Surgeon | Coach | Innovator | Educator • Driving surgical innovation with AI, tech + bold ideas • Redefining surgery • Transforming culture 📍Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Joined February 2014
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Excision for the win! Ablation would have left most of this deep #endometriosis lesion in place with a high likelihood of ureter injury. Always ask about your surgeons’ approach and volume. @AAGL @FMIGS1 @AAGLJMIG @FertStert #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth
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Dr. Cara King, section head of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and Medical Gynecology at Cleveland Clinic, explores the relationship between gut health and endometriosis. Learn why improving your gut health may help reduce endometriosis symptoms.
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This week's @Nature cover highlights a report of A.I. mediated distortion
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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@drcaraking is at the #ACSCC25! Come see us at booth 13013 for a free mini-coaching session!
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Datasets, Benchmarks, and Protocols by M. Afshar et al.: A Novel Playbook for Pragmatic Trial Operations to Monitor and Evaluate Ambient Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice nejm.ai/420zOLm
#AIinMedicine #MedTwitter
ALT Figure 1. Governance across the Initial Implementation Phase with Learning Health System Integration and Subsequent Design for the Clinical Trial Phase for Operations.
ALT Figure 2. Abridge Ambient Software Integration with Epic Electronic Health Record System.
ALT Figure 3. Difference-in-Differences across the 4-Week Window for Ambient AI Initiation and New Standard Note Implementation.
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A new review summarizes the current state of the art in network medicine and AI as a combined approach to the analysis of complex biomedical systems governing disease. Use of this unique and highly effective strategy provides a path to precision medicine. nejm.ai/4mtEamy
ALT Figure 3. Analytical Strategies for Networks of Heterogeneous (Biological) Information.
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"Coaching is a shift from training to meet a milestone to coaching toward independence."
Dr. Cara King, Cleveland Clinic, reframes surgical education. Coaching isn’t remediation. It’s how we build readiness.
#MedTwitter #SurgicalEducation #CoachingInMedicine
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I am grateful to finally share this work, which has taken years to develop. A small yet meaningful contribution to caring for our endometriosis patients. @mettymarkwei
@EjogElsevier
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The robot can autonomously perform a real gallbladder removal subroutine!
- Successfully completed the procedure on all 8 of 8 held-out gallbladders
- Uses same alg that we used to train robots to make trail mix, using language hierarchy
Paper + videos: h-surgical-robot-transformer…
Introducing Hierarchical Surgical Robot Transformer (SRT-H), a language-guided policy for autonomous surgery🤖🏥
On the da Vinci robot, we perform a real surgical procedure on animal tissue.
Collaboration b/w @JohnsHopkins & @Stanford
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Today is our Fundamentals of Surgical Coaching Live Module!
Excited to welcome participants committed to growth and reflective practice. Let’s strengthen the mindset and skillset with surgical coaching.
#SurgicalCoaching #SurgeonDevelopment #LiveModule
Incredible talk by @AjhungMD at @socroboticsurg #SRS2025 on surgical feedback + AI. “Patient outcomes are the ultimate performance metric.”
Closing the loop: surgery -> assessment -> feedback -> performance
Exciting space for future collaboration with @SurgeonCoaching
Great lecture by @DavidNiewolny of @nvidia at the forefront of #SurgicalAI:
🔹The Robotic OR of the future: interoperable, intelligent, autonomous
🔹The AI wave: Perception → Generative → Agentic → Physical AI
@socroboticsurg @AjhungMD #SRS2025
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#Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain affecting approximately 10% of reproductive-age women.
This narrative review summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of endometriosis. ja.ma/4iRsU0G
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Why are health systems adopting AI now? On @NEJM_AI Grand Rounds, Dr. @ShivdevRao explains how workforce strain and executive urgency have shifted AI from experiment to essential. Learn more: nejm.ai/ep30
Cara R. King, DO, MS, FACOG, FACS retweeted
"Coaching is a shift from training to meet a milestone to coaching toward independence."
Dr. Cara King, Cleveland Clinic, reframes surgical education. Coaching isn’t remediation. It’s how we build readiness.
#MedTwitter #SurgicalEducation #CoachingInMedicine
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Learn the best tips and tricks for gaining peritoneal entry from one of our top MIGS colleagues, @drcaraking, at the AUGS Clinical Meeting!
Today is the last day to take advantage of the $100 registration discount: augs.org/clinicalmeeting/
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That's a wrap on the 10th Surgical Safety Network Annual Meeting! 🎉
These past few days have been truly extraordinary, bringing together both new faces and longtime members of our community. The passion for advancing surgical safety was evident in every conversation, presentation, and collaboration.
The energy and excitement for the year ahead was palpable throughout the conference. A heartfelt thank you to our incredible customers and dedicated team members who made this our most impactful meeting yet.
Mark your calendars - we're already counting down to SSN 2026! Stay tuned for updates as we continue to drive innovation and excellence in surgical safety together.
#SSN2025 #SurgicalSafety #HealthcareInnovation
Incredible keynote by Capt. Stephen Harden @SurgSafetyNtwk. The data is here- but surgical culture needs to change first for meaningful sustainable change. @surgicalsafety #SSN2024
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Great day 1 @SurgSafetyNtwk 10th Annual meeting. Great to hear from others across 🌎 discussing OR efficiency, QI, can technology optimize care,key performance metrics etc. @TGrantcharovMD @SAGES_Updates @PennMDForum @pennsurgery
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Join Susan Moffatt-Bruce, the President of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health to learn how to build a robust ROI narrative that resonates with stakeholders and drives meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery, during the SSN 2025 session, The ROI of Patient Safety.
Susan will be joined by the following panelist speakers to discuss strategies to unlock the transformative potential of patient safety ROI in this essential leadership session designed to help healthcare professionals quantify and communicate the strategic value of safety initiatives:
▸ Cara R. King, DO, MS, Section Head, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and Medical Gynecology at Cleveland Clinic
▸ Dominique Watt, Executive Director of Clinical Effectiveness and Education, Interventional Platform at Stanford Medicine
▸ Graham Billingham, Chief Medical Officer at MedPro Group
#SSN2025
