Eric Knauer

Thank you for publishing this, 10 min read. I’ll be happy to discuss or answer any questions about it. @ISorianoMD @rbarbosa91 @CPark_MD @SAGES_Updates @VNikolian @JJcolemanMD @DissanaikeMD @SLBachman @Sharpknife_Aziz @KeithDelman

@SyedAAhmad5 @TomVargheseJr Congratulations!!

Match day hit different this year. Proud of my son.

Congratulations!!

We are so excited to introduce our new incoming class of 🔥 interns! Congratulations and welcome to the Emory surgery family #EmoryTrained #GradyMade #match2026

So excited to welcome our new @MCWSurgery interns to our residency family!! #Match2026

@Sharpknife_Aziz @CentralSurg @uiowa @MattWalshMD Congratulations!!

Thrilled to receive the 2026 Foundation Award from the @CentralSurg to study how age influences access to curative surgery. Grateful to my mentors and team for supporting this work. @uiowa . A Big Win for the Surgical Outcomes group at the University of Iowa.

@elliotthaut @rbarbosa91 @AaronGilani @ericpaulimd Need a cheese signal like the bat signal.

@rbarbosa91 @EricKnauerMD @AaronGilani Now we need a surgeon who is also an expert in cheese to comment. @ericpaulimd

Surgery resident @AaronGilani asked why people close the fascia of trocar sites with a figure-of-eight suture instead of a horizontal mattress. Let us look at these briefly via one of my experiments. (1/ )

@rbarbosa91 @Adelso22 Great demonstration. Which trocar sites? I don’t use figures of eight, just regular stitches for open cut downs and suture passer closures.

To test my theory, I created a simulated fascial defect in the cheese, and pulled each of them laterally. I didn't make a video, but when pulling the cheese halves apart, it was evident that the figure-of-eight was considerably more secure than the horizontal mattress (p<0.05).

Hey @EmorySurgery look who I found! @CPoorzzz

Here to celebrate the career of an amazing person, one of the best surgeons, mentors, and more.

@rbarbosa91 @GAEscobarMD I know I have mine from residency.

@GAEscobarMD Are those still available to you in electronic form (16 years later), or do you have a physical copy?

Crazy...found my case logs. TBF (there was no other fellow my first year). 😬

@ElliotServaisMD @SAGES_Updates I will have to check this out. I had difficulty placing some things in the correct location on my CV. AI or a service should be able to do this. Enter details and the item automatically gets listed correctly.

@EricKnauerMD @SAGES_Updates We use EasyCV Works well. Growing list of auto-formatted templates home.easycv.me/about-easycv Requires individual or institutional subscription

Trainee CV template? I see CVs from trainees from multiple programs and they are all unique. Anyone have a good standard template. Emory has one for faculty. Thank you. @SAGES_Updates

@rbarbosa91 @SAGES_Updates I wonder if there is a way to analyze the hobbies listed on residency applications. What % have hiking listed?

@EricKnauerMD @SAGES_Updates If you list any hobbies on your CV, they should pick one of these at random during the interview and make the person demonstrate it. 🤔

@SAGES_Updates What font and what size. youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si…

@EricKnauerMD Depends on if you identify as an Order Muppet or a Chaos Muppet.

@SAGES_Updates That’s a good start. Most recent school first or last?

@EricKnauerMD Your name Where you went to school Stuff you did.

Short🧵regarding fascial closure: I had a lot of fun with my 🧵on LOTR last week, but I must now return to my core content. Let us briefly review why it is important to avoid catching too much subcutaneous tissue in our sutures when closing fascia.

@rbarbosa91 Awesome thread!!

🧵regarding Lord of the Rings - related traumatic injuries, and whether access to modern Level 1 trauma centers could have decreased morbidity and mortality within the Fellowship. Here we will take a more evidence-based approach to some of the injuries in Middle Earth (1/ )