As well as the resident jeopardy and skills competition residents (and their supporters!) who represented Houston Methodist MD and Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships

The Division of Minimally Invasive General Surgery Our trainees had 7 videos accepted to the 2024 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress Kayla Callaway, MS Mary Oh, MD (2) Connie Au, MD Priya Arunachalam, MD Rodrigo Jacobucci, MD Liam Cato, MD Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships Houston Methodist MD

A "mini" tying trick 🤖 - USUALLY, you tighten and then tie - BUT, you can tighten while you tie #SurgTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #SurgEd

🏥 Only 13 countries have adequate health system readiness to address obesity, despite a projected 110% increase in adults living with obesity by 2030. We need a "whole-society approach" to build resilient health systems. 👉 worldobesityday.org/resources #WorldObesityDay

1/As more 🏥s purchase 🤖s & more surgeons adopt robotic approaches to their cases, it begs the ❓: Did 🤖 truly enable more open cases to be done MIS, or did it just replace laparoscopy but at ⬆️cost? We tried answering this in this Annals of Surgery Open📝. A🧵: journals.lww.com/aosopen/fullte…

New—Effect of gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy on the #remission of type 2 #diabetes, weight loss, and cardiovascular risk factors at 5 years (Oseberg): secondary outcomes of a single-centre, triple-blind, randomised controlled trial thelancet.com/journals/landi… #T2D

As I went to bed I was thinking about a tough case. The kind that lingers. The kind that doesn’t quite let go. A plan came to me. It seemed reasonable.. But at 3 AM, I woke up—maybe because my brain wasn’t done working it through. By 6:30, the plan was baked and will soon be

Congratulations to Samar Semaan and Rodrigo Jacobucci Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting their video "Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Repair of a Type III hiatal hernia using EndoFLIP as a Bougie" accepted for presentation at ACS Clinical Congress 2025!

I had a rewarding holiday weekend. With the help of my sweet bride and partner, Debra Reardon, I fed our residents and fellows from the Houston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery. Houston Methodist Houston Methodist MD Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships Then, after the clean up on Sunday, I got to visit