Alex Zhuang
@alexyzhuang
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PGY2 @uicgensurg @BUMedicine @SurgicalEquity @SaferSurgery @ughe_org he/him 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇼
Chicago, IL
Joined December 2016
UI Health makes history! 🎉 Dr. Benedetti and the transplant team performed the nation’s first insurance-covered islet cell transplant for brittle Type 1 diabetes. #DiabetesCare #Innovation #uic #uihealth #surgery #Health #IsletCell
https://t.co/s4sGUA1LPF
chicagobusiness.com
UI Health doctors performed a historic "first" in diabetes care last week when they transplanted islet cells into a patient — and got an insurer to say they'd cover it.
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Introducing our National SRS Advocacy Toolkit: a three part seminar series designed to connect participants with experts in the field and build practical skills in advocacy and policy change! Register for Part 1 (July 20th 3pm EST) here: https://t.co/beo0INRnER
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Met somebody who was recently doing medical mission work in a remote region of Ethiopia. During clinic one day, one of the Ethiopian doctors said, “I wish I had a Jonathan.”
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congratulations to our graduating chief residents! we are so proud of you!! #surgerygraduation2025
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I love stories like this When the results of a new drug that prevented 100% of HIV cases were announced at the 2024 AIDS conference, the room burst into spontaneous applause
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Wow - what an incredible honor 💛 Thank you @AmCollSurgeons & I owe much of this award to my colleagues @natnaelgebeyeh9 @AssefaDr4763 Dr. Tom Weiser, @TihitenaN @SunnyB_Alemu @MaiaNofal @KrisTorgeson and many more @SaferSurgery @UCSF_CHESA @UCSFSurgery @IGHSatUCSF @GHES_Fogarty
‼️We are overjoyed to share that Dr. Nichole Starr @NicholeStarr5 has been honored as the 2024 recipient of the "Resident Surgical Volunteerism Award" by the @AmCollSurgeons Health Outreach Program for Equity in Global Surgery for her work w/ the Lifebox Foundation in Ethiopia🥳
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Congratulations to my incredibly hardworking colleagues @ALERT hospital and @FMoHealth on their ongoing trauma systems efforts 👏🏽🏨🚑💪🏽 @UCSFSurgery @UCSF_CHESA
Use of trauma registries to guide performance improvement is common in trauma centers in high-resource countries, but in LMIC they are not as established. @NicholeStarr5 et al performed the 1st analysis of the registry at an Ethiopian trauma center: ➡️ https://t.co/ytZVt2YYFv
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Registration is open for our next Research Seminar! This month we’re highlighting research on racial disparities. Sign up here: https://t.co/c9458abnpy
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Huge milestone today for the launch of the Lifebox surgical infection reduction program #CleanCut in Rwanda w/ our partner @ughe_org W/ support from #CRIFoundation we're addressing critical gaps in surgical safety #safersurgery #globalsurgery #globalhealth
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Thank you Rwanda! 🇷🇼 🇷🇼 We officially kick off implementation of #CleanCut in Rwanda to reduce surgical site Infections and deaths w/@UGHE and #CRIFoundation
#safersurgery #cleancut #surgery #globalsurgery #globalhealth
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I had a great time at #ASC2024 presenting this work I get to do with an awesome group of people @liallee1 @TraumaAddict @chandlerannesi @alexyzhuang @MaxJZhu
@_sarahmmorris presenting important work investigating the relationship between English proficiency, neighborhood deprivation, and firearm injury outcomes! #ASC2024 @liallee1 @TraumaAddict
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My friend @AssefaDr4763 presenting at #ASC2024 on the association of postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis and LOS in surgical patients in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - improving antobitoic stewardship may ⬇️ LOS 👏 @SaferSurgery
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Listening to @MaiaNofal discussing her QI project with Lifebox in Ethiopia on implementing a clinical antibiotic “time out,” which reduced the number of pts receiving postop abx prophylaxis. @BMCSurgery @AcademicSurgery @UnivSurg #ASC2024
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So grateful to attend ASC and present work from this awesome ADI team! @liallee1 @TraumaAddict @_sarahmmorris @chandlerannesi @alexyzhuang @MaxJZhu @BUSurgEquity
Great presentation by @_kayleemccord on firearm injury outcomes and neighborhood level socioeconomic disadvantage! 👏 #ASC2024 @liallee1
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Up next in our Ethics Lunch & Learn Series, we are partnering with the OBGYN IG to host an ethics panel on “Post Abortion Ban Healthcare.” Join us in LRA on Jan 29th at 12pm! Chick-Fil-A will be provided 🤗
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Our work further strengthens the evidence for given whole blood 🩸 asap in trauma patients that need it. @JosephSakran @Dane_Scantling @NoelleSaillant @SESanchezMD @TraceyDechert @BMCSurgery @BostonTrauma @The_BMC @BostonSurgical @BostonSOAR
https://t.co/z6c4OryKv1
jamanetwork.com
This cohort study examines whether the timing of whole blood transfusion is associated with improved survival among adult trauma patients presenting with severe hemorrhage in US and Canadian trauma...
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The #UGHE's MBBS/MGHD Program equips future physicians with state-of-the-art knowledge and skills needed to effectively implement innovative global health solutions. Applications for the class of 2030 close TOMORROW! #ApplyToUGHE!🔗 https://t.co/GEoYuIyK0g
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Our next research seminar will be Monday January 22 at 9am PST / 12pm EST with talks from UCSF general surgery resident @hdecker731 and BU medical student @MaxJZhu - moderated by BMC’s @liallee1 🙌 Hope to see you all there! Register: https://t.co/C4GA379kNS
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