
Kiran Turaga
@kturaga
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06-01-2011 20:39:25
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Five years ago, I took a leap of faith and joined Stanford General Surgery to start a new PSM/HIPEC program. So proud to see these new and future peritoneal surgeons advancing the field to cure appendix cancer. Grateful for all of the hours SUSurgeryResidency have given for shaking & baking!


Dr. Alan Dardik moves to new leadership role at Icahn Mount Sinai m.yale.edu/c3nd After 24 years Yale Surgery Yale Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy YaleVBTProgram Yale School of Medicine will move to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to build a program of surgical research. Grateful for my time @yale but much more to come!

Tomorrow at 12pm, we welcome Dr. Douglas Evans Medical College of Wisconsin as our #GrandRounds + #Schnog Lecturer presenting "Opportunities in the Multimodality Treatment of #PancreaticCancer." Join us for lunch or via Zoom bit.ly/4h8v3Eu. Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp



Reminder: Join us on Thursday at 6pm as Michael Cecchini moderates the next webinar in our Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers CME series on #colorectalcancer with Jacquelyne Gaddy, MD and Haddon Pantel. ➡️RSVP: bit.ly/4jRXby5 Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp Yale Surgery


We're attending the Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting this week in Florida! Surgeons + trainees from Smilow Cancer Hospital will be sharing presentations, and we look forward to seeing our colleagues in surgical oncology. #SSO25 ➡️ yalecancercenter.org/news-article/y… Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp Yale Surgery


Wonderful catching up with my co-fellows and old friends Society of Surgical Oncology #SSO2025 Moffitt Cancer Center Fox Chase Surgical Oncology Fox Chase Cancer Center American College of Surgeons ACS Cancer Programs Assoc4AcademicSurgery Mecker G Möller MD FACS MAMSE Vernon K Sondak MD


Research from Yale Surgical Residency Drs. Wendy Feng, Samuel Butensky, MD, Pathik Aravind, Leanne Brown, and David Su is being featured at #SSO2025 as ePosters. Congratulations! Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp Yale Surgery


.Elizabeth L. Godfrey shares pt & caregiver experiences following cytoreductive surgery #SSO2025 highlighting a need for more education. Survey respondents attributed treatment outcomes & quality of life to self-advocacy. Kiran Turaga Yale Surgery Yale Surgical Residency Smilow Cancer Hospital Society of Surgical Oncology


Really excited to finally get to share some of my work from the last two years! My thanks to contributors including at Appendix Cancer PMP Research Foundation PMP Pals Network COLONTOWN, collaborators Safraz Hamid, Samantha Linhares, and Jacki Moses, and my mentors Rachel Adams Greenup and Kiran Turaga

.Princy Gupta Yale Surgery highlights the prevalence of PIK3CA mutations in early onset appendix cancer and associated worse survival rates #SSO2025. Kiran Turaga Yale Surgery Society of Surgical Oncology Smilow Cancer Hospital


Celebrating research advances presented at #SSO2025 and future collaborations at our Yale Surgery reception at Society of Surgical Oncology. Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp


.Kelly Olino and Sajid Khan will be presenting this afternoon at #SSO2025 on #TILtherapy for #melanoma and a case discussion on colorectal liver metastases, respectively. s2.goeshow.com/sso/annual/202… Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp Yale Surgery Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers


New research by John Paul Shen & Mike Foote reveals that #appendixcancer is distinct from colorectal cancer, requiring different treatment approaches. Promising trials explore targeted therapies for better outcomes. Learn more: dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/appendix-ca…


🤠 👉🏽 🗽 news: I will be joining NYU Langone Health on September 1, 2025 as Director of the GI Cancer Center & Associate Director of Translational Research at Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. I am excited to start the next chapter of the Maitra Lab in NYC & build a strong GI cancer research program.
