Last night of night block ever!!!!! Thankful for a great team that made being night chief seem like an easy job! They managed hundreds of patients safely every night! A great lesson in the power of teamwork 🩷 #wemadeit!

A lot of sensationalism and discussion this past week of whether AI will replace doctors. Here’s a perspective as someone who is entering my 20th year as a Thoracic Surgery Attending in practice and embarked on a surgical career after medical school 30 years ago: ▪️If you define the doctor-patient relationship solely as a series of tasks, then yes, automation and tools such as AI will replace doctors. 🔹However, if the doctor-patient relationship is a longitudinal partnership you make with a patient and their loved ones, that is unique, patient-centered, and delivers extraordinary service, then there is an opportunity as a doctor to both embrace technology and make a difference in the lives of people & communities in need. I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of building clinical practices in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West. I did my surgical training in the Midwest. Some things change. Others don’t. Yes, there are a lot of problems in healthcare. Yes, we can always do better. But this is an important and incredible time in history. We have the ability to connect and learn on a scale our ancestors could not have even imagined. And that continuous learning can be translated in record time to better care. Do the work. Embrace the technology that helps our patients (which is a very high standard of excellence). Stay engaged. Welcome civil discourse and debate. Build a better world for us all. #Leadership

I love presenting our work on wearable technology and tracking patient post op recovery! There is so much left to learn and understand so we better know how to help our patients when they leave our hospital doors!

Last night @UHCTSurgery hosted a robotics lab for thoracic surgery! It was awesome to have the extra instruction, attention to techniques, and teaching! So lucky to have such dedicated mentors who make training to be a thoracic surgeon so fun! @ltapias @JiangBoXiang

So awesome to have @DrYolondaColson virtually for grand rounds! The north east snow couldn’t stop her from imparting her wisdom this morning to our group of residents and faculty! We all could use a little bit of Luck by happenstance and here’s to learning how to create that!

Honored to stand with the extraordinary Thoracic Surgery Tapias Family: Drs. Luis & Leo Tapias with their father- All three Thoracic Surgeons! Each are excellent. What an honor to have all present at the annual #STS2026 meeting #Colombia #ThoracicSurgFamilies

Extremely fortunate to be trained by people and an institution that is always pushing what’s possible for best patient care outcomes! Proud of my mentor #DrTowe and @UHCTSurgery!!

We are so proud of our chair of surgery @JoeSabik! Dr Sabik delivered a great presidential address at @STS_CTsurgery in NOLA!

Awesome tissue lab with @UHCTSurgery today learning tracheal resection and lobectomy 🩷

Today we got to hear from our returning research residents during grand rounds where they showcased their work over their dedicated research time! #susandoh @erikrisa1 @Jessica_Hungate @CSBoutros @AmmoriJohn

My most important promotion - “mom” 🩷

Excited to present our work at @SAGES_Updates looking at esophageal morphology and POEM outcomes and also our study creating a nomogram for T1a esophageal cancer patients after endoscopic mucosal resection! Grateful for the best mentors!

Team UH having a great time at @SAGES_Updates in Long Besch, CA!! Proud of our team for their multiple podium and poster presentations! #SAGES2025

Here’s what they do instead: They host a webinar panel for residents and fellows called “pros and cons of private equity ownership” featuring a dude who made 7 million from a PE sale. There are no pros. None at all. Don’t present PE to residents as a viable practice model on par with physician owned practices. Stop it. Don’t give it a platform.

Every professional organization in medicine should denounce the involvement of private equity in healthcare. They should send a clear message to their young physician members that PE is bad for hospitals, private practices, and patients. They won’t do it, but they should.

So proud of my amazing friend! 🩵

UH surgery residents represent at #ASC2025 @CSBoutros @MeganZChiu @med_trisha

Doesn’t get better than this!!!! @VictoriaSWu_ #DrTowe @STS_CTsurgery @WomenInThoracic that’s a wrap for #STS2025

Thankful for the opportunity of the podium at #STS2025 to challenge the dogma surrounding neoadjuvant chemorads and pneumonectomy! Grateful for the mentorship of Dr. Towe and the rest of the @UHCTSurgery department @SurgeryUH @STS_CTsurgery @WomenInThoracic

So proud of @VictoriaSWu_ on her awesome oral presentation at STS! She tackled an important topic in lung cancer screening and showed us that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to lung cancer screening! #STS2025 @STS_CTsurgery @WomenInThoracic