It was an honour for us to host AmarGuptaMD in Vancouver. He gave a phenomenal grand rounds and met with surgical fellows across several specialities helping how to navigate through early surgical careers. See you at AHPBA in Miami! Peter Kim GrazianOldani UBC General Surgery

Another great #AHPBA conference. Thank you to all of our UBC General Surgery residents and fellows for all of their excellent contributions to HPB research and clinical work. Peter Kim Richard Gilbert

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Gilbert, our 2nd year AHPBA fellow on recently completing his 100th liver transplant at University of British Columbia ! Thomas Haas cake for the win! Richard Gilbert Peter Kim GrazianOldani UBC General Surgery AHPBA E-AHPBA

Concerned that organ donation conflicts with your religious beliefs? Most major religions see it as an act of love and charity. If you're unsure, speak with a spiritual or religious advisor to understand how donating organs can align with compassionate values. #MythBusters

Congratulations to Richard Gilbert for completing his HPB VGH fellowship UBC General Surgery. It was an honour and privilege working with you. We are gonna miss yah! Cheers to a new chapter and future success in Ottawa AHPBA GrazianOldani Peter Kim

We are tremendously excited to match Dr. Nicola Colucci to the @ubc VGH HPB fellowship. Welcome and see you soon! GrazianOldani Peter Kim UBC General Surgery @ahpba E-AHPBA

Thank you to everyone at VGH and UBC General Surgery for a great two years. It has been a privilege to learn from everyone and take care of so many patients. Couldn’t have asked for a better HPB/Transplant Fellowship Experience! AHPBA #HPB Excited to head back to uOttawaGenSurg 🚀

👩‍🚀 Houston: we have a problem! 🪐 🚨 The ISGPS definitions of complications suffer for significant interobserver variability 🙉 13 centers - 68% agreement 🙈 🏥 Within centers increase to 84% 💡Efforts / new tools needed! 👉journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Thanks to all the amazing patients, surgeons, and researchers who made this trial possible. TXA did not reduce bleeding or blood transfusion but increased periop complications after liver resection. ⁦JAMA⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

🏔️ A new milestone has been reached! 🔵 Out now in The Lancet Transmet Trial 💥 Liver Transplantation + chemotherapy superior to chemo alone in permanently unresectable CRLM 📈 5-year overall survival 56·6% vs. 12.6% A new era has begun?! 🧐 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💉✅First-line IO-based treatments in advanced HCC 👇 ESMO - Eur. Oncology #ESMO24 Liver Cancer Connect #cancer #oncology #MedX

Staging laparoscopy is important to diagnose pancreatic cancer(PC) 🇯🇵36 out of 430 PC had positive cytology(8.4%) 🤔What are the risk factors for positive cytology? 📏Scoring system to predict positive cytology in patients w R/BR PC has been reported! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jh…

frontierspartnerships.org/journals/trans… Excited to share the 20 year experience on managing duodenal leaks after PTx at Toronto general hospital: Graft salvage vs pancreatectomy

Dr. Andrea MacNeill is an international thought leader and Vancouver Coastal Health's leading researcher and change-maker for planetary health. 🌍 Read her tips for creating a more sustainable world this #EnvironmentalPublicHealthWeek: bit.ly/47CAxEb

Pathological response following neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors in HCC: a cross-trial, patient-level analysis The Lancet Oncology doi.org/10.1016/S1470-… 👉111 pts, 1.4 mo neoadj. 💊 👉MPR: 32%, PCR 18% 👉Best threshold 90% 🧐Neoadj ICI is the way to go ILCA EASL Education

It was a honour and privilege hosting ⁦Ching-Wei D. Tzeng⁩ at VGH, ⁦University of British Columbia⁩ ⁦UBC General Surgery⁩ for our Provincial General Surgery Grand Rounds. It was an inspiring talk about Pancreas ERAS pathways and a phenomenal 2 days with ⁦Ching-Wei D. Tzeng⁩. ⁦AHPBA⁩ ⁦

🔥off the press: The use of immunotherapy pre-liver transplant Journal of Hepatology authors.elsevier.com/c/1kNgCcOnAUhMK 👉Hepatology Snapshot 👉Our thoughts on the use of ICI before liver transplant in HCC 👉Food for thoughts.. ESMO - Eur. Oncology EASL Education ILCA #livertwitter

For those who love surgical instruments and liver transplant, check out our new paper in BJS: Vena cava and hepatic vein clamping during orthotopic liver transplantation: instrumentation and technical approaches AHPBA ASTS TVASurg doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn…

Important #GIonc trial in nature #DYNAMIC trial 5 year data #ctDNA 🩸🧬 in #crcsm adjuvant 💉 5-year non-inferior #RFS (88% vs 87%) and OS (93.8% vs 93.3%). #T4 tumors had comparable outcomes. 🔗: nature.com/articles/s4159… Jeanne Tie Pashtoon Kasi MD, MS OncoAlert🚨 #OncoAlertAF

It is with deep sadness that the we mourn the sudden loss of our co-founder, past-president, mentor, colleague and friend Dr. Sean Cleary. A gifted surgeon and passionate advocate for the HPB community, his impact and friendship touched us all. Our hearts are with his family 💐