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Trisha Lal, MD

@med_trisha

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PGY2/Research Resident @SurgeryUH . First-gen immigrant. Passionate about health equity. She/her/hers.

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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
I’m going to be a surgeon!!!!! So grateful to have shared this moment with my parents today. I owe it all to them! #Match2022 #GenSurgMatch2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Officially Trisha Lal, M.D.
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
My Uber Eats driver called me and I answered saying “hi this is Trisha with Colorectal” 😂
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Wow, today was a movie… Cleveland, here I come!!! #Match2022 #GenSurgMatch2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
*Four years later*… cheers to my last day of med school at THE Howard University College of Medicine with these brilliant and goofy future docs!!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
6 months away from match - the finish line is almost tangible! #match2022 #ERAS2022 #medtwitter #gensurg #womeninsurgery #ilooklikeasurgeon
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3 years
Not entirely how I imagined interviews to be but the fuzzy slippers make it worth it 😁 #GenSurgMatch2022 #Match2022 #medtwitter
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Trisha Lal, MD
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I might be 28 years old today but my mom still stands by at the airport to make sure I got through security 🥺 I am so grateful to have been able to ring in my birthday with my family before starting a 2 month stretch of ACS!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Today I got a window into my life as an intern as I started my SubI in Transplant Surgery at @UMichSurgery . It felt poetic to come home to review ERAS and all the hard work that has led me here. My app is submitted and I’m ready to go! #ERAS #GenSurgMatch2022 #ILookLikeASurgeon
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Trisha Lal, MD
4 years
Hi, #MedTwitter ! This is Med Trisha. Aspiring surgeon, gearing up for application season and ready to learn from all this platform has to offer! #gensurg #ERAS2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
A living legend/pioneer in transplant surgery and minority organ donation, and a fervent advocate of health equity who also happens to be the most humble, dedicated and admirable mentor - Dr. Clive O. Callender.
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Feeling empowered after attending the #awsfuture21 conference this weekend! Thank you to @WomenSurgeons and @SocietyofBAS for selecting me as a winner of the AWS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award and supporting future female surgeons like me! #ILookLikeASurgeon
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
My mantra ✨ Grateful for 4th year and the time I’ve had to reflect and create 🎨 #MedTwitter
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Happy Diwali 🪔 This festival of lights symbolizes knowledge, hope, and prosperity. I’m grateful to have celebrated with my family every year and definitely hugged my mom a little tighter when I realized how lucky I am to say that. Feeling blessed ✨
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
It is an honor to present the inaugural issue of The HUCM Research Digest to the President of the University and one of our most valued mentors, Dr. Wayne Frederick. Thank you for your support. This legacy could not have been started without you! @HUPrez17 @HowardU #MedTwitter
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Here’s to the first of our quarterly intern debriefs, a chance to celebrate how far we’ve come, and to the people who keep me going
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
I’ve made some friends for life in medical school, and today one of them matched at his top choice for ophthalmology! Can’t wait to hit up the halal food trucks when I come to visit you @DMtoMD 🥳
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Accidentally matching hats with this superstar rising PGY2!! @CSBoutros I wanna be like you when I grow up @UHSurgeryRes
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
So good to be home and back to my roots with the legend himself, Dr. Clive O. Callender… and that too 2 weeks before his 86th birthday! @HowardUGenSurg @NationalMOTTEP
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Having so much fun at @CCFSurgery ’s Women General Surgery Residents program held just down the street from my home base @SurgeryUH today. Thanks @aprabhumd1 for hosting this empowering event for junior residents like me! Feeling better equipped for the road ahead 💪🏾
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Tonight started with a beautiful sunset and a touching conversation with a patient who finally received a kidney transplant earlier today. There’s so much to learn from the independence that comes with working nights, and I’m so happy I get to do it with this crew! @SurgeryUH
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Trisha Lal, MD
8 months
Nothing like @BehindTheKnife with chai and a candle to get me through this last week of ABSITE studying
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
I had the pleasure of attending @UMichSurgery ’s Leadership Weekend today. We discussed innovation and personality in the context of academic surgery as well as the impact of Covid on surgical education. It was amazing to connect with surgeons/future surgeons across the country!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Ready to work, to learn, and to empower my patients. I can’t believe intern year is here!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Got to watch my mom and my inspiration talk about how gene therapy works on Capitol Hill today. She raised an advocate 👊🏽
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Institute for Gene Therapies
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Dr. Sharma talks about the uniqueness of #genetherapies : “While gene therapies and biologics share some characteristics, gene therapies are significantly more complex in how they are designed for safety and efficacy and in how they are manufactured for scalability and capacity.”
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
If I’ve been beaming all week, it’s because of my cute little patients and the fact that I’ve seen TEF, gastroschisis, and a Kasai all in my first week on pediatric surgery, AND I have the best team by my side @Tyler_Stumm_ @RyanMoore_MD
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
10000% recommend solo backpacking through Thailand! 2 weeks of simple living and immersing myself in all of the food, culture, and nature of this beautiful country was the best way to reset before my next adventure — residency!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
1 year
I’m so happy visits home now include mini liver rounds with our forever chief @Bingmer (currently being borrowed by Hopkins) @UHSurgeryRes
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
So grateful to be have such a supportive crew @UHSurgeryRes #interns
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
If you told me that one day I would be talking to the Surgeon General about wellness in the pandemic, I wouldn't have believed you... Thanks @HowardU for always supporting me and making this unimaginable idea a reality!
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General
3 years
I was grateful to participate in a panel discussion with @HUPrez17 , Dr. Wayne Frederick, and @HowardU students to talk about getting back on campus, how COVID has affected our well-being, and how we can better support one another. Listen here ⤵️
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Picking my brother up from basketball practice at the place where I fell in love with science 10 yrs ago!! Little did I know I would pursue surgery… I’m so proud of how far I’ve come 🥺 and excited to see where life takes my little brother in 10 yrs! #grateful #GenSurgMatch2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
My classmate, Alex, and I started The HUCM Research Digest to showcase the amazing research done by faculty, physicians, and students here and at HUH. So excited to finally share this work! Check out the inaugural issue: @HowardU #research #medicine
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Goodbye to the days where I literally have no idea what day of the week it is… and hello residency 🫠
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Congratulations to @AnishJayJain for being awarded Intern of the Year by @HowardUGenSurg !!! This is incredibly well-deserved! Thank you for always being a mentor, friend, and someone to talk basketball with - we are so lucky to have you!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
A true superwoman. Blessed to have known her. RIP, Dr. Wilson.
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Debra Ford
2 years
RIP Dr. Lori Wilson. You will be missed.
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
A year ago @DrJashDatta interviewed me for residency and now we’re already talking about academic development time! Grateful to have found mentorship in young leaders of surgery like him!
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UH Surgery Residents
2 years
Thank you @DrJashDatta for all your career advice! We have a lot to learn from you! Another great career development session in the books! @med_trisha @AlexanderLoftu9 @CSBoutros @jamessunmd
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Visiting home and my favorite hoomans, especially this little guy, has been the perfect reset 💛 #blessed
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
After 8+ months of taking care of patients as a resident, I finally took the time to establish healthcare for myself!! It feels so good to put myself first 😌
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Wishing all 4th year medical students luck this #matchweek ! I cannot believe #Match2021 is already here and am so excited to see where everyone ends up. Talk about dreams turning into reality! #NRMP #GenSurgMatch2021
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Honored to have participated in a discussion with the @Surgeon_General and @HUPrez17 about navigating life and clinical rotations during the pandemic. Thanks for giving me the platform to share my story and hear others! #COVID19 #VaccinesWork
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Trisha Lal, MD
1 year
Intern year kept us busy so we turned our quarterly debrief to a biannual debrief… and it was absolutely worth the wait! I love the community I have here ❤️ @UHSurgeryRes @SurgeryUH
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
This was so fun!! Thanks for teaching me today and every day - I’m so lucky to have met awesome mentors like Caleb during my time at Michigan!
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Caleb Haley, MD
3 years
Down time on a transplant surgery call shift @UMichSurgery means teaching FLS skills to my fantastic sub-I @med_trisha . Just missing @Donn_Spight timing us 😉. Gen surg programs - keep an eye out for her application this season! #GenSurgMatch2022 #GoBlue #Simulation #MedTwitter
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
“You’re never going to be this version of yourself again” — this quote holds *extra* true right now as a senior medical student with time for sleep, hobbies and travel who is also trying to figure out adulting/residency… I call her ~transition Trisha~ and I love her! 🤩
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
That drip intravenous ✨
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Christina S Boutros
2 years
In the TSICU we wear pink 💕 @med_trisha @UHSurgeryRes
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Happy 85th birthday to Dr. Callender, a legend and an incredible mentor. I am so grateful for our conversations about surgery, health equity, and life. The way he inspires me to be the best surgeon and advocate I can for my patients is unparalleled!
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Anish Jay Jain MD
3 years
Happy 85th Birthday to my role-model, mentor, and close friend, Dr. Clive O. Callender A legendary surgeon who forever changed the field of Transplant Surgery with his crusade against Transplant inequality But also a most humble man of faith who treats all with compassion (1/4)
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Don’t even have to leave the ICU for fresh air these days…
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Matthew Niehaus
2 years
Quick rounds/unexpected free afternoon = time to learn what we put our patients through on NIPPV and invasive ventilation @med_trisha @UHSurgeryRes . See what you’re missing in Croatia @CSBoutros
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
So excited myself!! And I believe I’m starting on the best service - colorectal surgery!! 🥳 @slsteinmd1 @Surgerywhiz
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Sharon L. Stein
2 years
Excited to have @med_trisha join @UHSurgeryRes !
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Trisha Lal, MD
1 year
I saw a bald eagle on my drive to the VA this morning and then I got to assist in a surprise lap appy. Pretty magical morning 😌
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
So thrilled to share my first first author publication! #JAMA #womeninmedicine #medtwitter
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JAMA Ophthalmology
3 years
Histopathological and molecular correlates in asymmetric retinitis pigmentosa, a rare presentation of a typically symmetric condition, studied on autopsied eyes @HufnagelLab @med_trisha
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Trisha Lal, MD
10 months
Cleveland is underrated but sunny, golden weekends are not ☀️
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Here’s a little doodle @AndrewMIbrahim had me make while brainstorming ideas for improving access to mentorship for future surgeons during our innovation workshop! So much fun!! @UMichSurgery @umichmedicine @jdimick1
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
I’m gonna miss downtime with classmates like you!! #ANTM
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Naa Sey, MD 🇺🇸🇬🇭
2 years
Cheers to the last day of medical school!! 🥂 Thank you @HowardU for these last 8 years 🔴🔵 I have so much to be grateful for, like these new beautiful docs on the block 😍 #MedTwitter #match2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
10 months
Go Buckeyes!!! Featuring my brother(s), only one of whom is a freshman at Ohio State
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Trisha Lal, MD
1 year
Congratulations to all who matched! Take some time to yourself today and recognize how far you’ve come. You are where you are meant to be! #Match2023 #gensurgmatch2023
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Trisha Lal, MD
1 year
Residency Pro Tip: get a lanyard for your badge that's an easy conversation starter. My Celtics lanyard has been the centerpiece of so many fun conversations with patients and attendings, especially this time of year 😏
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
What an incredible person to represent us at commencement!! @CalaroKathleen you are an inspiration!
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Debra Ford
2 years
Kathleen Calaro, HUCM Class of 2022, just delivered a wonderful welcome on behalf of all the HU 2022 graduates! #hu22
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@umichmedicine An absolute inspiration! I wanna be like you when I grow up! @v_valbuen
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Oh and of course another incredible mentor turned friend @AnishJayJain ! I truly have a lot to be grateful for!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
Pretty fitting that Kevin Garnett’s retirement ceremony is the day before Match Week 🍀 #AnythingIsPossible #Match2022 #GenSurgMatch2022
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
U know! 🙌🏾
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Brian Joseph Sajorda, MD
2 years
The glow up is real 🙌🏾 Extremely privileged to work with these docs the past 4 years, from our short white coats to our long ones! Presenting the @HowardU College of Medicine Class of 2022!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@UHSurgeryRes @calzuroshoes @BIRKENSTOCKUSA @brooks_shoes Me and @Tyler_Stumm_ are right there with you all (with just a slight difference in shoe sizes)
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Trisha Lal, MD
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Thank you, Dr. Datta! So grateful to have found mentorship in you from interview season!
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Jash Datta, MD
2 years
@med_trisha Congrats Trisha! Joining an incredible group there with @JordanMWinterMD @TheNotoriousHPB @LukeRothermel @slsteinmd1 et al. Team UH- look out for this rising star
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@NaaSey2 We got this girl!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@AnishJayJain @JJackson_ENT @shihyunkim95 I’m gonna excuse myself from this conversation now
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Sooooooo proud of my classmate and friend! 🍞 👊🏽
@JoshuaCabralTnT
Joshua Cabral
3 years
I’m thrilled to be joining @UChicagoUro for my residency training. This guy from Trinidad and Tobago is really gonna be a urologist. 😭😭
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@Prof_Andrisse Congratulations, Dr. Andrisse! This is so incredible!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@CBA_98 @pennsurgery How amazing! Congratulations, Dr. Aarons!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@RyanMoore_MD Suddenly I’m interested in mitral valve repair
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Coronavirus hit the globe at once but what we’re seeing now is a drastic difference in the way countries are recovering. While some are inching closer to normalcy, countries like India are suffering their worst days bc of barriers to proper healthcare. This is so disheartening.
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Atul Gawande
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"Now my oxygen level is 50, and the guard at the Balrampur hospital is not letting me enter.” Such a disturbing picture of COVID overwhelming Indian hospitals. This journalist, finding no help, live tweeted his declining oxygen levels until he died.
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@hanabaig_ @uconnsurgery You are so inspiring and are going to have a tremendous impact on your patients. Congratulations, Hana!!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@DrJashDatta @Bingmer @UHSurgeryRes @UHSurgOncology We were remembering you too! They only let us out when it’s humid outside so we’re reminded why it’s better to stick to a forecast of fluorescent lighting instead 😂
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@AnishJayJain @HowardUGenSurg Always!! So happy to rep Howard!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@AnishJayJain Heck no. He’s obviously loyal like Kobe too!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@AnishJayJain Unlike the Celtics, I've made a lot of progress since my time on the DaVinci with you... we'll have to battle again sometime soon!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@CSBoutros @UHSurgeryRes Thanks, Christina! I’m so excited!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@AnishJayJain @shihyunkim95 Med Trisha is going back in hiding
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@RajviShah__ I can confirm you do BOTH! #einsteinbros
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@AnishJayJain I will always win this fight bc my last name is LAL
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@AnishJayJain @NaricaClarke This reminds me of when I scrubbed out of a case with Dr. Shah at 5 pm and he told me to get some breakfast 😂
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
Thanks for always believing in us!! We wouldn’t be here without you!
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Anish Jay Jain MD
3 years
Extremely proud of my “little sis” Stef and our girl @med_trisha for representing HUCM so well and engaging in meaning conversations about real issues!!! Two extremely prodigious young physicians!!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@AnishJayJain Sorry did the Lakers even make it to playoffs this year? Hope y'all got some good rest man
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Trisha Lal, MD
2 years
@jj_hue Thank you!!! So excited!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@ariananaaseh Thanks girl!! We’re colleagues now!
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Trisha Lal, MD
3 years
@_Ardy_S Congratulations!! This is amazing!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@cmf2x It becomes more real this week!! So exciting!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@Longstreet625 Thank you!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@shazaqk Thank you!
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@MedFitBlondie Haha thank you!!!
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@CAlvaradoMD So thrilled!!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@steven_xie96 You know the vibes!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@steph_carter_95 @YaleSurgery Congratulations, Stephanie!!!
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Trisha Lal, MD
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@slsteinmd1 So excited to meet you and everyone else, Dr. Stein!
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