Chief, Division of Breast Surgery @PennSurgery @PennCancer, Assoc Director @PC3Innovation, Sr. Fellow @pennLDI. Mom, Wife, Researcher. Tweets=Mine
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Our own Iulia Barbur superbly presents her work with the DeMatteoLab on FAP expression in GIST #SSO2025


Loved this SSO Symposium on individualizing breast cancer management! Thank you #SSO2025 and Frederick M. Dirbas Zahraa Al-Hilli Giacomo Montagna MD MPH Shayna Showalter Olga Kantor MD, MS, FACS for the excellent talks! 🤩. Mod: Lola Fayanju (she/her, [email protected]) Susan Beth Kesmodel. Thought-provoking audience questions!


#SSO2025 Presidential Dinner at the Tampa Club with Penn faculty (missing Dr’s Heather Wachtel and Giorgios Karakousis but somehow acquired Mass General Surgery Dr Ken Tanabe 😉). Will need to recreate!


Endocrine Surgery Section Chief Heather Wachtel presenting her excellent work on PARP-1 as a novel theranostic marker in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma for which she won the Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Investigator Award in 2023. #SSO2025


Omission of surgery in patients with excellent response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy shows no recurrences at 5 years. Henry Kuerer leads the research on this new paradigm. #SSO2025. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center delighted to be participating in this important trial.




Great to see my friend and former co-faculty Lola Fayanju (she/her, [email protected])’s Grand Rounds presentation “In Pursuit of Guideline-Concordant Care…” in breast cancer Hopkins Surgery . #OldBullNewCity Duke Surgery Duke General Surgery Residency


New study led by Kriyana Reddy and Lola Fayanju (she/her, [email protected]) finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…






Brilliant study by Shayna Showalter UVA Surgery. POWER trial of 90-day PRE-op 🔪endocrine therapy 💊 to assess tolerance before decision re: RT omission. Early improved endocrine compliance. ASBrS #ASBrS2025 POWER2 enrolling! 🎉


Had a blast with my people at ASBrS !! Honored to present my research powered by the amazing Lola Fayanju (she/her, [email protected]) lab PennSurgery #ASBRS2025


Registration is open! Join Lola Fayanju (she/her, [email protected]) of Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center as she chairs an OncLive® SOSS in Philadelphia! Featuring a powerhouse panel melissa mcshane MD, Amy Clark, MD, Emily Ko, MD, Lainie Martin, MD, & Mark Shahin, MD. Register Now: hubs.li/Q03l42Md0 Fox Chase Cancer Center

