David Spain
@DavidASpain
Long time husband to Jill - the best person I know Proud dad of 3 men, all now engaged to wonderful humans @OpNotes Program Director at Stanford
🩻 There are still a few spots left for Ribfest 2025! Register here: stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/courseo… @explorersurgeon
Congratulations to our fellow Dr. Marisa Schwab (Fellow of the Year), our APP Natalie Chin (APP of the year) and our current intern Baylee Bakklia (Intern of the year)! Thank you to our chief residents, interns and residents for the dedication and care you give our patients.
@DavidASpain kicking off our @OpNotes Chief Resident Grand Rounds. Celebrating these six amazing 🤩 surgeons and leaders! @StanfordSurgery
Only 17% of grads from academic surgery programs pursue academic careers 🎓📉—but those with advanced degrees, mentors, and more first/senior author papers during residency are more likely to stay in the game. 🔗journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…
Standing on the shoulders of giants! For family reasons, I’ll be transferring to finish residency at @StanfordSurgery this summer. Grateful to have the support and sponsorship from Dr. Lillemoe, Dr. Mullen, my @MGHSurgery family, @maryhawn @DavidASpain & my new @OpNotes family!
🩻 New options in pain control for traumatic rib fractures! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Congratulations to Dr. Anoosha Moturu on winning the #PAPS2025 Prize for her presentation “Association of Institutional Neonate Case Volume and Children's Surgical Verification with Morbidity/Mortality in Neonatal Duodenal Atresia Repair.”
The Stanford Department of Surgery seeks a nationally renowned Surgical Educator and leader to serve as the Vice Chair (VC) for Education. This will be full-time at Associate or Full Professor in University Medical Line (UML) or Clinician Educator Line (CE).
Grateful to get our work published with @WomenSurgeons in @AmJSurgery looking at unique stressors among surgical applicants, by specialty, in an ever-evolving residency application process @SDreamMD 🎉 americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-… +Blurbs from commentaries by Alkhatib, Donahue et al
BREAKING: The Table Rock Fire in South Carolina has now officially become the largest mountain fire in South Carolina history. Where is Donald Trump? Golfing for the 7th consecutive weekend! REMEMBER what MAGA said about the California fires and Newsom and Biden? Where…