Alexandria (Alex) Soto
@AlexandriaSoto_
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MS4 @DukeMedSchool | @HarvardHistSci A.M. ‘24 | @JHU_Alumni B.S. ‘19 | Aspiring surgeon 🫁🇵🇷 and sunset enthusiast 🏕️🌅
Joined March 2020
Hi #MedTwitter! Reintroduction time…my name is Alex Soto, from @DukeMedSchool. I’m excited to apply into General Surgery for #Match2026! I’m passionate about surg ed & translational science. 🔬 Outside the OR, I love studio cycling, hiking, & exploring history archives. 📖🌅
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We are pleased to share that Shaina Eckhouse, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, has been named Vice Chair of Clinical Operations for the Department of Surgery, effective Nov. 1. Read more: https://t.co/lSArwftjiw
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Hey Duke, community! Interested in surgery? Join us tonight for our fall intro meeting to learn more about Duke, AWS, our mission, and our plans for the academic year! RSVP at the QR code below.
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Join us tonight for Cutting Edge Conversations with ASE & AAS! @WomenSurgeons Register now: https://t.co/FfzApgO4Kq
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Sub-I season officially wrapped! So thankful to @pennsurgery for an incredible experience!! To end the month I explored Philly, reconnected with old friends from medical school, and enjoyed my first cheesesteak with my twin sister 🌟
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@LindaMThoracic @GavittWoodard Agree. In awe of what Dr. Nancy Ascher @UCSFSurgery has achieved in her career. For those interested, check out the @netflix documentary ‘A Surgeon’s Cut’, season 1, episode 3 - Living Donor, for her life story https://t.co/sqcdVd2Et3 Also this @AcademicSurgery blog post:
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End of a fantastic month at @MGHSurgery 🙌 Huge thanks to my stellar resident team and the GI/Surg Onc surgeons for welcoming me onto the team! Bonus highlights: trying oysters for the first time 🦪 and doing some work at the Countway archives 📜
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Working with the Duke Ex-Vivo Laboratory (DEVOL) @Barbas_Hartwig was the highlight of my third year! Grateful for my project mentors, Dr. Hartwig and Ben Hughes 🐁🫁
We featured @AlexandriaSoto_ an exceptional third-year medical student and Poindexder scholar in the OPSD September Newsletter. Alex works with @mghartwigmd in @DukeSurgery. Learn more about Alex's research experience and surgeon-scientist journey: https://t.co/3rTSNB5vOB
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Are you applying to General Surgery #Match2026?! Join us on Sept 10th 7pm CST for our #SAASSips on putting together a competitive ERAS application with Drs. Jennifer Yu (@WashUSurgery), @KN__Shah (@DukeSurgery), David Yu (@Tulane_Surgery), and Daniel J. Wong (@BIDMCSurgery)!
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🌟 Apply Now: AAS Student Diversity Travel Award 🌟 As part of our mission to increase diversity in academic surgery, we’re awarding travel funding to three medical students who are underrepresented based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, military service, personal
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Congratulations are in order for Dr. Louise Jackson, FACS, MBBS, MA,who has been appointed as the next Medical Student Clerkship Director @DukeSurgery! Dr. Jackson is currently Director @SEAL_duke. We’re so excited for our amazing @DukeMedSchool students to get to work with her!
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Time is running out for the early bird discount at #ACSCC25! Members, register by Monday, August 18, for the best value. Residents and students, registration is FREE until then. See you there!
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August 18 is the last day to take advantage of early bird registration fees.
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#Cardiothoracic surgery residents: Submit your abstract to the #AATS2026 C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum and compete for a $1,500 award. Share work on basic science and lab animal experiments or translational research performed on tissue/blood by 10/14: https://t.co/s5GPyhNob1
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One year of working with rat lungs complete! 🐀🫁 Grateful to Dr. Matthew Hartwig for his mentorship at the Duke DEVOL Lab (@Barbas_Hartwig) and to @DukeMedSchool for honoring our research with the GlaxoSmithKline James B.D. Palmer, MD Memorial Scholarship Fund! 🥼🔬
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@rbarbosa91 @SeanLangenfeld @TomVargheseJr @SAGES_Updates @SWexner @JeremyHL @cremieuxrecueil @Averywalker21 @JJcolemanMD @debby_keller I recommend surgeons take a look at this paper by @maraantonoff for some practical recommendations: https://t.co/S5xV9wkGJU A Cardiothoracic Surgeon's Playbook for Social Media and Digital Scholarship - PubMed
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Peter J. Allen, MD, a nationally recognized surgical oncologist and leader in cancer care, has been named chair of @DukeSurgery in Duke University School of Medicine, effective August 25, 2025. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/4qNmDyIxEi
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Check out our work below! 🔗 https://t.co/6FgDn5A252 📄Myers EL, et al. Parental Roles in Residency Education: Examining the Career Choices of Dermatology Residency Program Directors’ Children. J Dermatol Res. 2025;6(2):1-6.
Two years in the making—so thrilled to see our work published in Journal of Dermatology Research! 🩺✨ We explored how the demands of academic medicine might shape the career decisions of dermatology RPD's children. @JournalofDerma1 @SierraPark_med @UNC_DERM
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Great work by @womensurgeons! Comprehensive Initiative for Healthy Surgical Families for Practicing Surgeons
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This Special Communication highlights challenges surgeons face in work-life integration related to family planning, pregnancy, and caregiving and offers recommendations for how insitutions may...
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Special Communication: Surgeon parents and caregivers face barriers to work-life integration—including fertility, pregnancy, parental leave, lactation, and caregiving. https://t.co/oOLQyHx6l7
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