Journal of Surgical Research

Calling on our vascular surgery colleagues on this important post @VascularSVS

We are launching a new Orthopedic Surgery section and are seeking the inaugural Associate Editor. Great opportunity for academic orthopedic surgeons with strong research and peer-review experience to help shape the journal’s future. 📅 Apply by May 3, 2026 📧 j.ma1@elsevier.com

📢 Call for Applications The Journal of Surgical Research is seeking an Associate Editor for Vascular Surgery. Join the editorial team helping shape high-quality surgical science and the peer-review process. Submit CV + brief statement by May 3, 2026. 📧 j.ma1@elsevier.com

@ColinWestMDPhD @ReaganACollins @drjessigold Thank you Dr West on this excellent article !

1/ Welcome to Edition 296 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll focus on a study of well-being domains and suicidal ideation in surgeons @JSurgRes @ReaganACollins @drjessigold Associations of Well-Being Measures With Suicidal Ideation in Surgeons sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

8/ The paper offers a number of specific suggestions for both individual and programmatic efforts that should be explored further Associations of Well-Being Measures With Suicidal Ideation in Surgeons sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

7/ Nurturing training and practice environments that foster professional fulfillment, resilience, self-valuation, and community may offer important benefits to well-being across its entire spectrum

6/ These results are cross-sectional, but they suggest that in addition to addressing depression and other mental health diagnoses there may be complementary opportunities to help reduce suicidal ideation

5/ Respondents with higher loneliness scores: aOR 1.45 for SI (p<.001)

4/ Respondents with higher: Professional fullfillment: aOR 0.51 for SI (p<.001) Resilience: aOR 0.82 (p=.001) Self-valuation: aOR 0.83 (p<.001) – teaser: more on this one next week!

3/ Among 622 students, trainees, and practicing surgeons, 1 in 4 reported a prior mental health disorder diagnosis and 13% reported SI in the prior 12 months. After adjusting for prior mental health disorders, what were the results?

2/ Suicidal ideation is not rare among physicians, with prior work from this team finding a frequency of 1 in 7 surgeons over the previous year. This study explored factors associated with suicidal ideation in this group. The results were … well, not surprising but additive.

Looking forward to this incredible opportunity!

@RachelChoron We are looking forward to your excellent leadership !

@JSurgRes Congrats to both!! Outstanding job @RachelChoron - a very proud mentor!! 👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽💪🏽💪🏽@RWJMS @rwjsurgery

Dr. Freeman is an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University and an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. At Baylor All Saints, she serves as Chief of the Department of Surgery, Director of the SICU, and APD of the General Surgery Residency Program

We are pleased to announce that Rachel Choron, MD, and Jennifer Freeman, MD, MPH, have been selected to serve as new Associate Editors for the Acute Care Surgery section of Journal of Surgical Research (JSR)

Dr. Choron is an Associate Professor at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she also serves as Medical Director of the Shock Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, and Director of the Rutgers ACS Research Lab.

New paper 📝 Reasons for Women Surgeon Attrition From the US Workforce sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Your emergency surgery may depend on which surgeon is on call. LDI Fellows Rachael Acker and Rachel Kelz examine wide variation in operative rates in their new study, and what is known about surgical decision-making. Read more: bit.ly/3N5Oi8E