Mossab Saeed

Thank you @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery for this award looking forward to work with amazing STS database team. Thank you @JBMatthews , Dr.Salerno, Dr. del Nido, @JenConeMD, @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc for support and mentorship

Glad to share, I received the Mussallem CHD Alliance Travel award to attend the upcoming AATS annual meeting in Chicago Thank you @AATSHQ, the foundation, and Mussallem CHD Alliance for this opportunity to learn and connect with a great community.

Simon Sinek offers a counterintuitive take: The moment you step in and fix the problem, you stop being a leader: You got promoted because you were the best at the job. And that's precisely what makes leadership so difficult. The same instinct that made you great at the work, seeing the problem, knowing the answer, fixing it fast, becomes a liability the moment you move into a leadership role. Simon is direct about this: "Then you're not leading. You're just doing the work. You just have the leadership position." The people who now report to you may not be as good as you. They'll move slower. They'll miss things you would have caught immediately. And in those moments, every instinct will tell you to step in. But that instinct is exactly what you have to resist. "You can't just come in and tell them how you would do it. You have to push them to solve the problems the way that they would, just like someone did for you once before." Someone once gave you the space to figure it out. That patience is what shaped you. Now it's your turn to offer the same to others. Simon points to Chanel as a company that has built this principle into its culture. Newly hired senior leaders are not allowed to speak in meetings for their first three months. "You don't know anything about our company. And you'll learn by listening." Chanel trusts that their leaders will be around for the long term, so 90 days of silence is a small price to pay for someone who truly understands the business before they start shaping it. That's institutionalised patience. And it's almost unheard of. Most organisations reward speed, decisiveness, and output. So the pressure to swoop in and fix things feels justified, even virtuous. But Simon draws a hard line between having a leadership position and actually leading. One is a title. The other is a practice. And that practice demands something most high performers find deeply uncomfortable. Watching someone struggle toward an answer you already have, and choosing to let them find it themselves. That restraint is the real work of leadership.

📣 We’re hiring! The Lau Women’s Heart Lab at @MassGenBrigham is looking for a MD research fellow (patient-oriented 🫀research, epi) to join our team! Apply here tinyurl.com/3eb8byes or reach out to elau6@mgb.org to learn more.

@medplasty @AHPBA @TuftsMCSurgery @AChanceToCut @timpawlik @OSUWexMed Congrats brother all the best

Grateful for the opportunity to present our work in Miami at @AHPBA. Was a great time hanging out with mentors and friends #AHPBA In other news, super excited to be heading to @TuftsMCSurgery to begin my surgical residency. Can’t wait to meet everyone #Match2026

@GiannaDafflisio Congraaats Gianna All the best

This is an absolute dream come true. I truly couldn’t be more honored to join the Duke family!! Let’s get to work 💙🫀

@NFatimahMD @UTSW_Surgery @SamWangMD Congraaaats 🌹🌹🌹

Honored to be part of @UTSW_Surgery (a place I already call home). Grateful for the mentorship, especially @SamWangMD and incredibly excited to grow here alongside a truly hardworking group of residents. #Match2026 #GeneralSurgeryMatch

Amazing collaboration and effort Design and preclinical feasibility of a pediatric heart valve stent that spontaneously adapts to growth via a spring mechanism | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats Dr.Donington @jdoningtonmd 🌹🎊🎉 @STS_CTsurgery @UChicago @UChicagoCardio @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres

@TomVargheseJr @annie_polc @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery @JBMatthews @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc Thank you very much, Dr. Varghese Jr @TomVargheseJr

@annie_polc @SaeedMossab @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery @JBMatthews @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc Congrats!

Thank you @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery for this award looking forward to work with amazing STS database team. Thank you @JBMatthews , Dr.Salerno, Dr. del Nido, @JenConeMD, @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc for support and mentorship

@annie_polc @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery @JBMatthews @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc Thank you @annie_polc you 🌹❤️

@SaeedMossab @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery @JBMatthews @ValJeevanandam @miro_peev @uchicagosurgery @uchicagosurgres @uchicagohvc Congrats, Mossab!! So well deserved! 👏👏👏

UAE killing women and children in SUDAN🇸🇩

@Abdulkhaleq_UAE 🇸🇩✋️ #UAE_Kills_In_Sudan - #Stop_UAE_Aggression_In_Sudan - #UAE_War_Crimes_In_Sudan - #UAE_Atrocities_In_AlFashir - #AlFashir_Under_Attack_By_UAE - #Sudan_Bleeds_Because_Of_UAE

Great job by @NFatimahMD presenting her project studying the effects of dioxins on gastric cancer growth, a project that was inspired by @timofran. She's applying for general surgery residency and is an outstanding candidate! #ACSCC25 @UTSW_Surgery @utswcancer

@M_Pompeu_Sa_MD @mghctsurgery @MGHSurgery @MassGenBrigham @harvardmed @JordanBloomMD @ArminderJassar @MelnitchoukS @EribertoMichel @HosseiniMotahar @AsishanaOsho @JordanSecor @returnofthemags @aabha_divya @LiseTchouta Congraaats 🎉🎉

💥Very grateful for the year in Boston at @mghctsurgery @MGHSurgery @MassGenBrigham @harvardmed with @JordanBloomMD @ArminderJassar @MelnitchoukS @EribertoMichel @HosseiniMotahar @AsishanaOsho @JordanSecor @returnofthemags @aabha_divya @LiseTchouta #CardiacSurgery🫀

Woo hoo 🙌 what a class!

@annie_polc @UMichSurgery @uchicagosurgery @JBMatthews @JenConeMD @uchicagosurgres @DrewBenjaminMD Congraaats🌹

My final MATCH is complete!! SO PUMPED to spend next year @UMichSurgery for Surgical Critical Care fellowship!!!!! 〽️ Thank you to my mentors at @uchicagosurgery for getting me here! @JBMatthews @JenConeMD @uchicagosurgres (and thanks @DrewBenjaminMD for the shirt!)

Welcome new team 🎉🎉

We have some new family members ya’ll! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our incoming class of General Surgery interns! Thrilled to have #Matched such a stellar crew! 🤩🎉 @uchicagosurgres #Match2024