Oliver Y. Tang, MD
@oliverytang
@PittNeurosurg PGY-3 | @councilsns Fellow | @BrownMedicine '19/'23 | 🧠-oncology, policy, big data | Storytelling, 🏊🏼♂️, 🎼, 🎮, & pug enthusiast | He/him
15 yrs ago, my dad was diagnosed with a vestibular schwannoma. Today, I'm honored to be the 1st in my family in healthcare and to be joining the specialty that played a big part in our celebrating today together. Stoked to be a #neurosurgery resident at @PittNeurosurg! #Match2023
Congratulations to Hussein Abdallah, Stephanie Casillo, Albin John and Oliver Tang who have matched into the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery residency program. @pittnsgy
Rina Sawayama will reprise her role as Akira in Donnie Yen’s ‘John Wick’ spin-off ‘CAINE’ (Source: variety.com/2025/film/glob…)
I was kinda against the Reeves theme being the main motif for Gunn’s Superman. But after watching it honestly I love the idea of Reeve’s theme being the overall theme for Superman now.
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The @DrJosephMaroon UPMC MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Unit was dedicated June 27 at @UPMC Presbyterian marking a paradigm shift in precision brain surgery, opening a whole new era of minimally invasive treatment for a variety of brain disorders. neurosurgery.pitt.edu/news/maroon-fo…
What are some of your everyday Eric Adams quotes? “Make haters your waiters” is a stone-cold classic, as is “in NYC you can see everything from 9/11 to someone opening up a business,” but I personally get a lot of use out of “first stop is always Istanbul.”
Drs. Jorge Gonzalez Martinez and Ajay Niranjan performed the first focused ultrasound treatment for essential tremor at UPMC in our CIGNS!
Great celebration this past Saturday as over 150 colleagues, family and friends gathered at the Pittsburgh Golf Club to celebrate the neurosurgery residency graduation of Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Ricardo Fernández-de Thomas, Daryl P. Fields II, Arka Mallela and Gautam Nayar.
Congratulations to the new Socioeconomic Fellows from the NE Quadrant!
As Uzi joins the Hall of Legends, he shares his memories, regrets, and dreams. A message from the heart, from a player who inspired a generation— and the very first Hall of Legends inductee from the LPL. @lolesports #Uzi #HallOfLegends #LPL #LeagueOfLegends #ThankYouUzi
I was going to call this dumb, but former NTSB board member John Goglia just texted me and told me to reply with this instead: The issue raised in The Rehearsal is whether the authority gradient affects copilots' willingness to assert themselves at critical junctures and…
Nathan Fielder’s question has been asked and answered!
It was great hosting @UMassChan Med School’s Zoher Ghogawala for the 7th Annual Peter J. Jannetta Lectureship. Dr. Ghogawala presented two great talks on optimizing neurosurgery practice and clinical trials for the future.
Nathan Fielder pointing out that the 23 seconds “Sully” Sullenberger was quiet in the cockpit before landing that plane is the exact length of the chorus to Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” is the year’s best music journalism.
This movie’s script was so good that the bidding war for it reached 38 million and in response to losing the movie, Jordan peele fired his management. Cregger also described it as a magnolia esque horror film. Yeah it’s gonna be movie of the decade
The first trailer for Zach Cregger’s ‘WEAPONS’ has been released. The film follows a classroom of children who get out of their beds and disappear one night without a trace. In theaters on August 8.
I’m the host and producer of this documentary about the Mississippi Delta Chinese video & also cultural consultant on @SinnersMovie! Ryan Coogler and his team were meticulous about the details—truly an honor to see nonfiction enter the fiction space in this spectacular way.
wow ryan cooler really paid homage, I did not know this about the delta! #Sinners
using the kierkegaard dash to show i’m human
an easy tell if someone uses chatgpt is if they use the long dash (—) nobody uses that
In the 1980s, rising anti-Japanese sentiment fueled by trade tensions and xenophobia led to the murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit, Michigan. Chin was a Chinese-American but mistaken for Japanese, so his assailants beat him to death with a baseball bat after his bachelor's party.