Kelly Lafaro (@klafaro) 's Twitter Profile
Kelly Lafaro

@klafaro

Surgical Oncologist/HPB Surgeon, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins

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calendar_today08-03-2018 19:03:48

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well deserved...she was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart for her actions in Iraq. Always reminds me that the day to day obstacles are merely that, and I have no excuse to let them remain.

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Exciting research out of the Wolfgang lab...Are CTCs the next biomarker in pancreatic adenocarcinoma? TrCTCs were predictive of systemic recurrence at 2 years. Congrats Ding Ding on a great talk #AHPBA2020 Christopher Wolfgang Jin He Johns Hopkins Medicine

Exciting research out of the Wolfgang lab...Are CTCs the next biomarker in pancreatic adenocarcinoma? TrCTCs were predictive of systemic recurrence at 2 years. Congrats Ding Ding on a great talk #AHPBA2020 <a href="/cwolfga2/">Christopher Wolfgang</a> <a href="/jhatjhmi1/">Jin He</a> <a href="/HopkinsMedicine/">Johns Hopkins Medicine</a>
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Great Presidential Plenary Session...will the response of anti CD40/PD-1 seen in cholangiocarcinoma mouse models be replicated in human trials. #AHPBA2020 Laurence P Diggs

Great Presidential Plenary Session...will the response of anti CD40/PD-1 seen in cholangiocarcinoma mouse models be replicated in human trials. #AHPBA2020 <a href="/LaurenceDiggsMD/">Laurence P Diggs</a>
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Happy #NationalNursesDay! Thank you City of Hope nurses for going above and beyond to care for our patients. Your hard work is appreciated every single day! #CityofHeroes

Happy #NationalNursesDay! Thank you City of Hope nurses for going above and beyond to care for our patients. Your hard work is appreciated every single day! #CityofHeroes
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Another great AHPBA webinar tonight with our #hpb experts discussing tough #PancreaticCancer, #colorectalcancer metastasis, & gallbladder #cancer cases. Advanced disease sometimes requires standard treatments but also judicious use of innovative therapies & novel approaches.

Another great <a href="/AHPBA/">AHPBA</a> webinar  tonight with our #hpb experts discussing tough #PancreaticCancer, #colorectalcancer metastasis, &amp; gallbladder #cancer cases. Advanced disease sometimes requires standard treatments but also judicious use of innovative therapies &amp; novel approaches.
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Today the first #transplant patients in the US will receive FDA-authorized #COVID #vaccine #booster doses in our NIH-funded interventional trial. Excited to learn more about how to protect our vulnerable immunosuppressed patients, friends, and family from this awful virus.

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This is why we do what we do….From a patient I did a robotic Whipple on for ampullary adeno 2 years ago. She is going back to med school this month!

This is why we do what we do….From a patient I did a robotic Whipple on for ampullary adeno 2 years ago. She is going back to med school this month!
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One last tweet about #purplestride - I was overwhelmed with pride🙏 In our patients & their caregivers/families who had HUGE teams and raised tons of💵for the event And in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center physicians and staff, and patients who all helped us raise ~$7500 for the event

One last tweet about #purplestride - I was overwhelmed with pride🙏

In our patients &amp; their caregivers/families who had HUGE teams and raised tons of💵for the event

And in the <a href="/hopkinskimmel/">Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center</a> physicians and staff, and patients who all helped us raise ~$7500 for the event
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Great to see my Johns Hopkins Medicine friends! Appreciate the invite to talk on controversies in #surgery / locoregional treatment of #NeuroendocrineCancer at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center #HopkinsGI Updates Course. Wonderful course featuring #patients and #expert #cancer providers!

Great to see my <a href="/HopkinsMedicine/">Johns Hopkins Medicine</a> friends! Appreciate the invite to talk on controversies in #surgery / locoregional treatment of #NeuroendocrineCancer at <a href="/hopkinskimmel/">Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center</a> #HopkinsGI Updates Course. Wonderful course featuring #patients and #expert #cancer providers!
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Congratulations to Andrew Cameron, named today as the 8th director of Hopkins Surgery, after serving as interim dept director since 2021. He is surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, chief of the Div. of Transplantation, & professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Congratulations to <a href="/AndrewMCameron/">Andrew Cameron</a>, named today as the 8th director of <a href="/hopkinssurgery/">Hopkins Surgery</a>, after serving as interim dept director since 2021. He is surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, chief of the Div. of Transplantation, &amp; professor of surgery at <a href="/HopkinsMedicine/">Johns Hopkins Medicine</a>.
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Johns Hopkins HPB crew at National Pancreas Foundation Gala. Supporting Mike Goggins who is receiving the Nobility in Science Award. Congrats!

Johns Hopkins HPB crew at National Pancreas Foundation Gala. Supporting Mike Goggins who is receiving the Nobility in Science Award. Congrats!
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Excited to share our paper on techniques to augment the FLR prior to major hepatectomy (i.e., PVE, ALPPS, LVD, Y-90)—we review the existing literature and details of ongoing RCTs! Laleh Melstrom Jonathan Kessler Kelly Lafaro Alice Wei City of Hope Surgical Oncology Annals of Surgical Oncology link.springer.com/article/10.124…