
Abbas Karim
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MS3 @UTMBHealth | @UHouston ‘22 🐾 | BOD Member @TMCGlobalHealth & Fmr. Co-Chair | JSSOM Ambassadors Coordinator | #GlobalSurgery & Trauma/Acute Care 🌍🩺
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10-01-2024 16:11:18
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Great @utmbsurgery turnout at the South TX chapter ACS meeting this weekend - presentations by 4 residents, 6 med students and 2 fellows! Jennifer Moffett MD, MS, FACS Jaclyn Gaffey Dempsey Abbas Karim


Excellent conference by the Houston Global Health Collaborative Houston Global Health Collaborative! Enjoyed being moderator/panelist for the vaccine diplomacy panel w/Rekha Lakshmanan #Believes in Hindhu Nationalism and Nick Diamond #vaccinequity continues to be needed around the world. Abbas Karim Lorena Macías-Navarro #HGHC2024


Beyond grateful to have served as Co-Chair for this year’s Houston Global Health Collaborative Conference last week alongside a terrific team! 🤝🏼 It was an honor to help foster crucial global health discussions and host some unparalleled #globalsurgery representation 🌍🪡


📢 How do genital burns affect pts’ physical and psychosocial outcomes? Check out our new pub in J. Burn Care & Research! 🔥 📈 Short-term risk of death, sepsis, anxiety 📈 Long-term risk of death, neuropathic pain, PTSD 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980928/ Suhaib Shah UTMBSurgery

How does PMT compare to CDT for treatment of PE? 🫁💉 PMT shows: ▶️ Improved safety profile ▶️ Fewer 30-day complications ▶️ Better long term outcomes (fewer chronic PH, RHF dx & ED visits) Read more in our latest pub for JVS - Venous and Lymphatic Disorders! 🔗: jvsvenous.org/article/S2213-… UTMB Vascular Surgery

It's a packed house for the #SAAS2024 Associate Member Lunch! Trainees and junior faculty are getting expert advice from mentors like Houston Methodist Urology and Residency Program chair Dr. Kathleen Kobashi Kathleen Kobashi about honing your elevator pitch. SAAS is all about developing surgeon leaders! 🙌


Congrats to the team at UTMB LSTAR for their work on exploring gamification for laparoscopic skills training. Education RCTs are no joke! #SAAS2024


And great analogy by Abbas Karim that just like slot machines - we need to sprinkle in positive reinforcement with our gamification because constant negative feedback can actually have an opposite effect on our learners!

A truly enriching time at #SAAS2024! Presented our work at UTMB LSTAR on gamification in surgical training and connected with countless remarkable faculty, residents, & students. 🕹️🤝🏼 Deeply grateful for the excellent mentorship I’ve received! 🙌🏼 Joshua Roshal, MD SocAsianAcadSurg


We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Bindi Naik-Mathuria MD, MPH as the new Director of the UTMB School of Medicine Global Health Education Program! Today, she met with our incredible medical students in the Global Health Concentration track. Excited for all the impactful work ahead! Welcome, Dr. Naik!”


As research becomes a more prominent feature of global surgery efforts, it is essential to build ethical framework that accounts for contextual disparity in a dynamically changing field journals.lww.com/journalacs/ful… Youmna A. Sherif, MD Lubna Khan Todd Rosengart, MD @RachelWDavis Godfrey Sama Philipo, M.D, MPH, MGSC

UTMB Global Initiatives health symposium! The students are our future. Inspired by keynote address from Sandro Galea on the why and how on health inequities.



Collaboration of Surgical Education Fellows Abbas Karim and I did a study UTMBSurgery UTMB LSTAR where we found that if we’re going to gamify education, we should take some pointers from how the folks over at Caesars Palace do it 😂🎰


Grateful to present our work on open vs lap outcomes for pedi inguinal hernia repair at South TexasACS this past weekend! Proud to see strong UTMBSurgery representation here and very thankful to my mentors for their support & encouragement with this project! 💪🏼🔬 UTMB Pediatric Surgery




#MedTwitter - are you considering doing an away rotation or sub-internship in surgery? You NEED to listen to our new BehindTheKnife collab episode: open.spotify.com/episode/2Za6Af… #Match2025 #Match2026 #MatchDay
