Class of 2025 🎓 International Research Initiative

SO HAPPY🥹🥹🥹🥹 Can’t wait for Friday!!! #Match2025

Congratulations to all our students who Matched this cycle. We are incredibly proud of you for this huge milestone and accomplishment. After years of preparation, endless studying, USMLE Steps, rotations, LoRs, interviews, all the uncertainty, YOU MADE IT. It’s now time to

I MATCHED UPMC!!! 🥹🥹🥹 So happy!!!!

Huge congratulations to our IRI alumni on their amazing success in Match 2025 🎉 #match2025 We’re so proud of all your hard work and accomplishments🏆💪. Meet these future superstar residents

What an amazing week seeing everyone’s hard work come to fruition!! 🥳 My amazing friend Tulio Correa, MD from International Research Initiative is going to UPMC 🥳🥳🎉 I am lucky to be able to celebrate this moment with him!!! #match2025 #medtwitter

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

Do you place duodenal stents as your first-line approach for malignant gastric outlet obstruction? Duodenal stenting is fast, familiar, and resolutive, but is it the best option? (1/4)

I can't wait to see where this discussion might lead us! The exciting future of EUS anastomosis versus the comforting simplicity of duodenal stenting. If you want to be prepared to watch this hot topic battle, I invite you to read this meta-analysis: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So glad to be done with this!!! USMLE, see you never 👋🏼👻

When you are at #DDW2025 and Dr. Kenneth Binmoeller cites your work 🤩 Digestive Disease Week Congrats team Cynthia Florêncio de Mesquita Stefano Baraldo Otavio C. Martins Vanio Antunes Matheus Vanzin Fernandes, MD MSc @drradhikachavan, MD, DNB, FISG, FASGE

Amazing presentation by Dr. Schoen Pitt Division of GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Rocky Schoen #DDW2025 👉🏼Blood tests are less effective and more costly than FIT/Colonoscopy. 👉🏼To compete, they’d need a HUGE increase in participation rates. 👉🏼Low sensitivity for AA is a key limitation of blood tests.

Always a pleasure reconnecting with friends and mentors at #DDW. Even better meeting new ones! See you all next year in Chicago! 🫘Digestive Disease Week

Global studies presented by Aman Mohapatra at #DDW2025 show celiac disease occurs similarly across populations, but most patients at U.S. institutions identify as White. Ethnoracial minority groups, especially Black individuals, were significantly underrepresented. #CeliacDisease

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month from AASLD! We’re proud to support and uplift our LGBTQ+ members, colleagues, and patients. Participate in this month’s Pride Webinar "Past, Present, and Future: LGBTQ+ Health & Hepatology" on Tuesday, June 26 at Noon EDT. Register now bit.ly/43J7fm1

It’s a beautiful day in the ‘Burgh to WELCOME OUR NEW INTERN CLASS!!! ☀️🕶️ Pitt General Internal Medicine Kennywood

Is there an association between ABO blood groups and pancreatic cancer? 🩸 Yes ✔️ 👉🏼 Patients with blood type O exhibited better overall survival and were less frequently diagnosed with advanced cancer stages (III-IV) upon presentation doi.org/10.1016/j.pan.… Bruno Bockorny MD FACP

Had so much fun writing this one with Alice Gallo, MD 🫁 TIPS appears to provide a transient improvement in the oxygenation parameters of patients with HPS These effects are usually not sustained long-term (> 3 months) ‼️ JVIR jvir.org/article/S1051-…