Abbas Karim (@_abbaskarim) 's Twitter Profile
Abbas Karim

@_abbaskarim

MS3 @UTMBHealth | @UHouston ‘22 🐾 | BOD Member @TMCGlobalHealth & Fmr. Co-Chair | JSSOM Ambassadors Coordinator | #GlobalSurgery & Trauma/Acute Care 🌍🩺

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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 🌍🪡

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

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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

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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! 🙌

It's a packed house for the #SAAS2024 Associate Member Lunch! Trainees and junior faculty are getting expert advice from mentors like <a href="/HMethodistUro/">Houston Methodist Urology and Residency Program</a> chair Dr. Kathleen Kobashi <a href="/KKseattle/">Kathleen Kobashi</a> about honing your elevator pitch. SAAS is all about developing surgeon leaders! 🙌
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Congrats to the team at UTMB LSTAR for their work on exploring gamification for laparoscopic skills training. Education RCTs are no joke! #SAAS2024

Congrats to the team at <a href="/utmblstar/">UTMB LSTAR</a> for their work on exploring gamification for laparoscopic skills training. Education RCTs are no joke! #SAAS2024
Cait Silvestri (@caitsilvestri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

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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

A truly enriching time at #SAAS2024! Presented our work at <a href="/utmblstar/">UTMB LSTAR</a> on gamification in surgical training and connected with countless remarkable faculty, residents, &amp; students. 🕹️🤝🏼

Deeply grateful for the excellent mentorship I’ve received! 🙌🏼

<a href="/Joshua_Roshal/">Joshua Roshal, MD</a> <a href="/AsianAcadSurg/">SocAsianAcadSurg</a>
UTMB Global Initiatives (@utmbglobal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!”

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. <a href="/bnaikma/">Bindi Naik-Mathuria MD, MPH</a> 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!”
Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) (@acsjacs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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First ACS Clinical Congress in the books! ✅ 🔥Presented on SSA pediatric burns in Global Surgery session! 🤝🏼 Connected with fantastic residents and faculty! 🦾 Learned about exciting surgical advances! Sincerely grateful to my mentors for making this possible! #ACSCC24 🌉

First ACS Clinical Congress in the books! ✅ 

🔥Presented on SSA pediatric burns in Global Surgery session!
🤝🏼 Connected with fantastic residents and faculty!
🦾 Learned about exciting surgical advances!

Sincerely grateful to my mentors for making this possible! #ACSCC24 🌉
Abbas Karim (@_abbaskarim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Check out our article in JVS-VL! 🚨 We examined PMT vs. CDT for management of PE and found that PMT had an improved safety profile, fewer 30-day post-op complications, and enhanced long term outcomes! ✅ Read more below! ✍🏼

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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

Grateful to present our work on open vs lap outcomes for pedi inguinal hernia repair at <a href="/STXACS/">South TexasACS</a> this past weekend! 

Proud to see strong <a href="/UTMBSurgery/">UTMBSurgery</a> representation here and very thankful to my mentors for their support &amp; encouragement with this project! 💪🏼🔬

<a href="/PediSurgeryUTMB/">UTMB Pediatric Surgery</a>
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#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

Abbas Karim (@_abbaskarim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Had an amazing time working with the team for this episode! 🙌🏼 Phenomenal resource for other students, especially MS3s/4s — answers the key questions we all have for aways! ✍🏼✅