This week we did our first PMEG for an Aortic Arch Aneurysm. Zone zero. With the help and guidance of our friend André Brito Queiroz. We still have a lot to learn but it was definitely different than opening the sternum for a total debranching. @_JP_Carvalho_ and Prof N De Luccia.

Great working with networks around Australia to shine a light about the state of play for ANZ #collaborativeresearch. Trainee‐ and student‐led research networks: promoting research skills and competency through collaboration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Excited by where this is headed - our team’s new review of emerging non-invasive gut diagnostics: Body surface mapping of the stomach: New directions for clinically evaluating gastric electrical activity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nm… Neurogastro & Motil

6 down to call myself Dr, hopefully 60 more to come! Grateful for family, friends, colleagues, mentors, distant inspirations, some who are many and all of the above. Thanks for the opportunities thus far Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences UoA Australasian Students' Surgical Association (ASSA). Time to get to work! Go Taiwan!

Congratulations Prof!! Greg O'Grady

I’m interviewing my favorite painter, Ileen Kaplan, and here she is saying what she does to get unstuck

Neurogastro & Motil ANMS ESNM.eu ANGMA UCalgaryMedicine Thanks Neurogastro & Motil for profiling our review! Watch this space for breakthrough progress in 2021 - can’t wait to share what an incredible team of engineers are cooking... 🦾@ABIaucklandacnz Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences UoA

i love how in the traditional characters 寶 contains 貝 in its lower half. it also contains 王, which means king. and the whole character feels safely contained underneath the roof radical, 宀 i love how characters are like houses. housing meaning & music

Two latest Annals of Surgery open access publications by OxAAA Study (1) Prediction of #abdominal_aortic_aneurysm growth using CT images journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… enabled by (2) A deep learning pipeline to automate aortic/aneurysm feature extraction journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Newest one from Australasian Students' Surgical Association (ASSA) in the ANZ Journal of Surgery from RACSurgeons. Always a pleasure Kyle Raubenheimer wasimawal with thanks to Siobhan Fitzpatrick Rhea Liang for your endless guidance and support onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Small correction on our latest post: POSTVenTT is now international🌏 We have countries such as Spain, UK and more participating in this amazing collaborative research! #surgical #anaemia #collab #research

#FreeArticleFridays: Read “Australasian Students' Surgical Association: Leadership, Perseverance and Progress through SARS‐CoV‐2” in the ANZ Journal of Surgery with free access. Read more: bit.ly/3o6gozT @Wiley_Health

Open access in May's BJS: Volume–outcome relationships in open and endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm: administrative data 2006–2018 academic.oup.com/bjs/article/10… Amy Lee Lightner, MD Bas Wijnhoven Des Winter Kjetil Søreide Malin Sund Martyn Evans Niels Kok Robert Hinchliffe Young BJS

Auckland is witnessing an unprecedented Level 5 lockdown. They have closed the Planet Espresso coffee kiosk in Auckland City Hospital.

Today NEJM: POINTER trial DutchPancreatitisSG: immediate drainage of infected necrotizing pancreatitis does not improve outcome. In fact, postponed drainage approach: 39% only required antibiotic tx and 22% necrosectomy. Wonderful 🇳🇱 nationwide collab! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Time to post this one again:

The fastest surgeon I have ever known moved his hands slowly. A two-time Olympic medalist rower coached me to slow down. The most effective managers are often the ones who speak the least. Let's learn what it means to say "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." #ship30for30

An interesting thing I’m reckoning with in returning to Taiwan, as a child of Taiwanese immigrants who left Taiwan in the mid-80s, is that much of the knowledge, feelings, & vocab my parents & grandparents passed to me are kind of frozen in time as a time capsule of 1980s Taiwan