🤰🏼—>🤱🏼 Being a pregnant surgery resident had its ups and downs-I loved having a lil buddy with me in the OR, but the schedule and lifestyle was no joke. Thankfully,@UMichCTSurgery @UMichSurgery has policies in place to protect pregnant residents to facilitate a healthy pregnancy

Our editorial today in @USATODAY Funding Cuts at the @nih_nhlbi @NIH will harm women and set back all the gains we have made in #womenscardiovascularhealth @SmidtHeart @WomensHeartCS @CedarsSinaiMed #WomensHeartHealth #WomensHealth https://t.co/sAXSuTmhKL

#EditorsChoice Over a decade with 1485 patients at a high-volume mitral center @UMichCTSurgery, the Michigan Mitral Research Group found a 5.5% pacemaker rate among patients undergoing concomitant TVr during degenerative MV surgery. Read more👇 https://t.co/RWD3dAYjgU

No pregnant woman should have to choose between a paycheck and a checkup. On January 1, New York will become the first state in the nation to give pregnant women paid time off for prenatal appointments.

BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK!!!!!! #GoBlue

Sex-Specific Efficacy and Safety in HF Trials https://t.co/Vfq93FeMPQ @HeartDocSadiya @NMHheartdoc @JAMACardio #AHA24 @mvaduganathan @scottdsolomon @orlyvardeny @hvanspall

@WomenInThoracic @JoChikweMD @FiedlerAmy @JennaRomanoMD @maraantonoff I can think of no one more deserving than Dr Hamilton for the inaugural recipient , and I am so proud of my department for being a leader in this space. @GAilawadiMD @ShinFukuharaMD @robertbhawkins @BoYangMD @ChiChiDoNguyen @FerrelMeganne @umichCVC @UMichCTSurgery @WomenSurgeons

This professorship speaks to the sponsorship of women, and the commitment to gender equity at Michigan. This highlights an actionable way to promote women cardiac surgeons and narrow longstanding gender gaps. @WomenInThoracic @JoChikweMD @FiedlerAmy @JennaRomanoMD @maraantonoff

A packed house to see @BarbHamiltonMD be inducted as the Cheryl Huey Professor of Cardiac Surgery, (one of, if not the only) cardiac professorship that sponsors an early career woman cardiac surgeon @umichCVC @UMichCTSurgery

Now that we’ve identified a problem we can get to work on fixing it! Thanks @JAMASurgery @AndrewMIbrahim @GAilawadiMD @kejoynt @ncspMICHIGAN @UMichCTSurgery @umichCVC @UM_IHPI @UMichSurgery

1/ This week in @JAMASurgery work by Dr. @katiewagnerMD w/@kejoynt identify underlying mechanisms for sex-disparities after surgery: "male & female patients experience ~% of complications, but female patients with complications were more likely to die" https://t.co/OpA0o4RWkl

Important study led by @katiewagnerMD in @JAMASurgery shows that clinicians fail to rescue female patients with complications after high-risk surgery more often than male patients. The good news is that our health systems can improve this phenomenon - but we have to act!

Males and females experience similar rates of complications after high-risk surgery, but complications in females were more likely to result in death. Improving recognition and response could narrow sex disparities. https://t.co/u6ryRQeRGh

Huge THANK YOU to my amazing mentors, @AndrewMIbrahim @GAilawadiMD @umichCVC @UM_IHPI @ncspMICHIGAN @UMichCTSurgery @UMichSurgery @umichmedicine @WomenInThoracic @WomenSurgeons

Opportunities to narrow the gap: 🚨 1. Adopt sex based disparities as a quality measure 2. Improve medical education for sex specific disease presentations 3. Increase research in female patients to better understand how biological differences can driving outcomes disparities

So excited to share our work failure to rescue females after high risk surgery-where despite similar rates and types of postoperative complications, female patients were much more likely to die from these complications-a term called failure to rescue. https://t.co/COveksrhUX

👩‍🦱👨 have similar rates and types of complications after heart surgery, but 👩‍🦱are more likely to die from these complications —>we fail to rescue women after high risk surgery . @ncspMICHIGAN @UM_IHPI @AndrewMIbrahim @GAilawadiMD @UMichCTSurgery @UMichSurgery @JAMASurgery

#AdultCardiac #CME article from @AlexBresciaMD et al on Increasing Adoption of Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: https://t.co/VMoQh3bkgM @robertbhawkins @MJClark76 @FPaganiMD @GAilawadiMD

Must be abstract submission night…👀 @UMichCTSurgery @umichCVC @GAilawadiMD @SanjRamdeen @MatthewKazaleh @WhitneyFu1 @UMichSurgery @AATSHQ

Did an extremely risky “hail Mary” operation on a cancer patient, after he was declined by multiple other centers. Please read this heartfelt letter from his wife. Sorry to humble-brag, but if you’re a trainee, or anyone struggling to remember your “why”… THIS. IS. WHY. ❤️

Congrats to @FPaganiMD on receiving the Coeur D’Or (💛of Gold) award from the @MichiganAHA! Dr. Pagani has served Michigan communities for his entire career. He was one of the first surgeons in the U.S. to begin implanting LVADs & has led numerous trials to improve the therapy.