We are honored and delighted to send another class of outstanding surgery residency graduates out to practice and fellowship this year. We are proud to be a part of each of their stories and will always continue to cheer for them! Go @UIowa_surgery Hawks. Congrats!

Dr. Jeremy Chang did a great job presenting a thought provoking topic on the role of diagnostic laparoscopy immediately prior to open pancreatectomy for cancer at #SAAS2022 SocAsianAcadSurg University of Iowa Surgery Do you do DL? We are not talking about Staging Lap.

Geeta Lal talking about safety and surgical #ergonomics at #SAAS2023 University of Iowa Surgery

Congratulations to Kaleem S. Ahmed, MBBS (MD), MSAI, Jeremy Chang, MS MD, and Sukumar K for being herb chen’s inaugural mochi sponsorship recipients! SocAsianAcadSurg is committed to the mentorship and sponsorship of Asian academic surgeons, and we look forward to watching their careers grow! Connie Shao | 邵爱华

A new ingestible robotic device electrically stimulates the intestines to trigger the resumption of peristalsis during a form of intestinal paralysis called postoperative ileus. Learn more in Science Robotics: scim.ag/6fu

Graduation: Bask in the victory of making the destination

Remembering Dr. O'Dorisio and his dedication to his patients and the NET field! Continuing the tradition and his work at Iowa, congrats to Dr.Howe! NCAN University of Iowa Surgery UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hot off the press! Check out our recent work on Sex-based survival differences in GI NETS, in press in Journal of Surgical Research! Thanks to all the mentorship from University of Iowa Surgery, Po Hien Ear, PhD Carlos HF Chan MD PhD and colleagues Catherine Tran Femi Suraju, MD, MPH, MSc authors.elsevier.com/c/1jWMW578Xh~bX

Take a look at some of our latest work on trends in postoperative infections for colorectal surgery over the last decade. in press in DCRjournal !! -increased rates of organ space infections! Thanks to University of Iowa Surgery IrenaRupp Kristi Guyton Jennifer Hrabe journals.lww.com/dcrjournal/abs…

After 14 years of training, it is surreal to finish my last day as a Society of Surgical Oncology fellow. Words can’t describe how grateful I am to my family and faculty Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery, Mass General Surgery, and Dana-Farber for their ♾️ support. I will make you proud as I set up roots Loma Linda U. Health

Check out our recent work on the role of diagnostic laparoscopy immediately prior to open pancreatectomy for cancer! in press in Journal of Surgical Research Thanks to amazing mentorship from Carlos HF Chan MD PhD University of Iowa Surgery

🔥 of the press Exciting work on the role of diagnostic laparoscopy in pancreatic surgery - what is your practice? Syed A. Ahmad Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS Michael D’Angelica Ajay Maker Jennifer F Tseng MD MPH Monica Dua Shailesh V. Shrikhande #PancreaticCancer

One of the perks of being Society of University Surgeons Society of University Surgeons (SUS) President is the honor of announcing the SUS Lifetime Achievement Award winner, the highest honor in our organization. Please join me in congratulating the 2024 SUS LTAA winner - Dr. Ron Weigel University of Iowa Surgery .

Vikas Dudeja, MBBS, FACS, has been appointed chair and department executive officer of the Department of Surgery. He will begin in his new role on June 30. spr.ly/6019LIIUV

Truly devastating news for #PancreaticCancer #pancsm patients, families, advocates, physicians & scientists (from @HCCvPDAC, who doesn’t post on X anymore) CC: Anirban Maitra Eileen M O’Reilly Dr. Shubham Pant Diane M. Simeone, MD Julie Fleshman Anna Berkenblit, MD, MMSc Peter Hosein, MD Camille Moses et al

Another incredible SSO, with University of Iowa Surgery well represented! Congrats to Dr. Carlos HF Chan MD PhD on his outstanding presentation on ctDNA and PSMs, and to Drs. Weigel and Howe for their well-deserved recognition in the presidential address!😊👏🏾#SSO2025

Excited to share our work that describes Antagonistic roles for MITF and TFE3 in melanoma plasticity: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Excited to share our recent pre-print describing a novel model of Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish. UIowa Research PASPCR Zebrafish Rock! Mitfa-Independent Melanocyte Progenitors are Highly Susceptible to GNAQ-induced Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Featured: Risk of Recurrence and Cancer #StemCellMarker CD133 Expression Vary in Males Versus Females with Papillary #ThyroidCancer . Jeremy Chang, MS MD Eyas Alzayadneh إياس زيادنة ow.ly/J0zb50Wk0Up Tracey Pu, MD Syed A. Ahmad