Colleen Flanagan, MD

Thank you all at #CIC25 for stopping by during the poster session
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Exceptional is the appropriate word for JSH! Lucky to be her mentee ( / fangirl ✨)

So excited to welcome Queen!!! She is a superstar 💫💫💫

Did you know women are often excluded from vascular research? This leads to misdiagnosis & worse outcomes. In honor of Women's History Month, consider supporting the @vascularsvs.bsky.social VC4U Award to fund research & improve care. Every bit helps! bit.ly/3Rkq88J #WomensHistoryMonth #Vascular

UMass is such a special place with an amazing spirit of collaboration and teamwork. What an unnecessary loss for these students and our communities.

Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.

Promoting Female Surgeons Through Structured Award... : Annals of Surgery An abstract is unavailable.

Awesome to see this led by extraordinary @ucsfsurgery.bsky.social women faculty/resident colleagues. We need to encourage everyone to share best practices & 'Practical Tips for Establishing Sponsorship Initiatives for Women Surgeons'. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
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Arteries are red, veins are blue, if there is prolene around, I’ll suture you.

Elon Musk has proposed that the Trump Administration shut down U.S.A.I.D., a move that would have a calamitous impact around the globe—and threaten our national security, Atul Gawande writes.
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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

Low rates of aortic surveillance imaging and clinical follow-up in patients with acute aortic dissection Patients that survive acute aortic dissection (AD) remain at high risk of morbidity/mortality from structural changes of the aorta. Aortic surveillance is challenging, especially within a tertiary ref...

Our other paper in this month’s edition of JVS - we have a lot to work to do in order to improve appropriate surveillance following acute aortic dissection!

www.jvascsurg.org/article/S074...

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Large language models can accurately populate Vascular Quality Initiative procedural databases using narrative operative reports Participation in the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) provides important resources to surgeons, but the ability to do so is often limited by time and data entry personnel. Large language models (LLMs...

Our article on using LLMs to help with the administrative tasks of populating procedural VQI @svsvqi.bsky.social databases is out this month in the Journal of Vascular Surgery and available online now:

www.jvascsurg.org/article/S074...