@OpNotes team had a great night at annual GME awards. Trainees Grace Klaris @pagingdrklaris Carlie Arbaugh and Anish Jain @AnishJayJain, program coordinator Nicole Tomimatsu and PD @DavidASpain recognized with awards!!
✈️ Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Dr. Jacob Guorgui, who has received the Resident Travel Scholarship to attend the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) Leadership and Advocacy Summit.
Welcome back to this year's robot curriculum 🤖 Last week, we learned both console and bedside skills @VAPaloAlto's simulation center!
@IntuitiveSurg@aarondawesMD
🤖 Welcome to the new and improved robot curriculum! @AaronDawesMD did a brief demo of intracorporeal bowel anastomosis and then let the residents take turns at the Davinci.
(That air dock is creepy, ammiright?)
Hella impressed by our interns, who crushed this central line training. It also served as the debut for our NEW #surgEd fellow; welcome @souma_kundu 🎉
Special shoutout to our faculty volunteers @DavidASpain & @jtung (who drove up from The Valley!)
Shoutout to our Drs. Harrison Chau and Malerie Pratt for giving our PGY2s an ICU refresher! Residents practiced placing femoral, central, and arterial lines as well as chest tubes and pigtails.
⛳️ @Josh4Villa organized a GME-sponsored golf tournament over the weekend. In addition to Villarreal, Surgery was represented by @StanfordCTSurg Dr. Perry Choi and General Surgery’s Dr. John Farag.
Dr. Ananya Anand uses the Endo Mentor Suite to practice her colonoscopy skills in advance of the FES exam. Those virtual polyps don't stand a chance.
@SAGES_Updates
Congratulations to Dr. Anoosha Moturu on winning the #PAPS2025 Prize for her presentation “Association of Institutional Neonate Case Volume and Children's Surgical Verification with Morbidity/Mortality in Neonatal Duodenal Atresia Repair.”
Drs. Jacob Guorgui and Anish Jain attended the Johnson and Johnson Future Leaders Symposium at UCLA. The symposium offered a blend of hands-on training and strategic insight into surgical innovation.
@AnishJayJain@JNJMedTech
This week 16 residents completed the @AmCollSurgeons ASSET course!
Shoutout to all our awesome instructors (@LisaMKnowlton@explorerSurgeon@aussinassar) & special thanks to the Anatomy staff for their support in making this hands-on learning experience possible!
🥉 Congratulations to @amytsaiifor taking THIRD in the 2025 NCCACS Russell Surgical Trainee Research Competition for her paper!
Drs. @JeffChoi01, Dan Stoltz, Kay Hung, and @josh4villa also presented. Great work by all!
🎉 Congratulations to @BeatriceSunMD whose abstract "Using Circulating Tumor DNA to Monitor Sarcoma Treatment and Recurrence” was preselected as one of the best podium paper award winners!! @SocSurgOnc#SSO2025
We had an amazing Cadaver Lab earlier this week. From hernia repairs and thyroidectomies to complex GI, our residents did it all. We even had a cameo from Ds. Lee and Sgroi from vascular. (They put the "fun" in profunda!)
Dr. Kay Hung spent her 2 years of PD time first as a @SUBiodesign Innovation Fellow and then working @IntuitiveSurg
Don't worry! She says she's excited about returning to the OR and clinical rotations this summer ☀️
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In addition to a @StanfordCIF, @Josh4villa has been co-chair of the Residents' Safety Council focusing on language equity, patient safety, hospital readmissions, and hospital communications during his Professional Development years. piped.video/w6tuTQtFQH8?sf21394…
🎥 @chunerguo chose our Accelerated Surgeon Scientist track but loved the lab environment so much she decided to take a year off of clinical rotations just for research. Hear her story: piped.video/jTgPcT-Trcc?sf21266…
Photos from this week's Cadaver Lab 📸 Thank you to all the faculty including Drs. Jackie Tsia, Kim Stone, @explorersurgeon, Simeng Wang, @YuliaZak and @TheRuhleBrian for teaching us new skills!
Interested in building an academic career in surgical education? The fellowship @StanfordSurgery and @OpNotes has long and strong tradition of successful Surg Ed fellows. Come join our amazing team.
#ACSCC24 Add Leon Naar's "Persistent Poverty Is an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Clinical Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer: A State-Wide Analysis of 28,978 Patients" to your schedule! @AaronDawesMDabstractsonline.com/pp8/?sf2…