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Caring for patients of today, preparing for patients of tomorrow. Surgery Residency, Vanderbilt University Med Ctr.
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We are excited to welcome our new interns to the
@VUMCSurgRes
family! Looking forward to working with all of you!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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Congratulations to Drs. David Hanna and Kelly Wu! David matched into surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Kelly is on her way to the Cleveland Clinic for transplant/HPB.
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCSurgOnc
@VUMCTransplant
@WKellyWuMD
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
Dr. Nelly-Ange Kontchou! She matched pediatric surgery at Montreal Children’s Hospital!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCchildren
@BoLovvorn
@PedsTraumaMan
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Congratulations to the 2021-22
@VUMCSurgRes
Intern class! Welcome to the Vanderbilt surgery family!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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Congratulations Drs. Kathleen Gallagher and Parker Evans for being awarded the Housestaff Clinical Teaching Award by the graduating students
@VUmedicine
! Proud of both you!
@VUMCSurgRes
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
@kgallagher01
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Congratulations Drs. Maren Shipe and Carolina Pinzon-Guzman! We know you both will do Vanderbilt proud!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
@Carolinapp33
@BoLovvorn
@VUMCchildren
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
Dr. Laura Rausch who matched in pediatric surgery at the University of Chicago!
@VUMCSurgery
@BoLovvorn
@PedsTraumaMan
@uchicagosurgery
@VUMCGME
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Congratulations Drs. Gretchen Edwards, Kayla Kumm and Monica Polcz on your fellowship match! Representing
@VUMCSurgRes
!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCSurgOnc
@VUMCGME
4
8
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
Chief Resident Dr. Kathleen Gallagher! She was recognized today by
@VUmedicine
for her excellence in teaching.
@kgallagher01
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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Dr. G — such as amazing educator, surgeon and most importantly person. You have influenced so many residents
@VUMCSurgRes
. Looking forward to seeing you back
@VUMCSurgery
!
@VUMCTrauma
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8
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Congratulations to the 2019-2020
@VUMCSurgRes
Chief class! So proud of you guys!
@VUMCSurgery
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Congratulations to Drs. Gretchen Edwards and Monica Polcz!
@VUMCSurgRes
administrative chief residents for 2021-22.
@VUMCSurgery
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Congratulations Dr. Terhune for being awarded the Five Pillar Leadership Award! Communication, compassion and hard work are keys to successful leadership | VUMC Voice
@KylaTerhune
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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The
@VUMCSurgRes
VA general surgery team got to meet Dr. Bookwalter today! (surgeons will understand). Know what else? 2 residents in photo are Navy inactive ready reserve and one of the med students is an Army veteran herself! Thankful for their and our patients’ service.
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10
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Congratulations Diane! On her way to the University of Pennsylvania!
@dianehaddadmd
@VUMCSurgery
@pennsurgery
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This year — 9 PHENOMENAL students from
@VUmedicine
in surgery and we are so proud to hold 5 and launch 4 into other top programs!!! Adding David Xiao, Colton Riley (Georgetown), and Kaitlyn Tracy (UCSF) to our 5 and we have a POWERHOUSE intern class this July
@VUMCSurgRes
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9
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
is absolutely ecstatic to welcome these eight categorical surgery residents to Nashville and Vanderbilt University Medical Center!!!
#Match2018
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgery
(equally proud of our 22 preliminary surgery interns joining us as well!)
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14
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Great grand rounds lecture today
@VUMCSurgery
. Dr. John Tarpley gave a great overview of the life of Dr. Levi Watkins! A quadruple threat - a great clinician, researcher, mentor and administrator.
@VUMCSurgRes
@hopkinssurgery
@VUmedicine
5
10
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Quick update for all of our
@VUMCSurgRes
applicant — we will send interview invitations on 10/31. Our first interview day is 11/15. Looking forward to meeting everyone!
@Inside_TheMatch
#MedTwitter
1
7
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Congratulations and great job to all our
@VUMCSurgRes
and
@VUmedicine
MS4’s who presented at
@TNChapterACS
this weekend! The future looks bright!
@VUMCSurgery
@WaliJohnsonMD
@megshroder
@mwwallace08
@TaylorStAmour
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Looking forward to celebrating our 2023 Chief Resident Class tomorrow! Strong group and
@VUMCSurgery
are proud of all of you!
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We are excited to announce our incoming intern class of 2023! Welcome to the
@VUMCSurgRes
family!
@VUMCSurgery
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
will miss
@AddisonMay11
and thanks him for years of service to
@VUMChealth
. Highlights— he thanked many but “probably mostly the patients as they are the ones we have the opportunity to serve and the reason we show up”. Always teaching— even today.
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8
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Busy weekend for
@VUMCSurgRes
. We celebrated our outstanding group of Chiefs last night and welcomed our incoming interns today. Will see if our interns are still smiling on July 2nd😉
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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Over and out! Congratulations to these eight phenomenal chiefs!
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Congratulations to Katie McKay on being awarded the H. William Scott award in surgery! Excited she will be staying with us for her general surgery residency training!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUmedicine
@KT_McKay_
@skgeevarghese
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4
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Welcome
@PedsTraumaMan
. Looking forward to what the future holds!
New Physician Spotlight: Jeffrey Upperman via
@vumchealth
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4
45
.
@VUmedicine
students/future surgeons! Led by Resident in Research Andrew Medvecz. Chest tubes and fasciotomies today!
@APDSurgery
@Surg_Education
@AmCollSurgeons
MS4 Prep Curriculum— A senior elective
@VUmedicine
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9
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Congratulations to Marshall Wallace on being awarded the H. William Scott Jr award! This award is given annually to the
@VUmedicine
4th year student who exemplifies the qualities reflecting the ideal surgeon.
@VUMCSurgery
@mwwallace08
@UtahGenSurgRes
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And today in 1944, the first “blue baby” operation took place— putting the work of Dr. Thomas’ research to saving lives. Together with Dr. Helen Taussig and the first
@VUMCSurgRes
resident— Dr. Alfred Blalock. Read more about Dr. Thomas here:
#TBT
Dr. Vivien Thomas broke barriers doing groundbreaking surgical research at VU. We celebrate his legacy with the Vivien Thomas Staff Award for Clinical Research. For nomination instructions visit
@VUMChealth
@VUmedicine
@tweetbasicsci
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2023-24
@VUMCSurgRes
Chief residents giving our annual “How we Roll” lecture — we are a team, support each other, and communicate!
@kgallagher01
@WKellyWuMD
@VUMCGME
@VUMCSurgery
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Congratulations Marie Kuzemchak and Catherine Zivanov for being awarding the H. William Scott, JR Society Student Award!
@cat_zivanov
@mariekuzemchak
@VUMCSurgery
@WashUSurgRes
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Surgical teaching can happen outside of the OR —
@VUMCSurgRes
robotics skills lab. Thanks
@AimalKhanMD
for organizing!
@VUMCSurgery
@vumccolorectal
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6
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Celebrated our preliminary surgery residents last night! Great year!! Thank you for your service to patients, friendship and teamwork! Hopefully you have learned a bit from
@VUMCSurgRes
that you will take with you as physicians and surgeons here
@VUMChealth
and beyond!
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2
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
resident Nick Carter, on winning the highest clinical teaching award given to residents and fellows in any field
@VUMChealth
from graduating students
@VUSM
!!!
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6
40
When an incoming intern
@VUMCSurgRes
is lead author on an educational project.... before the year even starts! that’s sustainability and speaks to the future of
@VUMCSurgRes
. Great job
@kgallagher01
!!!
New
#VisualAbstract
from
@VUMCSurgRes
@KylaTerhune
@kgallagher01
@lematevish
on a peer-led support program for the surgery clerkship:
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Big day today as one of the most skilled but also one of the nicest and most humble of surgeons in the world was recognized for being the Master Clinical Teacher that he is. Congrats to Louis Garrard, recipient of McCleery Award!
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgery
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Congrats to rising
@VUMCSurgRes
PGY-4 for winning a Housestaff teaching award today (5 of over 1000 trainees) at the
@VUmedicine
“Almost Alumni” luncheon!
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Congratulation to
@VUMCSurgRes
chief residents Drs. Paula Smith and John Stokes. They both delivered 2 outstanding presentations today
@VUMCSurgery
Grand Rounds.
@PaulaSmithMDPhD
@VUMCGME
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Excited to welcome Wali Johnson, MD, MPH to and congratulate Kathryn Kraft, MD on finishing the 1st year of the VUMC abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship!!
@WaliJohnsonMD
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCTransplant
@rachel_c_forbes
@skgeevarghese
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
resident
@chelseaaisom
owning the podium after her presentation at
#ASC2019
, mentored by Dr. Rondi Kauffmann. Side of port placement in breast cancer. Does it matter?
@VUMCSurgery
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Congratulations and welcome to our new class of Vanderbilt General Surgery interns! (1/2)
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Congrats to the Au9. Class of 2019
@VUmedicine
surgery bound grads! Photo credit to
@skgeevarghese
. Proud of these doctors!!!
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7
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Ecstatic to bring these fabulous interns into the
@VUMCSurgRes
family in July! (Prelims include ophthal, IR and others)
#match2019
#SurgMatch
#TheMATCH2019
#SurgTweeting
@ChowD90
@megshroder
1
9
37
Congratulations to Drs.
@kylecassling
,
@WaliJohnsonMD
and Jasmine Walker! All 3 were accepted into the Surgical Education Research Fellowship program sponsored by
@Surg_Education
- the future of surgical education looks bright!
@KylaTerhune
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
1
6
37
Congratulations Dr. Erin Wolf Horrell! Excited you will be staying
@VUMCSurgery
for your CRS fellowship!
@vumccolorectal
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCTrauma
faculty share. We appreciate and thank all those who care for trauma victims everywhere.
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10
35
Congratulations to Drs. Erin Wolf Horrell and Kaitlyn Tracy! There were both awarded the Housestaff Clinical Teaching Award today by
@VUmedicine
.
@VUMCSurgery
@vumccolorectal
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
alum Dr. Amelia Maiga who recently received Notice of Award for her NIH K23 on Improving Prognostication for Traumatic Brain Injury!
@AmeliaMaiga
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCTrauma
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5
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We clean up pretty nicely!
@VUMCSurgery
Annual Departmental Picture.
@vumccolorectal
@VUMCSurgOnc
@VUMCTrauma
@VUMCTransplant
@VUMCchildren
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. Surigical oncologist Dr. Christina Bailey—
@VUMCSurgRes
alum, now faculty and APD discussing a paper
@TNChapterACS
Dr. Bailey wins award for mentoring MOST trainee mentee presentations here...a phenom mentor, role model, physician, surgeon
@APDSurgery
@AmCollSurgeons
#TNACS
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9
34
Categorical surgery interns (minus one)
@VUMCSurgRes
preparing to set sail on an adventure in July (looks like Capt
@ChowD90
is in command of this voyage.)
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Congratulations to VUMC alum
@FelicitasKoller
— 2021 AWS Foundation Award winner!
@VUMCSurgRes
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
@WomenSurgeons
0
7
31
Congratulations Dr. Eric Quintana on receipt of the 2020 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Looking to the Future Scholarship!
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Congratulations and welcome to our new class of General Surgery interns! (2/2)
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Thank you Dr. Cherisse Berry for delivering a great grand rounds today
@VUMCSurgery
on the importance of diversity and health equity in order to obtain inclusive excellence!
@CBerryTraumaMD
@VUMC_DEI
2
6
31
Dr.
@sandysandykava
, chief resident, comparing the Art of Surgery to Culinary Arts in history, training, creativity, wellness, work hours, and more!!
@PSU_Surgery
raised,
@VUMCSurgRes
trained,
@ClevelandClinic
FL bound, future CRS. PHENOMENAL talk, person, surgeon.
#chieftalks
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Congratulations Dr. Mina Nordness — current
@VUMCSurgRes
Chief! Happy you will be continuing your training
@VUMCTrauma
!
@VUMCSurgery
@MinaFaye
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Looks like these rising PGY4s have passed the final test prior to July 1. Looking forward to seeing this team of resident surgeon leaders
@VUMCSurgRes
in action!
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
Associate Program Director Tim Nuñez on his induction into the
@VUSM
Academy for Excellence in Education!!
@VUMChealth
2
4
31
How many
@VUMCSurgRes
alumni and friends can fit in the Lyft to dinner at
#ASC2020
???
@AcademicSurgery
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2
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Congratulations to all of our 2020
@VUMCSurgery
graduating chief residents and fellows!
@VUMCSurgRes
@VUMCTrauma
@VUMC_Neurosurg
@VUMCSurgOnc
@VUMCGME
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Congratulations Dr. Kaitlyn Tracy for being awarded the Elliot V. Newman Prize for top abstract at out GME Research Forum!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
0
3
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Cameron Schlegel reminds us that a true mentor not only knows the mentee but also understands the landscape ahead and how to guide the mentee. Surg Onc bound
@PittSurgery
#chieftalks
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5
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
loving the shout-out to alumni
@leslydossett
and Jon Eliason at Research Symposium honoring
@beauchrdb
— what a line-up!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMChealth
@UMichSurgery
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
is so proud of these 8 incredibly talented chiefs— excellent physicians and surgeons— we wish them the best in practice and in their fellowships.
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgery
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Great debate this morning
@VUMCSurgery
Grand Rounds - Is the Hartmann procedure a thing of the past for the treatment of acute diverticulitis?
@VUMCSurgRes
@alexhawkinsmd
@mike_smith_
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4
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Great job Dr. Nick Carter,
@VUMCSurgRes
chief resident, presenting
@VUMCSurgery
Grand Rounds via Livestream. Great discussion on how to make a lasting impact in global surgery. “The hard way is the right way.”
@VUMCGME
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@VUMCSurgRes
recruitment video coming soon! Excited to show all of the general surgery applicants what we have to offer!
@Carmensolcar
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
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Congratulations to
@VUMCSurgRes
chief residents Drs. Kyle Cassling and Jasmine Walker for delivering 2 great presentations today
@VUMCSurgery
Grand Rounds!
@kylecassling
@KylaTerhune
@VUMCGME
1
2
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These
@VUMCSurgRes
interns just ran the Country Music Half-Marathon today! Excellent!!
#raceCMM
#Nashville
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgery
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Great meeting all of our incoming intern today at departmental orientation. July 1st is approaching fast!
@VUMCSurgery
0
2
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Great skills lab today — bowel anastomosis practice for our juniors and pancreaticojejunostomy with bio tissue for our seniors. Kudos to
@DeepaMagge
for organizing and all our faculty volunteers who helped make this happen!
@VUMCSurgery
@mike_smith_
@TheRealDrBailey
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2
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Final
#chieftalk
of the year... by
@metabolic_knife
Vance Albaugh MD/PhD taking us through the history and current set point on obesity and metabolic surgery. Looking forward to his profession contributions to science after furthering his MIS training!
@nnabumrad
@VUMCSurgery
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5
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Congratulations to Nick Carter, Chelsea Isom
@chelseaaisom
, Maren Shipe and Bobby Banan for winning resident paper competition prizes
@TNChapterACS
today!!
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMChealth
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Another chiefs banquet brings another year to a close
@VUMCSurgRes
. These 8 have achieved so much— we will miss them!
@VUMCSurgery
@beauchrdb
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Another great launch from
@VUMCSurgRes
!!!!
@rsnyder_18
Earlier this yr,
@rsnyder_18
MD, MPH, and GHS surgical oncologist, was board-certified in Complex General Surgical Oncology by the
@AmBdSurg
becoming the only surgeon in the Upstate and among just 202 surgeons nationwide to do so!
#WIMmonth
#ILookLikeASurgeon
#WomenInMedicine
1
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Today of our research residents took over
@VUMCSurgery
Grand Rounds and delivered 2 outstanding talks highlighting their research. Congratulations Drs. Kaitlyn Tracy and David Xiao on your accomplishments!
@VUMCGME
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Congrats to
@VUSM
alum And current
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMChealth
plastic surgery attending Brian Drolet on being a TOP REVIEWER for
@JournalofGME
1
7
25
Phenomenal talk on using “big” data to guide our practices in and approaches to surgical education— really thankful to have Rachel Kelz
@surgeryspice
with us today.
@pennsurgery
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgery
Thanks to Dr. Rachel Kelz, the 12th Annual McCleery Lecture guest speaker. Amazing and insightful data on surgical training outcomes. Special thanks to the Winn Family who make this series possible.
@VUMCSurgery
@skgeevarghese
@Carmensolcar
@beauchrdb
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2
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Great time at Top Golf today! Congratulations to all of our interns —1 month in the books!
@VUMCSurgery
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Residents
@VUMCSurgRes
and Med students
@VUmedicine
met today with visiting prof Beryl Akinyi from
@KijabeHospital
Thanks to
@WomenSurgeons
for supporting her visit.
@HilarySanfey
0
5
25
Congrats to David Stonko,
@VUSM
MS4 receiving the H William Scott prize in Surgery from Dr. Jon Nesbitt.
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMChealth
1
4
25
Creative solution for laparoscopic skills Olympic — laparoscopic trainer, phone, tetra-net and tape. Thank you
@WKellyWuMD
and
@kylecassling
.
@VUMCSurgery
@VUMCGME
1
4
24
Sekhar Padmanabhan reviews meaningful lessons in life— rebounding from failures and keeping priorities in focus. 8 years down and headed to surg onc
@sloan_kettering
#chieftalks
0
3
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.
@VUMCSurgRes
residents, attendings and kid hold up the wall after running the
@ShadeTreeTrot
2018– great benefit!
@VUMChealth
@VUSM
@VUMCSurgery
0
3
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Another robotic skills lab in the books. Thanks
@AimalKhanMD
for organizing and all of our faculty volunteers.
@vumccolorectal
@VUMCSurgery
@rachel_c_forbes
@Zamurai1617
0
2
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Dai Chung —
@VUMCSurgery
faculty member receiving Recognition for Extraordinary Service to SUS.
#ASC2018
@VUMChealth
@VUMCSurgRes
0
5
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Great job Dr. Carolina Pinzon-Guzman, another one of our phenomenal
@VUMCSurgRes
chief residents, presenting
@VUMCSurgRes
Grand Rounds. Great work on Noggin/BMP and differentiation of the esophagus and trachea.
@VUMCGME
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Umm yeah, that's
@VUMCSurgRes
faculty, chief of trauma Rick Miller
#10
in the WORLD in the sprint triathlon! Congrats!!
@VUMCTrauma
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2
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Congratulations
@dianehaddadmd
on acceptance of your abstract to the prestigious American Surgical Association!
@VUMCSurgery
@PatelTrauma
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Big milestone today—
@VUMCSurgRes
resident
@MinaFaye
welcomed her husband to his first year of medical school
@VUSM
!!! Vanderbilt family!
@VUMChealth
@VanderbiltU
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Pandemic spurs expansion of surgical care for underserved. This is work spear headed by Dr. Rondi Kauffman who is also one of our Associate Program Directors. via
@vumchealth
@RondiKauffmann
@VUMCGME
@vuglobalhealth
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