Congratulations to our General Surgery Chief Residents! Our faculty staff and trainees wish you all huge success as you take the next step in your careers. We couldn’t be more proud to have spent the last five years learning and growing together! #success #proud

Normally we wear scrubs and masks but I’d say we clean up pretty well! UofAZ Surgery Residents University of Arizona Department of Surgery We awarded the Debbie Boggs Award to Sandy one of our scrub techs. She’s one of the essential members of the team who has seen us grow from struggling interns to bad ass chiefs.

What a journey! From lap choles in bunny suits to working with an enthusiastic team of students and APPs, I had a great time on trauma as my last rotation of residency UA Trauma University of Arizona Department of Surgery University of Arizona Department of Surgery #ILookLikeaSurgeon

Awesome to teach LCBDE to next generation of MIS surgeons at SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! Fellows Flex Endo course. Current fellows have had so much more experience w LCBDE during residency compared w when I taught these 6 years ago. I think LCBDE utilization is on the rise!!! Ryan M Juza

Great job working together at the SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! MIS fellows course first team building competition. Congratulations to the winners who built the tallest tower!!!

This was a great course and I learned a lot! Grateful to have had the opportunity to attend University of Arizona Department of Surgery

Looking forward to sharing our work— abstract was accepted by SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! for podium presentation at sages2024.org #SAGES2024 See you in Cleveland 🙌 University of Arizona Department of Surgery Iman Ghaderi, MD, MSc, MHPE

SSAT APP Spotlight for December: Chelsea Wozniak

🙌 @SarahSohail89 UofAZ Surgery Residents University of Arizona Department of Surgery

Super proud of Daniel and Christie! ❤️

Great talk this morning from Dr Sridhar University of Arizona Department of Surgery on surgical education of robotic surgery 🤖

Happy to say that I’m now a board certified general surgeon 🙌 There are many people I have to thank for helping me this far and I can’t wait to see what the future holds University of Arizona Department of Surgery Iman Ghaderi, MD, MSc, MHPE Val Nfonsam Taylor Riall Brian Coates Lilah Morris-Wiseman, MD

Great session on how to handle imperfect scenarios in bariatric surgery at SAGES! #sages2024

I had fun today presenting at the foregut session this morning… plus we had some of the nicest moderators #SAGES2024 University of Arizona Department of Surgery

Grateful to present our work at #asmbs2024 Robotic surgery is a safe option for pre-frail and frail patients. We should work to recognize frailty status preop.

Fellows table at the #ASMBS2024 TREO Foundation Gala! So inspiring. #goals

Hot off the press! Proud to present my collaboration with University of Arizona Family Med Residency—Tucson Dr Weiss, Stephanie G Worrell, MD FACS Iman Ghaderi, MD, MSc, MHPE on improving written patient material for foregut surgery University of Arizona Department of Surgery SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! link.springer.com/10.1007/s00464…

A year flies by quickly.. Finished minimally invasive surgery fellowship today! 🙌 University of Arizona Department of Surgery Iman Ghaderi, MD, MSc, MHPE Fellowship Council

Our MIS/bariatric surgery retreat.What a strong team! We celebrated Michelle Chang MD successful completion of her MIS fellowship, arrival of new fellow Nicholas Jonas.We are pleased to have Dr. Jeffrey Hodges joining the team University of Arizona Department of Surgery Banner University Bellal Joseph Fellowship Council