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Georgetown Gas PGY1 @MedstarGUH via @ohiostatemed , @lifeatpurdue alum. 🚂 🇨🇾🇬🇷 she/her

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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
just me, brutus, and my georgetown gas match 🎉 still can’t believe it. so happy! #Match2024 @OhioStateMed
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I fear I may have girlbossed a bit too close to the sun
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Anesthesiologists in the OR
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Selena Gomez in new photo.
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Are you feeling sleepy yet?! My name is Dr. Helena Lysandrou, MD …… & I’ll be your anesthesiologist today! 💅 @OhioStateMed
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
Still thinking about the 80 year old woman I made friends with @ the Covid vaccine station who told me that she was divorcing her husband because he gave her Covid
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
Full circle as a Buckeye Baby!! I was born at OSU Wexner and now I’m finishing my Labor & Delivery rotation here as a medical student! 🥰💗
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
How it started: how it’s going:
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4 months
I MATCHED!!!! IM GOING TO BE AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST!!!! 😭💤😴🫶🏽 thank you to everyone who has supported me all of these years!!!!!!! 🎉💖 🤞🏽 #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
5 months
interviewer: i like your plants you have behind you there! me: thank you, they’re fake
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
I matched at my #1 …Georgetown/ MedStar for my anesthesiology residency! I’m so grateful to all of my friends and family and teachers for supporting me throughout my whole life and throughout this journey!!!! My future patients- this is for you!! 🩺 #Match2024 @womenMDinanesth
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Helena Lysandrou
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call us beep us if you wanna reach us !! 📟
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Helena Lysandrou
3 months
My classmate Kevin, an MS4 here at @OhioStateMed who just matched into neurology, was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. Please consider donating to help his family and share his story ♥️
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
Look at these amazing cookies my sister got for me for today 😭 Love you so much @maria_lysandrou #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do
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1 year
I JUST TOOK STEP 2!!!!!!! omg why was that 9 hours long?!!!!!!!! sooo happy im done 😭 🥹
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
I have been having nightmares for weeks about this day - it feels surreal that I matched anesthesiology!!!!! Can’t wait to see where friday but I know I will be happy anywhere!!!! #match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
9 months
Hey #MedTwitter ! My name is Helena Lysandrou & I’m an M4 @OhioStateMed ! I am applying #Match2024 into #Anesthesiology 💤 😴 I am passionate about diversity in medicine & ultrasound, and am interested in regional & obstetrics anesthesiology! 💉 ✨ @FutureAnesRes #Gasgang
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Sometimes you just need cute checklists to get you through med school 🌸
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Helena Lysandrou
2 months
I ordered a beer last night and the bartender asked me how old I was …… SIR I am a DOCTOR now!!!!!!!! (I didn’t say this but I wanted to)
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Helena Lysandrou
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I think now I can finally reveal that I signed my letter of intent to my residency program like this (i promise i’m not tortured at @OhioStateMed )
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Helena Lysandrou
11 days
You guys I did the ultimate new intern thing today. I didn’t know where the scrubs were so I wore business casual for my whole ED shift LOLLL
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
best day of med school ever! 🚒👩‍🚒 thank you Columbus station 16! ❤️
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
Ever think misogyny in medicine is long gone? Take a look at this tweet. A full doctor shaming women for asking for mentorship in a male-dominated field. #orthotwitter
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Helena Lysandrou
2 months
I found a cute lil apartment in a townhome in DC and I’m so happy !!! Woohooooo!!!!!!! My zillow hell is over!
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
First Pediatrics rotation at @nationwidekids — Infectious Disease! Am I doing this right?? 🥰
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
When the med students have matching lead on Interventional Radiology 🩻
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
I am not the best standardized exam test taker. AT ALL. But… I made it through Step 1 & Step 2. I learned a lot throughout medical school, & improved a ton. This 🧵 is for anyone in medical school who struggles with exams: #MedEd #MedTwitter
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
just in a silly goofy mood #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
Thankful & hopeful today ☺️💉🦠🩺 #AntibodiesInTraining @OSUCOM_WIM
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Before my last final exam, I found out that my childhood friend, who is also a first year med student, died by suicide. Just a reminder to check in on your friends, especially now during this time. ♥️
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
my sister and I have been thinking that the Bachelor Joey has jaundice this whole season and we just found out he actually has Gilbert’s syndrome which makes me like him even more (can’t explain why) #TheBachelor
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Helena Lysandrou
19 days
Moving with a cat across the country <<< taking him through the starbucks drive thru >>>>
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Helena Lysandrou
11 years
#FictionalCharactersIWantToMarry Charlie😍 I will help you through everything baby http://t.co/1blgIdbFfZ
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
I have never worked out more in my life bc i’m so nervous waiting for match day. I’ve tried cycling, boxing, hot yoga, pilates, trapeze yoga, rowing, pickleball 😀 🫠🫨😵‍💫
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
I remember when I told my premed advisor that I wanted to go to Ohio State for medical school. She told me I wouldn’t get in because I took the MCAT 2x and “wasn’t going to improve.” I took it a 3rd time, improved my score a ton, and got into Ohio State
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I’ll never forget when my college advisor said I wouldn’t get into a single MD school… I guess he was right because I got into five
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
Scrubbed in on my first surgery today 😍🥰
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
i love seeing badass female (almost) doctors match on my timeline
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4 months
things I did yesterday: ✅ deadlift 405lb ✅ match into orthopedic surgery 🦴 #Match2024 #orthotwitter
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
1 year with my kitty!! 🐱 Cats are the # 1 thing you need in medical school for mental sanity
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Ohio Society of Anesthesiology Conference this weekend! 💉 Awesome food & great people! 🎉
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Happy day in the Lysandrou household!! My dad who’s been on the frontline since March, taking care of and intubating Covid patients, got vaccinated today. go Dr. Plato!!!! So proud of him ❤️
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
First day @ Nationwide Children’s today for my internship... I feel so much happiness & hope 😊 Talking to my fellow about the amazing field of Cystic Fibrosis makes me sooo excited to contribute. 💓
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
@brad_loomis brad!!! can’t believe you also included intubation on your plan differential too 😴
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
I’m sooo incredibly proud of my dad, he is the first anesthesiologist to ever win the Part 2 Excellence in Education award at @OhioStateMed Especially amazing since as medical students we only get one week of anesthesia! ☺️ 🥳🎉 Go Plato!
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Congratulations to my sister future Dr. Maria Lysandrou! I am so proud of you, and feel so lucky that you are here at OSUCOM with me! A new buckeye in the family! #SisterDoctors 🩺🌰❤️ @maria_lysandrou
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2 months
My tik tok side gig is taking off !!
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Very excited to share that our OSUCOM LGBTQ+ & Allies in Medicine club is now officially a chapter of @MSPA_National . We will be connected with other medical students who are passionate about LGBTQ+ healthcare, and incorporating it into medical school curriculums! 🙌🏽
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
thinking of everyone going through SOAP today. the process should not be like this and you all are going to be amazing physicians #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Congratulations to my brother and his team at SpaceX on this today. A bit of happiness & good news right now. @lysandrou_
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Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
these match day nightmares are no joke
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
my favorite couple couples matched into anesthesiology. love you guys so so much - any program will be so lucky to have you both!!!! 💤🎉🎉🎉🎉
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we are going to be anesthesiologists!!! #match2024 #couplesmatch
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Helena Lysandrou
8 months
I just took my last exam of medical school!!!!! now to celebrate with a trader joe’s run with @gracynrose
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
getting in my feels because i used to watch match day videos growing up and tear up bc i was so happy for everyone & it encouraged me to keep studying and now my match day is here #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
Awesome last day on Anesthesiology with one of my favorite (now chief) residents!! @CassieWernke Thanks so much for teaching me how to intubate, put in IVs, & A lines 🫶🏽 💤😴
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
Get your friendship bracelets from the med students in section 307 at the #CincyTSTheErasTour tonight because we tied them with surgical knots 🫶🏽💜 @gracynrose
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Helena Lysandrou
9 months
Mixed feelings about ERAS & Central app submission. Feel so much anxiety but also so relieved to be done and submitted. I cannot believe I made it this far. 💕 #Match2024
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
As students are starting their first year of medical school, I thought I’d put together a 🧵of advice that helped me get through my first year, and things I wish I knew:
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Helena Lysandrou
6 months
Officially freaking out because it’s now 2024 which means I (hopefully) match and graduate med school this year 🫨
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Helena Lysandrou
9 months
Badges secured for #ANES23 ! 💤😴 Can’t wait to learn more and meet new friends! #anes23photochallenge @FutureAnesRes @brad_loomis @ASALifeline @OhioStateMed
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
What do you do when your dad gets his Covid vaccine?? Get him a Vaccine day cake of course!! Made by my sister @mariacakes 🥳
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
As a female med student it means so much having a female attending encourage you and give you advice to keep going. Really needed that tonight
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Helena Lysandrou
5 years
while studying in a Starbucks today, I look up and see @tylerthecreator . I was so excited that i said the first thing that came to my mind: “I love your jenis ice cream flavor” 😂 then he gave me a fist bump @jenisicecreams #LifeMade
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Helena Lysandrou
2 months
Got to help with @OhioStateMed ‘s second look last week & teach some future buckeyes how to intubate!! Thank you @DrRankin for the opportunity! ♥️🥰 feels like I was just in their shoes & now i’m graduating next week!
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
My brother is the best.... he sees me struggle every day in med school but always encourages me to keep going. He couldn’t be with us for Christmas bc of Covid (he’s in LA) & got me these headphones to remind me to keep pushing through. 😭 So special to me! love you @lysandrou_
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
Loved helping out with Second Look this weekend @OhioStateMed ! It feels like yesterday I was in their shoes excited to start med school & now I’m applying to residency this year 😵 time flies!
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Hey @AAMCtoday , now is the perfect time to go back and make Step1 optionally pass/fail for the class of 2022 and later. Exam dates are being pushed back, & exam centers are closed. I can’t imagine the stress that they are experiencing right now. Please consider!!!
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Helena Lysandrou
9 months
@WendyHassonMD Her post is meant to inspire women in med. Not necessarily that you can do every single thing on your plate. Many people tear women in medicine down for working hard and also enjoying life as a female. Her post is showing that you can do both & tear down the patriarchy 💕 ✨
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
i love being in the OR😍 the anatomy…. AHHHH!!!!! so mind blowing. but got off a 24 hour call this morning and TIRED!! 😂😂😂 getting a pedicure 🤗
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Insanely proud of my brother @lysandrou_ and SpaceX for the smooth launch today.... Here’s an awesome pic of my brother with the astronauts including @Astro_Doug who went up today. I’m a proud sister 😅
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Friday Hawaiian party on Peds GI with hawaiian pizza!! 🥳 Love @nationwidekids ! 🌸 🌺🌊
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Just landed in NOLA for #ASA22 #ANES22 ! So excited! Does anyone have any NOLA recommendations?!
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Just some advice from Plato (my dad):
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
These 4 girls dissected out a brain today 😱🧠😊 I will never forget this!! Thankful every day for our selfless donors and the amazing gift that they have given us here at Ohio State! #WomenInMedicine #WomeninSurgery @DrMquinn08 ♥️
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
OSU tackling COVID: the engineering department (center of innovation) made this plexiglass cube to keep anesthesiologists safe while intubating patients! My dad was the first to use it tonight!
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Another Lysandrou is joining the @OhioStateMed family!!! Congratulations to my sister for receiving the call to join the class of 2026, I’m SOOOO proud of you!! @maria_lysandrou now our cats can be roommates! 🐱
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
Me trying to come up with 10 meaningful experiences for my Eras app
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
So proud to be a student at this amazing College of Medicine. I feel very lucky to have been apart of this video. I remember I had been studying for hours in the library, & I read this script & shed a couple of tears 😬☺️💗♥️ #WomenInMedicine #DiversityInMedicine #OSUCOM
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The Ohio State University College of Medicine
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Representation matters at #OSUCOM . For the past six years, more than half of our incoming class have been women. Here you’ll find hundreds of women making a difference. See what they have to say about the future of medicine.
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Helena Lysandrou
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My brother 😆
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Padraig Lysandrou
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How it started How it’s going
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Helena Lysandrou
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My Yiayia, my greek grandmother in Cyprus, passed away with Parkinson’s two years ago. To see patients at our patient panel this morning fully recover from parkinson’s due to Deep Brain Stimulation was wow...neurology & medicine are amazing 🧠
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
Feel super lucky to have a mentor that texts & checks in on me, especially while I’m studying for boards & I feel like times are rough. I appreciate you so much @DrRayMD !
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4th year of medical school >>> where I can join my sister on her American Society of Hematology conference trip to San Diego and reunite with our brother☀️🌊🦭 @maria_lysandrou @lysandrou_
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Helena Lysandrou
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I gave my first tour today to interviewing medical students @OhioStateMed ! I love sharing my excitement for OSUCOM with potential students 👩🏽‍⚕️ & of course I had to show them the view from the top floor of The James Cancer Center! 🤗
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Helena Lysandrou
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Meet my new kitty. His original name is Axel, but I think I’m going to rename him Lingula 🤩 @DrMquinn08
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
When it’s your last day at @nationwidekids and your last day on pediatrics … you buy stuffed animals from the gift shop! 😍🐵🐯🦊🐶
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
I wish I discovered Boards & Beyond Step2 videos earlier... these are life changing I feel like I am literally becoming a doctor by watching these videos 😂 Thank you so much @jasonryanmd @boardsandbeyond !
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
I held a human heart today 🤯😵
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4 years
I went to high school with one of these people.......... I truly hope they realize the severity of this situation soon.
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Helena Lysandrou
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My EM friends!!!! I’m starting on emergency medicine this thursday. Please let me know if there are any good resources / study guides to review 😊‼️🚑🚨 Or if you have any tips for me! ♥️
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Helena Lysandrou
2 years
Great day on Neuro…. gave some tPA, ate donuts for breakfast, pizza, cake, and ice cream for lunch, and went to a Buckeye Paws party!!
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Excited & humbled that I received the position of co-President of OSUCOM’s LGBTQ+ Ally organization. I hope to make our school more accepting, and to increase awareness of the health disparities that exist! ♥️🏳️‍🌈 excited to be on the board & tackle these problems with @beacarbone !
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Helena Lysandrou
4 years
Just a lion in his jungle
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
got to meet Shiloh, the famous buckeye paws doggy today! 😍😍😍😍
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Helena Lysandrou
9 months
I keep having flashbacks to high school me and I have to remind myself that she would be so proud of me right now and how far I’ve come even if I feel so nervous heading into residency applications
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Helena Lysandrou
4 months
No one talks about the absolute paranoia you have between certifying your rank list and match day— i am so nervous that i messed something up with the ranking system lol
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
Starting a month long social media in medicine elective tomorrow … so if i start tweeting more that’s why 😁 🤩
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Helena Lysandrou
3 years
I just delivered a placenta!!! 😍😍😍
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Helena Lysandrou
1 year
All I can say is… I feel so lucky to have seen the Eras tour last night, listening to songs that were apart of my life each step of the way @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 🫶🏽💜 #CincyTSTheErasTour #CincyN2
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Helena Lysandrou
11 months
Looking forward to my CVICU rotation next month but for now I’m enjoying my social media in medicine elective ☀️🌅 ((probably too much :) ))
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I don't have the heart to tell my roommate that I didn't spend hours perfectly aligning cookie dough in ghost form
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