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Insightful leadership self-assessment that Dr. Gianrico Farrugia presented to us recently at the Mayo Clinic Resident Leadership Academy - available below! Mayo Fellows' Association, Rochester Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery

Happy Earth Day - Thoracic version! 🫁

Dr. Linda Martin (Linda Martin) presented the surgical outcomes of the Alliance AFT-46 trial at #AATS2025. AFT-46 is chemo / durva followed by surgery for stage IIIA/IIIB N2 NSCLC. This is a really special study for our field — the rare investigator-initiated multi-center

Honoured to be training in a thoracic division with a legacy like Dr. Clagett Mayo Clinic ⤵️ Also love to see so many 🇨🇦 surgeons among previous Clagett Visiting Professors, from Dr. Pearson to Dr. Shaf Keshavjee last year. Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons AATS The Society of Thoracic Surgeons ESTS

Seems like a great idea Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery Luis Felipe Tapias, MD

Thank you to Waël Hanna, John Agzarian and the team McMaster Thoracics for an incredible six weeks training in EBUS, complex endoscopy, and EUS. I’m grateful for the opportunity provided by Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery & Mayo Clinic Cardiac Surgery to learn St. Joe's Healthcare (Hospital & Foundation) McMaster University

Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Yang from the Division of Thoracic Surgery who has been selected by Harvard Medical School as a recipient of their 2025 Young Mentor Award for 2025! Dr. Yang will be celebrated at a reception on June 3, 2025, at Harvard Medical School

Commentary: Accurate locoregional assessment of esophageal cancer after induction treatment is essential to safely select organ-sparing treatment strategies AATS Journals Biniam Kidane jtcvs.org/article/S0022-…

Dr. Fahima Osman arrived in Canada as an 11-year-old refugee, and grew up the eldest of 9 kids. Today, she is a surgical oncologist and the first Somali refugee to become a doctor in Canada. This great The Globe and Mail piece about Dr. Osman is a must-read. bit.ly/3Ful2Vh

"In 2003, when The Globe & Mail went looking for the first Somali refugee to become a doctor in Canada, we found a fiercely determined 25-year-old, one year from graduating medical school at U of T." Read about Dr. Fahima Osman's inspirational story in this The Globe and Mail article.

Esophageal cancer risk is elevated almost 5-fold with obesity - only uterine cancer had a stronger association with obesity, according to the study below NEJM

Such a worthwhile read - Dr. Osman’s story is inspiring! I had a great experience training with her in Toronto U of T Department of Surgery North York General

Stable OR teams contribute to better outcomes🤝✨ Each additional case done by same anesthesiologist-surgeon team 👉 ⬇️ major morbidity 🔓‼Opportunity is knocking: ⬆️outcomes by re-organizing teams How to do it? 🆕📝JAMA Surgery tinyurl.com/yx44pm96

🇨🇦 in #eahpba2025 champions league 🏆 HELIX RCT of TXA vs placebo for hepatectomy by Paul Karanicolas No change in 🩸transfusion but ⬆️ morbidity with TXA ⚠️ don’t use TXA for hepatectomy See 📝 JAMA 👉🏻 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Best wishes to Mauricio Miranda as he departs Mayo Clinic to embark on new projects in CA. He was the surgical assistant in my team when I started as a baby attending. I am forever grateful to him for helping me get to a good start. Best of luck Mauricio during this new stage!

So proud of our Temerty Medicine student Emma Blanchette for presenting Trillium Health Partners data on #lungcancer surgery at the annual University of Toronto Pearson Day in the Division of Thoracic Surgery, supervised by Abdollah Behzadi, MD 👏 Well done Emma!

Congratulations Dr. Atkinson! Honoured to have participated in one of his last thoracic sympathectomies (out of ~600) at Mayo Clinic with Stephen Cassivi, MD FRCSC FACS FRCS Mayo Clinic Neuro Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery Mayo Clinic Cardiac Surgery

Important perspective from Dr. C. W. Mayo displayed at Mayowood In Rochester, MN Mayo Clinic