programs. go.unc.edu/MurphyACA UNC School of Medicine UNC Hospitals

Our recent editorial in DCR highlights a project opening a new frontier in AI-assisted intra-op support and emphasizes the need for surgeon-owned, open-source data and models. journals.lww.com/dcrjournal/cit… Patricia Sylla

As an assistant professor, this hits a bit too close to home.

Beautiful day in Chapel Hill and a great day for a BIG move! Moving day for the OR staff as next week UNC Hospitals begins treating patients in the shiny new OR Tower!! UNC Surgery UNC Anesthesiology UNC Lineberger UNC Health

Strong work from the Charles Lab at the NC/SC resident paper competition. 2nd and 3rd prize awards ⁦Selena An, MD⁩ ⁦UNC Surgery⁩

Step inside the North Carolina Surgical Hospital with our virtual tour! It's not just the steel and glass – it's the people and their dedication to compassionate care. Take the tour: ow.ly/jCMY50T2peF

F. Scott Fitzgerald, can you feel it

Good luck to all participating in the Surgical Critical Care fellowship Match today. Hope everyone is excited with their results !!!

Once again: a🧵about 🧵's It's been about a year since I last posted these, but for the new folks, here is a collection of links to each of my 🧵 about surgical sutures. 9 of these are about suture types and the other 3 are miscellaneous suture-related topics. ⬇️(1/ )

There are certain cases that are always painful, and at the end you tell yourself you’re going to stop doing them one day. Then after about 48 hr, the pain has passed enough that you’re ready again for the next one. Then this same cycle repeats over and over. 🤔

When your residents copy your bio/degrees straight from your Twitter account 😁🤷‍♂️ Gonna be another great AAST annual meeting kicking off tomorrow! #AAST2024 #AcademicSurgery #McRIB