
Lye-Yeng Wong MD
@lyeyengwongmd
OHSU General Surgery Resident. Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Fellow.
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16-09-2020 01:45:00
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Check out our new publication BMJ Global Health on changing the #globalsurgery paradigm on safe service delivery in LMICs- current evidence, thoughts, what worked- where to?? Lots of exciting progress! gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/…


November is #LungCancerAwarenessMonth, dedicated to raising awareness and education of the disease. 🫁 Stanford thoracic surgeons and researchers such as Natalie Lui, are working to raise awareness about the importance of early lung cancer screening. ✨ow.ly/CJCx50U5sJA


Congratulations Mark Ferguson - a giant can never retire, he will keep teaching and mentoring through his legacy 🙏🏻🙏🏻 #esophaguslovers

Proud of our Lahey Hospital team for this contribution. We’ve refined our technique for emergency converting from robotic to thoracotomy over 10 yrs w/ testing in sim lab & real case experience. This is a safe, reproducible, and effective technique sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Metastasectomy in Head and Neck Cancers sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Diagnosis and management of head and neck cancer patients with pulmonary mets can be challenging. Dive deeper into the literature in our newly published chapter! Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery


Our study on combined breast and lung cancer screening among dual-eligible women is featured on the March cover of Journal of Surgical Research ! #lungcancerscreening #lungcancerawareness Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS


Advanced imaging from Stanford 3D & Quantitative Imaging Lab & Stanford Radiology played a critical role in diagnosing & planning treatment for a patient w/pectus excavatum. Thx to the collab w/3DQ, the imaging allowed Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery in planning the surgery. 🫁 ow.ly/MTPK50Vw8jg

Cover for the month of March . Thanyoun Lye-Yeng Wong MD Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS Stanford Surgery for the excellent contribution


Come join me for virtual "coffee" chat discussing the changing landscape in lung cancer. #lungcancer ACS National Lung Cancer Roundtable Society of Black Academic Surgeons Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery



We matched! ✨ We are thrilled to match Dr. Lye-Yeng Wong MD from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU News) to the General Thoracic Surgery Track of our Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program. We look forward to welcoming her to Stanford Medicine in 2026! #MatchDay #WeAreStanford


The Ten Commandments of Cardiac Surgery Training 🫀 Just published in AATS Journals 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/JTCVSOpenTenCo…



50+ organizations unite to champion universal access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care. Surgery is essential, not optional! Let’s bridge the gap and ensure health equity for all. ow.ly/zVb050VXHOX The Royal College of Surgeons of England #gsd10 #globalsurgeryday Association of Academic Global Surgery The Journal Of Global Surgery (ONE)

The study I have most anticipated from #ASCO2025 CTSurgSocMedNetwork General Thoracic Surgical Club Remember control arm was the 🏆 from ESOPEC- so Rx arm has outperformed that!! Leaves CROSS in the dust for adeno.


Lung cancer screening can save lives, but few eligible women have it done. Combining lung cancer screening w/mammogram could help, a study shows. Featured cover on Journal of Surgical Research. Authors inc Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS, Tiffany Yue, Lye-Yeng Wong MD, et al ow.ly/mwtb50W4waz

Check out this exciting new study led by Matthew Smeltzer Raymond Osarogiagbon, MBBS, FACP in JAMA Network Open!! Changing the USPSTF lung screening criteria from a 20-pack-year cutoff to a 20-year duration cutoff (Potter Criteria) greatly increases access to screening while maintaining screening


Just published- pilot study feasibility study in #Ethiopia #Nigeria #Laos of implementing some of the The G4 Alliance best practice recs for quality #safesurgery #globalsurgery #GlobalHealth frontiersin.org/journals/healt… Lye-Yeng Wong MD Mark Ferguson Andrew Hill Frontiers