Duke General Surgery Interest Group

Thank you to the @DukeSurgery faculty and @DukeSurgRes residents who helped make the 2022-2023 academic year successful! We did: ✅community outreach ✅education sessions ✅research mixer ✅mentorship ✅department mixer ✅2 events with @UNCSurgery ✅@AwsDuke Women in Surgery Day

See you next year at #VESS27!! @VESurgery @DukeSurgery

Yesterday’s co-sponsored @UnivSurg/@AcademicSurgery hot topic session “Anti-DEI Policies and Academic Surgery: Double-down or Pivot” was engaging, honest, and the bit of hope we all needed as we move forward with a health equity lens towards recruitment, retention, & research.

Important work & presentation @LewActually standardizing care & protecting feeding tubes #DukeSurgery #ASC26 #BehindTheKnife @georgoff @DukeHealth

I’m so proud to work with such fabulous @DukeMedSchool students. @SL_Provencher and @Ebun_Olunuga are absolute superstars—proud of their work presented at this year’s #ASC2026 @AcademicSurgery. Can’t wait to see where they match in March!

Always such a privilege to share our work @globalsurgallie ! This time, we evaluated perioperative outcomes for patients with HCC who received neoadjuvant therapy prior to hepatectomy. Thank you for the opportunity @AcademicSurgery !!

Academic Surgical Congress Starting tomorrow! Exciting line up of oral presentations from breast surgical oncology! Congrats to our students, Maya Blasingame, MS3, Ebun Olunuga, MS4, & Jeana Chun, MS3🌟🌟🌟Mentored by @JenniferPlichta @abotty02

blynny says he’s interested in pediatrics, but he’s been spending a lot of time with the vascular department… 🧐 @blynnythepooh

@DukeSurgery is supporting the Duke SNMA chapter at the 33rd Annual MLK JR. Banquet tonight.

when the ball drops at midnight but the ICU needs post-op orders. happy new year @JoeMLadowski ! 🪩 (been waiting all year to post this)

Excited to join my @umichmedicine friends for this discussion! @DukeSurgery @DukeMedSchool

Thrilling to learn of all the great research happening at @DukeSurgery , and exciting opportunities for our @DukeMedSchool surgery interest group tonight, particularly the #DukeVascularInformatics Lab. Kudos to Dr. Adam Johnson on his k12 CDA!!

as the holiday weekend comes to an end, we are so thankful for all of our incredible residents & everything they do to provide amazing care for our patients. especially @mary_moyamendez PGY2, who spent the last month seeing every inpatient consult at Duke University Hospital 👑

Grateful to have welcomed Dr. Dawn Coleman, Division Chief of Duke Vascular Surgery, to give a talk on grit, resilience, and intentionality at our 7th annual AWS Grand Rounds yesterday! 💙🥼🤝 What an honor to learn from her!

pull up to the party #pgy1 #decadewithdave #sevenwithkevin

Another successful Pickle for Pink (P4P) tournament! We are extremely grateful for everyone who came out and supported the event! @Novartis @Stryker_ST

Thank you #STSA2025 for the opportunity to present our work on Sustained Total All-Region Perfusion (STAR) during infant aortic arch repair! Huge thank you to all my mentors for the awesome support!✨ @DukeCTSurgery @stsa1954 @TurekPedHearts #Match2026

Good times at the Surgical Oncology Research Group social last night in downtown Durham. We may be data nerds, but we still have fun! Great representation from @DukeSurgery faculty, residents and our always outstanding @DukeMedSchool students. 🤩⭐️🤓📈📊

very grey’s anatomy of these three PGY2s to be hanging out on the bench outside Duke North in broad daylight 🫀 (who’s on the pager?) @blynnythepooh @mary_moyamendez @ElinorMannon @GreysABC

We’re in! We are open for screening and will be seeing patients for lung screening THIS SATURDAY, Nov. 8 @DukeCancer. Screening saves lives, y’all. #LCSM #LCSDay2025 #LungCancer

Dr. Dawn Coleman (@ColemanDM_vasc), Chief of @DukeVascular, is one of 103 esteemed surgeon educators who were inducted into the @AmCollSurgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators last month. Congratulations, Dr. Coleman! Read more: bit.ly/470HQFI @DukeMedSchool