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Meet our new STS President @JennaRomano, who was officially confirmed at this morning's business meeting. She is the first woman to hold the office in our 60-year history. Congratulations! Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children's WomenInThoracicSurg #CTsurgery bit.ly/3vU3ZH1

UCSF-East Bay faculty Lara Senekjian MD presenting her work at #ASC2024 #academicsurgicalcongress Assoc4AcademicSurgery @univsurgery . Raising the level of patient care at our safety net hospital AHS_Highland

Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD, FACS embodied #InclusiveExcellence throughout his career in surgical education. To honor his extraordinary life and work, we provide a traveling fellowship for young surgeons every year in his name. #BlackHistoryMonth brnw.ch/21wH0uD

Our annual Field Day #surgicalskills competition was a complete success! Special thanks to UCSF-East Bay program director Emily Miraflor for putting it all together. We love getting together for some friendly competition #family #olympics2024 ucsf-eastbay.squarespace.com

A clinical review of spontaneous pneumomediastinum med.amegroups.org/article/view/8… Nice work Cynthia Susai, MD Kian Banks, MD Nathan Alcasid MD Time to implement, will save so many so much heartache.

Keeping it in the #family ! ❤️ Cynthia Susai, MD presents with her daughter Amy and Nathan Alcasid MD is supported by his Mom at the California Thoracic Society California Thoracic Society Conference this past weekend! Thank you for your research mentorship, Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS !

Congratulations to the UCSF-East Bay incoming intern class of 2024. Couldn't be more excited! Welcome to the #family !! #Match2024 #GenSurgMatch2024

Inspiring work by Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS and co making MIE a smoother operation with a faster recovery.. 3 hour operation and home as early as post op day 2! Kaiser Permanente Research NorCal KPNorthernCal UCSF-East Bay ktvu.com/video/1438727

‼️Congrats are in order for Dr. Jeffrey Velotta Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS. Today he was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery AATS! This recognition highlights his contributions to advancing the care & treatment of cardiothoracic diseases👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

UCSF-East Bay representing at #lsssurgicalsymposium LatinoSurgSociety #latinosurgery!

A lot of work to do! Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS UCSF-East Bay Kaiser Permanente Research NorCal

The Impact of D2 Versus D1 #Lymphadenectomy in Siewert II Gastroesophageal Junction (GEJ) Cancer Nathan Alcasid MD Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS rdcu.be/dUsdQ Anish Jay Jain MD Syed A. Ahmad

Excited to start the #GenSurgMatch2025 #Match2025 interview season! Check out our match pledge and get more info about the UCSF-East Bay #surgery residency program at ucsf-eastbay.squarespace.com

#Alumni alert! Dr. Annie Tang UCSF-East Bay #classof2023 completed her fellowship at UCSF Breast Care Center , now a breast surgical oncologist at City of Hope Surgery City of Hope . Congrats Annie Tang, MD ! 🎊🎈🎉 UC San Francisco #breastsurgery #GenSurgMatch2025 UCSF Surgery

In Press: Mediastinal envelope closure in minimally invasive esophagectomy is a surgical approach that bolsters the anastomosis, prevents outpouching of the gastric conduit, and is associated decreased anastomotic leak Cynthia Susai, MD @jvelottaMD ow.ly/kRsB50TQi1X @SKMaithel

In appropriately selected early stage NSCLC pts, there may be lower rates of N2 nodal upstaging with better CT scans, PET scans, and multiD teams evaluating PRIOR to surgery. Kian Banks, MD Brigham and Women's Thoracic Surgery UCSF-East Bay KPNorthernCal Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Med UCSF School of Medicine rdcu.be/ebOBC

New #thoracic surgical oncology study: Living on the edge: Role of adjuvant therapy after resection of primary lung cancer within 2 millimeters of a T-stage cutoff. Log in to your #JTCVS account to see researchers' conclusions on overall survival: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv…

June Issue: The Impact of Preoperative Invasive Nodal Staging on Unexpected Mediastinal Upstaging in Early-Stage Non-small Cell #LungCancer Kian Banks, MD Jeffrey Velotta MD FACS rdcu.be/eqdn4 Andrew M. Fleming, MD Syed A. Ahmad

Please check out our prospective, randomized trial just out in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 🫁 Stage IA-IIA, non-squamous, surgically resected NSCLC 🧬 Molecular testing of resected tumor 💉 High-risk pts randomized 📉 Adjuvant chemo had DFS benefit vs observation authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S22…

Asian Americans had highest Medicaid insurance rates in our lung surgery patients. Also of note, medicaid insurance had higher return to 30D to ED visits after lung surgery. We have things we can work on! Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Med Kaiser Permanente Research NorCal UCSF-East Bay Kian Banks, MD mdpi.com/2673-3986/6/2/…