
Sammy Halpern
@sehalpern5
General Surgery Resident @MGHSurgery | Alum @DukeMedSchool @CRTP_DukeSOM via @JohnsHopkins @UniofOxford | Aspiring 🫁 transplant surgeon | she/her
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23-02-2016 18:12:08
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#1 lesson of the month: Sammy never holds the trauma pager 🙃 This month showed that having a great team makes coming to work fun every day. All thanks to Emily Witt, MD MSc & I E McElroy MD, MPH: @iemcelroymd.bsky.social for equal parts laughs & learning #SorryWhat #WeAreChurchill

October Churchill interns signing off! 👻🎃 Had the best month with this crew featuring reps from Mass General Surgery Emily Witt, MD MSc Maggie Leech, MD & MGH Neurosurgery harvardortho #WeAreChurchill


Planned intraop #VAECMO for #lungtransplant was associated with higher odds of #TextbookOutcome than planned off-pump support. ⏫#VAECMO use may improve outcomes for patients w/o #PulmonaryHTN. Sammy Halpern Gabrielle Madsen, MD 🏹🩺👑 Brandi Bottiger Matthew Hartwig 🔗: bit.ly/3NXmRKj


Superior long-term overall survival after lung transplant was found in European patients compared to their North American counterparts in this #ISHLT study. WashU Medicine Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery WashU Medicine Department of Surgery Zhizhou "Jason" Yang 🔗:jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…


Couldn’t agree more w my good friend Dr. Witt. Immensely grateful for all the people who have come into my life here Mass General Surgery including these co-terns & many others who are not pictured. Good luck to everyone matching tomorrow!



Congratulations to graduating surgical resident, Taylor Coe, and all that she has accomplished at #MGHsurgery! As her next step, she will be pursuing fellowship training in abdominal transplant and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery at the University of Toronto.








Excited to share our review on the new lung allocation system! Thanks to Matthew Hartwig for the opportunity to write this one. Implications of the Composite Allocation Score System for Lung Transplantation in the United States semthorcardiovascsurg.com/article/S1043-…

Concerns have been raised that TA-NRP may damage DCD lungs. Here, we used national data and risk-adjusted models from the SRTR to show that TA-NRP is not associated with lower rates of adjusted lung utilization compared to direct recovery. Duke Ex Vivo Organ Lab Arya Pontula Sammy Halpern

Excited to see this work out on #LungAOOS in JAMA Surgery! Grateful for collaboration between mentors old & new Mass General Surgery & Duke Surgery Isaac Alderete Matthew Hartwig Asishana Osho, MD, MPH 🫁