Great overview by ⁦Haytham Kaafarani⁩ ⁦Mass General Surgery⁩ on patient safety and quality and JC standards #ACSLAS24

Practice changing presentation by Aymen Sadaka ⁦Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine⁩ MS3 during ⁦Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS)⁩ meeting in Miami. Longitudinal 10 year follow up from VA New England hernia database. Looking forward to published results.

Thx mary hawn Stanford Surgery VA Palo Alto HCS for a great year & congrats Danny UPMC VA Pittsburgh, our new AVAS president 🎉Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) #AVAS2024

[2 legends (Kamal Itani, Panos Kougias MD MSc) + 3 groupies]^1 legendary conference #AVAS2024 = 1 very cool memory

Amazing Shukri Khuri MD visiting professor VA Boston HC by surgeon leader Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS executive director and CEO American College of Surgeons . Mentorship, teaching, education, policy , leadership were all on the agenda. Many new ideas and continued #acsquality .Thank you Dr Turner

Thank you Panos Kougias MD MSc and SUNY Downstate General Surgery Residency for hosting me and for a wonderful visit

🔎 'Is the practice of preoperative urine culture associated with reduced risk of postoperative urinary tract infection or surgical site infection?'

Not according to this new study of 288K procedures by Judith Strymish, Marin Schweizer, Kamal Itani & others.

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Congratulations K Gupta Kamal Itani bill obrien! Michael Charness Tony Breu Rahul Ganatra Matt Ronan Westyn Branch-Elliman, M.D., MMSc., FSHEA Covid does not increase surgical risk. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A well deserved Jacobson award to Juliet Emamaullee MD PhD. I did see it coming one day. Congratulations!

When Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC, American College of Surgeons Director of Education comes to town as the Shukri Khuri MD VA Boston HC Visiting Professor & #ACSCC23 courtesy of Kamal Itani Prof Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine BMC Surgery & Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery faculty, Gerard Doherty & I 😆 by the invite …

SSAT mary hawn Karin Hardiman Tim Pawlik Kamal Itani Cesar Rodriguez Natalie Coburn Naruhiko Ikoma MD MS Francisco Schlottmann Kaitlyn Kelly Another great webinar!
Thank you mary hawn Karin Hardiman Timothy M. Pawlik Kamal Itani for imparting wisdom and insight.
Thank u Sajid Khan for co-moderating with me! Really enjoyed it.
UAB Surgery
UAB Surgical Oncology UAB Heersink School of Medicine SSAT

Tomorrow!! Join the Research Committee and the Peru Chapter for these two webinars. Make it a double play! To register: ssat.com/webinar/

Come now! We are talking about Evidence-Based Surgery and everything that is around it…

American Hernia Society #AHS2023 with B Todd Heniford Kamal Itani

Congratulations Zhi Ven Fong, MD MPH DrPH on finishing your training and thank you Jennifer Tseng (IG: @tsengjennifermd) for sharing the amazing Pei-Wen Lim MD MS-HPEd FACS | 林佩雯 with VA Boston HC

Spending the morning with Melina Kibbe & the board and editorial team of JAMA Surgery it’s easy to see why they are the number 1 surgical journal- extraordinarily engaged & committed group

Proud JAMA Surgery is part of JAMA Network

Jennifer Tseng (IG: @tsengjennifermd) Sure beats that celebrity birthday party photo. Amazing JAMA Surgery editorial board team.

Congratulations👏 to editor in chief Melina Kibbe Melina Kibbe & the editorial team! Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD Justin B. Dimick Adil Haider TXAggieBurnDoc Christian de Virgilio MD FACS Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS Sherry Wren Kamal Itani
JAMA Surgery = official journal of Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) (an organization I'm proud to belong to!)

THANK YOU to all JAMA Surgery Readers, Authors and Reviewers for keeping us as the #1 surgical journal in the 🌍 Super congrats Melina Kibbe, our entire Editorial team and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo + the JAMA family on leading the quest to advance science to #makeadifference

Jennifer Tseng (IG: @tsengjennifermd) Sidhu Peña Gangadharan 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇮🇳 Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Christopher Digesu, M.D. virginia litle Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS Daniela Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS Jacob Greenberg Ajita Prabhu, MD FACS Joshua Davies Pei-Wen Lim MD MS-HPEd FACS | 林佩雯 mary hawn Kamal Itani Assoc4AcademicSurgery Agree depends. For elective hernias and bariatric surgery will not offer to active smokers. But always a balance of risks and shared decision making especially when not completely “elective”

Shattered plans by TAP Air Portugal strike with rerouting from Lisbon to Boston instead of Chicago. So sorry to miss SSAT and President Jennifer Tseng (IG: @tsengjennifermd) activities.