PGY-1 Columbia General Surgery. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson ‘26

Joined May 2021
A powerful start to Day 3 of #ACSCC26 with @TomVargheseJr, exploring performance, leadership, and AI in surgery during the John H. Gibbon Jr. Lecture. “Performance is not something you possess, it is something you continually produce. Performance is dynamic.”
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Four operating rooms. A robotic donor surgery. One liver that would be divided to save three adults. This single day combined: A robotic living-donor surgery (a healthy donor donates part of their liver) A domino transplant (a chain of organ donations between multiple patients) A split-liver transplant (a procedure where a donor liver is split into two parts, with each part transplanted into a separate recipient) All in adults, all at once. It stretched across 15 hours, four rooms, and more than 30 team members. And in the end, three patients received the chance at renewed life. Here’s how it unfolded, step by step, told in sequence with just enough anatomy to bring you into a surgical mindset. columbiasurgery.org/news/one…
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Great experience and amazing opportunity Jefferson’s infrastructure provided for us! 👏👏👏
One of the coolest things to be a part of with some incredibly impressive medical students and some of the most supportive faculty in surgical education! 📝🤓 @MeryemCGuler @ElizabethSpitz9 @TatarianMD #surged sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢Gen surg PDs, applicants, and advisors: Curious how preference signals are actually being used? Our mix-method study series provides the first in-depth look at signaling from the perspectives of PDs, applicants, and advisors. Stay tuned for the last two papers!
Hot off the press! Wondering how preference signals are being used in general surgery recruitment? Check out in this thread a series of recently published mixed method multi-institutional studies investigating signaling in the GS match 🎯 @SurgEdFellows @JSurgEduc @APDSurgery
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Humbled by this - I always say the best part of this job are working with our SKMC med students 🥰
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Congratulations to the Better Dr. Spitz
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An incredibly inspiring presidential address by our Chair of Surgery, Dr. Emile Bacha @emilebachamd. Congratulations on becoming the 106th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery @AATSHQ, a well-deserved honor and a proud moment for all of us. @ColumbiaSurgery
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Very grateful to our incredible speakers: special thanks to Dr. Joseph Bavaria for an inspiring keynote, and to Dr. Major Lee and Dr. Phillip Batista for their time, insight, and mentorship. It was an honor to organize this event and bring together 120+ students and an outstanding group of residents who made the panel so impactful. Thank you all for supporting surgical education and our student community 👏
Great turnout at the Philadelphia Surgery Symposium April 10! Honored to host Dr. Joseph Bavaria, Dr. Major Lee & Dr. Phillip Batista. Strong posters, great food, and an excellent resident panel. Thank you to all who made it a success! #SurgicalEducation #FutureSurgeons
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So incredibly grateful and excited to have matched at Columbia!!! This journey was shaped by so many mentors who believed in me & guided me every step of the way. I wouldn’t be here without you 👩🏻‍⚕️ @CharlesJYeoMD @JohnMarksMD @JEFFsurgery @GibbonSurgSoc @maureenmooremd @francisrspitz
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Intensive ‘Boot Camp’ Prepares 4th-Year Medical Students for Surgical Residency: bit.ly/4rwbX0n Dr. Tyler Grenda demonstrates in the Surgical Skills Lab with Undergraduate Education Coordinator Sherry Weitz & Director of Surgical Undergraduate Education Dr. Renee Tholey
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Earlier this week, I was delighted to share the founding story of Jefferson Medical College, including Dr. McClellan, other surgical pioneers, and Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic, with our medical students @JeffersonUniv Thanks to the Gibbon Surgical Society for the invitation!
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Jefferson students! Come join us for a special event with Dr. Charles Yeo, Samuel D. Gross Professor & Chair of the Department of Surgery, on February 10. Sign up with the link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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An amazing new initiative/ curriculum our own students and Gibbon members have developed and implemented. We are very excited to start teaching next generation of doctors!
🆕A new curriculum is available for @JeffersonUniv medical students — Physician Advocates: Skills for Health Equity & Firearm Policy Developed by @JCIRP, @CeaseFirePA, & student leaders to train the next generation of physician advocates #HealthEquity #GunViolencePrevention
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This weekend Gibbon Surgical Society members attended and volunteered at the 20th annual Pancreatic Cancer Symposium! A beautiful day to celebrate and see some of our former patients, and listen to excellent talks by all of the wonderful faculty💜💜💜 @JEFFsurgery @GibbonSurgSoc
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Many thanks to Dr. Mark Katlic for joining us last week to present the 15th Annual Lady Grace Revere Osler Lecture at the invitation of the Gibbon Surgical Society @GibbonSurgSoc and @JEFFsurgery 👏 The presentation is available to view online: jdc.jefferson.edu/surgerygr/…
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Thank you, @ECTSS_CTsurg, for this tremendous opportunity. I also extend my gratitude to my mentor, Dr. Glenn Whitman, for his unwavering support throughout medical school and with this scholarship application. Looking forward to Florida!
Introducing the 2025 recipient of the Fred Weber Scholarship for Medical Students: Andrew Kalra from Thomas Jefferson University! Please join us in congratulating Andrew @AndrewKalra23
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Exciting event happening tomorrow!!
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Say hello to the new Executive Board from the Class of 2026!
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