I love this slide from Bonnie Simpson Mason; doesn’t every surgeon want to work in this kind of environment? MetroDCACS #DCAllSurgeonsDay American College of Surgeons Michele Gage, MD, FACS Mary T. O'Donnell MD FACS FASCRS Jennifer Rosen Paula Ferrada MD FACS FCCM MAMSE Jonathan Dort Patrick Jackson, MD Peter Learn MD Yewande Alimi MD

Trailblazing and eye opening keynote address by Dr. Oluwaferanmi Okanlamki on Disabusing Disability: Disability doesn’t mean Inability at the ACSQS 2023 meeting. A challenge to all surgeons to offer access to surgical careers for trainees with disabilities.

UCSDH Surgery representing this afternoon at the Healthcare Infromatics session at the ACS Quality and Safety meeting. Congratulations to Dr. Nicole Goldhaber, Dr. Tom Mou and MS3 Khartik Ramesh on their outstanding presentations !!! UC San Diego Surgery

Dr. Kristin Mekeel UC San Diego Surgery Nicole H. Goldhaber UCSD Surgery Residents Common theme for all presentations: phenomenal mentorship/sponsorship by Dr. Mekeel!

UC San Diego now uses AI technology to help their doctors and patients. Christopher A. Longhurst, MD: "We think the chatbot can draft empathetic messages and do it in a timely manner... but we have to keep the human in the loop."

The #UCSDHealth Center for #Transplantation has had their biggest life-saving year thus far with a total of 481 life-saving organ transplants in 2023. Thank you to the #donors, medical teams and everyone who supports this life-saving mission. ❤️ health.ucsd.edu/care/transplan…

Dr. Aleah Brubaker addressing the American Society of Transplant Surgeons about her work on expanding the liver donor pool and improving outcomes for patients with normothermic machine perfusion UC San Diego Surgery UC San Diego Health @ucsdtransplsnt

Dr. Brubaker reviewing the exceptional national outcomes of NRP DCD liver transplantation from the Concord Study at the ASTS Winter Meeting UC San Diego Surgery ASTS

UC San Diego School Of Public Health Dean Cheryl Anderson presenting on the impressive panel “ Making Room for Inclusive Leadership at UC” at the UC Innovating the Future Women Leaders as Catalysts for Change conference in Oakland.

UC San Diego Health leaders representing at the UC Innovating the Future Women Leaders as a Catalyst for Change conference In Oakland, CA.

UC San Diego Health Quality and Safety happy to be learning and representing at RL Datrix Palooza @Palooza24

Inspiring talk by Ambassador Sullenberg for National Patient Safety Week and the importance of creating and following routine safety protocols as a team to prepare for the unexpected #Palooza2024

Barbara Staruk, Chief Product Officer at RLDatrix, takes the stage at #Palooza2024 to explore how generative AI can revolutionize event reporting for improved patient safety.

Congratulations to Dr. Brubaker and the consortium for this seminal work which will increase livers available for transplant in the US and save more lives.

Congratulations to Dr. Aleah Brubaker for being awarded the ASTS Transmedics Faculty Perfusion Grant at the ATC this year ! ASTS @UCSDTransplant

Congratulations to Dr. Gabe Schnickel for being awarded a UC San Diego Chancellor’s Team Catalyst Award for the UC San Diego Center for Research, Education, Innovation, and Transformation for Organ Donation (REIMAGINE). Learn more about the Center at reimagine.ucsd.edu

So impressed with the UC San Diego Health current and past Surgical Quality and Informatics fellows Dr. Sean Perez and Dr. Nicole Goldhaber with a total of 5 podium presentations today at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference. They presented projects on informatics, quality,

"Safety isn't a checkbox - it's a culture." 🫶 🩺 This World Patient Safety Day, professor of transplant surgery Kristin Mekeel, MD, MS, FACS, explains how patient care comes first for the teams at CU and uchealth. #ImproveEveryLife #WorldPatientSafetyDay