📍Abbas Karim, MD Student (Our Research Collaborator)📍 Abbas is a 4th-year MD student at UTMB in Galveston, TX, completing a Scholarly Concentration in Global Health. He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Houston and served in the Medical Reserve Corps during COVID-19

Abbas sits on the Board of the Houston Global Health Collaborative and leads campus groups focused on surgery and global health. His research centers on surgical outcomes, trauma systems, and burn care in global surgery, with a focus on the Middle East and South Asia.

Honored to have presented for the second year in a row at the @AmCollSurgeons Clinical Congress! #ACSCC25 📊 Always a privilege to share our team’s work and connect with + learn from inspiring colleagues across the #HouseofSurgery, especially those in #globalsurgery 🌍 🤝🏼

Do gamified features — like a buzzer 🚨 — actually help surgical trainees learn? 🎮📝 We tested this using the classic Operation game and a box trainer — read more below! 🔗: https://t.co/rhcgwvhN4F Huge thanks for the mentorship + support of @Joshua_Roshal and @utmblstar! 🙌🏼

Very proud to share our multinational team’s deep dive into trauma systems across the GCC! 🇧🇭🇰🇼🇴🇲🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪 We found: 🚑 Strong, centralized EMS 🏥 Gaps in formal trauma centers ⚠️ Lack of national trauma registries Read more! 🔗: https://t.co/mTOhYuA63f @LubnaKh_ @WorldJSurg

Thrilled to announce I've started my journey as a @HarvardPGSSC Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School! Immensely grateful for this opportunity to contribute to global surgery and for the support I’ve received to be here! @utmb_jssom @UTMBProvost The next chapter begins! 💪🏼

Had an amazing time working with the team for this episode! 🙌🏼 Phenomenal resource for other students, especially MS3s/4s — answers the key questions we all have for aways! ✍🏼✅

#MedTwitter - are you considering doing an away rotation or sub-internship in surgery? You NEED to listen to our new @BehindTheKnife collab episode: https://t.co/hp5ghPrjJ1 #Match2025 #Match2026 #MatchDay

HOUSTON IS GOING TO ITS FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SINCE 1984! #FinalFour #ForTheCity

Here at #TheBranch.

Grateful to present our work on open vs lap outcomes for pedi inguinal hernia repair at @STXACS this past weekend! Proud to see strong @UTMBSurgery representation here and very thankful to my mentors for their support & encouragement with this project! 💪🏼🔬 @PediSurgeryUTMB

🚨 Check out our article in JVS-VL! 🚨 We examined PMT vs. CDT for management of PE and found that PMT had an improved safety profile, fewer 30-day post-op complications, and enhanced long term outcomes! ✅ Read more below! ✍🏼

@SurgEdFellows @_abbaskarim and I did a study @UTMBSurgery @utmblstar where we found that if we’re going to gamify education, we should take some pointers from how the folks over at @CaesarsPalace do it 😂🎰

First ACS Clinical Congress in the books! ✅ 🔥Presented on SSA pediatric burns in Global Surgery session! 🤝🏼 Connected with fantastic residents and faculty! 🦾 Learned about exciting surgical advances! Sincerely grateful to my mentors for making this possible! #ACSCC24 🌉

@UTMBGlobal health symposium! The students are our future. Inspired by keynote address from @sandrogalea on the why and how on health inequities.

As research becomes a more prominent feature of global surgery efforts, it is essential to build ethical framework that accounts for contextual disparity in a dynamically changing field https://t.co/p2OsMf1CNt @youmnasheriff @LubnaKh_ @DrRosengart @RachelWDavis @GodfreySama

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. @bnaikma as the new Director of the UTMB School of Medicine Global Health Education Program! Today, she met with our incredible medical students in the Global Health Concentration track. Excited for all the impactful work ahead! Welcome, Dr. Naik!”

A truly enriching time at #SAAS2024! Presented our work at @utmblstar on gamification in surgical training and connected with countless remarkable faculty, residents, & students. 🕹️🤝🏼 Deeply grateful for the excellent mentorship I’ve received! 🙌🏼 @Joshua_Roshal @AsianAcadSurg

And great analogy by @_abbaskarim that just like slot machines - we need to sprinkle in positive reinforcement with our gamification because constant negative feedback can actually have an opposite effect on our learners!

Congrats to the team at @utmblstar for their work on exploring gamification for laparoscopic skills training. Education RCTs are no joke! #SAAS2024