Literally me

Chef’s kiss 🤌🏻

I would probably not match into general surgery in the current environment as I had a single middle author paper when I applied. But I could evaluate patients, cut, tie, sew, and handle tissue reasonably well as a PGY1. Clinical excellence should be prioritized. Papers can wait.

One for the ages. If this photo doesn’t give you the tingles I don’t know what to say. #Kamala

This is absolutely ridiculous. What does this prove? We already have enough metrics to gauge applicant strengths……Talking To you Neurosurgery!!

Syed A. Ahmad The publication arms race in surgical applicants is really frustrating. It is the one part of an application which I don't even bother to look at.

Applicants take note. 👇🏼👇🏼

Syed A. Ahmad There’s much more to this and would form the basis for a decent conference debate (beats drain vs no drain). I like to think it doesn’t matter. But, rightly or wrongly, it still does at multiple career levels

Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD Syed A. Ahmad Completely agree. For example, look at the metrics at most institutions for “academic productivity incentive“. It is strictly based on quantity, rather than quality, at most institutions. To some degree, same for academic promotion (hopefully quality factored more here though)

I rarely do this but our friend Yewande Alimi MD needs a show of support! Her son was Temitayo, a 2 yo and was diagnosed with AML. This brave boy has started chemo but any donation will help them navigate the road ahead! Assoc4AcademicSurgery Society of Black Academic Surgeons gofund.me/8d932c24

Accurate 😂

Behold a pictorial representation of postoperative recovery after GI (any?) surgery. Eric Pauli Syed A. Ahmad SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025! Flavio G Rocha, MD, FACS, FSSO Zhi Ven Fong, MD MPH DrPH Shiva Jayaraman Julie Hallet Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD Society of Surgical Oncology Ron Barbosa MD FACS

In Press: DNA Mismatch Repair Deficiency as a #Biomarker in #Sarcoma Ryan Denu, MD, PhD Sintawat Wangsiricharoen Ravin Ratan Christina Roland, MD, MS ow.ly/4Nyj50T6EMK Flavio G Rocha, MD, FACS, FSSO Michael Cavnar Julie Hallet @SKMaithel Juliet S Lumati (Okoroh) MD MPH Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS Aradhya Nigam, MD

Probably a sign that we should just be doing fewer Whipples and discovering better drugs. Coming soon: “I do my Whipples robotically and remotely in awake patients in low Earth orbit.” Syed A. Ahmad Jeff Matthews MD Jash Datta, MD Shiva Jayaraman Julie Hallet Melissa Hogg SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025!

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

When I promise Jennifer Miller-Ocuin, MD we are going to Dublin to see Oasis, we are going to Dublin to see Oasis 😍😍😍🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸 How it started. How it went.

Few things are cooler than Blue Angels at Cleveland Air Show #CLEAirshow2024 Jennifer Miller-Ocuin, MD

#HCC #livertwitter #MedEd 🚀Racial, ethnic, and #socioeconomic differences in hepatocellular carcinoma across the United States 💥Team: Timothy M. Pawlik, The Ohio State University, USA. 🌞More: f.oaes.cc/xmlpdf/f21797f…

September Issue: Enhancing the National Cancer Database content using natural language processing and #ElectronicHealthRecord data Christina M Stuart, MD Robert Meguid Richard Schulick, MD Katie Colborn, PhD, MSPH ow.ly/U0xV50Teb1h Flavio G Rocha, MD, FACS, FSSO @SKMaithel Juliet S Lumati (Okoroh) MD MPH Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS

This is probably a good day to remind people that trying to do M&M conference on an actual (and recent) case, using what is very clearly PHI that has been leaked to the internet, is NOT a good idea. Recall the wisdom of Cube, I et al (1992);