Our department was well represented at #ASC2024 this week by resident Dr. Luke Meredith, MD, medical student Martina Rama (Martina Rama), and others 👏 #LAMS #InguinalHernia Assoc4AcademicSurgery Jefferson Research Talar Tatarian, MD Sami Tannouri, MD, FACS Francesco Palazzo, MD, FACS Sunjay S. Kumar, MD Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS

#GTSC2024 was a brilliant mix of education and good times. Grateful to have been able to attend to present our work Jefferson Surgery. I hope this is the first of many! Tyler Grenda Darshak Thosani Hamza Rshaidat

Luke!!!!!!! Luke Meredith, MD another Jefferson Thoracic superstar in the pipeline. A Robotic Minimally Invasive Technique for Resecting a Retro-Oesophage... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A nice article by PGY Luke Meredith, MD with Michael Nooromid and Olugbenga Okusanya MD 👏 A Robotic Minimally Invasive Technique for Resecting a Retro-Oesophageal Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An absolute pleasure to have Jonathan Spicer MD PhD give grand rounds today Jefferson Surgery. A wonderfully informative talk on the present and future landscape of thoracic surgical oncology. Nathaniel R. Evans III, MD Tyler Grenda #thisistheway

ICYMI - Resident Research Day presentations are available to watch online: jdc.jefferson.edu/surresday Congratulations to winners Sunjay S. Kumar, MD (1st place) and Dr. William Preston (2nd place)

PGY-6 Victor and PGY-5 @greggkhodorov giving lecture to Jefferson Surgery residents on the basics of IR, and what we think about when we receive a consult from surgery. We love collaborating with our surgical colleagues!

Huge congrats to Hamza Rshaidat for making the cover for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery! That Jefferson Surgery Thoracic team!

For those of you on the SAVE plan already (not the interns who are stuck in consolidation/IDR application limbo) and are worried about PSLF payments qualifying… DO NOTHING for now.

#GeneralThoracic #CME article from @hamzarshaidat et al on Incidence and Management of Cardiothoracic Relevant Extrapulmonary Findings Found on Low-Dose Computed Tomography: doi.org/10.1016/j.atho… #AnnalsCME Luke Meredith, MD Julie A. Barta, MD Olugbenga Okusanya MD

Nice publication from our Division of Thoracic Surgery👏

How do LAMS procedures (CDS, GJ, EDGE) affect surgical outcomes. In the US, Whipple after such LAMS is not universal. 🚨📢Luke Meredith, MD with our case series ⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Jefferson Health Jefferson Surgery Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS Neil Sharma, M.D. FASGE, FACG, AGAF #GITwitter

Drs. Isheeta Madeka, MD and Sneha Alaparthi, MD, 2 of our outstanding general surgery residents, recently presented #GenderDisparity research at the Women in Thoracic Surgery Inaugural Annual Conference in San Diego 👏 #ThoracicSurgery #WomenInMedicine #SurgTweeting #GenSurgMatch2025

Dr. Sourav Podder presenting our data in two abstracts at the American Hernia Society 2024 in Chicago

ICYMI: Scott R. Steele's 9/19 lecture on anastomotic leaks is now available to view online jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/289/

“We will call it Intraperitoneal Onlay Patch or IPOM” Named for the Onlay position of the mesh, sir? “No, the mesh will be an Underlay” What shall we call and Onlay repair then, sir? “That too shall be called an Onlay” But why, sir? “Unknowable”

We are thrilled to introduce our categorical interns in General Surgery at Jefferson Health #jeffersonmatch2025 #GenSurgMatch2025 👏

Tomorrow, we kick off our Chief Residents Mini #GrandRounds series with Dr. Micaela Langille Collins. Following graduation, she will begin a fellowship at UChicago CT Surgery Faculty & staff will receive the link via email | recording to follow here

Thrilled to have our two new Thoracic Surgery fellows train with us in 2026. Welcome to the Department of Surgery, Jin Kook Kang, MD, and Luke Meredith, MD!