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Our alum and previous faculty @htjacks is the epitome of a master surgeon educator, imparting her GW Surgery skills everywhere she goes. We couldn’t be more proud (or miss her more)!! 🤩💯👏🏻 #meded #surgery #surged
Thrilled to share that Hope Jackson, MD, was inducted into the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators as an associate member. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jackson on this honor!
Congratulations to SIX faculty members on their hard earned promotions! 🥳🍾🎉We are incredibly lucky to continue working with all of you 🤗 #MedEd #Surgery #SurgEd #some4surgery


We are thrilled to match Dr. Victoria Haney to Duke for 2026-2027 breast surgical oncology fellowship ✨🤩✨ Congratulations @VHaneyMD Welcome to Duke Family! 💙💙💙 @ASBrS @SocSurgOnc @DukeSurgery @JenniferPlichta @abotty02 @chibaAkiko
We are ecstatic to celebrate Chief Resident Dr. Victoria Haney @VHaneyMD and her breast surgical oncology fellowship match at Duke 💙✨!! We can’t wait to watch your career flourish as you continue to make us #GWProud 🥳🥹 #BreastSurgery #Match2025

No one more fitting than Dr. Juliet Lee to receive this year’s Dr. Clara Bliss Hinds Mentorship Award from @GWSMHS 👏🏻🏅We can’t count the number of our residents and alumni as well as surgeons across the country who she has mentored and we are so lucky to call her ours 🥹 #meded

Great off the shelf solution for some of our complex TAAA patients. Great team effort @GWSurgery @GWvascsurg
And closing out an impressive day is Dr. Mohammed Shahid @_ShahidMD presenting his 2nd year of research with @HopkinsPlastic on a novel photoacoustic imaging approach to detect nerve injuries. Tho we loved this talk, we love that you’re finally coming back more!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #plastics

Next up is Dr. Rob Young who spent the year at the @DCVAMC explaining how he navigated the VA Vinci to study how elevated HbA1c worsens outcomes in Vets with resected NSCLC. Surg Onc programs should keep an eye on this guy! 👀🇺🇸💪🏻 #surgonc #meded

Another fabulous presentation by Dr. Ryan Lin describing his work assessing resiliency and psychological distress in patients with BKAs versus lower extremity free flaps with our neighbors at Georgetown Plastic Surgery. Taking great care of our patients body AND mind! 🤩#plastics

Dr. Camille Baumrucker completed a productive year at the Moffitt Cancer Center and educated us all on the benefit of iNKT cell activation with antitumor CD4T cells in preventing breast cancer. Future cancer curing breast surgeon? We couldn’t be prouder! 🥹🦀🗡️ #BreastSurgery

Next is future pediatric surgeon Dr. Alex Halpern @alexhalpern1 presenting on his research training tumor specific T cells for melanoma immunotherapy after his first year with @ChildrensNatl — we can’t wait to see what you do over the next year too! 👶🏻🐭#pedsurg

We are so excited to welcome our research residents back with the annual DePalma Research Presentations🥳! First up is Dr. Mary Matecki @mateckimary presenting her work with our trauma department and @susan_kartiko on redefining the age of geriatric trauma 👵🏻🩹. #trauma #surged

That’s our @GWSurgChair Dr. Sidawy!!! Congratulations on your well deserved, hard earned Lifetime Achievement Award! We are so lucky to have you as our leader 🤩🥳. #GWProud
Celebrating excellence at #VAM25! 🏆 SVS proudly honored individuals whose work has helped shape the future of vascular surgery. We’re inspired by their achievements and grateful for their lasting impact. #VascSurg #MedTwitter
Thank you @Tulane_Surgery, Dr. @EmadKandil11 & Dr. @Mary_Killackey for the kind invitation to deliver #SurgeryGrandRounds. It was a pleasure to return to Tulane, see your impressive residents in action, and reconnect with old friends. #GWSurgery @GWendosurg
PGY-2 Dr. Daniel Carrera @dcarreramd has been absolutely crushing these podium talks this week!! Most recently, he represented GW Surgery at the @MetroDCACS All Surgeon’s Day presenting on the changing rates of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis 💪🏻⭐️🤓#surgery #meded #research

We’re not surprised to see @htjacks thriving, but we do miss her dearly. Incredible alum and prior faculty making us so #GWProud 🤩🥹
Thrilled to share that Hope Jackson, MD, will be the new Bariatric Surgery Program Director within the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery! Congratulations – we can’t wait to see the great things she does in this new role.
Congratulations @dcarreramd and @mateckimary as well as @trauma_Q on representing us well!! 💪🏻👏🏻
GW Proud! Two great resident case presentations at Point Counterpoint! #acspcp2025 @PCounterpoint @GWSurgery @GWSurgChair @dcarreramd @mateckimary
In case you missed it 👉 Click the link below to watch our webinar on Firearm Injuries Through a Clinical and Public Health Lens. youtu.be/pkU_CjdDk0g?si… @saranimd @Trauma_Q @GWHospital @GWSurgery @GWtweets @GWpublichealth
🎉 3 out of 4 abstracts accepted to the ACS Clinical Congress! Proud of our MIS/Endocrine research team and the rockstar GW med students who made it happen. Let’s gooo! 🔥📊💪 #ACS2025 #TeamGW #FutureSurgeons
We can’t keep up w these research residents 😮💨 Dr. Ryan Lin presented postop suicidal ideation & resiliency after lower extremity free flap vs BKA and patient reported outcome measures after limb salvage vs BKA @PSRC1995 . That CV must be a textbook by now!! 📚🤓 #plasticsurgery

