Excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Breast Surgical Oncology faculty at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center! Incredibly fortunate to have this opportunity and ready to join the fight to
#endcancer
@MDAndersonNews
A good a day as any to announce I’m officially
@MDAndersonNews
Breast Surgical Oncology fellowship PD. An honor to have graduated from this prestigious program & now help train the next gen of leaders in breast surg onc. Huge thx to
@KellyKhunt
@drmediget
@HenryKuerer
#oncsurgery
Excited to share I received a K12 to study strategies to predict ax nodal burden in post-RxPONDER era. Sunrise in HI to celebrate the dawn of this new chapter in my career! Incredibly grateful to my mentors & entire village.
@MDAndersonNews
@ibedrosian1
@KellyKhunt
#oncsurgery
Very excited to get my first grant to help us understand axillary staging/management in pts w/ node-positive, HR+/Her2- breast ca having upfront surgery in the RxPONDER era. Grateful to my mentors
@ibedrosian1
@KellyKhunt
& many others at
@MDAndersonNews
!
#oncsurgery
#endcancer
Happy Diwali! The Festival of Lights celebrates the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair. Wishing everyone the best for the new year ahead!
The future of Breast Surgical Oncology is bright - a phenomenal group of fellows at
@SocSurgOnc
Fellows Institute! Grateful to be part of an excellent group of faculty.
#FI22
@AnnaPolyak2
Incredibly moving, informative Presidential address by
@tracyswangNYMKE
! Also exciting to see the growing number of Asian-American Surgery Chairs!
#SAAS2021
So excited to learn from
@puneetsinghmd
from
@MDAndersonNews
on “Surgical Informed Consent in a Transforming Healthcare Environment”
Dr Singh is the Ethics Lecture speaker for our combo
@nt_acs
@STXACS
annual meeting!
Register below:
Excellent
@ASBrS
debate on neoadjuvant therapy (
@drmediget
of
@MDAndersonNews
) vs upfront surgery (Dr. Laurie Kirstein of
@MSKCancerCenter
) for cT1-2N0 TNBC and Her2+ breast cancers, moderated by
@ahrendt50
. Require multidisc discussion with patient to determine best plan! 1/2
A powerful Presidential Address from
@lubitz_carrie
. Thank you for sharing your story and hard truths about mental illness, suicide and more in surgery. Please check in on each other and recognize that asking for help is not weakness. We all need it. ❤️
#ASC2023
@AcademicSurgery
So proud of this monograph on surgical informed consent - love the printed copy from Current Problems in Surgery. Thank you to my amazing co-authors especially Dr. Claire Hoppenot!!
Just got to
#ATL
& ready for
#SSO2024
! Follow along as I live tweet the conference including amazing breast sessions,
@KellyKhunt
Presidential Address and more educational programming!
@SocSurgOnc
Phenomenal lecture by
@DrShelleyHwang
as the 2022
@MDAndersonNews
Breast Surgical Oncology Fellow Graduation Visiting Professor! Great celebration of our fellows & important professional/personal life lessons about finding your BHAG 1/2
Thoughtful presentation by
@minasedrakmd
on precision medicine in octogenarian women with early stage, high risk breast cancer - it’s nuanced share decision-making at its best
@SocSurgOnc
#SSO2019
Learned so much from the SSO Virtual Tumor Board on treating diverse populations including a case of a transgender male with a breast mass. Thank you to
@DrCNClarke
@DrLolaFayanju
@leslydossett
for the discussion and key points.
@SocSurgOnc
"When my mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, emigrated from India at 19, she couldn't have imagined this day. Thank you Joe Biden for having the audacity to pick a woman as vice president."
-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
Waited 4 long years for this! First day of early voting in TX...appreciative of all the safety measures in place
@TXMedCenter
Commons to ensure I can do my civic duty. Early voting in TX goes from 10/13-10/30 including 24 hours on 10/29 at the Commons.
#vote
As of 10:30am we're at 35k+ in-person votes today. We're on our way to breaking our record of 63k set in 2018. Let's shatter it, Harris County! We've got 122 early voting locations and 10 drive-thru locations. Visit and help us make history today.
Pfizer COVID vaccine dose
#2
done! 24 hrs later and only experienced a very mild headache and some chills. Feeling pretty good overall and hoping that we improve vaccine rollout in the US (and worldwide) so everyone can be protected.
Kicking off the first ever
@SocSurgOnc
Women in Cancer Surgery Leadership Summit at
#SSO2024
! Thank you to the leadership from
@KellyKhunt
, Sarah McLaughlin & Margo Shoup
Superstar 🌟
@MDAndersonNews
fellow Dr. Kerollos Wanis presented much needed data on BCT in pts with BRCA1/2 mutations. So helpful to have this info when counseling patients!
#SSO2024
@SocSurgOnc
Margins in malignant phyllodes tumors: this study presented by Dr. Helen Pass showed wide margins >= 8mm not better than 3-7mm and second surgeries safe if needed to achieve these margins
#ASBrS21
@ASBrS
Thought-proving
@MDAndersonNews
Surg Onc Grand Rounds by
@hlillemoe
on how training has moved from Halsted residency to more nuanced education - meaningful autonomy, education time outs & EPAs. Future of surgical training certainly looks bright!
@EGrubbsMD
@mkatzmd
@KellyKhunt
Today was a special day in Breast Surgical Oncology - got to congratulate/celebrate our graduating fellows on their last day, incoming fellows at our boot camp & newly matched chief residents we’ll have the honor to train in 2022!
#endcancer
#oncsurgery
@MDAndersonNews
@drmediget
Two of our SSO female leaders,
@DrCNClarke
and
@puneetsinghmd
, are proud to attend our first SSO WICS Leadership Summit at
#SSO2024
because great leaders never stop learning.
Will miss super 🌟
@anaeze_offodile
@MDAndersonNews
! Loved taking care of patients together, collaborating & just chatting. Good luck on your next adventure - we know you’ll do amazing things!
We may not be able to get together in person but
@MDAndersonNews
Dept of Breast Surgical Oncology knows how to make things festive on Zoom! It's been a long, tough year but lots to look forward to with this amazing group!
#HappyHolidays
Thank you
@Liz_ORiordan
for sharing your intimate experiences as a breast cancer surgeon w/ breast cancer & for reminding us why we do this and how little we know about what our patients go through. Recs: discuss exercise, sex on endocrine tx, signs of recurrence
#ASBrS21
@ASBrS
.
@HenryKuerer
presents ground-breaking trial on eliminating breast surg after NACT for “exceptional responders” - currently 100% IBTRFS w/ med f/u 41.9 mos. More to come but continue to follow pts & enroll more
#ASBrS24
#oncsurgery
@ASBrS
@MDAndersonNews
Please consider voting for me as I would love to be more involved in AAS especially since I'm passionate about Ethics! I nominated myself for the Ethics Committee at the Association for Academic Surgery
#ElectMyAAS
via
@AcademicSurgery
.
@DrShelleyHwang
presents updates on
@ALLIANCE_org
COMET which closed to accrual in 1/2023!! Of the international trials on active surveillance for low risk DCIS, this will be the largest RCT. Future plans to combine data across trials which will be so helpful.
#ASBrS23
@ASBrS
Phenomenal DEI grand rounds by
@DrCNClarke
of
@MCWSurgery
& former
@MDAndersonNews
CGSO fellow on the leaky pipeline in academic surgery/surgical oncology including why it matters in reducing cancer disparities, the current state and 1/2
Congrats to our BSO fellows - truly a smart, kind, resilient group of surgeons! Wishing you all the best for the next step in your careers...you’ll always be a part of the
@MDAndersonNews
family! And thanks to
@AGiulianoMD
for a great virtual lecture!
#endcancer
#oncsurgery
Thought provoking presentation by
@DrCNClarke
on leading without a title. Important for many especially those of us who are junior/early career
@MCWSurgery
#ASC2024
1/2
How do you manage a missing clipped axillary node at the time of surgery?
What do you do pre-operatively to ensure removal?
Take a listen to how
@DrJudyBoughey
, Dr. Eladoumikdachi & I manage this on
@SocSurgOnc
podcast. As President-elect
@KellyKhunt
says “precision matters!”
On SurgOnc Today
@DrJudyBoughey
,
@puneetsinghmd
and Firas Eladoumikdachi, MD, discuss patients with node positive
#BreastCancer
who were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and how they manage a missing clipped axillary lymph node. Listen at and ExpertEd
An amazing & comprehensive presentation by
@drmediget
on genomics & health disparities in breast cancer. Major potential but need to navigate this while addressing the many disparities that exist. Diversity in clinical trial enrollment is needed!
@MDAndersonNews
#ASBrS23
@ASBrS
Love the debates
@ASBrS
but I’m firmly in the clipping node camp! SLND + loc of biopsied node is a more precise operation that allows patients to be spared ALND as
@margenthalerj
said. Compelling data from Dr. El-Tamer
@sloan_kettering
but may not be generalizable
#ASBrS21
@ASBrS