My abstract was accepted by SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! for presentation at sages2025.org #SAGES2025 Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷 Carla Holcomb Alexis Desir MD

I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity and honored to be selected alongside Sarah Hughes. Excited to engage, learn, and contribute at the ASE Annual Meeting! Association for Surgical Education Project IMG ™ Latino LatinoSurgSociety Women in Surgery UTSW Surgery

All set up and ready to go tomorrow at the SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! E&I station. Come and try our hiatal hernia simulator! Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Bryanna Stukes Danny Scott Carla Holcomb UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents

What an amazing group of people I have here at UTSW Surgery . So proud of them. Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Bryanna Stukes Ricardo Núñez, MD SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! Patricio Polanco UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents Carla Holcomb Danny Scott #SAGES2025

Absolutely thrilled to be back at SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! for the second time! This year, I had the incredible opportunity to present 3 posters—none of it possible without my amazing mentor. Grateful for all the learning, connections, and, of course, the fun! Project IMG ™ Latino LatinoSurgSociety

🤖 Darian Hoagland, MD and her team’s awesome work in AI-driven surgical assessment representing us at the American College of Surgeons Simulation Summit! Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷 Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D

Grateful and honored to have the opportunity to speak in this special event #ACSsim Special thanks to Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷 Project IMG ™ Project IMG ™ Latino LatinoSurgSociety Women in Surgery UTSW Surgery Dr Minerva Association for Surgical Education

Huge Congratulations to Sofia! We are thrilled to announce that Sofia has been awarded the Underrepresented in Medicine Scholarship from the Association for Surgical Education! The competition was fierce this year, and we couldn’t be more proud of Sofia’s accomplishments.

The Association for Surgical Education ATLAS station is ready. Trainees come and show of your skills Collaboration of Surgical Education Fellows #sew2025 #ASE25

Today I had the opportunity to present in my favorite conference! Association for Surgical Education #ASE2025 A special thank you to Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷 and Danny Scott for their incredible mentorship during this fantastic journey as a researcher. UTSW Surgery

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I was speechless that night! Only if I knew that this was going to happen 🙈 I don’t have enough words to say thank you Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷

Amazing representation from AIMS lab UTSWSimCenter 8th Annual Charles Morris Ginsburg Simulation Based Quality Improvement and Research Forum. Excellent job Bryanna Stukes Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Apoorva Pise and Sharanya Vunnava UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents

Our outstanding UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents ✨graduating chief Dr. Martha Teke, MD in AIMS lab to test our hiatal hernia simulator🙏. Future pediatric surgeon, heading to UM Pediatric Surgery for training. Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Bryanna Stukes

We’re proud to share a few recent achievements and recognitions earned by our team in the Artificial Intelligence and Medical Simulation Lab. Swipe through to see what our team has been up to! ⬅️📸

So proud of my team Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Alexis Desir MD Sharanya! UTSW Surgery Residents

Excited to share our recent breakthrough method for surgical video analysis, the Kinematic Adaptive Frame Recognition (KAFR)! 📄 Paper: shorturl.at/p1YJZ 📦 Code: shorturl.at/LSVo1 Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Amr Al Abbas Patricio Polanco UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents #SurgicalAI

UT Southwestern is proud to be named the No. 1 hospital in DFW for the ninth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report, with 12 nationally ranked specialties — the most of any hospital in Texas. Thank you to our care teams, staff, and patients for making this possible. bit.ly/4mkLjFj