Robin Petroze
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@robinpetroze
Pediatric Surgeon, mom, advocate for health equity worldwide. my views are my own!
This Wednesday,#CHUK Pediatrics Surgery team,led by Dr @Alain_Jules in collaboration with colleagues from the @UMichSurgery Dr @robinpetroze,successfully performed a left hemihepatectomy on a 15-month-old child weighing 6kgs.The entire left lobe of the liver,representing..1/2
Excited to welcome some visitors to the Department of Surgery today! Robin Petroze, MD, MPH, took general surgeons Jacques Ebhele, MD, and Miguel Gasakure, MD, for a tour of the hospital while they're in town to discuss educational collaborations.
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Vanessa Niba, MD, for receiving the 2025 ACS H.O.P.E. Lusaka Resident Research Scholarship! The award recognizes her passion for global health & understanding of the needs in Lusaka, Zambia, home of a surgical training hub.
Today,our Pediatrics Surgery team in partnership with @UMPedsSurg experts,performed a successful extended right hepatectomy in a 10-month,6kg infant with #congenitalLiverCancer.Done by a team led by CHUK's @Alain_Jules & @robinpetroze from @UMichSurgery is 1st of its kind in Rda
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust. Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We intend to keep #OpeningSurgery to the public @mediaHouses, @parents @futurepatients @policymakers #YouShouldKnowWhatWeDo #StopFearingSurgeyAndAnesthesia Thank you @parents for trusting us with your kids.@operationsmile @OpSmileRwanda @Uni_Rwanda @HospitalChuk @RwandaHealth
Right now in Rwanda: @robinpetroze is with @philjhsu and local pediatric surgery fellow Japhet Ntezamizero, MD, teaching initial gastroschisis care to general practitioners. What else is going on in global surgery in the department? More here: michmed.org/XYgqX
