Thrilled to be welcoming Indiana hospitals to our longstanding Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC)! Love keeping our Illinois partner hospitals together. Anthony Yang Ryan Merkow, MD, MS

Proud of K Brooke Golisch, MD MS for her great presentation explaining the results of our ISQIC post-discharge VTE chemoprophylaxis QI project. In brief: improvement at the patient level but mixed results at the hospital level. Need to focus on low performers!

Another nice study from recent SOQIC research fellow, Casey Silver! Our fellows get to collaborate with some amazing surgeons from a variety of institutions around the country, leading to long-term relationships. We are grateful!

Dr. Brian Gray, a 1998 Carmel High School graduate, and Bruce Wolf, a 1975 grad, are set to become the newest members of the Carmel High School Alumni Hall of Fame. An induction ceremony is set for 7 p.m. April 18 at the CHS Dale E. Graham Auditorium. youarecurrent.com/2024/04/11/car…

Celebrating another productive ISQIC Advisory Committee meeting to discuss our next project! Proudly partnering with 50 hospitals and counting, dedicated to elevating the standard of surgical care in IL & IN. It's not too late to join - email [email protected] for details.

Touchdown 🏈! $1.5 million was raised for cancer research at the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center tonight during the 12th #CHUCKSTRONG Tailgate Gala. Thank you, Indianapolis Colts and Chuck Pagano, for your continued support and for everyone who joined us for this incredible night.

Team IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery Surgical Oncology was in the house for this great event to support cancer research - #CHUCKSTRONG with former Indianapolis Colts coach, Chuck Pagano. $1.5M tonight! Enjoyed chatting with the amazing Andrew Luck. Perfect event - great work by IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center development team!

Dozens of Indiana hospitals are joining our Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC), so we are the same collaborative but just changed “Illinois” to “Illiana” to represent both states! Good showing at annual Indiana ACS Chapter meeting today. American College of Surgeons

American College of Surgeons Karl Bilimoria Anthony Yang IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery UChicago Surgery Rush Department of Surgery Loyola Surgery Thank you American College of Surgeons for your decade long support and partnership with ISQIC!! Excited for the next 10 as we expand from 1 to 2 states!

We had a fantastic grand round with visiting professor Dorry Segev. He shared several insights into research, and we can't thank him enough for coming by. FYI, he's also a pretty great photographer! #IUSurgery #IUSurgeryVisitingProfessor #IUSurgeryGrandRounds #IUSOQIC

There’s still time to join dozens of Illinois and Indiana hospitals in our mission to improve surgical care! Whether you're planning to apply or just learned about us, there's no better time to join our community - email [email protected] for more info. Ryan Merkow, MD, MS Anthony Yang

👏Congratulations to #IUSurgery's very own Jennifer Choi on becoming President of APDS surgery! ⭐️We are so proud to see our faculty leading national organizations as they continue to pave the way for surgical education, training and innovation on a national scale.

⭐️Coming Soon to #IUSurgery and SOQIC! Help us welcome: ➡️Emma Holler, PhD, MPH 🔬Dr. Holler’s research interests lie in health outcomes and unraveling causal relationships within complex healthcare systems. We can't wait for you to join us! #IUSurgeryResearch

Team SOQIC’s spring retreat brought together our group of >50 faculty, fellows, & staff to focus on our major research programs (e.g., ISQIC, The Surgical Education Numbered Trials (SENT)), works in progress, grant development, trainee mentoring, writing workshops, socializing, & more! IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery

Year 13 of the annual SOQIC BBQ for our research team! Beautiful day and loved seeing everyone together. Great fun to have some of the Chicago folks come down and hang with our Indy team. (Always forget to take enough pics) IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery SOQIC Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Outstanding quality improvement projects presented last night at the IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery Surgery QI Leaders Program cohort 1 midterm presentations. Thank you to the Quality Council members for your feedback, suggestions, and support! Anthony Yang Karl Bilimoria

Very proud of our 1st IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery #QI Leaders Program cohort. Progress on 8 impactful QI projects improving patient IU Health & Eskenazi Health were presented to IU Health Team leaders last night. Great feedback, advice, & leadership support! Karl Bilimoria Dennis Murphy

Great time hanging with my good friend Anthony Yang at #ACSQSC24 representing ISQIC. Ran into SOQIC alumni Mike Wandling and many other old friends and quality colleagues. Excited to share our next ISQIC projects later this month!!

📢We're excited to announce Carla Fisher, MD, MBA as the inaugural Chief of the Division of Breast Surgery--our newest division in the Department of Surgery! ⚕️As Division Chief, Dr. Fisher’s main goal is to support the faculty and staff that have allowed breast surgery to grow,

It is never too early to start planning the FOURTH Trial! Long way to go but very excited about where we are heading! SOQIC IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery Dimitrios Stefanidis Amy Holmstrom Anthony Yang Meghan Lark, MD Mohanty is not on Twitter…