Thank you Qaali Hussein, MD for putting me in touch with two volunteers who kindly translated our "Guard Your Feet" brochure into Somali! I really appreciate your help! nealbarshes.github.io

Thank you Sherene Sharath and family for translating our "Guard Your Feet" informational brochure to Tamil! You are an amazing colleague! nealbarshes.github.io

Eye-opening series of articles from Robin Respaut and colleagues: the worsening epidemic of diabetes and its complications, the influence of pharmaceutical industry on societal recommendations, and food as medicine. Thank you for publishing this! reuters.com/investigates/s…

Congratulations to BCM_Surgery Justin Chin-Bong Choi, MD and the VA Houston #Top_Trial team on enrollment of participant #200! Top enrollers nationally. Congratulations to trial PI Panos Kougias MD MSc and national study coordinator Sherene Sharath and what will be a landmark contribution to periop. care.

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Some Texas communities are high outliers for relative rates of ruptured abdominal aneurysms. Mainly communities of color. Looking forward to working with anyone else interested in finding ways to address this. Thank you Elsevier for open access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1edvJ2ecZeyw…

We’re grateful to have a stellar surgeon scientist Neal Barshes, MD,MPH of BCM_Surgery as our #GrandRounds speaker today discussing advances in #Diabetic #LimbSalvage. A multimodal management can go a long way before committing to amputation #MedTwitter #SurgTwitter #MedEd

Metro areas where carotid procedures are concentrated in a few centers less often treat symptomatic carotid stenosis during the index hospitalization. Distributed seems better. Read our analysis here: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Thank you collaborators!

Everyone knows that a patient's type of insurance coverage impacts their outcomes. Not previously described: that the insurance of the other patients at one's hospital of choice also impacts outcomes. TY Deeksha Bidare for your work on this! Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1f68b3AUdji4…

Observations on some unusual physiologic and metabolic disturbances caused by diabetic foot infections. Thank you co-authors Lindsey Jordan Gay, MD of BCM Department of Medicine and Dr. Jennifer Den of UTMBSurgery ! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…

Amazing story of selfless generosity! Houston VA employee donates kidney to coworker va.gov/houston-health…

Texas Medicaid patients get fewer outpatient PAD evaluations and more leg amputations: authors.elsevier.com/a/1gPVt3BhZjP%… Wonderful working with Sherene Sharath, Deeksha Bidare and Dr. Fred Cerise on this analysis! Thank you TzeWoeiTan, MBBS, MPH, FACS, Caitlin Hicks MD, MS and Seminars in Vascular Surgery as well!

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A great honor to participate with elinaq , Matt Menard MD, Vincent and Peter@InRoadMedical in a panel session discussing the latest in CLTI management at the American College of Surgeons #ACSCC24 in San Francisco. Michael S. Conte, MD and Olamide Alabi, thank you for putting this session together!

Updated "Guard Your Feet" brochure graphics for 2025. Free to use: nealbarshes.github.io