Congratulations to Professor Derek Alderson, CBE. Well deserved, canny lad.

We received huge amount of applications for our editorial assistant post from very talented young academic surgeons! Welcome new BJS BJS Open Editorial Assistants Pat Tejedor Michael Boland Philip C. Müller! Looking forward to work with all of you.

New 2022 Impact Factors are out! JAMA Surgery 16.9 BJS 9.6 Annals of Surgery 9.0 Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) 5.2 SURGERY Journal 3.8 BJS Open 3.1 Surgical Endoscopy 3.1 @HPBjournal 2.9 World Journal of Surgery 2.6 Scandinavian Journal of Surgery 2.4 Hernia Journal 2.3

Landmark recognition in The Lancet of breadth & quality of surgical research Future milestones 1⃣Ensure global inequalities in access to surgery 2⃣Ensure surgical research is diverse + inclusive 3⃣Address environmental impact of surgery Jessamy Bagenal BSc, MBBS, MRCS, MPH, FRSPH 🖌🗣🌕 thelancet.com/journals/lance…

During a intraoperative anastomotic assessment in TaTME for rectal cancer, which one would you consider the most important/best test exclude problems with the anastomosis: #polltime #colorectalsurgery #StepUp4CRC Ville Sallinen Giovanni Marchegiani Katy Frank McDermott

Implementation of a quadruple intraoperative anastomotic assessment (4-Check) during transanal TME for rectal cancer consisting of: 1)🟢🔬 indocyanine green-evaluation of colonic stump 2) 🟢🔬indocyanine green-evaluation of intraluminal anastomosis perfusion 3) 🫧everse air

The consensus definition of sarcopenia 💪💪💪 was recently updated to emphasize both low muscle strength and mass. Based on this definition, sarcopenic patients had higher postoperative complication rates, higher mortality in hospital and to 3 months, and poorer overall survival

Dear European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) @EYSAC community EYSAC networking event during #ESSO42 congress will be held in Florence the 25th Oct 👉Ditta Artigianale & Hario Cafè Sant'Ambrogio All young surgeons are invited to join us! 👇 register here at esso42.org European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) Andreas Brandl

And yes, being an editor is a privilege and a wonderful job 🙂

Super performance of the #Gemelli surgeons at the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) #ESSO42 Congress.Great presentations in multiple sessions! And 👏 @Lorenzo Scardina for winning the Dragon's Den! @Ilaria Neri Annamaria Agnes @Alba Di Leone Flavio Tirelli @Andrea Di Giorgio Domenico D'Ugo @Ersilia Biondi

Having a great #BJS time with Laura Lorenzon Bas and Paulina Salminen BJS Open BJS BJS Academy #SoMe4Surgery

Hi #SoMe4Surgery. We're on a mission to get BJS Open to the big 10K followers mark! 🎉 Join us in this amazing journey and let's make it happen together. Tag a friend, spread the word, and don't forget to follow BJS Open for awesome content! 🚀 💪 #RoadTo10K #CommunityPower

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🔎Have a look at our Editors Laura Lorenzon Frank McDermott choices of colorectal surgery articles in BJS Open in 2023!! ➡️doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1⃣MRI to assess the sigmoid take off and define sigmoid compared to rectal cancers: ➡️doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… 2⃣ Human gene

Proud to receive so much attention for our research article. doi.org/10.1093/bjsope… Roberto Persiani Flavio Tirelli Laura Lorenzon Ilaria Neri, Gloria Santoro BJS Open Ville Sallinen

Ville Sallinen redactor in chief BJS Open report on his activity. Here what he calls the shadow sister BJS open team 👍🏻👍🏻BJS Academy

Editor assistant Pat Tejedor presenting! BJS Academy BJS BJS Open SEIQ

Receipt for professional networking and collaboration 1. Go to Helsinki 2. Take a sunny day 3. Invite the best surgical scientists around 4. Make it a BJS Open BJS BJS Academy experience!