1 / Do you also hate the current format of conference posters? So much great content buried behind bad design. Here are 4 design strategies to help improve the poster for accessibility and engagement. (Thread below, Video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7fZ-…) #MedEd #FOAMed

3 / Think of the sections more like slides instead of paragraphs. Imagine each section as slide that you will be narrating. It will help you remove a lot of unnecessary text.

1/ After many years of editing, I'm thrilled to release the 5th edition of the Visual Abstract Primer! Notably, its a lot short (11 pages, down from 56!) Full download here: SurgeryRedesign.com/resources Summary below... #VisualAbstract

REMINDER: Save the date for #ASC2026! We are already counting down the days until the 21st Annual Academic Surgical Congress! 🗓️ February 3-5, 2026 📍 Orlando, FL Review ASC 2025 highlights on our website: aasurg.org

71st Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Surgeons

It is not a secret that roughly 4 years ago, I resigned my faculty position UC San Francisco and closed my lab to go to Third Rock Ventures to work on a new company concept. This was not a spur of the moment or rash decision but it was made easier by the fact that the new idea was something

Congratulations to our 2025 CHOP graduates!

Excited to give Surgery Grand Rounds today on Effective, Affordable, and Safe Obesity Care at ⁦NYU Langone Health⁩ today! ⁦NYU Langone General Surgery Residency⁩ ⁦NYU Grossman School of Medicine⁩

Lots of opinions that can not be verified. What is true? It is completely normal (unfortunately) to present with de novo metastatic prostate cancer. Anyone on either side claiming that is not the case has no idea what they are talking about.

New work from Cody Lendon Mullens Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc and colleagues important for #Medicaid discussions and #ruralhealth policy

Stumbled across this throwback on the importance of social connection for our neuro development.

8 years later... we not have 7 additional cross-over trials that mirror the results of this first trial! Fun to watch it evolve over time. Latest guided and evidence summarized here: SurgeryRedesign.com/resources

Ready for AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting? Some pearls here to maximize your poster for impact: youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7fZ-… Less dense text, more invitations for engagement. Details below. #betterposter

My Op Ed: President Trump often touted that his first administration approved more generic drugs than any in history. He had good reason to highlight the success. Recently, the FDA team enabling these approvals was disbanded, and it may undo that historic progress. American Enterprise Institute STAT

Great to have Andrew Cameron from Hopkins Surgery as our Moses Gunn Research Day visiting professor! “Who has it better than you?” “Join a team… all the best work happens when you became a member of a team.”

‘At current vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again… a US simulation model predicted 51.2M measles cases over a 25-year period, 9.9M rubella cases, 4.3M poliomyelitis cases, 197 diphtheria cases, 10.3M hospitalizations, and 159,200 deaths’ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Excited for this great new collaboration!! If you have a paper coming out in Annals of Surgery and think it might make a fun/controversial/hot topic podcast - let me know!

Congrats UMich CHOP Edward Norton !

This year at The Clinical Congress, I have the pleasure and privilege to be presenting DC03, a Medical Illustration Workshop Course with Francois Luks Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc and Dr. Sarah Chen! Register for our course today! abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20618/s…

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, what’s a medical illustration worth? Join our hands-on workshop to learn how visuals can support clinical clarity for your practice. All levels welcome! With the incredibly awesome & talented Stephanie Cohen, MD Francois Luks #SarahChen