Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Hallet, MD MSc @halletjulie.bsky.social · 13/12/2024End of year content continues!🎊 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ HPB Wrapped by SSO with Cecilia Ethun & Sajid Khan Top 10 studies🌟 - in this episode 🔟AMPLIFY 9⃣Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-PDAC 8⃣HELIX 7⃣CAMINO 6⃣PANDAS Which one had the most impact #HPBSky? 🎧 tinyurl.com/5c5yj5ye #SurgSky #MedSky #OncSky 073
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSMarc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Does the impact of pancreatic fistula (POPF) differ between minimally invasive (MIPD) vs open (OPD) #Whipple? In pts with POPF after MIPD: ⬆️ sec complications ⚠️ ⬆️ hemorrhage 🩸 ⬆️ hospital stay 🏥 ⬆️ reoperations 🔪 @carobruna.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social ▶️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas… 1123
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Hallet, MD MSc @halletjulie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Liver embolization for #NETs metastases: bland or chemo? ⬆️PFS for TACE vs TAE (after PSM) Same complications ⚠️Selection bias... ⏭️RETNET RCT should answer this once and for all - 👀 out for results 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ihpba.bsky.social 🗞️ #NETsSky #MedSky #SurgSkysciencedirect.comTrans-arterial embolization versus chemoembolization for neuroendocrine liver metastases: a propensity matched analysisLocoregional therapies are a mainstay of treatment for patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases (NELM), yet the optimal transarterial approach re… 062
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024We’ve been through a lot in the past year but kept the faith, kept the focus, and came out the other side harder, better, faster, stronger, and wiser. More to be thankful for than can be put into words and looking forward to some amazing adventures. 💎⬆️💨💪🏼🧙🏼♂️😍 🦃 070
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSThor Halfdanarson @oncothor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024If you do not already know this, Radio France FIP is the best radio station in the universe. An eclectic mix of music and at best, I know every tenth song. Can't imagine my admin/research days at work without FIP. Expand your musical mind - check FIP out! www.radiofrance.fr/fipradiofrance.frFIP – Écouter la radio en direct et les radios thématiquesTout l'univers musical de FIP, sélection de titres Jazz, Electro, Rock, Pop, Groove et bien plus. Écoutez la radio en direct et les radios thématiques. 181
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSGiovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · 27/11/2024🐳 Reoperation for pancreatic fistula on @ihpba.bsky.social journal 🤜🤛 Completion pancreatectomy or pancreas-preserving procedures ?! 💦 Drainage / wirsungostomy 44% vs. Completion panc 37% 😱 Mortality as high as 67%! 👀 What is your policy? 🆓 paper 👉 www.hpbonline.org/article/S136... #HPBSky 2189
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Hallet, MD MSc @halletjulie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024More and more people joining @bsky.app For all those interested in HPB surgery - here is a starter pack of people and organizations in that field #HPBSky #SurgSky #MedSky Let me know of others to add! go.bsky.app/KyNk7sx 182
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSMarc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · 26/11/2024@eahpba.bsky.social now also on BlueSky 👍👍 042
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSyed A Ahmad, MD @syedaahmad5.bsky.social · 24/11/2024First-Line Systemic Treatment for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases Post Hoc Analysis of the CAIRO5 Randomized Clinical Trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comFirst-Line Systemic Treatment for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver MetastasesThis randomized clinical trial examines different treatments for patients with unresectable colorectal cancer with liver-only metastases. 153
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSyed A Ahmad, MD @syedaahmad5.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Survival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer Diagnosis jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comSurvival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer DiagnosisThis cohort study evaluates the survival outcomes of currently smoking patients with cancer who entered into a smoking cessation treatment program based on the time between diagnosis and program entry... 042
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSTom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Just the intellectually curious exploring the world around us. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” - William Arthur Ward Early days. Thank you #MedSky #SurgSky 🙏🏾 4315
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Hallet, MD MSc @halletjulie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024For next time a patient with new cancer diagnosis asks "what can I do?" Finally some evidence to answer: 🛑Stop smoking ⤴️median OS by 1.8 yrs with cessation within 6 months Love data that can change what we do immediately in clinic! 😀 tinyurl.com/etwcd4yv #MedSky #SurgSky #HPBSky 02710
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJennifer F Tseng, MD MPH @tsengjennifer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024My friend, I am currently writing an update of “Simone’s Maxims” and I may cite you 131
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSAGES @sages.org · 24/11/2024Unsolicited career advice: Be humble enough to know you are replaceable. Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade. 513223
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024“Hey Siri, make me smile…” Siri: 😍😍😍 000
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSyed A Ahmad, MD @syedaahmad5.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Cancer recurrence and survival among patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment and surgery for esophageal cancer: A single-institution 10-year experience www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...surgjournal.comCancer recurrence and survival among patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment and surgery for esophageal cancer: A single-institution 10-year experienceStandard of care for locally advanced esophageal cancer is neoadjuvant therapy followed by surgical resection. The objective of this study is to explore perioperative factors associated with recurrenc... 032
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSMarc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · 23/11/2024How common is recurr cholangitis after Whipple/HJ without HJ-stenosis (NSC)? Treatment? 🔑 4.2% of 1179 pts with HJ developed NSC 🔑 'step-up approach' = resolution of NSC in 15pts (30%) and reduction of NSC in additional 21pts (42%). 🔑 ✅ UDCA +stopping PPI ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 0122
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024On this #WorldPancreaticCancerDay, I wish my mom a happy heavenly birthday. She would have been 77 years old today if not for this terrible disease. I will continue to fight for her and all of my patients. We must do better. 💜 1211
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSGiovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024🔵 ISGPS papers you should know 1️⃣ Easy and reliable stratification of risk classes of POPF based on 🧈 pancreas texture 📏 duct size #HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg... 041
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSGiovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024🔵 ISGPS papers you should know 2️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying after pancreatic surgery DGE represents the inability to return to a standard diet 🍕 by the end of the first postoperative week 🐘 #HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky www.surgjournal.com/article/S003... 171
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSTom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Degrees are great if you use the skill sets. Otherwise they’re fancy certificates that hang on walls. 031
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJoe Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA @josephsakran.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Here is my first attempt at creating a Starter Pack — The House of Surgery! Looking forward to having folks adding other Surgeons that have joined #BlueSky! 124414
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSAndrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Effective leaders need core competencies and experience (e.g. funds flow, managing PnLs, fund raising, managing conflict, recruiting).... if someone had an example demonstrating their ability in those domains, I'd be way more interested than someone with an additional degree. 293
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 as always, important work from @marcbesselink.bsky.social and colleagues. 020
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSErika Hamilton MD, FASCO @erikahamilton9.bsky.social · 19/11/2024#Oncologysky did you already vote once this month? Please make it twice and vote ✍️ 🗳️ in the #ASCO election if you are a member of ASCO!!! I'm lucky enough to be on the ballot 🗳️ this year for an undesignated spot on the Nomination Committee. society.asco.org/about-asco/a... Vote here ⬆️! 0236
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSHoward Crawford @hccvpdac.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I appreciate everyone helping to rebuild my cohort of followers! I’d like to follow you back, but I won’t do that if your profile is blank and I don’t know you. I’m sure I’m not the only one who adheres to this rule, so please a little information about yourself? 2231
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJennifer F Tseng, MD MPH @tsengjennifer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024 (October 31 2024 Throwback pic) See Spot Run So Much Fun! 021
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Ann Sosa, MD MA @jasosamd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Mondays can be a little grim, especially when you’re editing a manuscript on vacation (like today). Sigh. And smile! #MedSky #SurgSky #MedEdSky #AcademicSky #StatsSky 1144
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSRichard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 19/11/2024We just hit a huge milestone! @medsky.social now has over 1000 unique labeled users! To the 1000 of you who've subscribed and have your specialty label, thank you for joining us! 1218023
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJash Datta, MD @drjashdatta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hello Sky! Transitioning to this platform to interact & connect over cancer surgery, medicine, science, trials, and R&D. Also to move away from a feeling of abject despair I’ve been going through for the last week- wonder why? 061
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSTom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024This 👇🏾. #Leadership #MedSky #SurgSky 0185
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSAndrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social · 16/11/2024When interviewing candidates for a leadership role, I learn so much from two questions: 1. What have you built? 2. Who have you developed? Most who got that far have a lot to say on #1, but the best candidates pull away on #2. 5389
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSDrEmamaullee @dremamaullee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Last day of #TLM24 for me—excited to share our #PALF data from #ChildrensLA @liver4kids.bsky.social 092
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024More from Maxwell on leadership 🧐… “Trust is the foundation of leadership. Leaders cannot repeatedly break trust with people and continue to influence them.” “Everything rises when leaders demonstrate competence and good values and falls when leaders demonstrate incompetence and poor values.” 020
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSGiovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Our team made it to Lyon 🇫🇷 for the annual #HPB surgical meeting hosted by Prof Adham Great presentation of our resident Riccardo Pellegrini on how to integrate transplant surgery skills with pancreas surgery 😷🪡🔥 021
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSAGES @sages.org · 18/11/2024By these measures, SAGES has had excellent leadership for more than a decade now... 151
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024From Maxwell’s 21 rules, The Law of Respect: “One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. The second thing you should do is see how your people respond when you ask them for commitment or change.” 061
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSKasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024@thineskrishna.bsky.social welcome here! if you can suggest any other urologists to add to my surgeons starter pack let me know.... go.bsky.app/MVksGZu 2104
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSSimon Fleming 🔨 @orthopodreg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If one more person reminds me to #BeKind I will… …not Toxic kindness is as bad as all the other grim behaviours I talk about It’s performative, rhetorical & often weaponised to mean “don’t do things I don’t like” It’s discretionary,silences marginalised voices & maintains the status quo #MedSky 2319542
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSRhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 16/11/2024A common misconception about pyschological safety is that is about being 'nice'. If the people banging on about #PsychologicalSafety actually read the literature rather than making assumptions, they would understand the highest level is *the ability to disagree*. Even robustly, if required. 2198
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSKyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 12/11/2024Looking for medical professionals to follow? Just added the 4th installment #medsky 🩺 Round 1 go.bsky.app/Qg2TA9p Round 2 go.bsky.app/9ziyYqt Round 3 go.bsky.app/9WQtZh6 Round 4 go.bsky.app/HRaNhEt I’ll keep adding to the 4th (until it maxes out at 150) 7615854
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSAndrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Explaining surgery is hard. This 9 minutes will make it a lot easier for you to have better conversations with patients. #SurgSky #MedEd www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk2p...youtube.comBetter Conversations for Better Informed Consent - Whiteboard VideoYouTube video by The Patient Preferences Project 21710
Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS @thenotorioushpb.bsky.social · 15/11/20241. Every patient with a suspected HPB malignancy should be evaluated by an HPB surgeon. The patient deserves an expert opinion. 2. In adults, jaundice is a surgical disease until proven otherwise (that’s easy based on LFT pattern). #surgsky 🦋 0132
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSErika Hamilton MD, FASCO @erikahamilton9.bsky.social · 15/11/2024@gradydoctor.bsky.social has arrived y'all! That's it, this is happening! 👏 161
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSDeb Verran @debverran.medsky.social · 13/11/2024Snap, I have also been busy and have been adding surgeons to this other starter pack go.bsky.app/JhPwuUd 242
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSDavid Tom Cooke, MD, FACS @davidcookemd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024 I am reintroducing myself to the #SurgSky community: Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer Surgeon. I discuss medicine, science and MedEd ! 2211
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACSJulie Hallet, MD MSc @halletjulie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Transplant for liver metastases? 🫢How?😳 Why?😬 Join the SSO and ASTS for virtual tumor board discussions with experts 📆 December 4th ⏰ 6PM CST Register: ow.ly/pMIR50U4HpP #HPBSky #MedSky #SurgSky #GISky 02111