The UTMB Surgery Residency program team is getting in the holiday spirit! ❄️☃️

Me bovieing between the right angle while my attending boss did the actual operation

Congratulations to Jeff Nahmias MD MHPE FACS FCCM for being named JACS author of the month! Watch to learn more about Dr Nahmias and his article. You can read the full article at: journals.lww.com/journalacs/ful…

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365 days later… PGY1 ✅ 🔜 PGY2 #ilooklikeasurgeon WomenSurgeons UTMBSurgery

This #CWISOcto study is essential when considering rib fx mgt in octogenarians. Thank you Fredric Pieracci Kiara Leasia, MD Brian D. Kim Emily Cantrell Zachary Mitchel Bauman @SLScottyG Sarah Majercik Thomas William White Sean Dieffenbaugher Evert Eriksson Erika Tay-Lasso (she/ella) Sebastian Schubl Andrew Doben + others. #cwisresearch

24-hour Telemetry Monitoring May Not be Necessary for Patients with an Isolated Sternal Fracture and Minor ECG Abnormalities or Troponin Elevation: A Southern California Multicenter Study tinyurl.com/5n6fv4sd

SESC & The American Surgeon UCI TRAUMA UC Irvine Surgery leading this multicenter 🔬 . Trying to further reduce potentially unnecessary admissions which cost 💴 and importantly are not what patients want unless absolutely needed. Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD Morgan Schellenberg Thomas K. Duncan, DO, FACS, MAMSE Erika Tay-Lasso (she/ella) Claudia Alvarez MD

Welcome to our newest faculty member Dr. Channa Blakely! We know her well and love her already from her time in residency with us. Can’t wait to see what amazing things she will do as our attending. Channa Blakely #vascsurg #academicmedicine

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: hubs.li/Q035Ld5H0

Presenting in the first conference that I presented as a research fellow but now as a resident 🤍 Back to academic surgery and happy to represent UTMBSurgery . #ASC2025

Two really inspiring talks in the current political environment #ASC2025 Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS

Erika Tay-Lasso (she/ella) UTMBSurgery 💪 work. Doing UCI TRAUMA proud

UCI TRAUMA RCT on precedex for non-intubated ICU patients with rib fractures presented by 🌟 new PCSA member Dr. Grigorian UC Irvine Surgery Catherine M. Kuza, MD, FASA, FCCM Erika Tay-Lasso (she/ella) Negaar Aryan, MD Sebastian Schubl Jeffrey W. Santos, MD Christian de Virgilio MD FACS Sharon Lum MD MBA FACS David Spain amazing discussant

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The best!! UTMBSurgery

Patterns and implications of missed injuries on computed tomography imaging in older blunt trauma patients surgjournal.com/article/S0039-… Excellent OPEN ACCESS SURGERY Journal investigation from Sami Kishawi 🇵🇸 Arnav Mahajan Jeff Nahmias MD MHPE FACS FCCM Vanessa Ho, MD, PhD, MPH (she/her)

Dexmedetomidine for Analgesia in Nonintubated Patients With Traumatic Rib Fractures jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas… UCI TRAUMA UC Irvine Surgery Catherine M. Kuza, MD, FASA, FCCM CWIS ninh nguyen PCSA

Amazing work lead by Jeff Nahmias MD MHPE FACS FCCM UC Irvine Surgery. Grateful to have contributed in this project UTMBSurgery 💪🏼

Dexmedetomidine does not appear to improve analgesia or reduce opioid requirements in non-intubated ICU patients with rib fractures and should not be routinely used in this setting. ja.ma/4nKIVsG