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@gwsurgery
Shouting CONGRATULATIONS to our
@GWSMHS
surgeons Dr. Juliet Lee, Dr. Babak Sarani & Dr. Khashayar Vaziri on their induction in to the
@AmCollSurgeons
Academy of Master Surgeon Educators!!! A fantastic honor for such AMAZING surgeon educators!! We are SO proud!
#GWProud
🙌✨🙌
Welcome to Stephanie Streit, MD, FACS, Major, USAF, MC to
@GWSurgery
! Dr. Streit completed her surgical residency at
@MedUnivSC
and her surgical critical care fellowship at
@uofcincy
. She has been in practice for over 5 years at the west coast prior to coming to GW.
#Welcome
!!
Words we’re feelin’ today: MATCHED & EXCELLENCE!
Shouting CONGRATULATIONS to our AMAZING seniors Dr. Hamda Almaazmi & Dr. Joshua Yoon on their matches in Vascular & Plastic Surgery! UT &
@UPMC
are getting two STARS! We are SO proud of you both!
#GWProud
#TheFutureisBrightYall
✨
This job asks for things from you that no other job on earth would dare. And surgeons do it, because that's the job. Along with our teams, we step up every day to keep one powerful promise.
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It’s about that time! The surgery department is out in great form to hood our OUTSTANDING new
@GWSMHS
doctors! We are SO proud of you all & can’t wait to watch your promising careers unfold!Remember, we are ALWAYS proud of you!
#GWProud
!
#TheFutureisBrightYall
✨🔹🎓
@GWSurgChair
Well, our Wednesday is off to a GREAT start with a SURPRISE Baby Shower for our amazing resident, Dr. Laura Tiusaba as we get ready to welcome, Milo!—Our newest little one who’ll make his entrance into the
@GWSurgery
family soon!
We hope he & Dr. Tiusaba feel the love! ✨🧸🍼🍭
🗣Our amazing chiefs are just over a week from graduating!!!! Today they gave their FINAL M&M presentations & they nailed it!!!! Speaking of nailed... Didn’t they nail this shot?!?! We can’t wait to toast you Raul, Lisbi, Cheralyn & Tammy!!! SO proud!
#GWProud
#ChiefClass2020
🙌
TODAY is the last official day of residency for our AMAZING graduating chiefs!!! We are SO unbelievably proud of their outstanding accomplishments! We’ll be posting more pics later today & during graduation!!! ✨
#GWProud
#RockStars
#SurgeonsLoaded
#Onward
📷: Dr. Keith Mortman
#GWSurgery
is out in full force for today’s
@GWSMHS
commencement ceremony!!! Congratulations to all of our AMAZING young doctors, especially our new young surgeons in training! Welcome to the family!!! We are SO proud!
#GWProud
Talented Thoracic Surgeon? ✅
Award-winning photographer? ✅
Newest Firefighter @ Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Dept in MD? ✅
CONGRATS, Dr. Keith Mortman! We don’t know what you CAN’T do, but we’re SO grateful that our GW & MD communities benefit from all you CAN!
#GWProud
🙌
So grateful to all of our frontline healthcare workers, especially our AWESOME residents! Senior Dr. Jinny Lu & intern Dr. Mira Tanenbaum were among the first from our department to get the
#COVID19Vaccine
! Thanks for keeping us safe,
@gwhospital
!
#DefiningMedicine
#GWProud
Kicking off an outstanding session on racism and anti-blackness by
@GWSMHS
Dean, emergency medicine physician and chair of our Anti-Racism Coalition, Dr. Yolanda Haywood! Thank you for your advocacy and voice, Dean Haywood!
#GWProud
✨
#RacismIsaPublicHealthCrisis
On this final day of the academic year, we CELEBRATE our amazing residents! You all made it through a year of uncertainty, stress and loss and filled it with hard work, teamwork, fun, laughter and joy.
We couldn’t be more proud!!!
#GWProud
🙌💙
#GoTeam
We are SO excited to welcome Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon (
@AndreaHayesMD
) as our distinguished speaker for our annual Brian Blades Lecture THIS Wednesday!!! We hope to have everyone from the
@GWSMHS
,
@HowardUGenSurg
& DC communities tune in! It’s sure to be phenomenal!
@GWSurgChair
TODAY is the last official day of residency for our AMAZING graduating chiefs! These 5 have gone above & beyond this year…their work, dedication,leadership…ALL👏OF👏IT has been
#FIRE
🔥. It was only fitting that we find a place that could handle them!!
#GWProud
#BurnBright
🔥
We couldn’t be more THRILLED to welcome one of our AMAZING alums Dr. Kevin Pei for our Annual
@GWSurgery
Dr. Paul Shorb Lecture!
What a GREAT presentation on Effective Clinical Teaching!
Go, Dr. Pei! We’ll always be SO proud of your accomplishments!
#GWProud
#AlumniClub
✨🔹🙌
TODAY we celebrate our AMAZING graduating chiefs! We are SO proud of you Dr. Michael Napolitano, Dr. Erik DeAngelis, Dr. Gregor Werba, and Dr. Benjamin Pomy! You’ve all done an OUTSTANDING job and we will ALWAYS be
#GWProud
! ✨💙 Welcome to the Alumni Club! ✨🙌
Congrats to our
@GWsurgery
team members on finishing up a successful week of operating in Guatemala!
Dr. Khashayar Vaziri,
Dr. Bruce Abell, Dr. Hope Jackson
and our amazing residents, Dr. Cheralyn Hendrix, Dr. Tammy Ju & Dr. Salem Noureldine!
We are so proud!🌎
#GoGWSurgery
Statement from our GW Community on the tragic death of George Floyd & support of the
@NationalMedAssn
call to action to address the impact of structural rascism👇
Dr. Laura Tiusaba for today's
#LatinxSurgeonSaturday
:
Born and raised in Colombia. General Surgery Resident at George Washington University in DC and currently a Pediatric Colorectal Surgery Fellow at Children’s National. Future Pediatric Surgeon, arepa lover. 🇨🇴
🗣Happy Graduation Day to our AWESOME chief residents!!! Wishing you well on your journeys from here! We’re SO proud of you!!!!🎓
#GWProud
📸: Dr. Keith Mortman
🗣CONGRATULATIONS to our outstanding resident & faculty Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society inductees! PGY3 Dr. Laura Tisauba & Faculty Dr. Hope Jackson were inducted tonight along with our amazing 2020 inductees, PGY3s Dr. James Zebley & Dr.
@LambdinJacob
! So Proud!
#GWProud
🙌💙✨
🌟Welcome Dr. Sora Ely!🌟
Dr. Ely is a thoracic surgeon with
interests in lung cancer screening, treating lung and esophageal cancer, mediastinal masses, and benign foregut pathology. Her research focuses on practice improvement and clinical outcomes in thoracic surgery.
A big welcome to Dr. Khalili who is joining our amazing colorectal team! She specializes in the minimally invasive and robotic treatment of colon and rectal diseases.
We are so happy to welcome her to the GW family!
GW Surgery making its presence known on an international stage. One team operating in Guatemala 🇬🇹, the other half way across the world in Rwanda 🇷🇼.
#globalsurgery
#globalhealth
The
#shoutouts
continue: Our Attendings Dr. Juliet Lee & Dr. Vincent Obias gave our AMAZING resident team an extremely GENEROUS donation of reusable face masks AND a UV sterilizer! Thank you for leading with kindness! We’re in this together and we remain,
#GWProud
#GoGWSurgery
✨
Three for Three! Our chief class fellowship match is complete!Shouting CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Ada Graham on matching at
@uchicagosurgery
for Colorectal Fellowship! We are SO proud of you, Dr. Graham! You’ve got a star headed your way,
@uchicagosurgery
! 🙌
#WomeninMedicine
#GWProud
Our residents organized a Secret Santa Scrub Cap Exchange to celebrate the holidays! Look at these great caps!!!!! Can’t wait to see these on display in the OR!Way to find the holiday spirit even in these unprecedented times, team!!!!
#TheyRock
#GWProud
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We continue to mourn the loss of our amazing colleague & friend, Dr. Robyn Macsata. Please join us as we celebrate her life with her family & loved ones.
Obituary:
Service Live Stream:
Memorial Fund:
Another great day of presentations by surgery resident Jamie Thompson and
@GWSMHS
medical students Renxi and Melina. There were 10 presentations in total and they absolutely dominated it! And thank you to our fearless leader
@GWSurgChair
for taking us all out to lunch!
#EVS2023
Next week, come meet our department/program leadership AND get your questions answered at our general surgery program information session! Register at the google forms link below! We can’t wait to show you who we are & how we operate!🙌✨🔹
#GoGWSurgery
Our awesome
@GWSMHS
MS4s on their acting internship also got in on the action at our suturing and knot tying skills lab today!!! Way to go, Ruby Barq, Deepika Potarazu & Trevor Hebenstreit! Keep up the GREAT work!!!
#TheFutureisBrightYall
#GWProud
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The
@GWSurgery
showing was STRONG on the first day of
#SAGES2021
! Faculty members Dr. Vincent Obias and Dr. Hope Jackson, along with our AMAZING alumni Dr. Jose Martinez and Dr. Ivy Haskins all had OUTSTANDING and informative talks! We are SO proud!
#GWProud
#AcademicSurgery
✨🔹
🗣It’s Graduation Week for our chiefs, y’all! This week we’ll be sharing thoughts from our department prior to graduation on Saturday! We can’t believe this part of their journey is concluding but can’t wait to watch them continue to blossom from afar!
#GWProud
#TheFutureisBright
Our seniors and chiefs, sponsored by our chair (
@GWSurgChair
), had the opportunity to attend the American Surgical Association’s 144th Meeting this week! What a time! 🤓👩⚕️👨⚕️
Our very own Dr. Haney (
@VHaneyMD
)
#FutureBreastSurgeon
representing
@GWSurgery
and presenting her research at the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS). [photo credit - Dr. Juliet Lee].
YES!!!! Dr. Katrina Hawkins (
@KatrinaDHawkins
) is an AMAZING intensivist, teacher, advocate and more! We are so fortunate to have her! Read her amazing piece below👇.
🟡🔵
#GWProud
🔵🟡
What a PHENOMENAL Dr. Brian Blades lecture from
@HowardUGenSurg
Chair of Surgery, Dean & Surgeon Scientist Dr. Andrea Hayes Dixon!!!
Such inspiring and groundbreaking work for all of us to see!!!! Thank you, Dr. Hayes Dixon!!!!
@GWSurgChair
No meeting is complete without a photo with presidential mascots! Our residents and vascular surgery Faculty
@SalimLala
are all smiles prior to the last talks of the day!
@GWvascsurg
Proud to welcome the newest & youngest member of the GW family, baby girl Olivia Lee!CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing senior resident Dr. Benjamin Lee & his brilliant wife, cardiology fellow Dr. Angela Ryan Lee! We call 1st dibs when it’s time to discuss her career choice🐣🤞
#GoGW
!
Thought for the day: “Let your dreams take flight!” CONGRATULATIONS to
@GWHospital
, Trauma Director
@saranimd
and the Center for Trauma & Critical Care team on the grand opening of our helipad! Lots of hard work, perseverance & relentless optimism to get here!Well done, team!! ✨
We had a GREAT time at our
@GWSurgery
reception on Monday! Thank you to ALL the alumni, residents, students AND GW friends who came to reconnect, strengthen ties and fellowship! SUCH a great time!!! As always, we are 🗣
#GWProud
#ACSCC22
💛💙
#GoGWSurgery
What a GREAT virtual session we had this evening with our
@GWSMHS
Surgery Interest Group! Over 60 awesome students tuned in to hear our amazing faculty panelists (some seen here) talk about why they love surgery & how to seek out mentors! The future is so BRIGHT y’all!
#GWProud
✨
Congratulations to Dr. Arnott on her fellowship match in colorectal surgery at Swedish Medical Center!! We are so proud and excited to see the things you do!
#GWproud
@GWSurgChair
@SuzanneArnottMD
Now that your ERAS is submitted, come learn more info about our program in a no pressure environment with our AWESOME residents TOMORROW, at 7pm EST!
Click the Google form for the zoom link & submit any questions you have!
We can’t wait to meet you!👇
🗣CONGRATULATIONS, Dr. Lee!!!! Extraordinary surgeon & educator. She has the most
@GWSMHS
Golden Apple Awards in the history of our department!!! We are SO Proud!
#GWProud
#WomeninSurgery
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@GWSurgChair
Congratulations to this year's Golden Apple Award winners! Each year, students select faculty recipients based on their contributions to and impact on the
#GWSMHS
education. Awards are then presented during Follies, an annual event of student-produced & directed dances and skits.
CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing PGY2s Drew Zebley & Jacob Lambdin for their selection in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society! This honor signifies a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research & community service. We are SO proud of you both!
#Stars
✨
Training, promoting excellence and expertise in surgery are core to what surgeons do, and we work ceaselessly to improve our capabilities and skills in all facets of our lives. Learn more at
🗣Shoutout THREAD! While all of our faculty & residents have done outstanding work this year, we’re sending a special CONGRATULATIONS to our 2020 Faculty & Resident Award Recipients! We’re so proud of their accomplishments! They are truly THE BEST! GO TEAM!
#GWProud
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The shoutouts continue!!! 🗣CONGRATULATIONS to our AMAZING Rising Chief Residents who MATCHED in Vascular Surgery! Dr. Jinny Lu & Dr. Ethan Rosenfeld are stars who will continue to SHINE at
@HarborUCLASurg
and
@UofUVascular
! We’re SO proud and we know
@GWvascsurg
is too!✨💙
#GoGW
Look at the feast on call attending Dr. Juliet Lee made for residents Dr. Joe Devlin, Dr. Elliot Walters, Dr. Ben Pomy & our amazing OR staff! Looks amazing, Dr. Lee! Glad there was some time today to enjoy the holiday! We’re grateful for you!
#GWfamily
#Happythanksgiving2019
🍁
We are still so thrilled about last week's Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Match Day news. We can't wait to welcome Rodrigo Zea, MD, (
@BCM_Surgery
) and Michael Napolitano, MD, (
@GWHospital
) to the next chapter of their training in St. Louis!