Excited to share this news. Thank you to my incredible chair and sponsor
@endourologyucsd
, and to Dr. Lowell Parsons for his major contributions to the field!
Today is my one year anniversary at UCSD! After 15 years of FPMRS, I came here to start a gender affirming pelvic surgery program. Grateful to
@endourologyucsd
for having faith in me and supporting my training, and grateful to the great docs who trained me!
Can 2020 get any weirder? Sitting in the hospital with my dad (admitted against his will for cellulitis) and his roommate’s doctor just asked me to place a foley!
@UroResidentsCS
My 15 year-old daughter has an assignment to pick a news article about any science topic, then review 3 medical journal articles on the topic. I told her she could pick a urology topic and even include one of my articles! “No, Mom, I’m good.”
Quarantine was not what I had in mind for my 50th birthday. However, coming to my office to this made my day. Note the figurines on my pelvic model and speculum!
@UroResidentsCS
What I won’t forget from internship: Don’t give lip, don’t be lazy, don’t be late, don’t lie. Eat when you can, sleep when you can, pee when you can, and don’t f- with the pancreas!
New interns: breathe, you deserve to be here. Be kind, even when you’re stressed. Ask for help. Find the popsicles on your peds rotation. Drink water, otherwise you’ll end up in our clinic with a kidney stone :) You can do this!
#MedTwitter
@UroResidency
In between 25 clinic patients I got a text that my 14 year old was ditching her zoom class, my son called with an x axis question, and my dad (without his hearing aids) called me for a refill of his leg cream. I think it is my phone, not clinic, that makes me dislike clinic.
Today I got results from two NIH grant reviews. Both unscored. Can someone remind me why I signed up for this lifestyle? I have developed a thick skin, but it is not thick enough!
@wehodarwinian
@SFreedlandMD
@ChughtaiMD
Not quite sure how well telemedicine from home is going to work, but here we go! So far LA hospital census data show a linear, not an exponential, curve. This means that staying home is working!!! Don’t give up and don’t leave the house!
#SocialDistancing
#covid19
My 16 yr-old daughter is explaining to my 12 yr-old what asexual is and what LGBTQIA stands for. She also explained to me how her teacher, by asking students their pronouns, allowed a non-binary student to feel safe sharing who they are. I gave her a homework pass.
Making a composite mesh/fascia lata graft for robotic sacrocolpopexy. A nice solution when there is a lack of peritoneum for mesh coverage and/or a fresh vaginal cuff (or in this case, a separated cuff!)
@kuhlrunnings
@dubinsky_a
@UroResidentsCS
@KaiBDallas
Having a great time with the OHSU team. Thankful for their sharing their expertise in gender affirming surgery with us!
@GeolaniDy
@queersurgeon
@ajskokan
Submitted an R01 with my friend and colleague Una with 39 minutes to spare! Was hoping to be more productive during Covid-19 but we’ve had a lot going on this year! Dr_UnaLee
@UroResidentsCS
@CedarsSinai
When you have three kids and a husband on Zoom but you don’t want to mess up your video interviews with residency candidates.....
@AmerUrological
@UroResidentsCS
So proud of our residents. I know we all took the Hippocratic oath, but we are asking a lot of them in a scary time. We have to make sure to protect ourselves from getting sick so we can continue to care for patients.
#covid19
@UroResidentsCS
@CedarsSinai
So proud of Jamie Finnegan for winning best poster at the
#wsaua
for her work seeking the truth about a controversial topic- puberty blockers!
@UCSD_Urology
@UCSDHealth
Just a note for Urology and Gyn residents: The FPMRS match is open! We really need more residents to enter the field as our patient population ages. And, when you decide to apply, apply to our new yet high-volume fellowship at Cedars-Sinai.
@sufuorg
@FPMRS
@UroResidentsCS
#FPMRS
Pubmed now has one’s publications displayed by year. I had babies in 2004, 2005, and 2009- coinciding exactly with my three least productive years. Luckily my productivity went up when we got out of diapers.....and when I began to have my trainees write the papers!
International Day of Women and Girls in Science is a day dedicated to promoting gender equality in STEM fields and encouraging more women and girls to pursue careers in STEM. The theme of 2024 is
#inspireinclusion
. Strike the
#inspireinclusion
pose!
Not a travel award or best poster award, but a “Most Tweets” award. I’ll take it! Plus it makes me feel young.
@UroResidentsCS
@sufuorg
#sufu21
Thrilled to have
@urogeek
as our Visiting Professor! Excellent talk on quality of life and financial toxicity. We made the most of Zoom!
@UroResidentsCS
Do others notice that women tend not to quote their own prior work in manuscripts? I edited two papers by amazing women this week and had to beg them to brag!