General Surgery PGY 2R @UChicagoSurgery | Research Fellow @LuciaMadariaga Organ Perfusion Lab | Clinical Medical Ethics Fellow @MacLeanEthics

Chicago, IL
Joined October 2022
Can we just pause and celebrate 88% 5 year survival for lung cancer pts! Including stage 3! 🥳🤯 #ASCO23 #LCSM
A mutation in the EGFR gene is found in ~25% of lung cancers. Reported @NEJM and @ASCO today: a pill directed at this mutation cut deaths by 50% through 5 years in a randomized trial following surgical resection nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Poster 2/2 in LA! Great to share the significant variability in the way thoracic surgeons are recognizing, measuring and mitigating frailty in the US. Hope to see societal guidelines to lay out a roadmap for managing our frail patients. #AATS2023 @UChicagoCTSurg @LuciaMadariaga
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Was incredibly excited to share our work on racial disparities in frailty assessment among thoracic surgery patients today at #AATS2023 @UChicagoCTSurg @uchicagosurgery @LuciaMadariaga
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Extremely excited to train @UofUCTSurgery! Thank you so much @saraj_pereira for giving me this amazing opportunity! Shout out to all my amazing mentors and support system that helped me! @GUH_WHCSurgRes @RASACS #ILookLikeASurgeon
Incredibly humbled and excited to recruit two 💪women superstars to @UofUCTSurgery. Excited to train Dr.@RachaelEssig and Dr. Jessica Mangarinos! Welcome to the Mountain West! @WomenInThoracic @UofUSurgery @TomVargheseJr @BrianMitzman @aciulloMD @JoeTonnaMD @JGlotzbachMD
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Couldn’t be more honored and excited to share that I’ll be joining @YaleThoracic as a CT Surgery fellow! Huge thanks to everyone @uchicagosurgery who helped me achieve this dream! 🫀🫁
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"There's only so many times you can walk into a room and tell someone they're not coming home tomorrow. It breaks your heart when you hear someone screaming mommy or daddy. It just becomes too hard day in and day out." - Dr. Jason Smith on the toll of gun violence in Louisville
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Thrilled to be able to share our work on frailty tools identifying different patient populations at #ICFSR2023 in Toulouse this week @uchicagosurgery @LuciaMadariaga
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So excited to work with our new interns! Congrats to you all!!!
WELCOME TO UCHICAGO SURGERY!! 🎉🎉 #MatchDay #Match2023 Check out this group 🤩 joining @uchicagosurgres come July! We are thrilled for you all and can’t wait to get you to Chicago! Congratulations!
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Honored by the opportunity to interview a superstar in our field, Dr. @jdoningtonmd @uchicagosurgery . Leader extraordinaire, learn about her origin story & her vision for the future. sts.org/publications/podcast… #TheFaceofCTSurgery @JBMatthews
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It was an honor presenting our work at STS this weekend. Thanks to @LuciaMadariaga for her continued mentorship and hard work on this project. @UChicagoCTSurg @uchicagosurgery
Awesome presentation highlighting important work by @JackKentMD @LuciaMadariaga looking at the cost-effectiveness of ex-vivo lung perfusion for patients undergoing lung transplantation #STS2023 @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @UChicagoCTSurg
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Great session on targeted and immunotherapy in resectable NSCLC to kick off STS 2023 @jdoningtonmd @STS_CTsurgery @UChicagoCTSurg @uchicagosurgery
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⁦@pangelos1⁩ leading off the 34th ⁦@MacLeanEthics⁩ Center Fellows Conference. Many of our residents in attendance, and some Attendings on the list of presenters! ⁦@selwyn_rogers⁩ ⁦@JackKentMD⁩ ⁦@lehoef⁩ ⁦@jules_amundson⁩
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Inspiring talk by @selwyn_rogers on thinking of the importance of the establishment of UChicago’s Trauma Center in mediating health care inequities in Chicago. @MacLeanEthics @uchicagosurgery
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Jack Kent retweeted
Congrats to ⁦@jules_amundson⁩ for her flawless and enlightening presentation at the Western Surgical! She taught us about the intraoperative and perioperative use of impedance planimetry. I continue to be impressed at the caliber of residents the U of C recruits!
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Congratulations, Dr. Zhang! 🎉
Happy #ColorectalSurgery Match Day! We are thrilled to welcome Austin Dosch, MD, Harika Nalluri-Butz, MD, and Lindsey Zhang, MD, to the #WashUColorectal family!
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Replying to @JBMatthews
@JBMatthews took us to The Surgical Biology Club dinner at #ACSCC22 - what an honor! And special congratulations to Dr. Ben Shogan who became a new member this year! #SurgeonScientist
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Very proud of @lehoef, @jackkentmd, and @annie_polc for representing us so well at #ACSCC22!! #WhyUChicagoSurgery
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Was a privilege to present our work at #ACSCC22 this year!
Replying to @JackKentMD
@JackKentMD at #ACSCC22 discussing why a normal ABI may have little meaning in predicting vascular damage in patients with penetrating trauma and soft signs injury. Congratulations on a great study, Jack!
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Faces of UChicago surgery: Chief of Trauma, next to best surgical intern practicing without a license (my wife, that is), surgical resident, trauma faculty, department administrator all at Whiskey Bar in San Diego ⁦@uchicagosurgery⁩ #asccc22
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Look at this fabulous crew at #ASCCC2022! So much fun connecting with @uchicagosurgres, fellows, and Attendings from the past and present!
Replying to @uchicagosurgery
@uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres; Maroon surgery pride across several generations #ACS2022. I'm sure I missed several, tag as appropriate!
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