Congratulations to Dr. Ronda Henry-Tillman, Professor and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery, on her election as First Vice President of the Southern Surgical Association (SSA). Read more at the link. medicine.uams.edu/surgery/surgic…

Entrustable professional activities seek to evaluate clinical competencies Great discussion of #simulation education - can we design & deliver this aligned with #EPA phases? #SurgerySimSeries SURGERY Journal Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP Maggie Jones-Carr, MD surgjournal.com/article/S0039-…

Congratulations to our health policy and advocacy research winners! 1. Alexandra Hernandez 2. Anna White 3. Alizeh Abbas #ACSLAS25 Rachael Essig, MD Michael Sutherland American College of Surgeons

Dr. Kerby is on the Hill to talk about PAHPA and MISSION ZERO reauthorization. #ACSLAS25

Thank you to Coach Tommy Tuberville’s office for meeting with Team Alabama this morning to talk about cancer funding, student loan deferment, and PAHPA reauthorization! #ACSLAS25

This week for #ThrowbackThursday, TL1 postdoctoral trainee Dr. Maggie Jones-Carr interviews her mentor, Robert Cannon, MD! Dr. Cannon is an Associate Professor in the Division of Transplantation at UAB, specializing in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.

Busy weekend at UAB Surgery with liver transplants! Sergio Acuna, MD, PhD UAB UAB Medicine TransMedics

🔬 KUH PRIME postdoc trainee Dr. Maggie Jones-Carr offers an inside look at Dr. Robert Cannon’s lab through a series of interviews.🎙️In this feature, she sits down with Dr. Sergio Acuna Mancilla, a Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon and Health Services Researcher.

Surgical patients face higher food insecurity than nonsurgical ones, indicating a need for targeted interventions such as SNAP enrollment and food insecurity screening. ja.ma/4jX6GLq

Geographic variation in utilization of deceased donor livers in the United States in the era of advanced perfusion journals.lww.com/lt/abstract/99…

Our new study finds that some regions still discard more donor livers than others—even after policy changes. But advanced perfusion is helping more livers get used and reducing high-discard areas. UAB Surgery Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal) ➡️ journals.lww.com/lt/abstract/99… #LiverTransplant #NMP #NRP

Hear me out: Get rid of the wellness modules — instead: once a year, the inflatable jousting cage comes out. You’re sent in with people randomly selected from the services you interact with, and finally get a chance to “thank them for this interesting consult”.

🔎 geographic diff in utilization by donor quality, policy era, & advanced perfusion 📍Retrospective cohort 2010- 2024 Advanced perfusion -> ✅ utilization of otherwise marginal liver ✅📉 geographic imbalances in discard #livertwitter Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal) journals.lww.com/lt/abstract/99…

Transplant team representation at the World Transplant Congress UAB Surgery UAB Medicine @WTC2025

Catch the poster this afternoon at #WTC2025! Poster P2.08.104 UAB Surgery Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal) Sergio Acuna, MD, PhD Umaid Rabbani

Another amazing year for Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice - AST & its amazing workgroups, EC, its chair Neeraj Singh, its members and all the group leaders! 🙏🐴💪🏽😍🎉🎊🥳 #WTC2025

Thank you, Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice - AST!!!

Great week at the #WTC2025 Witnessed some ground breaking work from our transplant science colleagues from around the world. Grateful for all the connections, and learning. Congratulations to Maggie Jones-Carr, MD for presenting her work from UAB UAB Surgery UAB Medicine ASTS

🔥 Shoutout to Joy E. Obayemi Joy Obayemi, MD MS of University of Michigan/Northwestern University Michigan Surgery + Northwestern — the 2025 #AASLDFoundation Hugo Ramon Rosen #EmergingLiverScholar! #LiverTwitter bit.ly/41cL7Qk

Living kidney donors have a lower risk of incisional hernia when a Pfannenstiel incision is used instead of midline. #AskYourTransplantCenter Mayo Clinic Pooja budhiraja Paul Andrews MD Julie Heimbach Shennen Mao, MD Michelle C. Nguyen MD, MPH