🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Beyond thrilled to be able to join the community that fostered my interest in surgery and helped me get to where I am today!! It’s truly a privilege to be joining the Duke Surgery family with all these fabulous co-interns!!

THRILLED to join the Duke family alongside my husband Chase Bowen who matched into General Surgery!!! 💙💙💙

From the Association for Surgical Education Trainee Committee leadership team, check out our trainee-focused event calendar for the 2025 Surgical Education Week! Less than one month until #SEW2025 y’all 👀 Steven Thornton, MD Alexandria (Alex) Soto Mikayla Deckard Collaboration of Surgical Education Fellows Christie Buonpane Mo Shabahang

SHOULD YOU DO AN AWAY ROTATION??? 🤔 Let the super⭐️Collaboration of Surgical Education Fellows team break it down for you on our latest pod 🎧 Journal Review in Surgical Education: Away Rotations & Sub-Internships: app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/journa… Joshua Roshal, MD Colleen McDermott Sophia Williams-Perez, MD MEd Steven Thornton, MD

Registration closes this Friday ☝️ Steven Thornton, MD Alexandria (Alex) Soto Mikayla Deckard Collaboration of Surgical Education Fellows

SO excited to share this publication! Thank you to Dr. Twomey & Dr. Jones and JAMA Surgery for the platform to share our stories. “Inclusion of surgeons with disabilities is the next frontier for equity in surgery.” BMC Surgery #DocsWithDisabilities jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…

Happy Monday! Or should I say happy almost start of #SEW2025 to all who celebrate 🎉 Brought to you by the Association for Surgical Education Trainee Committee, make sure to download the trainee-related event calendar and our guide to networking ⬇️ See y’all soon!

WE ARE HERE! #SEW2025

Prelim surgery year ≠ gap year. Shannon Barter created a needs-based, peer-led curriculum to support prelim residents with mentorship, tailored schedules, and transparency about the path to categorical. PRs deserve structure too. #SEW2025

Thank you to everyone who joined our inaugural trainee mentorship session at #ASE2025! Inspiring to see so many leaders mentoring the next generation 🌟 Big TY to my co-committee members Sophia Williams-Perez, MD Steven Thornton, MD Mikayla Deckard Christie Buonpane & special thanks to Mo Shabahang! 👏

A few more highlights from yesterday featuring the Association for Surgical Education Trainee Committee’s very own Alexandria (Alex) Soto and Mikayla Deckard both presenting their work on the national stage. #GenSurgMatch you’re going to want to keep your eye out for these superstars 👀 #SEW2025 #ASE25

Thrilled to have shared our research at #ASE25 & #APDS25 ! Huge thanks to APDS surgery and Association for Surgical Education for the incredible opportunity. Grateful to everyone who came out to support. This year’s meeting was one for the books! 📚✨ Duke Surgery Gayle DiLalla #ASE2025 #SEW2025

Wrapping up the week with a podium presentation at #ASE25 on the early results from the ASPIRES program. Shoutout to Rebecca Zasloff, Alexandria (Alex) Soto, Guiseppe Yanez for their excellent presentations! Thanks to Cory J. Vatsaas, Duke Surgery leadership for making all this possible!

Congratulations to our Association for Surgical Education grant awardees! 🤖 GIANT ROBOT ($25,000): Noosha Deravi, MD 💎 DIAMOND ($2,500): Sarah Lund, MD 🌟 GOLD ($500): Nicole Santucci, MD, Steven Thornton, MD, Michael Kochis

Congratulations to Steven Cochrun for winning an ASE Coin of Recognition from the Association for Surgical Education Trainee Committee! Sophia Williams-Perez, MD Steven Thornton, MD Alexandria (Alex) Soto Mikayla Deckard #SEW2025

I RECEIVED MY VERY FIRST ASE coin of Recognition from the ✨ incoming president (!!) Dr.Aimee Gardner ✨ & one of the most inspiring people I met this week. So grateful. So honored. So fired up. See you in Atlanta for #ASE2026 🔥

And so it begins! Excited for the next year as President of Association for Surgical Education promoting family, fun, and the future!

Honored to receive the Promising Medical Student Surgery Education Research Award from Association for Surgical Education at #ASE25 #SEW25 🌟 Grateful to Duke Surgery faculty for the nomination and continued mentorship. Thank you everyone 🙏 Excited to keep raising the bar🪡🏆

Looking back at #SEW2025 / #ASE2025, the Association for Surgical Education Trainee Committee was honored to award two ASE Coins of Recognition to Drs. Christie Buonpane and Steven Cochrun Their tireless support and dedication to the Trainee Committee doesn’t go unnoticed! Join us in congratulating them 👏

Please join us in congratulating Betty Tong, MD MHS, Associate Professor of Surgery, for being appointed Chief of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery within the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Read more: duke.is/r/gbxd