Dr. Fayanju’s insights on the rising rates of breast cancer in younger women are crucial for raising awareness and encouraging preventive measures. Thanks for highlighting this growing concern and shedding light on the factors at play

This past weekend Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, was installed as the President of the Surgical Outcomes Club.  Congratulations @drlolafayanju.bsky.social

This past Saturday, Thoracic Surgery had their Fall Outing at the Penn Park Picnic Grove. Great food! Great friends! Great time had by all! The weather couldn't have been any nicer. For more pics, please visit: instagram.com/pennsurgery

Yesterday was our biennial Faculty/House Staff photo that takes place after our yearly "State of the Department" in front of the John Morgan Building.

Congratulations to Mary Y. Wang, DNP, CRNP on her promotion to Associate Clinical Manager of Urology at PMWS 🎉🥳🎊👏

We'd like to welcome (back) Jane Keating, MD, FACS this time as an Associate Professor of Surgery who will practice in all areas of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at HUP, PPMC, and PAH. For more on Dr Keating, please visit: instagram.com/pennsurgery

Some outstanding work being done by members of our Housestaff🎉🥳🎉🥳

To promote secure storage of firearms, learn directly from owners what they are looking for in a lock: strong, tough, smooth to open, no glitches. bit.ly/4leb3IS

We are proud to announce that Margaret Pichardo is a recipient of a 2025 Doctors Day Community Grant Award for her submission: “Characterizing Longitudinal Dietary Quality During Breast Cancer Treatment among Hispanic/Latina Women”.

IT'S HERE!!! IT'S HERE!!! Hot off the press And it's a BIGGIE!! bit.ly/4fe5JOk

Predictors of return to work after traumatic injury: Associations of employment with long-term patient-reported outcomes ft. Joseph Kern (@pennmedicine.bsky.social), @ErinGDawson, @MarkSeamonMD & Elinore Kaufman (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) @pennldi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to this year's @pennmedicine.bsky.social McCabe Fund Awardees! @PennRheum @PennRadOnc @PennRadiology #Dermatology @pennsurgery.bsky.social @PennNeurology @Penn_DFMCH @PennPulmonary @dbei-upenn.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social @PennVet tinyurl.com/546y5nmc

Some of your favorite Penn Medicine and CHOP Department of Surgery Attending’s are proving that hard work and dedication pays off. Congratulations to all of you on your well-deserved promotion.

Bariatric Surgeon Maria AltierI MD discusses the various options for treating obesity, the role of the GLP-1 weight loss medications and surgery, and the mindset needed to be successful with weight-loss for the long term. bit.ly/44RI15p

Our Chief of breast surgery @drlolafayanju.bsky.social talks with @nbcnews.com about why we are seeing more and more young women diagnosed with breast cancer. www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

Drs. Saad Farooq, Jerica Tidwell and Giorgos Karakousis published a contemporary review of the neoadjuvant therapy landscape in melanoma.

Drs Jack DePaolo, Scott Damraurer et al. recently published a novel method of using common variant genetics to improve our ability to predict which patients will develop an aortic dissection.

Neighborhood, stage at diagnosis & treatment delay for breast cancer ft. I. Yoon (#Derm), S. Perez-Rojas, L. Elmore, A. Mateo, M. Pichardo, J. Tchou, J. Zhang, @drlolafayanju.bsky.social (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) & @rhubbbstat.bsky.social (@dbei-upenn.bsky.social) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Last night we celebrated Pete Atherton who will be retiring as a full time Penn Medicine employee after 31+ years. For more pictures of this DOS legend, please visit: instagram.com/@pennsurgery

Drs. Ariel Nehemiah, Erica Pettke, and Robert Krouse demonstrate the promise of using health coaching and physical activity to improve symptoms of low anterior resection syndrome and quality of life for survivors of rectal cancer.

In this Landmark Review, Drs Lily Owei and Heather Wachtel summarize the contemporary literature and guidelines and describe key principles in the evaluation and management of adrenal incidentalomas, a rising epidemic in the age of modern imaging.

Thank you Dr Julie K. Heimbach, The Mayo Clinic Director, William J von Liebig Transplant Center for giving this morning’s Division of Transplant Surgery D. Hayes Agnew Lecture. The full program is now available at: instagram.com/pennsurgery

It’s Clinical Research Week at Penn. Our Division of Breast Surgery is currently raising awareness about clinical trial opportunities at Penn. More details can be found: www.pennmedicine.org/research-at-...

Congratulations to our Division of Trauma Program Manager Kristen Chreiman who was awarded Villanova University’s Louis Fitzpatrick College of Nursing Medallion; Distinguished Leadership in Nursing Practice Award.

Operative vs nonoperative treatment of acute cholecystitis in older adults with multimorbidity ft Rachael Acker, Sara Ginzberg, James Sharpe @ljk50 Jasmine Hwang @BakillahEmna Drew Goldberg, Elinore Kaufman & Rachel Kelz (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) @pennldi.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ICYMI: Last weekend our Division of Breast Surgery was represented by a team of accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons (#ASBrS2025).

ft. Patrick Mellors, @GillSaar (@penncancer.bsky.social), Ana Nottingham, @BrunoCasino, Maksim Shestov, @JoePlaner, Andrew Peterson, Yun Ying, Su Zhou, Jason Christie, Joshua Diamond, @mariacbasil.bsky.social (Penn Medicine) & Edward Cantu (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

We will be represented by a team of accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons. We're encouraging everyone to visit the Poster & Oral Presentation Sessions to support faculty, trainees & students as they deliver impactful info on new & ongoing research projects.

Could not be prouder of @pennsurgery.bsky.social resident Chris Neylan successfully defending his masters in translational research today 🤩

In a review of neonatal aortic arch surgery literature, Michael A. Catalano, MD & colleagues identify & describe an alarming degree of variation in selecting antegrade cerebral perfusion practices, highlighting the need for further evaluation & optimization of techniques.

An interview with @drlolafayanju.bsky.social, Chief of Breast Surgery, explained how symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer show up in patients w/darker skin tones could help ensure more accurate diagnoses with increased medical education for primary care providers.

Congratulations to Jennifer Zhang (@pennsurgery.bsky.social), recipient of a 2025 @NCCN Young Investigator Award in support of her work driving innovation in cancer treatment & care! tinyurl.com/yxxj83pb

New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.

Last night Dr Peter Mattei was inducted into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians. Dr Mattei is Professor of Surgery, Attending Pediatric Surgeon in the Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   #PennMedicineAOMC

Congratulations to Dr BenjaminSmood for his prestigious Mend a Heart Foundation Award from The Children’s Heart Foundation. Dr. Smood is pursuing his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, which focuses on novel interventions to treat lymphatic failure in congenital heart disease. Excellent work!

Congratulations to Dr. Atluri and his lab for their recent publication in #JTCVS Open focused on understanding the impact distances between donor and transplant centers have on post-transplant outcomes. bit.ly/4lvtyDN

🔥hot off the presses🔥 doubling the number of 🧬 loci for diverticulitis and shedding light on the basis of this diseases. Kudos to @pennsurgery.bsky.social resident first author Chris Neylan www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Julia Tchou, MD, PhD, Lola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, and Jennifer Q. Zhang, MD, are representing the Penn Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program at the 2025 SSO meeting in Tampa, FL #SSO2025 #SSOCommunity #SSO

Excellent presentation by Dr Neha Shafique at the #SSO2025 Melanoma session presenting our institutional experience with single-dose neoadjuvant pembrolizumab. Congratulations!

In the newest episode of the Penn Primary Care Podcast, Dr Kendall Williams speaks with Bariatric and GI Surgeon Dr Leslie Okorji, about the diagnosis and management of inguinal and abdominal hernias. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Endocrine Surgery Section Chief Heather Wachtel presenting her excellent work on PARP-1 as a novel theranostic marker in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma for which she won the Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Investigator Award in 2023. #SSO2025

Dr Cara Berkowitz presenting work from @drlolafayanju.bsky.social Penn Breast Surgery lab at #SSO2025

SSO Ewing Lecturer Dr Susan Domchek at #SSO2025. @penncancer.bsky.social

In a recent piece for @AmJSurgery, @sebastianleonmd , Sangjoon Lee, @juanespm & @Laparoscopes (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on surgical education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research provides a comprehensive analysis of malperfusion associated with acute type A aortic dissection ft. @NickGoelMD, @John_J_Kelly_MD, @williamlpatrick, Yu Zhao, @BavariaMd & @NimeshDesaiMD @PennCardiology @pennsurgery.bsky.social www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S000...

Congratulations to 3 @pennmedicine.bsky.social teams whose publications were selected for the 2025 @CRForumUS Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards! ft. Tomas Aleman (@ScheieEye), @evanweberphd.bsky.social (@ChildrensPhila) & @damrauer (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/42ae5acc

A study from @agarwalEM @kitdelgado.bsky.social (@UPennEM) Daniel Lee (@pennsurgery.bsky.social) & Zarina Ali (@PennNSG) found that patients who receive an opioid disposal kit after surgery were more likely to dispose of leftover pills than those who did not @pennldi.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3tnne39z

President of The Society of Surgical Oncology AND our Chairman Dr Ron DeMatteo giving his first keynote 😉 at the #SSO2025 Pre-meeting Surgical Clinical Trials Primer Course.

We are so excited to have Dr. Syndey Chambule join the Penn Urology family!

Jennifer Zhang, MD has been named a recipient for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation Young Investigator Awards Program. These early-career investigators from NCCN Member Institutions represent tomorrow's leaders for advancing cancer care. CONGRATULATIONS!!