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Notified yesterday that I was selected for one of the 2021 AWS "Break the Glass Ceiling" awards! 🎊🎉 Thank you
@WomenSurgeons
and
@IntuitiveSurg
for the opportunity and for believing in me!! 🙏
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🙏Thank you
@WomenSurgeons
Foundation for this incredible honor!! Looking forward to the opportunity!!
#blessed
☺️
The AWS Foundation is pleased to announce Jennifer Plichta, MD as the 2024 Kim Ephgrave Visiting Professor!
Community & university training programs are invited to apply by April 25 to host Dr. Plichta.
Info & Host Application:
@JenniferPlichta
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Honored and excited for this new role! Thank you
@AcademicSurgery
for the opportunity!!
A huge shout-out to Dr.
@JenniferPlichta
for being appointed as the Co-Chair of the Publications Committee for the
@AcademicSurgery
.
#DukeSurgery
#SurgicalOncology
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Thank you again
@WomenSurgeons
for 2021 Break the Glass Ceiling Award and opportunity to attend this professional development course through
@AmCollSurgeons
!! Ready to learn! 🤩
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Time for a new way to stage metastatic breast cancer? We think so!
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Awesome panel at
#ASC2024
on "Writing for Impact" with these phenomenal writers and researchers!! 🤩🤩
@DrLolaFayanju
@AndrewMIbrahim
@herbchen
@CaitlinWHicks
@DimitriosMoris
#LibbyWeaverMD
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We are thrilled to welcome
@JLimbergMD
to the Duke Breast Surgery family as our next fellow!! 🤩🤩
@DukeSurgOnc
@DukeCancer
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🎉Amazing first presentation at a national meeting by
@DukeMedSchool
MS3
@KoumaniN
at
#ASC2024
on treatment sequence for stage III
#breastcancer
!! 👏🙌🤩
#proudmentor
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Thank you
@WomenSurgeons
for the opportunity to serve! 👏🙌
Continuing our AWS leadership highlights, we are pleased to present the 2023-2024 AWS Committee Chairs! These outstanding individuals will guide the mission-driven work of AWS committee programs and projects over the next year.
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Every woman should have a discussion about their
#breastcancerrisk
!! 🧐
“I personally think every woman should know what their risk of breast cancer is ... a lot of the organizations are actually saying that conversations should start around the age of 25,” said surg onc &
#BIRCWH
Scholar Dr. Jennifer Plichta
@DukeSurgery
🔗
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👏👏So proud of MS3
@sydney_record
on her fantastic presentation today! 👏👏 First at a national meeting, but I think she was the best in the group! Not biased at all though ☺️
@DukeSurgery
@DukeMedSchool
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Congrats to med student extraordinaire Caitlin Marks on the acceptance of her manuscript on cN+ breast cancer in elderly, coming soon
@JSurgRes
@AcademicSurgery
edition!! 🎉🎊👏
@DukeSurgery
@DukeMedSchool
@DukeCancer
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🎉Excited to be a part of this important work with
@DukeCancer
@MDAndersonNews
@IKNL
@BCCancer
@GEICAM
#ESME
#INCan
! Time to formally acknowledge that not all "stage IV" breast cancer is the same! Thank you
@AJCCancer
for the support!🙏
Innovative Staging System for De Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer Validated Internationally
#bcsm
#breastcancer
#oncology
#globaloncology
@SocSurgOnc
#SSO24
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Excited for the breast session "The evolution of sequence of treatment and axillary management" at
#SSO2024
with this amazing group!!🤩🤩🤩
@abotty02
@dr_laurad
@DrJudyBoughey
@LeeWilke
@cgarciaetienne
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Our latest work! It's not you, It's me: The influence of patient and surgeon gender on patient satisfaction scores.
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#Honored
to have served as the chair of
@AcademicSurgery
publications committee and to have worked with this amazing group!! 🤩🤩
The enthusiasm to make
#AcademicSurgery
an inclusive and innovative space for our faculty, trainees and students is palpable. Proud to work with these
@AcademicSurgery
EC members!!! Congratulations Prez
@FabianJohnston
on an outstanding year!
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🧐Check out our latest work! Survival among patients with untreated
#metastaticbreastcancer
: “What if I do nothing?” Median OS 2.5 mo vs 36.4 mo with treatment!
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👏🙌🤩Wonderful
@DukeSurgery
grand rounds this morning with rockstar
#DrElliotAsare
talking about
#mentorship
in
@AJCCancer
and
#USTARS
with Univ of Utah Surgery!
#plantingseeds
👏🙌🤩
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Thank you
@SocSurgOnc
for this fun opportunity to discuss risk based screening with experts
@ZAlHilliMD
and
@MPilewskie
🤩🤩 Podcast coming in the next few days!! 🤩🤩
SURGONC TODAY recording happening NOW 🎙️🎤🎧 on Risk based screening. Featuring amazing speakers ⭐️
@JenniferPlichta
@ZAlHilliMD
@MPilewskie
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
#SSO2024
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🎉Congrats to
@DukeMedSchool
MS2 Tori Chanenchuk on her first presentation at a national conference at
#SABCS23
(first time at a national conference too!) 👏👏👏 Always good to see friends and collaborators
@GreenupRachel
@mom2phd
too! 🤩
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🎉🎉🎉Congrats
@cHollyFlow
, recipient of the 2023 AWS Fellowship Grant! Dr. Lewis was awarded the grant for her project entitled "An injectable biomaterials for transplant tolerance." 👏👏👏
@DukeSurgery
@WomenSurgeons
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Thank you
@WomenSurgeons
and
@IntuitiveSurg
!! 🙌🙌🙌
Congratulations to the applicants that were selected for the "Breaking the Glass Ceiling" Leadership Education Grant, sponsored by Intuitive Surgical!
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So proud of mentee
@AnnaLouieMD
presenting our work on comparing stage III to the proposed subdivisions of stage IV
#breastcancer
at
#SSO2024
, moderators
@PSpanheimer
@OKantorMD
- definite overlap, what to do❓🧐
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Fantastic week indeed!! Loved hearing about the similarities and differences in patient management - makes you really think about what we should be doing (or not doing)🧐 Thank you
@SocSurgOnc
for pairing us with Dr. Enemuo!! 🙏
@_WACS_Surgeons
@DukeSurgery
Terrific week
@DukeSurgery
w/
@SocSurgOnc
#SSO2024
International Career Development Exchange Professor, Dr. Vincent Enemuo, 🇳🇬. Fantastic bidirectional ↔️ clinical & cultural experiences. Lots of laughs & learning. 😂 THX,
@JenniferPlichta
@abotty02
@chibaAkiko
@kendramparrish
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Congrats to
@DukeSurgery
resident extraordinaire Dr. Cecilia Ong on matching at U of Chicago!! 👏👏👏
Today is CGSO Match Day. Congratulations to all future complex general surgical oncology fellows!
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Lots of important differences that we can use to improve prognostic estimates! Not all
#MBC
is the same!
Important study by
@JenniferPlichta
et al
@JCO_ASCO
we can’t treat all denova
#metastaticbreastcancer
the same way!!
@OncoAlert
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Channeling my amazing colleague and
#phyllodes
expert
@RosenbergerMd
today during the multidisciplinary tumor board at
#MBCC24
! 🤩 Hope I gave the "right" advice 😳😁
#Blessed
to have such an incredible partner and friend!!
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So proud of
@DukeMedSchool
M3s
@KoumaniN
and
@julietcdalton
for their excellent presentations at
@DukeSurgery
Research Day!! 👏👏👏👏
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So great to be with all of these amazing Duke surgeons (past and present)!!
@DukeSurgery
@DukeSurgRes
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Fantastic presentation by super star 🤩
@sydney_record
@DukeMedSchool
MS4, watch for her 👀 in the
#gensurgmatch
!!! Standing room only at this awesome
#breast
session at
#ACSCC23
led by
@MPilewskie
#GeorgePlitas
!! 👏🙌🎉
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Congrats to our breast surgery fellow
@KMiller2021
on finishing her
@DukeSurgery
fellowship!! So proud of all she’s accomplished and excited to see all that she will do!!
@DukeCancer
@DukeSurgOnc
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Wonderful presentation by
@SocSurgOnc
President and my new
#mentor
@KellyKhunt
at
#SSO2024
!! Excited to learn from one of the best!! Definitely a multiplier!!🤩🤩🤩
#ChangeLeader
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Feeling
#inspired
to do better, to be better 💪 thank you
@FabianJohnston
for your wisdom! I appreciate you!
#ASC2024
Presidential Address🤩
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Great week hosting Dr. Sahar Bawazeer,
#breastsurgeon
from Indonesia, via the
@SocSurgOnc
International Career Development Exchange!! Thank you
@abotty02
and
@kendramparrish
for making the week even better!! 🙌🙌
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Awesome kickoff at
#SSO2024
with inaugural Career Catalyst Program & friend
@drmediget
!! Excited to meet my amazing mentor, Dr Kelly Hunt 🤩🤩Great feedback from the Breast Fellowship Program Directors on improving fellowships at our kickoff meeting!! Meeting notes coming! 😳
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Another fantastic day at the
@SocSurgOnc
Fellows Institute 2022!
@Dr_KGallagher
presenting
#oncoplastics
techniques!
#FI22
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Excited to be at
#ASBrS2023
at the
#genetics
pre-meeting course with Dr. Kevin Hughes kicking things off!
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Could not be more excited or proud of this collaborative work with many
#breastcancer
giants! Thank you
@AJCC
for bringing us together!! 🙌🙌🙌
Congratulations to
@JenniferPlichta
and colleagues on their recent potentially guideline-influencing publication in
@JCO_ASCO
"Novel Prognostic Staging System for Patients With De Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer"!👏👊⭐
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🙏Thank you
@curetoday
for helping spread the word!
#GeneticTesting
for
#BreastCancer
May Benefit Patients and Family Members
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Another great day at Duke! 3rd annual “What’s best for breasts?” a success and fun filled day! Brought to you by
@DukeCancer
@DukeSurgery
@Invitae
#WB4B2019
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Yay Dr. Beasley!! 🤩🤩
@DukeSurgery
Former ACC POY Georgia Schweitzer in the building 😈
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👀 Eliminating breast surgery for exceptional responders at
#ASBRS24
by
@HenryKuerer
@MDAndersonNews
!! Are we there yet??? 🧐
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🗣️ Important work presented by
@DrLolaFayanju
at
#ASC2024
on delayed/foregone care for patients with breast care showing higher inpatient costs - likely a vulnerable group that we need to better understand! Also fun to see her with former fellow
@LGutnik
,
#togetheragain
☺️🤩
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Congrats
@drmediget
!! 👏🎉👏
@UCLAHealth
is lucky to have you!! 🤩🤩🤩
Mediget Teshome, MD, MPH, FACS, was appointed by
@UCLAHealth
as the new Chief of Breast Surgery and Director of Breast Health.
#InternationalWomensDay
#Empowerwomen
@drmediget
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New
@DukeCancer
research training program for minorities in their gap year. DIRECT (Diversifying Research and Experiential learning in Cancer Training) is a full-time, paid 12-month fellowship program that provides mentored cancer research experience! Spread the word!
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🎉Shoutout to the amazing women of
@DukeSurgOnc
#breastsurgery
on
#InternationalWomensDay2024
🙏Thankful for these incredible women and so many others! 💪🤩🙌 Photo credit to Jackie White 😁
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Strong showing by
@DukeSurgOnc
at
#SABCS22
! Feeling
#blessed
to work with this incredible
#surgeon
@RosenbergerMd
!! 🤩🤩🤩
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🎉Outstanding first presentation at national meeting by
@DukeMedSchool
MS3
@julietcdalton
at
#ASC2024
on HER2+
#breastcancer
in older patients! 👏👏👏
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Honored to be included in this important work! Indications continue to expand!
🔥📄 Hot off the
@JCO_ASCO
press‼️
The
@ASCO
guideline on germline testing in patients with
#BreastCancer
👏Congrats to all on this important work!
@FilipaLynce
@ibedrosian1
@MarkRobsonMD
@SidYadavMD
@AchatzIsabel
@DrJudyBoughey
@curijoey
@force4sue
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Peer review is an important skill in
#academicsurgery
! To develop this skill,
@WomenSurgeons
started an incredible course led by Dr.
@CaitlinWHicks
and Dr. Libby Weaver. Success presented at
#ASC2023
!! 👏👏👏
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Congrats to one of my favs
@sydney_record
!! 👏👏👏 Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🎉 Can't wait to see everything you will do!! 🤩🤩🤩
Some future general surgeons! Extra special to get the match notification during a sim exercise with
@cp_nicholson
! From co-sub-interns on the
@DukeSurgery
blue services to matching… we did it!
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Incredible day with
@NIH
#BIRCWH
,
@DukeSurgery
,
@dukeobgyn
!
#Truth
lessons learned from the amazing
@GreenupRachel
, fabulous poster by
@julietcdalton
, inspirational work by
@Charity95897101
. Always thankful to my mentor
@DrShelleyHwang
for continuing to believe in me! 🙏
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Loved this session moderated by
@DrLolaFayanju
and
@lindsaykuo
"Stronger Together" at
#ASC2023
! Much work to do but ready to do it together!
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🎉Congrats to
@DukeSurgery
resident
@Anthony35698915
on his
@AcademicSurgery
award for Global Surgery Research!! 👏👏👏
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Looking forward to sharing our work!!
@SABCSSanAntonio
🎉Congrats to
@DukeSurgery
#breastsurgicaloncologist
@JenniferPlichta
and stats
#SamanthaThomas
and team, on acceptance of their project "International validation of a staging model for de novo
#metastaticbreastcancer
" for presentation at
#SABCS23
! Collaboration with
@AJCCancer
!
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So excited to work more closely with these all-star
#womensurgeons
and
#educators
!! 🤩🤩🤩
🎉🎉 Congrats to the newest APDs for our breast surgical oncology fellowship,
@abotty02
and
@chibaAkiko
, joining the PD
@JenniferPlichta
!! 👏👏
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Happening now at
#SSO2023
! Excellent talk by Dr. Selwyn Vickers on addressing disparities in clinical trials! Zip code more important than genetic code...
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Study offered
@DukeCancer
!
The drug tamoxifen can prevent breast cancer in women at increased risk, but there is concern about side effects, such as hot flashes and the increased risk of blood clots and stroke. So researchers are studying TOPICAL tamoxifen (gel put on the skin)
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Latest work by
@CosetteChampion
and
@DrLolaFayanju
- excellent work!! Disparities at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity: Examining Trends and Outcomes in Hispanic Women With Breast …
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Ready for the breast great debate!! Lumpectomy vs mastectomy 🧐
@DrShelleyHwang
@margenthalerj
@kpmcguiremd
#SSO2024
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Our work shows that in breast cancer, 8.7% upstaged after surgery and 23.1% downstaged! Surgical staging still matters!
@DukeSurgery
@DukeCancer
@GreenupRachel
@DrLolaFayanju
@DrShelleyHwang
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#Honored
to be a part of this amazing panel! Thank you
@SocSurgOnc
for the invitation!
I know I am biased but this was an awesome session on right sizing breast surgical care with Dr.Cody
@JenniferPlichta
@leslydossett
@clarongamd
@SocSurgOnc
#SSO2023
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👏👏Great presentations on young women and men with
#breastcancer
at
#SSO2024
by
@AnnaWeissMD
and Dr. Marie Catherine Lee
@MoffittNews
!!
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OCTOBER ISSUE:
#NeoadjuvantEndocrineTherapy
Versus
#NeoadjuvantChemotherapy
in Node-Positive
#InvasiveLobularCarcinoma
.
@McMastersKelly
@SocSurgOnc
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Great to see the important work by Dr. Woriax and
@maggiedinomemd
highlighted!
@DukeSurgOnc
@DukeSurgery
@DukeCancer
Check out the
#BreastCancer
Research Digest - a summary of last week’s publications from select high-impact journals (February 20th-25th, 2024).
#ClinicalResearch
#CancerTreatment
#BCSM
#BreastCancerResearch
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Incredibly honored to be a part of this phenomenal inaugural group, including
@RosenbergerMd
@DrShelleyHwang
@kendramparrish
@DukeBladegirl
and many other amazing surgeons!!
#BeTheChange
🤝🫶🙌
Comprised of faculty, trainees, researchers, and students across
#DukeSurgery
,
@DukeOrtho
, &
@Duke_Oto
, the 34 inaugural members of
#TheAkwariSociety
are dedicated to placing humanity at the center of surgical practice.
View the full list of new members:
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🎉Fabulous presentation by future
#breastsurgeon
@sydney_record
at
#ASC2024
on bilateral breast cancers!! 👏💪 Session co-moderated by our former fellow
@LGutnik
🤩
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Fantastic presentation by rockstar med student
@sabrinamwang
at
#ASBrS2022
!! Mentored by
#DCIS
expert
@DrShelleyHwang
!
@DukeSurgery
@DukeCancer
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👏👏Excellent overview by
@chibaAkiko
on how social media may impact health outcomes!!🧐🧐 Physician education, patient education, public health notifications, counter misinformation, and more!! 🙌🙌
#ASBRS24
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Great time at the
@WomenSurgeons
Gala last night with
@DukeBladegirl
@JMigaly
@LMcElroy23
@ChiomaMoneme
and spectacular
@DukeMedSchool
MS4 (
#gensurgmatch
)
@sydney_record
@isadelaura
@stacygns15
and CamillePierre!
#ACSCC23
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Surgery for Men with Breast Cancer: Do the Same Data Still Apply? Check out our latest work!
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🤩🤩So
#proud
of
@DukeMedSchool
@julietcdalton
,
@KoumaniN
, and
@DukeSurgRes
Dr. Anna Louie, presenting their work at
#ASBRS24
!! BTW
@chibaAkiko
, what are you doing there?? 😂😂😂
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Final post from
#NCoBC24
, great few days with
@DukeSurgery
colleagues
@chibaAkiko
@JackieW_NP
and others from around the country
@ellieprouss
@kristinrojasmd
, Dr Rabinowitz, Dr Bhatt, and so many others! 🙏 Thank you
@NCBC_BreastCare
for an amazing conference!! 🤩🎉
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Fabulous few days in Vegas for
#NCoBC2023
! Especially enjoyed talks by
@kristinrojasmd
on
#sexualhealth
in patients with
#cancer
. Looking forward to next year as the incoming Program Director!
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Check out our latest research on
#breastatypia
and
#BMI
in
@AnnSurgOncol
!! Great job
@KMiller2021
!!
@DukeSurgOnc
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Well deserved!! 👏👏👏
Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Hwang on receiving "Best Manuscript" at the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Meeting for "Phase II Single-Arm Study of Preoperative Letrozole for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Postmenopausal Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: CALGB 40903 (Alliance)"
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Fun session on benign breast at ACS Clinical Congress! Thanks to the moderators
@kpmcguiremd
and Dr. Laura Rosenberger!
#cc19selfie
@DukeSurgery
@DukeCancer
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Congrats
@kendramparrish
!! 👏🎉👏 Even with a surgeon this amazing though, still takes a village! Thank you
@chibaAkiko
@abotty02
@RosenbergerMd
@CSMenendez
@maggiedinomemd
@DukeBladegirl
@DrShelleyHwang
!!
So proud of
@kendramparrish
for completing her breast surgical oncology fellowship! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Cannot be more excited for her to join us as one of our faculty! Congrats to
@JenniferPlichta
for this amazing fellowship program! 🤩🤩🤩
@DukeSurgOnc
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.
@RosenbergerMd
discusses Phyllodes tumors including margins & local recurrences. Benign Phyllodes no longer require negative margin, can do excisional bx which is included in NCCN guidelines. Malignant may benefit from 3-7mm margins based on single study
#SSO2022
@SocSurgOnc
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Fantastic session led by
@lisacannada
!! Thank you to
@WomenSurgeons
@SurgJournal
@CaitlinWHicks
& Dr Weaver !! 👏👏👏
Awesome interactive webinar as part of the AWS Peer Reviewer Academy
@JenniferPlichta
@CaitlinWHicks
Libby weaver
@acsJACS
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Looking forward to the Health Equity session at
#ASBRS
with
@janeemendezMD
@LANewmanMD
@ZAlHilliMD
@kristinrojasmd
and Dr Henry-Tillman!! 🤩🤩🤩
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Great talk on the financial burden of breast cancer surgery by Dr. Rachel Greenup at
#sso2018
! 👍
#DukeSurgery
#DCI
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Thank you! Excited to get this project started!! 🙌🙌🙌
Congratulations to Drs. Jennifer Plichta and Laura Rosenberger on receiving funding from the Duke Clinical Research Institute for their
#breastcancer
research projects!
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Another critical conversation at
#ASC2023
! Thank you
@AcademicSurgery
for putting these topics front and center!
#medicalethics
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👏🎉👏🎉👏
Congratulations to
@DukeSurgRes
Dr. Anthony Eze (
@Anthony35698915
) for being awarded the
@AcademicSurgery
2023 Trainee Research Grant for Global Surgery! This grant will help fund his research on improving gastroschisis mortality in Uganda using sustainable methods.
#MedTwitter
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