Are you an MS4 applying for general surgery residency? Come check out our pre-applicant webinar on 9/13/23 at 6pm PST! Any and all questions re: training, culture, and EDI initiatives welcome! #medtwitter #Match2024

Excited to release Surgery Prep, a VR presurgical walkthrough for pediatric patients, on App Lab. Justin Wagner #VirtualReality oculus.com/deeplink/?acti…

Check out my colleague and amazing friend Dr. Ronnie Sullins! Please consider supporting Ronnie Sullins in the 2023 Advanced Surgery Medical Mission to Nigeria by The GEANCO Foundation here flipcause.com/secure/fundrai…

My 3-year-old saw this on my phone and said, “I love that doctor!” She has never acknowledged that I am a doctor, and she hates doctors. Maybe it’s the lab coat? Exiting my spiral to congratulate ⁦Michelle Wolf⁩ on her honorary degree, conferred this day in Los Angeles

Fulfilling day sharing our app to help kids mentally prepare for surgery with so many wonderful families at OC Autism’s annual holiday event. Justin Wagner Saritasa, LLC #surgery #vr #Autistic

Grateful to get to work with such an amazing UCLA Peds team to navigate challenging pediatric surgery cases. These are the best colleagues in the world!!! 🌎👶📈 Loved that it allowed us to plug the importance of #cultureofsafety #peersupport and #nontechnicalskills in medicine!

So proud of Catherine Williamson on a great presentation of our work on NEC and congenital heart disease at the Clinical Outcomes Plenary! (Look at this podium setup!) David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA alum to Mass General Surgery bridge is strong! Thanks to @FabianJohnston Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 for moderating! #ASC2024

A Comforting VR Experience to Help Patients Prepare for Surgery Advances Saritasa and Before, Inc. as Finalists for the BOLD Awards globenewswire.com/news-release/2… #VR Justin Wagner

We are excited to welcome our incoming class to the UCLA Surgery Family! Congratulations and we look forward to working with you!! PennSurgery Loma Linda University School of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCSF Surgery Keck Medicine of USC Duke University School of Medicine

Notable stats from today’s Los Angeles Marathon: Finish time: 4:07:56 Time in car getting to & from: 3:11:47 Long as the ratio is >1, right guys…? guys…?

For all the parents who wish there was a way their kids could’ve felt more prepared for surgery…

This was a blast to present, thanks so much!

An appropriately named honor to match the size of Irving J. Zamora’s creative potential! Congrats on the GIANT robot grant, Irving! #SEW2024

I got to meet one of my heroes yesterday and to honor another. Thanks so much to @AmaliaCochranMD, #DebDaRosa, and the Association for Surgical Education Foundation for the support!

From my friends at @uclagensurg instagram.com/p/C_d-78pSr_J/…

This is a passion project, and Dr. Comulada is going the extra several miles! Please support us as we try to empower kids ahead of surgery 🙏

Excited to enter 2025 with a Journal of Child Life publication bringing more visibility to the #childlifespecialist role supporting pediatric patients before surgery and the potential for Surgery Prep, our #vr app, to assist. #childlife Justin Wagner doi.org/10.55591/001c.…

PSA: time to start representing our amazing surgical community on… (clears throat)… Reddit Amazing work from rising star UCLA undergrad Aakrsh Misra highlighting the good, bad, and ugly discourse that’s already out there. #ASE25 #ASE2025 #SEW2025 Association for Surgical Education David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Invigorating day at XRI Demo Day 2025 presenting on our #surgery prep app for the Meta Quest hardware along side other #xr developers and enthusiasts. #vr #pedsurg #pedsurgprep #pediatricsurgery UCLA UCLA Health Justin Wagner