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Department of Surgery | University at Buffalo Looking forward to learning and growing more! Let’s go Buffalo!

Officially Emily Maroun Hannah, MD!! Fortunate to have such a supportive mentor, Steven Schwaitzberg, MD and be awarded Thesis Honors for my project on the importance of Cholangiography Education in surgical residency. Next stop: GW Surgery Jacobs School at University at Buffalo Department of Surgery | University at Buffalo SAGES is in Tampa in 2026!

Grateful to Department of Surgery | University at Buffalo , Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics for the opportunity to give the 2025 James Allen Lectureship. Great two days of talks, presentations and meetings!

We've got another fellowship match to celebrate! Please help us welcome Dr. Mohit Bhalla to our Vascular Surgery Fellowship! See you in 2026!

Happy National Nurses Week! ♥️🏥 We recognize the invaluable contributions of nurses in our community and beyond. Registered nurses in the United States make up our nation’s largest health care profession and are integral to our healthcare teams. Thank you for all that you do!

Our residents and faculty joined the SBAS Allyship as Leadership Course in San Diego, gaining powerful tools to support inclusive excellence and uplift colleagues from all backgrounds.

Congratulations, Dr. Amparano! 🥳💙 Thank you for your efforts in caring for patients and helping medical students! So well deserved!

Nargis Hossain, PhD & UB Dept. of Surgery’s Social Justice & Health Equity initiative secured 1,100 books through Project FLIGHT for UB Books for a Cause 2025. The books will go to Black Boys Read Too, a group focused on improving literacy & representation for children in Buffalo

Help us congratulate Daphine Musisi, MD (PGY3)! She just graduated from the Kaleida- UB Surgery MBA Scholarship Program with honors. Earning an MBA is one of the many things tracks you can take as part of our Surgery Plus program. Congratulations, Dr. Musisi!

Last week Buffalo Public Schools students gathered at Jacobs School at University at Buffalo for #UBuffalo’s annual Drone STEM competition! It aims to help inspire gifted students to pursue #STEM fields! They competed in simulations emphasizing precision instrument control & depth perception. #BuffaloNY #WNY

Why should #HealthCare pros & #HealthSciences trainees attend the #UBuffalo Remembrance Conference? To honor the memory of #GunViolence victims & address gun violence. Watch to see why Mike Lamb, PhD of Department of Surgery | University at Buffalo says the conference is important. Register: ms.spr.ly/6018S54Ly

Congratulations on being nominated for the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award! It's a testament to the devoted clinician and teacher that you are and the impact that you have had on the students you've worked with!

Here’s to a decade of unwavering commitment and inspiring vision! Celebrating 10 years of Dr. Steven Schwaitzberg‘s leadership. Join us in celebrating this remarkable milestone!

Putting our best foot forward with a day of free foot care! 🦶 Over the weekend we hosted a free clinic focused on peripheral arterial disease screening, physical exams, and foot washing. Thank you to everyone who was there to lend a helping hand (or foot!) 🩺💙

Graduation Day Recap #1: To start the day, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Adrian E. Park, of Meritus Health and Johns Hopkins University, for our 50th Annual Theodore Drapanas Memorial Lectureship. Dr. Park shared his passion and insight about how surgery is a calling.

After 34 years of service at ECMC (and 42 years of practicing in Buffalo), Dr. William Flynn is hanging up the trauma and ICU pager. We're grateful he will still be performing elective surgeries while having more time for family and golf. Thank you & congratulations, Dr. Flynn!

Help us welcome our newly matched, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellow! Dr. Kayla Flewelling will be joining us from Western Michigan University in 2026. We can't wait to have you!

Graduation Recap: Part 2 We wrapped up The Drapanas Memorial Lectureship with resident awards! Congratulations to all the recipients!

Celebrating our Vascular Surgery Graduates! Fellows: Andrew Droney, DO and Rose Gooding, MD & Resident: Ariel Prieto Valdes, MD 🥳 Congratulations!

Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Dr. Oluwaseun Olusanya, our new Baratric Surgery Fellow!