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Your CAGS membership keeps you at the forefront of #generalsurgery with resources, advocacy, and professional growth opportunities. NEW for 2025, renew your CAGS membership and others with CSSO, #CSCRS, Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, Canadian Hernia Society simultaneously! 🔗 buff.ly/3Dtfaug

As we count down the final hours of 2024, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our members for this an incredible year for the surgical community. 🥂 Here’s to an incredible 2025, filled with new opportunities and continued excellence in general surgery. #HappyNewYear!

Perioperative Corticosteroids 💊 to reduce complications in pancreas surgery ?! 🧐 Meta analysis 5 studies / 1.4k pts Corticosteroids 🫸🫷 not associated to a decrease in morbidity / fistula / mortality 💡 What about mitigation strategis in high risk!? link.springer.com/article/10.124…

Join us for the IHPBA Early Career Group Roadshow Webinar: Navigating Complications in HPB Surgery Real-Life Case Discussions and Decision-Making. 📅𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐭 𝟕 𝐏𝐌 𝐄𝐒𝐓 🕐Check your local time here: shorturl.at/L6zCQ Register now: shorturl.at/UuRpz

Resect or ablate small CRLM?🧐 💥COLLISION trial - stopped early 👥300 pts with <=10 mets <=3cm Ablation🆚Resection ⬇️morbidity w ablation - 19 vs 46% ✅OS non-inferior No diff local control Where do we go next - new SOC?🤯 Join #SSO2025 to hear Åsmund A. Fretland on this topic!

We are hiring an academic HPB/Transplant surgeon! University-based clinical practice with full spectrum of benign/malignant HPB + renal transplant + liver transplant. nshdocs.morethanmedicine.ca/opportunities/… AHPBA ASTS Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Cdn General Surgeons DAL Surgery Research CST Transplantation

Can we make a 🧈 soft pancreas harder 🧱to reduce POPF?! ☢️ Preoperative stereotactic radiotherapy on 38 high risk pts 💪 Increased firmness obtained … but 🐳 POPF rate was same 🧯Which is your best mitigation tool?! academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

Thanks for hosting! We are very excited to start our robotic HPB/transplant program to advance patient care and surgical education in Atlantic Canada! Dalhousie University DAL Surgery Research QEII Foundation Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association CST Transplantation Cdn General Surgeons Boris Gala-Lopez

What to do with carcinoid crisis? 🦓 A frequent concern for patients with #NETs having surgery We put together an international🌎🌍🌏 multidisciplinary expert consensus statement 📢 Now open for feedback! Sign-up here 🔗 surveymonkey.com/r/periopcarcin… 📆Open until March 3rd!

🔥Inclusion & representation make us all stronger IHPBA is building a new committee to support excellence in all work of the society!🤩 👇Join us👇 We need people from *all* backgrounds whether traditionally represented or not‼️ E-AHPBA AHPBA A-PHPBA

🏒👏 Huge congratulations to Team Canada on their thrilling victory over the US in the Battle of Nations! 🇨🇦🏆 Your skill, determination, and teamwork continue to inspire us all. A true display of excellence—on and off the ice! #GoCanadaGo #BattleOfNations #HockeyGold

📢 Looking to share your expertise? Be noticed for HPB events? 🤩 Join the IHPBA Faculty Directory and help build a representative inclusive speaker registry for HPB surgery ⭐️For *all* IHPBA members in practice⭐️ Join 🌍🔗form.jotform.com/242872408317055

📢More HPB cancer surgery content at #SSO2025 Add this lunch to your agenda! Advanced techniques in liver surgery 3D imaging 🖥️ Daniel Anaya Ablation💥 Åsmund A. Fretland Hop S. Tran Cao Robotics🤖 w Z. Jutric

MIS for liver resection - Should we? Why? How? 🤔💭 🎙️Dissecting the data & tips for uptake with the author of the first lap liver trial Åsmund A. Fretland and robotic expert Laleh Melstrom with Patricio Polanco & Sandra DiBrito in #SurgOncToday 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sur…

MIS pancreatoduodenectomy - why & how? 🎙️Learn about the data, tips to get started, & requirements for safe programs with experts Marc Besselink 🇳🇱 and Amer Zureikat 🇺🇸 on #SurgOncToday🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sur…

🚨PSA: the ALLIANCE A021806 for neoadjuvant vs adjuvant chemo in pancreas cancer is 4️⃣0️⃣ patients short of completing accrual Answer Dr Ferrone’s call: if each centre enrols 1️⃣ patient, enrolment will be complete! Lets do it! 💪

With #AHPBA2025 & #SSO2025 back to back, we had a chance to recap AHPBA during live #SurgOncToday podcast 🎙️recording in Tampa Bay🌴 Thanks Michael Lidsky, MD, FACS and Ryan Ellis for reviewing top studies presented in Miami! HAIP, pancreas cancer, POPF, ablation & more. Stay tuned!🎧

🚨 #AHPBA2025 recap🎙️ Missed the meeting? Spent time at the beach🏖️? Too many sessions to pick from? Get your update in 🆕 #SurgOncToday with Ryan Ellis & Michael Lidsky, MD, FACS: HAIP⛽️, locally advanced PDAC, PNETs, NSQIP & more! 🔗open.spotify.com/episode/3AJT5y…

This is Antonio, he had a #Whipple 6years ago for #PancreaticCancer. He permitted me to share this picture to help other patients who are starting/earlier on their journey. PanCAN Pancreatic Cancer Canada Unity Health Toronto Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association IHPBA Cdn General Surgeons HPB @ St. Joe's

Join AHPBA Monday, 06/23, for Pushing the Envelope & the Next Frontier for HCC & Cholangiocarcinoma Register Today: tinyurl.com/374ttdun Adnan Alseidi Shishir K. Maithel