Lara Lopes, MD MS

Thanks to the @TheSVSVQI Fellowship-in-Training program, I had the privilege of receiving the Jack L. Cronenwett Scholarship and meeting this vascular legend in person. Grateful to Dr. Vavra for your invaluable mentorship and guidance! Looking forward to more #VQI work! 🙌

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Suhail Zeineddin, our graduating General Surgery Chief! What an amazing talk — we’re inspired by your resilience and all you’ve overcome in pursuit of pediatric surgery training. The kids will be lucky to have you! @NMSurgery

🎓 Felicidades @drpillado, our graduating Vascular Chief! I will miss you dearly 💞 Thank you for your insights on training, for inspiring us to support our vascular workforce, and for the beautiful tribute to your family. @StanfordVasc , here you go! 🚀

🎓@JessieHo_ has officially graduated! Welcome to our vascular family, we are lucky to have you! I can not wait to learn from and with you for the next 2 years. More soup breaks to come🥰@NMSurgery #NorthwesternVascular

🎓 Celebrating Dr. Audra Reiter as she delivers her graduation talk! ✨ We’ll miss her high energy, surgical talent, and — of course — those amazing curls! 💁‍♀️ Wishing her all the best as she heads off to pursue a Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship! 💪 @NMSurgery #NMBetter

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Bai, our graduating plastic surgery chief! We loved learning about your work in Medical Device Innovation. After 7 years of spreading positivity at Northwestern, we know you’ll shine in the world of aesthetic surgery! #NMBetter @NMSurgery

🎓 Excited to celebrate Dr. @JessieHo_, our very own, as she delivers her graduation talk regarding surgical education! We are thrilled that she’ll be staying on for Vascular Surgery fellowship! We can’t wait to have Dr. Ho squared on our service💪 #NMBetter @NMSurgery

🎓 Celebrating Dr. Sofia Aronson, our plastic surgery chief resident, as she delivers her graduation talk regarding translational breast cancer research! Thank you for all your dedication over the past years, we will miss our microsurgery queen! #NMBetter @NMSurgery

🎓 Chief Resident shout-out! Jenny Bai, Sofia Aronson, @drpillado @JessieHo_, @audra _reiter & Suhail Zeineddin deliver their capstone Pearce talks today—THE REAL TREASURE? THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY. See you at tonight graduation dinner! #PearceSymposium @NMSurgery

🥇 Pearce Fellow Award – 1st Place @hajirahimkhan, PhD (mentor: Dr. Seema Khan) ✨Fellow Research with Distinction • Yinan Guo, MD (mentor: Dr. Jenny Zhang) • Sarbjeet Niraula @pc_SjN, PhD (mentor: @karenholab) • @Rashi2S, MD (mentor: Dr. Swati Kulkarni). Congratulations! 🎉

🥇 Congratulations Dr Raheem Bell — Pearce Symposium Awardee! Studying how next-generation sequencing (NGS) is used across hospitals to help lung cancer patients access targeted therapies faster. Next steps? Streamlining NGS workflows to fight cancer! #PearceSymposium @NMSurgery

✨Congrats to Dr. Sarbjeet Niraula — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Investigating the impact of gut commensals on neointimal hyperplasia following arterial injury. Goal: reduce postop limb events in patients with Peripheral Artery Disease. #NMBetter @NMSurgery

✨ Congrats to Dr Rashi Singh — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Studying how advances in breast tomosynthesis & biopsy techniques may lower the risk of cancer upstage in atypical ductal hyperplasia. Goal: identify women who may safely avoid surgery. @NMSurgery

✨ Congrats to Dr Dominic Vitello — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Studying how circulating tumor DNA in blood can guide treatment in localized pancreatic cancer. Next step? Using this DNA to optimize chemo & identify surgical candidates. #NMBetter @NMSurgery

✨ Congrats to Krishay Sridalla — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Using circulating tumor DNA as a prognostic biomarker in localized pancreatic cancer. Next? Studying how changes in this DNA can guide treatment, avoiding unnecessary surgery. #NMBetter @NMSurgery

✨ Congrats to Yinan Guo — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Studying how the Myd88-Areg axis shapes innate immunity in ischemia-reperfusion injury in allotransplantation. Next? Targeting this pathway to reduce reperfusion injury #NMBetter @NMSurgery

✨ Congrats to Kacie Ford — Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! How do gut bacteria from IBD patients impact the brain? Kacie’s work links gut microbes to neuroinflammation & aims to improve mental health in IBD & beyond. #NMBetter @NMSurgery

✨Congrats to Ani Chandrabhatla @anichandra12 Research with Distinction at #PearceSymposium! Studying how donor age & ischemic time affect infection risk after lung transplant. What’s next? Improving noninvasive methods to predict rejection. #NMBetter @NMSurgery