Jenny Shao, MD, FACS (she/her)
@jennyshaomd
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MIS Foregut/Hernia/General Surgeon @UMichSurgery — Looking for thoughtful ways to share ideas, happiness and inspire others 💕 Tweets=🙋🏻♀️
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined January 2012
Excited to share our paper on team mentorship! 🌟 @UMichSurgery A Qualitative Analysis—Enhancing Faculty Academic Success Through Team...
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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/pAQELaGpwc
@chibaAkiko, @jennyshaomd
jamanetwork.com
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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Our 2nd podcast episode is about to drop tomorrow on @gensurgnews! So catch up on our first one about management of small hernia defects 🍩 @AmericanHernia @eurohernias @HERniaSAlliance
https://t.co/YX0SfpkJRq
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So proud to have @THeniford as a mentor and friend! Congrats on your amazing achievements— truly the GOAT 🐐@AmericanHernia @eurohernias #AHS2025
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Congrats @VedraAugenstein on your Nhyus-Wantz Award!! So well deserved for an amazing surgeon, mentor, and friend 💕 @AmericanHernia @eurohernias Thank you for sharing your inspiring journey! @HERniaSAlliance #AHS2025
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Mistreatment drives attrition among LGBTQ+ surgical trainees. From code-switching to lack of mentorship, challenges persist—but a more inclusive, just surgical culture is within reach. @steven_xie96
https://t.co/FYMuwpUym8
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Sharper Minds, Safer Surgeries: Understanding the Importance of Cognitive Ergonomics – A Perspective Piece from @SocSurgErgo ! 🔪 @BrenessaL @herbchen @pferrada1 @PipeCabreraV @CiruAndes2 @SWexner @TomVargheseJr @sminaev2015 @gogo_gopss Link:
americanjournalofsurgery.com
Surgery is a mentally, physically, and emotionally demanding endeavor. While physical ergonomics focuses on designing work systems to support the physical demands of the work of surgical teams,...
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Learn from @alisamae @AnkitPatelMD @jennyshaomd at the 2nd @AmCollSurgeons Essentials of Robotic Hernia Surgery - Didactic and Hands-On Course on Inguinal and Ventral Hernias for New Robotic Surgeons - sign-up now with this link https://t.co/YcGSBq3NRm and see you in Chicago!
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My beautiful artwork using @Medtronic Hugo… inspired by París! The shading was crucial… @eurohernias
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@jennyshaomd presenting complex cases @eurohernias! Did you know that chronic mesh infections can become squamous cell cancer?! Neither did we… 🤯 #HERSA @AmericanHernia
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The ventral anatomy lecture is equally amazing with Prof Yohann Renard and special homage to René Stoppa and his description of the Stoppa repair @EHS2025Paris #EHS2025
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Check out our new video and content! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Excited for this collaboration with @gensurgnews! 😃
Have you ever wondered how to tackle a challenging hernia case? Dr. Shirin Towfigh sits down the Dr. Jenny Shao and members of the new Hernia Surgeons Alliance (HERSA) to discuss just that. https://t.co/qVtOJzLKpt
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Art of Giving Feedback session @SAGES_Updates by speakers with practical tips. Look to the recordings if you missed it. David Renton, @htjacks Sarah Samreen Joon Shim #becurious opens doors @AmCollSurgeons @OhioStateSurg @ExcelsiorSurg @UMichSurgery @FellowshpCouncl
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HERnia Board Members presenting in the Emergent Hernia session. Key points: keep it simple and have a back up plan. Save the bowel and their life. Don’t get fancy. @KaelaBlake3 @DrCoCoMD #sages2025
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No one more deserving @Herniadoc of the SAGES Excellence in Community Surgery Award @SAGES_Updates. And excellent mentor, sponsor, and patient advocate! Congratulations 🎉🎉👏🏼👏🏼
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The only time I ever post. When I’m at my fave meeting @SAGES_Updates #sages2025 @herniabarbie @KaelaBlake3 @HERniaSAlliance @DeerenbergEva
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We’re thrilled to have such important representation on @SAGES_Updates. Congratulations to Dr. Telem for this huge honor!
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Thanks to @SocSurgErgo and Sue Hallbeck at Mayo for creating Microbreaks!!
These #surgicalergonomics talks are always educational to me. I learn to make adjustments to my operating stance each time. Thanks @jennyshaomd for your participation at @IHC_hernia #IHC2024
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First session of #IHC2024 is done! What a great morning so far… @IHC_hernia @ChristianoClaus @OrensteinSean @jennyshaomd @Adeleonespin
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