More complex question is whether improved nodal clearout leads to improved survival. Acosog ZOO30 suggests no but. . . #TSSMN

If you knew a priori that patient has STAS, One could argue that this patient should have lobectomy not wedge resection #TSSMN

I took that to mean that the tumor is more infiltrated and getting clear margins is more difficult. #TSSMN

Are your Med Oncs giving these patients adjuvant chemo if they are otherwise node negative and < 4cm? #tssmn

Dissection vs sampling debate!!! Bring it on! #TSSMN

Yup! Me too. One of the big advantages of the robotic platform. #TSSMN

Nice job selecting articles and moderating! #TSSMN

My latest The New Yorker piece, in gestation for a couple years now, as you’ll see. Something to read about other than the election, at least. It is on the state of health care information technology. In other words: newyorker.com/magazine/2018/….

Amazing talk by Dennis Wigle from Mayo Clinic last week on regeneration of esophagus when he was our Visiting Professor for Boyd Lecture at Lahey Hospital. Who knew the esophagus can grow back?!? Very cool science and #regenerativemedicine. Thanks for visiting Dennis!

There are about 63,000 ventilators in the US to support coronavirus patients. If all present at the same time many will die from lack of vent support (big peak). Goal - keep the number of cases low enough so all patients have access to ventilators (small peak). This is real.

Typical COVID cough. #COVID2019

At minimum, we should be using N95s for everyone - universal precautions given high number of asymptomatic patients bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#RoboticSimulation #ThoracicSurgery CT surgery fellow, Dr Ammara Watkins a, practicing robotic sleeve lobectomy in the sim lab with Dr Quadri! syed quadri md Lahey Hospital Lahey Surgery Beth Israel Lahey Health #tssmn TSRA CTSNet

Proud of our new educational partnership w Sidhu Peña Gangadharan 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇮🇳 and BIDMC Department of Surgery! Annual Robot BootCamp Lahey Surgery with a & Christopher Digesu, M.D. doing sleeve lobectomy on 🐷 Beth Israel Lahey Health TSRA CTSNet #tssm The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Amazing work by a phenomenal collaborative! Working to bring the Canadian team together and emulate this great interdisciplinary effort. #LCSM #TSSMN M.Provencio Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons CCTG academic.oup.com/ejcts/advance-…

Drs. Hannah Kooperkamp & Aaron Sparks practicing robotic sleeve resections w 🐖 🫁 LaheyThoracicSurg Advanced Robotics BootCamp TSRA The Society of Thoracic Surgeons #tssmn

Awesome job with your presentation and discussion questions a !! Excited to have you join our team this fall. LaheyThoracicSurg Lahey Surgery MountAuburnHospital Beth Israel Lahey Health

NEW issue & Focused Topic Series on robotic thoracic surgery curated by Guest Editor virginia litle journals.sagepub.com/toc/inva/16/2 Olugbenga Okusanya MD Brian M. Till Juan A Muñoz-Largacha Hitesh Batra, MD, MBA Dr. Lana Schumacher Asishana Osho, MD, MPH Hassan A Khalil M. Blair Marshall,MD Elliot Servais, MD, FACS a syed quadri md

Really excellent Focused Topic Series on "Robotic Thoracic Surgery". Great resource for trainees and anyone embarking on robotics. Honored to contribute. Thanks virginia litle & Innovations Journal. #tssmn TSMA TSRA #SoMe4Surgery

Welcome Lucman A. Anwer & Ryan J. Hendrix Looking forward to working with you LaheyThoracicSurg !