Glimpses from yesterday’s visit by the 2024 Richard E. Wilson visiting professor in Surgical Oncology,
Dr. Sharon Weber, Chair, Division of Surgical Oncology, UW-Madison Department of Surgery. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insights on rural-urban disparities in cancer.

Terrific talk by Dr Weber on rural versus urban disparities in cancer care and outcomes and strategies to try to improve them.

Excellent visit by Winan van Houdt with our Brigham-Dana Farber sarcoma team, first running Boston Marathon on Monday, then updating us on the challenges of doing academic international surgical sarcoma trials like the phase 3 #STRASS2 . Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery BWH Surgical Oncology TARPSWG

Excellent plenary session talk by Mark Fairweather adding more proof that neoadjuvant RT has a role for primary RP WDLPS ⁦Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦BWH Surgical Oncology⁩ ⁦TARPSWG⁩ #SSO2024

Excellent talk by ⁦Eliza Hersh Lorentzen, MD⁩ at #SSO2024 ⁦Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦christinaminami⁩ ⁦Tari King MD⁩ ⁦Dr. E Mittendorf⁩

20+ years together. Work and life mates, striving to improve knowledge in sarcoma and patients’ care of today and tomorrow. What a journey! I couldn’t have looked for a better one! Marco Fiore, MD, FACS, FEBSh Chirurgia dei Sarcomi INT Istituto Tumori CTOS

Congratulations to Dr Stefanie Soelling for addressing gender representation within the CGSO fellowship. #sso2024 ⁦BWH Surgical Oncology⁩ ⁦Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦Nancy Cho⁩ ⁦Megan Sulciner, MD⁩ ⁦Lily Saadat⁩

TARPSWG semiannual meeting at Society of Surgical Oncology in Atlanta. Thks to our local host Ken Cardona . Lots of discussions around new ideas, studies, projects, educational initiatives to advance the knowledge of this difficult disease.

Chandrajit Raut presenting the count me in project at the TARPSWG semiannual meeting. Nice shirt buddy! Very elegant! CTOS Ken Cardona

#SSO2024 Great leadership pearls by impactful leader Peter WT Pisters, MD

Summary (but will admit that I can’t do justice to what he shared in person):
- Know your leadership training gaps
- Technical skills are not enough to lead
- Balance between confidence and humility

SSO 2024 Scientific Program Committee Chair Callisia Clarke MD shares the sessions she is looking forward to attending at #SSO2024 .

Which sessions are you most excited about?

Terrific milestone by our amazing team!

Congratulations!
Robotic surgery program at BWH Surgical Oncology has achieved an important milestone: 100 robotic Whipple surgery!
This is another example of strong teamwork at Brigham and Women's Hospital Thomas Clancy Jiping Wang James Luo Zhi Ven Fong, MD MPH DrPH.
Thanks to the support from

The conundrum - we give amazing experts Callisia Clarke MD Fabian Johnston, M.D., M.H.S Mary Killackey 10 min each for critical issue of sustaining a diverse surgical workforce and I could learn from them ALL DAY … we must discuss today, tomorrow & future, go forth & DO THE WORK! #GISS24

Lorenzo D'Ambrosio Marco Fiore, MD, FACS, FEBSh Alessandro Gronchi Chirurgia dei Sarcomi INT Sarcoma UniTo Desmoid Foundation ONLUS - Italia this topic comes up every week in clinic 🙏 Marco Fiore, MD, FACS, FEBSh sylvie bonvalot Chandrajit Raut for your leadership in advocating for fertility in #desmoid pts and support from Desmoid Canada DTRF

Congratulations to our 2nd year Society of Surgical Oncology fellow Raja Narayan, MD MPH who won the SocAsianAcadSurg Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship to attend the Assoc4AcademicSurgery Early Career Development course tomorrow!

Interesting talk presented by Chandrajit Raut..what does it mean to be a sarcoma surgeon?!😷 CTOS

We are proud for the 1️⃣st #RESAR study presented today at CTOS: a Complexity Score to predict postop complications in #retroperitoneal #sarcoma . 1200+ pts treated at 21 TARPSWG centers. Morbidity 22%, mortality 1.3%.
Great job #MarkFairweather and Chandrajit Raut #ctos2023

Fantastic work from our surgical fellow ⁦Eyal Mor 🎗️⁩ ⁦Peter Mac Cancer Centre⁩ demonstrating that routine extended mastectomy for primary radiation induced #angiosarcoma provides very good long term disease control even without chemotherapy. #ctos23

Beautiful Hermann Suit lecture by ⁦Katie Janeway⁩ at ⁦CTOS⁩ annual meeting! The important of sequencing pediatric tumor to advance diagnosis, prognostication and treatment! Very well done!