Had a great time presenting our robotic liver transplant progression at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale’s Transplant Grand Rounds highlighting how our program has evolved toward reproducible total robotic liver transplantation (8), including 6 living donor cases using dual 🤖🤖teams.

What happens when you merge two high volume centers for #pancreas #surgery? Birth of @amsterdamumc ❌❌❌ 😃 500 vs 500 Whipples (pre-vs post merger) ✅ 30-day mortality: 2.0 to 0.4%, P=0.02 ✅ failure-to-rescue: 4.9 to 1.1%, P=0.04 ✅ major morbidity: 41 to 35%, P=0.037 ✅

THIS THURSDAY learn about the Halsted General Surgery Residency at @hopkinssurgery - get valuable insights from current #gensurg #residents! #Match2026 @APDSurgery

🆕🗞️Hot off the press! @NatureMedicine #KRAS Vaccine💉for patients with RAS➕cancers🎯. Benefit➡️durable.🙌🏽 More to come with the randomized study📚✔️! Opens to doors to off the shelf vaccine for so many patients with KRAS/NRAS mutations. @OncoAlert 🔗 https://t.co/ihKZWxGTLE

6/ Our results support reducing broad-spectrum antibiotic overuse, helping fight antimicrobial resistance while improving patient outcomes in complex pancreatic surgery. This study paves the way for more personalized, smarter antibiotic strategies in surgery.

Nonoperative Management of Mismatch Repair Deficient Tumors @nejm https://t.co/hzQVchsNxy 🔎Phs-2 👉early dMMR solid tumors amenable to curative-intent surgery 👉neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade for 6 mo 👉82% CR, 79% no surgery 🧐 Organ preservation is feasible in most pts @myESMO

#Telesurgery is no longer the future — it’s now. 24 yrs after the Lindbergh Operation, another milestone at #IRCAD: the 1st-ever telesurgery with hinotori™ by Medicaroid. From IRCAD France, Prof. Armando Melani (🇧🇷) was remotely connected to a surgical team in Kobe, Japan.

I am giving a presentation to patients and their families on NETs this weekend. When I was a resident, my oncology attending wrote something similar on the team whiteboard the first day of service and 25 years later, I still use it. Anything you would add? What's your list?

Our very own Dr. Bruce Perler @hopkinssurgery receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at #VAM2025. An inspiration to us all! Thank you for all of your contributions and mentorship.

🔥NeoPancOne🇨🇦 ➡️mFFX in resectable PDAC ➡️exploring GATA6&subtypes ➡️mEFS &OS 16.3 &34.2mths ➡️1yr EFS 90% in GATA6 hi vs 50% lo ➡️1yr OS classical 95% vs.57% basal-like ⭐️Time to subtype upfront in all PDAC recognising plasticity @OncoAlert #ASCO25 @OICR_news @pmcancercentre

🇮🇹CASSANDRA TRIAL🇮🇹 Phase 3 RCT: Neoadjuvant PAXG vs mFOLFIRINOX in resectable/BR #PDAC 💥PAXG shows: ✅⬆️EFS ✅⬆️Path response ✅Suggestion of ⬆️OS ✅Same toxicity PAXG superior to mFOLFIRINOX? @IHPBA @EurPancClub @EAHPBA @OncoAlert @OfficialPCA @Oncoinfo_it @hpb_so

This week at NYP/Weill Cornell we completed our 3rd robotic liver transplant, this time using a right lobe living donor graft. Amazing team effort running 2 simultaneous robotic rooms for donor and recipient.

Stable OR teams contribute to better outcomes🤝✨ Each additional case done by same anesthesiologist-surgeon team 👉 ⬇️ major morbidity 🔓‼Opportunity is knocking: ⬆️outcomes by re-organizing teams How to do it? 🆕📝@JAMASurgery https://t.co/6RDxBOj0rh

🎸 Robotic PD significantly reduces CR-PF compared to open surgery. Importantly, this clinical advantage was achieved without increasing total hospital costs. 📄 the open-access article: @EAVegaMD @AsifHalimi @dremrebozkurt @HpbMar @HPB_Surgeon @IkomaMD https://t.co/p0b1CMU0CM

Does the impact of pancreatic fistula (POPF) differ between minimally invasive (MIPD) and open (OPD) Whipple? Today in @JAMASurgery In pts with POPF after MIPD vs OPD: ⬆️ more secondary clinically relevant complications ⚠️ ⬆️ more hemorrhage 🩸 ⬆️ longer hospital stay 🏥 ⬆️

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

The penultimate #AmerSurg25 presentation by @brady_campbell @jhatjhmi1: "Mutational Status of Driver Genes in Patients with Resected Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Is Associated with Pathological Characteristics and Overall Survival"

Ronald Weigel, President of ⁦@AmerSurg⁩, delivering provocative perspectives on how to preserve the academic mission of surgeons. Many threats but hope, action, & intellectual curiosity will endure! 👏

Purse string suture to decrease circumference but not to close the entire skin defect has been my preference for about 3 decades

🦠 Microbiome plays a role in pancreatic surgery for PDAC - Enterococcus in bile → ⬆️ SSI → ⬇️ OS 🚨 Highest risk: Preop ERCP + E. faecalis in bile aspirates 💊 THM: Consider piperacillin-tazobactam for periop prophylaxis #PDAC #microbiome #surgery https://t.co/pFAIEGsKak