UCSF Surgery

‼️Introducing our latest @UCSFHospitals video featuring @UCSF Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Amy Fiedler @FiedlerAmy. From giving life-changing calls to stopping & restarting the heart—her everyday work is nothing short of incredible. Watch now👇 #womeninmedicine #HeartSurgery 💙

Proud of Jonathan Li @UCSFGSResidency who had completed funded @UCSFMedicine year-long project as MS, now published pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40658766/ in Liver Transplant! He spent a year in our lab developing a state-of-the-art ML decision support tool that outperforms current practice…

It’s @UCSFSurgery #simulation day @UCSFSkillsLab with @UCSFGSResidency R1s on knot-tying skills and R2’s on the lap simulator with ergonomic adjustable height monitors and stations

🎉Big news‼️Recent @UCSF Surgery Graduate Dr. Ava C. Yap @avacyap has been named the 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ recipient of the Dr. Hilary Sanfey Outstanding Resident Award by the Association of @WomenSurgeons. She’ll be honored at the #AWSF Gala on October 5th in Chicago. Congrats, Dr. Yap!🏅

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Wonderful to see impressive @IGHSatUCSF Masters student Capstone presentations yesterday - and so proud of & grateful to 2 mentees & pending grads - Trisha Sengupta & Gunter Lügo - for their amazing work on our projects! 🫶 @UCSF_CHESA

Quick conferencing & friend/colleague/mentee catch-ups 🤓 (didn’t get 📸 with all!) Thanks #ACSQSC25 @AmCollSurgeons 👋

Amazing job by @UCSFSurgery @UCSFGSResidency Dr. @hdecker731 sharing our early work with Project REACH - a partnership btw @SF_DPH WPIC & @ZSFGCare Surgery to improve surgical care access for people experiencing homelessness. Meeting people where they are, safely 🤲 #ACSQSC25

6 yrs, 84 recs, 1,461 references, innumerable meetings/cups of ☕️ & 57 pp of reviewer responses. The @AmThyroidAssn 2025 differentiated thyroid CA guidelines were accepted for publication today. 🙏 to coauthors, family and esp co-chair Matt Ringel! 🤗🥳🙌

‼️@UCSF Surgery is thrilled to share that Dr. Carlos Corvera has been named our inaugural Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Allied + Affiliate Hospitals—after an internal search. A longtime leader in liver & #pancreas surgery, he’ll help shape care across our system🥳🥳

Congratulations to President Carter and the leadership of SF Surgical Society for a great meeting this week. Outstanding talk on AI and medicine. Great location at the south beach yacht club in SF next to the ballpark. Nice turnout! #SFSurgical

Honored to learn from colleagues and humbled 🙏🏽 to receive the Distinguished Professor Medal from the Surgical Oncology Society of the 🇵🇭.Fantastic meeting- exciting to make new collaborations & friendships. I didn’t appreciate the🚦theme was 🦑games until resident performances😂

‼️We’re excited to welcome Dr. Michelle Mulder back to @UCSF this Fall as Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in #Endocrine Surgery! A pioneer in minimally invasive adrenal surgery, she brings passion, precision, and a bold vision for the future of endocrine care✨✨ #UCSF

13 new ATLS providers trained in #Ethiopia with the help of @AmCollSurgeons @UCSF_CHESA @ZSFGCare @MedicalCollege @UCSFSurgery @Debrebirhan University!

‼️We’re proud to announce Trauma Surgeon Dr. Caitlin Collins @CRCollinsMD as the new Co-Director of the Muriel Steele Society—a next-gen leader in academic surgery. She joins Dr. @LucyKornblith as we thank Dr. Mika Varma for her six-year tenure & visionary legacy🥳

‼️We are ecstatic to share that Dr. Jade Hiramoto, Dr. Robert Chang, Dr. Colleen Flanagan @C_Flanagan_MD, & their team have been awarded the 2025 Frederick M. Binkley Research Award! A tremendous honor recognizing their visionary, patient-centered work in vascular surgery👇👇

‼️We're excited to share that Dr. Garrett Roll has been selected as Associate Chair for Quality Improvement & Peer Review at @UCSF Surgery, effective July 1! A Transplant #Surgeon & QI leader, Dr. Roll will help advance safety & accountability across all clinical services🥳🥳

🎉Huge congrats to Dr. @KaraFaktor, @UCSF General Surgery Research Resident and @UCSF_CHESA & NIH Fogarty Fellow @Fogarty_NIH, on being named a 2025–2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar! She’ll join the Africa Regional Research Program, bringing #UCSF's mission of global health to life 🌍

It’s great catching up with colleagues and friends at #ILLS2025 in Seoul @hpbsurgeon1

We celebrated our graduating fellows and welcomed our incoming Surgical Simulation and Education Fellows! Congratulations to all 🎉🎉

Had a fantastic time at #ILLS2025-the meeting for liver and MIS liver surgery. Grateful to Professor Ho-Seong Han for the kind invitation to join as faculty and chair the Best Video session @UCSFSurgery