Grateful to have the opportunity to work at Boston Medical Center and BMC Surgery. Striving for excellence for all patients. Excited to return to the hospital full-time after two years of research! Michael Cassidy, MD Naomi Ko MD MPH Jennifer F Tseng MD MPH F. Thurston Drake

Excited to share our work reducing pneumonia rates after traumatic rib fractures in the SICU! Amazing collaboration between pharmacy, trauma surgery and anesthesia! Aaron Richman Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Time to Treatment Initiation: A National Cancer Database Study ⁦Annals of Surgical Oncology⁩ ⁦Kelly McMasters, MD, PhD⁩ link.springer.com/article/10.124…

Do LLMs exhibit surgical reasoning capabilities? In our latest Surgical Informatics Lab Lab work, GPT4 not only scores well on advanced surgical test qs & cases, but can also *explain/articulate* its logic. The latter will be key in harnessing its real-world utility for surgeons & pts.

This is a great thread explaining why we need to study the deployment / implementation of AI in medicine

This JACS study examines the determinants of opioid overprescribing and quantifies the disconnect between provider perception and patient consumption by simultaneously surveying outlier prescribers and measuring patient usage. journals.lww.com/journalacs/abs…

Our resident bioinformatics expert, Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA presenting on the performance of ChatGPT on surgical knowledge assessments. Can ChatGPT help us on the ABSITE? 🤔 BMC Surgery

Our study examining the surgical reasoning capabilities of LLMs is now out in SURGERY Journal. Full manuscript here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA Gabriel Brat Steven D Wexner MD, PhD BIDMC Department of Surgery DBMI at Harvard Med

Maggie Berrigan doing the BIDMC Department of Surgery ACS service proud presenting their work on combining surgeon intuition and ASA class to optimize surgical risk assessment #ASC2024 Gabriel Brat Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA Jayson Marwaha, MD MSc Anu Seshadri, MD

Congratulations to Boston Medical Center Surgery Resident Dr. Brenda Lin Brenda Lin, MD on matching to the vascular surgery fellowship here at BMC! We are thrilled that she will be staying onboard with us. 🥳

Our @SurgInformatics Lab study on using surgeon intuition & statistical risk models for predicting patient outcomes was among the 11 most popular articles published recently in Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). Read it here: journals.lww.com/journalacs/abs…

Congrats Gordana Rasic, MD MS on a great mixed-methods analysis of personal statements (PS) in general surgery! The content and perceived quality of PS correlate with interview selection. PS can convey candidacy and institutional alignment, and warrant deliberate evaluation. Journal of Surgical Research

Congratulations to Drs. Brendin Beaulieu-Jones Brendin Beaulieu-Jones MD MBA and Priyanka Chugh Priyanka V. Chugh MD, MS, elected by their peers to serve as Boston Medical Center Surgery 2025-2026 administrative chief residents! 😀

Congrats to Boston Medical Center Surgery residents Dr. Priyanka Chugh Priyanka V. Chugh MD, MS (left) and Dr. Nicole Cimbak on their pediatric surgery fellowship matches! Dr. Chugh matched to British Columbia Children’s Hospital BC Children’s Hospital Pediatric Surgery & Dr. Cimbak matched to Northwestern/Lurie Children's. 🥳

It's May already! Time for our annual Boston Medical Center Surgery faculty and resident photo. 📷 😀

Our Boston Medical Center Surgery Grand Rounds speaker this Friday is Chief Resident Dr. Allan Stolarski. We are looking forward to his talk, "The Chip-Powered Evolution of Trauma Care," and learning about the application of AI in triage of trauma patients. Boston Trauma Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine