Happy October 1st everyone!! We are grateful to be part of the 6% of Hispanic/Latinx physicians in the US but evidently we have strides left to be made. We need our frontline workers to represent our population in order to properly address the needs of our community!!

Hey #MedTwitter, I’m super excited to be applying into #Neurosurgery for the #Match2024 My interests include tumor, spine, reducing disparities, and improving diversity within neurosurgery. Outside the hospital I enjoy cinema, listening/producing music, and cheffing it up 👨🏽‍🍳

🎉🎈Please join us in congratulating Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP on being named our new Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We're thrilled to have her continued leadership and dedication to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion & RYSE within the DOM!⁠ 🔗bit.ly/3PwhhQh

🧵(1/2)Not a dry eye in the house as the AMAZING Dr. @Gifty_Kwakye_MD is installed during the State of the Art Lecture as the 1st Arthur Fleming Research Professor of Surgery! 🥹Congratulations, Dr. Kwakye!#SBASProud #SBASUMich2023 👇🏾See a snippet of her story in the next thread!

We still have ALL the feels after the Inaugural Dr. Arthur Fleming Research Professorship ceremony! Learn more about our TRAILBLAZING founding member and 1st President! Thank you, Dr. Fleming. #BecauseofYou, We are! #SBASUMich2023 Michigan Surgery

CONGRATULATIONS to our new President ELECT, Dr. John H. Stewart! Professor....Surgeon-Scientist....Brilliant Leader and the list goes on!!! We look forward to your leadership, Dr. Stewart! #BlackMeninMedicine #SBASUMich2023

Emma won second place in the resident research competition at the #SBASUMich2023 What an accomplishment!!! I’m so so proud! Emory Surgery Emory SOM at Grady Hospital Keith Delman Edward Lin Jyotirmay Sharma Deepika Koganti granny surgeon number 1 Juvonda Hodge

A huge congratulations to chief resident Dr. Emma Crichton for placing second in the Claude Organ Jr. Resident Research Competition at the 2023 Society of Black Academic Surgeons for her work in transplant immunology! #SBASUMich2023 Society of Black Academic Surgeons

Honored to have been a part of this transformative experience! Have new tools to improve Emory-Morehouse-Grady relations, URM resident and faculty recruitment/retention/support, and ultimately the care we are able to provide our patients. Time to work!

Congratulations to Emory Surgery’s own Dr. Keith Delman for his induction into the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators! Lucky to get to learn from him

So grateful to all who made this moment possible for me. What an honor to receive the Jameson L. Chassin, MD, FACS Award for Professionalism in General Surgery at #ACSCC2023. 🙏🏾

Really appreciated the opportunity to present our work at the #STSA2023 meeting showing you can safely travel up to 100 miles for TAAD repair! Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) Nick Teman Ourania Preventza UVA Cardiothoracic Surgery UVA Surgery

My mentors mean the world to me, and I’m hoping to pass forward the same care and love that they have shown me. And for this to be published with my partner and #couplesmatch buddy makes it even better.

Bonnie Simpson Mason giving the all-important Emory Surgery Phillips-Reed Lecture. So many pearls of wisdom. "You have to build life muscles because life requires it." Olamide Alabi Randi Smith SESC & The American Surgeon Georgia Society,American College of Surgeons Emory University #DEI Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FRCS(Eng), FAAP Carlos del Rio

Honored to be named a 2024-26 cohort member of the New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine at National Academies. Grateful for the opportunity to contribute and work alongside other emerging STEM leaders to address national and global challenges.

Today Emory University WHSC leadership announced that Sept 1st I will become Chair of the Emory Department of Medicine I am excited about this next stage and look forward to leading the department as the first graduate of the residency program, the first IMG and first Hispanic.

It truly took a village to accomplish this. To my support team, thank you! For those that aren’t here physically, I miss you and hope you’re proud. I’m going to be a cardiac surgeon and my best friend and partner Rosalind Byrd is joining me in internal medicine.

Today Maf, MD MS was honored with the inaugural Mark A. Fleming, II Award for Advocacy and Advancement of DEI in GME. An honor recognizing his years of work making us all better. Congratulations to Dr. Fleming!!! #HoosUVASurgery @uvahcdi

Superb job, James Keiler, MD and Chris He, for their impressive presentations at #STSA! Proud of their hard work and dedication.

Absolute honor to match at MSK. NYC here we come!