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Minimally invasive and bariatric surgeon at UW-Madison and the William S. Middleton VA, health-services researcher, aspiring golfer
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The ACS Wisconsin Chapter meeting earlier this month featured surgical skills contests, presentations on abdominal wall reconstruction and hernia management, a resident panel, and more!
Second Vice-President Dr. Dennis H. Kraus provides a report. 📝
Discover how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are revolutionizing surgical research in the latest blog post on The Academic Surgeon! 🗺️
➡️ Dive deeper into this fascinating field: https://buff.ly/4g37MDJ @UABSurgery
📝 Applications are due THIS FRIDAY for two-year faculty research fellowships. The fellowship will assist surgeons in the establishment of their research program with the goal of transitioning to becoming independent investigators.
Apply today! #SurgSky
Lots of great advice in this article for med students and general surgery programs
As the authors note, @AcademicSurgery and @AmCollSurgeons are fantastic societies for students
Institutional Diversity in the General Surgery Residency Selection Process...
Our youngest son captured my feelings perfectly about the seasons - esp in mid Feb in the upper Midwest.
Summer is better than winter.
And, it really is no fun to have ice chunks thrown at your face in a snowball fight…
work!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022480423002342
What do bariatric surgery pts and providers think about communication after surgery?
1. Pts are hesitant to follow-up if wt loss is suboptimal
2. Personalized communication is key
Fantastic job by @uwsmph med student @chloelam98 leading this...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022480423002226
Can you use electronic health record data to predict who will gain weight? Our machine learning analysis suggests likely not. More informative datasets are needed.
Great job by @wiscsurgery T32 residents @jmurtha5 @DrDJawara leading this work @JSurgRes...
be disclosed.
Seems sensible to me.
Welp, looks like @ElsevierConnect just established an ChatGPT/AI policy:
https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/publishing-ethics#Authors
It embraces AI technology in an effort to enhance manuscript writing, but notes that AI should not replace key aspects of research and should...
How should medical journals and publishers respond to ChatGPT and other AI platforms that can simulate human writing?
@AnnalsOpen @CarlaPughMDPhD #ChatGPT
https://journals.lww.com/aosopen/Fulltext/2023/03000/Response_to__Comment_on_The_AI_and_I__A.43.aspx
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weight-loss-obesity-drug-2023-01-01/ via @60minutes
"That's where the stigma of obesity comes in. The idea that the patient can do it with diet/exercise. You'd never do that to a pt with HTN or heart disease or type 2 DM." @MarsApovian
Great piece. #weightbias hurts us all.
...
What are the socioeconomic barriers to weight loss after bariatric surgery? Our qualitative study found 5:
1. Challenging employment
2. Limited income
3. Unreliable transportation
4. Unsafe/inconvenient neighborhoods
5. Limited health literacy
@ASMBS...
Fantastic work from @WiscSurgery resident @jmurtha5 and the rest of the team
The finding that these cut-points existed in the overweight category - as opposed to class 1, 2, or 3 obesity - is notable.
How should BMI be incorporated into screening algorithms for cancer?
Our analysis of electronic health record data from nearly 280,000 patients found that multiple cancers were associated with an increasing BMI
Two had BMI "cut-points" where the risk of cancer increased - kidney and uterine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01178-0
Me: “Interesting…I didn’t know they still sent out phone books.”
11 y/o son: “What’s a phone book?”
Me: 😶
We’re hiring! Our VA research group is looking for a health behavior coach (bachelors level) who will administer a behavioral intervention as part of a VA-funded RCT.
Details here: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/648657800
@VAsurgeons
@WiscSurgery
https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/512631/health-services-researcher
#Hiring
We’re looking for health-services researchers to join us @WiscSurgery. Awesome opportunity to both develop and implement your mixed-methods skills and possibly lead a behavioral intervention RCT.
Madison, WI is a great place to live!
Info:...
@WiscSurgery Surgical Jeopardy resident reps @hillaryrjohnson and @pbschwar…A solid first round victory!! Well done! Cleaned up on the bariatric questions too. No biggie. @WiscMIS #ASC2022
02.02.2022 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m super impressed with every institution’s mileage but I’ve gotta ask:
What’s in the drinking water down in the Lone Star State?
@MDAndersonNews @UTSW_Surgery @TTUHSCSurgery all in the top 5.
Dang. Nice work!
#GetOffYourAAS @AcademicSurgery
“Vivien Thomas’s name matters because truth matters.”
The title of the article says it all.
Change the Name of the “Blalock-Taussig Shunt” to “Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt” https://ja.ma/3znHoR3 via @JAMASurgery part of @JAMANetwork
