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Ⓨ Ⓐ Ⓢ Ⓗ @yashshetty.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Dr. Fayanju’s insights on the rising rates of breast cancer in younger women are crucial for raising awareness and encouraging preventive measures. Thanks for highlighting this growing concern and shedding light on the factors at play
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This past weekend Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, was installed as the President of the Surgical Outcomes Club.  Congratulations @drlolafayanju.bsky.social
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This past Saturday, Thoracic Surgery had their Fall Outing at the Penn Park Picnic Grove. Great food! Great friends! Great time had by all! The weather couldn't have been any nicer. For more pics, please visit: instagram.com/pennsurgery
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yesterday was our biennial Faculty/House Staff photo that takes place after our yearly "State of the Department" in front of the John Morgan Building.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Congratulations to Mary Y. Wang, DNP, CRNP on her promotion to Associate Clinical Manager of Urology at PMWS 🎉🥳🎊👏
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We'd like to welcome (back) Jane Keating, MD, FACS this time as an Associate Professor of Surgery who will practice in all areas of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at HUP, PPMC, and PAH. For more on Dr Keating, please visit: instagram.com/pennsurgery
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Some outstanding work being done by members of our Housestaff🎉🥳🎉🥳
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
To promote secure storage of firearms, learn directly from owners what they are looking for in a lock: strong, tough, smooth to open, no glitches. bit.ly/4leb3IS
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We are proud to announce that Margaret Pichardo is a recipient of a 2025 Doctors Day Community Grant Award for her submission: “Characterizing Longitudinal Dietary Quality During Breast Cancer Treatment among Hispanic/Latina Women”.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
IT'S HERE!!! IT'S HERE!!! Hot off the press And it's a BIGGIE!! bit.ly/4fe5JOk
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Some of your favorite Penn Medicine and CHOP Department of Surgery Attending’s are proving that hard work and dedication pays off. Congratulations to all of you on your well-deserved promotion.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Bariatric Surgeon Maria AltierI MD discusses the various options for treating obesity, the role of the GLP-1 weight loss medications and surgery, and the mindset needed to be successful with weight-loss for the long term. bit.ly/44RI15p
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our Chief of breast surgery @drlolafayanju.bsky.social talks with @nbcnews.com about why we are seeing more and more young women diagnosed with breast cancer. www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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Celebrity breast cancer announcements highlight rising rates in young women
Breast cancer rates are rising faster in younger than older women. Doctors say multiple factors are likely to be at play, including lifestyle, hormones and environmental exposures.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Drs. Saad Farooq, Jerica Tidwell and Giorgos Karakousis published a contemporary review of the neoadjuvant therapy landscape in melanoma.
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Neoadjuvant Therapy in Melanoma: Current Evidence and Future Directions of Investigation - PubMed
Neoadjuvant therapy for advance-stage melanoma has had increasing momentum over the past decade owing to several landmark clinical trials. Neoadjuvant therapy has now been shown to confer multiple adv...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Drs Jack DePaolo, Scott Damraurer et al. recently published a novel method of using common variant genetics to improve our ability to predict which patients will develop an aortic dissection.
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Predicting Thoracic Aortic Dissection in a Diverse Biobank Using a Polygenic Risk Score:
Discover why JACC is the ultimate publishing partner for your cardiovascular research.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Last night we celebrated Pete Atherton who will be retiring as a full time Penn Medicine employee after 31+ years. For more pictures of this DOS legend, please visit: instagram.com/@pennsurgery
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Drs. Ariel Nehemiah, Erica Pettke, and Robert Krouse demonstrate the promise of using health coaching and physical activity to improve symptoms of low anterior resection syndrome and quality of life for survivors of rectal cancer.
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Pilot Feasibility Study of Physical Activity to Manage... : Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
ow anterior resection syndrome. DESIGN: Single-site, single-arm prospective pre–postintervention pilot feasibility study. SETTINGS: This study was conducted at a single academic institution via ...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In this Landmark Review, Drs Lily Owei and Heather Wachtel summarize the contemporary literature and guidelines and describe key principles in the evaluation and management of adrenal incidentalomas, a rising epidemic in the age of modern imaging.
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The Landmark Series: Evaluation and Management of Adrenal Incidentalomas - Annals of Surgical Oncology
Adrenal incidentalomas are adrenal masses ≥ 1 cm discovered on imaging studies for unrelated clinical conditions. The prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas has increased as a byproduct of the widesprea...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thank you Dr Julie K. Heimbach, The Mayo Clinic Director, William J von Liebig Transplant Center for giving this morning’s Division of Transplant Surgery D. Hayes Agnew Lecture. The full program is now available at: instagram.com/pennsurgery
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It’s Clinical Research Week at Penn. Our Division of Breast Surgery is currently raising awareness about clinical trial opportunities at Penn. More details can be found: www.pennmedicine.org/research-at-...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Congratulations to our Division of Trauma Program Manager Kristen Chreiman who was awarded Villanova University’s Louis Fitzpatrick College of Nursing Medallion; Distinguished Leadership in Nursing Practice Award.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
ICYMI: Last weekend our Division of Breast Surgery was represented by a team of accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons (#ASBrS2025).
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We will be represented by a team of accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons. We're encouraging everyone to visit the Poster & Oral Presentation Sessions to support faculty, trainees & students as they deliver impactful info on new & ongoing research projects.
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Lily Maguire @lilygolightly.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Could not be prouder of @pennsurgery.bsky.social resident Chris Neylan successfully defending his masters in translational research today 🤩
Chris defending
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In a review of neonatal aortic arch surgery literature, Michael A. Catalano, MD & colleagues identify & describe an alarming degree of variation in selecting antegrade cerebral perfusion practices, highlighting the need for further evaluation & optimization of techniques.
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Variation in Techniques of Selective Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion in Neonates Undergoing Aortic Arch Reconstruction: A Comprehensive Review
Despite the widespread adoption of selective antegrade cerebral perfusion (SACP) for neonatal aortic arch reconstruction, significant variability in techniques persists across institutions, thus refle...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
An interview with @drlolafayanju.bsky.social, Chief of Breast Surgery, explained how symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer show up in patients w/darker skin tones could help ensure more accurate diagnoses with increased medical education for primary care providers.
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Medical Education May Improve Care for Breast Cancer Minority Populations
Photographic and written documentation can help providers recognize inflammatory breast cancer symptoms across diverse populations.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.
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The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall... : Annals of Surgery
hip between rurality, proximity to care, TTS, and OS remains unknown. Methods: We identified females≥18 years with stage 0-III breast cancer diagnosed 2004-2019 who received upfront surgery in the ...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Last night Dr Peter Mattei was inducted into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians. Dr Mattei is Professor of Surgery, Attending Pediatric Surgeon in the Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   #PennMedicineAOMC
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congratulations to Dr BenjaminSmood for his prestigious Mend a Heart Foundation Award from The Children’s Heart Foundation. Dr. Smood is pursuing his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, which focuses on novel interventions to treat lymphatic failure in congenital heart disease. Excellent work!
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Atluri and his lab for their recent publication in #JTCVS Open focused on understanding the impact distances between donor and transplant centers have on post-transplant outcomes. bit.ly/4lvtyDN
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The effect of donor distance on post-transplant mortality in the modern era
In the new US heart transplant allocation system, eligible patients can receive hearts from donors beyond a 250-mile radius. The safety of extended tr…
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Lily Maguire @lilygolightly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🔥hot off the presses🔥 doubling the number of 🧬 loci for diverticulitis and shedding light on the basis of this diseases. Kudos to @pennsurgery.bsky.social resident first author Chris Neylan www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 126 novel loci for diverticular disease and implicates connective tissue and colonic motility
Diverticular disease is a common and morbid complex phenotype influenced by both innate and environmental risk factors. We performed the largest genome-wide association study meta-analysis for diverti...
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Julia Tchou, MD, PhD, Lola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, and Jennifer Q. Zhang, MD, are representing the Penn Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program at the 2025 SSO meeting in Tampa, FL #SSO2025 #SSOCommunity #SSO
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Excellent presentation by Dr Neha Shafique at the #SSO2025 Melanoma session presenting our institutional experience with single-dose neoadjuvant pembrolizumab. Congratulations!
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In the newest episode of the Penn Primary Care Podcast, Dr Kendall Williams speaks with Bariatric and GI Surgeon Dr Leslie Okorji, about the diagnosis and management of inguinal and abdominal hernias. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Hernia Diagnosis and Management
Podcast Episode · Penn Primary Care Podcast · 03/20/2025 · 1 sec
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Endocrine Surgery Section Chief Heather Wachtel presenting her excellent work on PARP-1 as a novel theranostic marker in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma for which she won the Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Investigator Award in 2023. #SSO2025
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dr Cara Berkowitz presenting work from @drlolafayanju.bsky.social Penn Breast Surgery lab at #SSO2025
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
SSO Ewing Lecturer Dr Susan Domchek at #SSO2025. @penncancer.bsky.social
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
President of The Society of Surgical Oncology AND our Chairman Dr Ron DeMatteo giving his first keynote 😉 at the #SSO2025 Pre-meeting Surgical Clinical Trials Primer Course.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are so excited to have Dr. Syndey Chambule join the Penn Urology family!
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University of Pennsylvania student inspired to be urologist is closer to becoming a doctor on Match Day 2025
On the third Friday in March, medical students around the country learned where they will be going for their residency programs.
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pennsurgery.bsky.social @pennsurgery.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jennifer Zhang, MD has been named a recipient for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation Young Investigator Awards Program. These early-career investigators from NCCN Member Institutions represent tomorrow's leaders for advancing cancer care. CONGRATULATIONS!!
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