My postdoc @SeguraLab has been everything I dreamed of thanks to this amazing team. As a prelim surgery intern, I used to walk across the hospital bridges at sunset and gaze down at the engineering school, wondering if I’d get to stay…would I become a Duke surgeon?

@DukeSurgery 's Dr. Holly Lewis presenting "An Injectable Biomaterial for Transplant Tolerance" during the Fellowship Grant Presentation at #AWS2024 this morning!

Also sorry to miss #BMES2023 this year, but so proud of our amazing postdocs, grad students—-and my undergrad research partner Samantha, who’s presenting on our work!! Check out the amazing science from @seguralab

The regret rate of gender-affirming surgery is 0.3%. The regret rate for knee replacement surgery is 6-30%. "Transition regret" is a false narrative being pushed by the media to prevent people from getting access to life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare. However...

Companies, DEI committees, etc. preparing to put rainbows on your logos for pride: Don't, UNLESS you: - Provide FULL trans health benefits for employees - End corporate donations to anti-trans politicians - Don't hold conferences in states unsafe to travel (Florida)

While this abortion ban curtails the rights of North Carolinians, including the rights of my daughter’s generation — it will never take away our ability to bring compassion and empathy to every patient we meet.

🌶️ opinions are my own, not my employer’s, and def not ur medical advice 🍑 https://t.co/5Uwc3wcxRL

We discuss the work of Dr. Peters as both a gender-affirming medical provider and a vocal, visible member of the TGD community. We also discuss the harms of false binary narratives in gender-affirming care and the importance of patient-reported outcome measures.

Reproductive justice, bodily autonomy and gender-affirming healthcare are abt living our best lives on our own terms. Thus, was #queerJoy to join role models of mine, @queersurgeon Dr. Blair Peters & one of my amazing chief residents to talk gender-affirming surgery...

I am still beaming from this full circle moment! Dr. Hayes-Dixon is a living legend after shattering so many barriers and achieving monumental success. She is the first of Dr. Organ’s residents to give this lecture in his honor. So incredible. So inspirational.

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Does anybody honestly think they will stop at bathrooms? They have openly advocated removing meds, forcing conversion therapy. For the last 4 years I have used the word genocide for what the right is trying to do. What other word am I to use for an open attempt at eradication?

It's been a tough week (month, year...) for reproductive justice, bodily autonomy & trans health across the U.S....proud that my training institution continues to support evidence-based and patient-centered care - - including gender affirmation 🏳️‍⚧️

...just a few pics of our #squad, including an awesome lunch out...and me, prob caught in the midst discussing my love of hand/trauma surgery @lilkangsta @CoryJVatsaas @MariaXuMDPhD @hibazghandour

So great to attend @SNMA #AMEC2023 last weekend with friends from @DukeTrauma @DukeSurgOnc @DukeSurgRes, #DukePlasticSurgery...such inspiring convos abt the future of academic surgery, hidden curricula, mentorship, and the importance of interdisciplinary collabs

Today, marches will happen worldwide for #TransDayOfVisibility. We demand liberation. No more outlawing our medical care, our dignity. No more targeting children. To those marching: Thank you. We will bend the arc of history towards justice ourselves. https://t.co/FewK3xGar0

and all the more proud that our work will continue, thanks to my brilliant tech April, grad students like Aleja, and the full support of my surgery & engineering mentors. “No es despedida, sólo hasta la vista…” 👩🏼‍🔬⚗️🧪🔬👩🏼‍⚕️🔪

It's a bittersweet moment of transition, as this chapter changes to the next...I spent my last few fulltime science days with close grad students & mentees. I'm excited for what comes next as I transition to plastic surgery residency...

my postdoc has been truly inspiring thanks to these people. Sharing ideas across disciplines, from flow cytometry & cellular immunology, to biomaterials & synthetic chemistry, from rodent lymph node mapping to suturing skills…

Would I get to learn tissue-engineering? Speaking it into existence, I met Tatiana and her lab—spent nights & weekends reading, writing, developing a mouse protocol, learning biomaterials & rheology from brilliant engineers…