UCSF GS Residency

🎉Congratulations to our UCSF vascular & general surgery residents on winning Poster Competition awards at VRIC! 🏆Iris Liu, MD - PAD & Ischemic Biology 🏆Dina Levy-Lambert, MD - Aortic Disease We're so proud of their dedication & contributions to vascular research. 👏#VRIC26

‼️Tomorrow May 20th at 7AM — Two rising voices. Two surgical specialties. Our Faculty Spotlight #GrandRounds returns featuring Vascular Surgeon Dr. Ahmed Naiem (@anaiem91) & Surgical Oncologist Dr. June Peng. Join us in HSW-300 or on Zoom👇 tiny.ucsf.edu/SurgeryRSS

‼️Congrats to Dr. Patricia @OSullivanUCSF on receiving the 2026–2028 @UCSF Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award for Enhancing Surgeons’ Operative Teaching: A Longitudinal Cohort Program — advancing how surgical knowledge is carried, demonstrated, & passed on at UCSF 👏

Great to see members of the Surgical Community recognized for their outstanding teaching by the UCSF SOM Graduating Class of 2026! Congratulations

Always great to operate with the outstanding @UCSFSurgery Residents. Had to wear my Dr Andre Campbell Day Hat. I appreciate the nurses in the SICU for creating the merch! @traumacareSF.

‼️Tomorrow, May 6 at 7am, alumna Dr. Yvonne Kelly returns to @UCSF—this time as an Asst. Professor of Surgery at @ucdavis as our Muriel Steele Society Visiting Professor. Her talk, “Empowering Women in Surgery: Inclusivity, Intentionality, Impact.” Join us tiny.ucsf.edu/SurgeryRSS

‼️A week of momentum. A week of precision. #Science. #Research. Presentations. Awards. Fellowship—in every sense. And we’re still here. At this point, it’s not just #ASE… it’s ASE-SF. @UCSF Surgery at the Association for Surgical Education 2026 Annual Meeting ↓

From research to recognition—@UCSF Surgery delivered in Atlanta. At the Association for Surgical Education (@Surg_Education) Annual Meeting 2026: 4⃣ grants Education Awards 2⃣ Presentation Awards 2⃣ SERF graduates Impact, all week‼️

Bringing it back to San Francisco‼️@UCSF General Surgery resident Dr. Jessica Santos-Parker (@JSantosParker) received the Outstanding Resident Teacher Award at the Association for Surgical Education (@Surg_Education) 2026 Annual Meeting🥳🥳

‼️No slides. No stage. Just 40+ @UCSFSurgery members—from faculty to trainees to staff—together tonight in Atlanta for the Association for Surgical Education (@Surg_Education) 2026 #SurgicalEducationWeek. Building what actually lasts after the research is presented. 👇👇

@UCSF was well represented at the Latino Surgical Symposium at @UChicago, with 4⃣ trainees and 2⃣ medical students presenting research. Resident Dr. Keli Santos-Parker received a Research Award for “A Novel Bayesian Surgical Risk Calculator for Shared Decision-Making.”🥳

‼️Tomorrow, April 22nd at 7am—Dr. Aaron J. Dawes (@AaronDawesMD), Asst. Professor + Colon & Rectal Surgeon at @StanfordMed, joins us as our West Coast Exchange Professor. His talk, “Medicaid and Surgical Cancer Care: Past, Present, and Future,” Join us: tiny.ucsf.edu/SurgeryRSS

Very proud of my husband and @UCSFGSResidency co-resident in applying his pure math PhD to clinical work! All he talks about is Bayesian statistics 😅 @UCSFSurgery

.@KSantosParker presents a new statistical framework created in collaboration with Dr. Lajos Pusztai @YaleBreast showing that measures of early response in neoadjuvant #breastcancer #clinicaltrials can reliably predict long-term survival. #AACR26 @AACR @OncoAlert

‼️Today, we congratulate Dr. Thomas Li, @UCSFGSResidency Resident, on receiving the 2025–2026 GME Excellence & Innovation Award in Education & Mentorship. Nominated by colleagues across the institution, this recognition speaks to the impact of his teaching in practice👏👏

‼️Tomorrow April 15th, we welcome Dr. Dawn M. Coleman (@ColemanDM_vasc), Professor and Chief of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at @DukeU, as our Binkley Visiting Professor. Her talk explores “Pediatric Renovascular HTN & Multidisciplinary Care” Join us: tiny.ucsf.edu/SurgeryRSS

Before the operating room, it looks like this‼️ Faculty guiding in real time.
Movements corrected as they happen.
Technique refined before it ever reaches the OR. This is surgical training at @UCSF — inside our @UCSFSkillsLab ↓

‼️Yesterday: the system. Today: the detail‼️ Every movement is deliberate. Nothing here is accidental. More on how #surgeons are trained at @UCSF and in our @UCSFSkillsLab ↓

‼️In our Surgical Skills Lab, precision is coached—movement by movement, in real time. This is how we train the next generation of surgeons. Featuring @UCSFGSResidency Resident Dr. Alan Zambeli-Ljepović & @UCSFSkillsLab Director Dr. Hueylan Chern.

‼️Tomorrow, April 8 at 7AM our Chief Resident Grand Rounds: Life in #Surgery: Movement, Diet, Pregnancy, Hazards. Surgical training isn’t just intellectual—it’s physical. What it requires. What it costs. With Drs. Karam, Sorrentino, Stephens & Ramalingam 👇tiny.ucsf.edu/SurgeryRSS