Dr. George Sokos

Getting excited about #ACC26! For all my #WestVirginia friends, join us to celebrate at the @accwv chapter reception! @docsok99

While @ESPNCFB game day is in Pittsburgh today, we are busy trying to recruit more students from the Keystone State. Say hello to Elizabeth Sokos, an outstanding HS senior who wants to study history. No better place to do that than @WVUHistoryDept @WestVirginiaU @WVUAdmissions

@DrBrijPatel @IUCVInstitute @IUSMDeptMed I have no doubt this is well deserved! Congratulations!!

I learn a lot from the CV fellows and the cardiology giants @IUCVInstitute @IUSMDeptMed everyday. I always be grateful for the opportunity to be part of this group. Congrats to graduating fellows.

@MarkPacker You will be missed! Enjoy retirement and your family. You are a blessed man.

Breaking News. My agent alerted ESPN this morning that I have decided to retire. Given the difficult challenges of past 3 years on both a personal and professional level, the timing is right. I can't wait to travel, write, teach & live again! Thank you for all the support.

Great work by our @WVUMedicine HVi team!

@dranulala @DrMarthaGulati @robmentz @ShelleyZieroth @Drroxmehran @PamTaubMD @ErinMichos @AHajduczok @purviparwani @PPirlamarla_MD @RyanTedfordMD @AndrewJSauer Happy birthday 🎉🎂🎊

Happy Birthday to the amazing @DrMarthaGulati - someone who brings a lot of love and light into this world. 😊✨🎂

Before Epic, CareEverywhere, 20-patient templates, 10 drugs as GDMT for each patient 🤣, shared-decision making, MyChart direct patient messages, HealthStream compliance training on 🔥 safety, and during the days when you could read this article in print, not on your 📱

@AndrewJSauer I’m preparing for 65 but I love what I do (most days 😀). I love seeing patients and the joy of helping people never gets old. I may do it less as I get older but it’s what I am supposed to be doing.

Multiple responses here suggesting “I’ll retire when I no longer enjoy my work.” Makes sense, but are all actually prepared to retire when that day comes? What if u r 50 yo, before u can take distribution from traditional tax deferred accounts? Health insurance? Kids college?

Proud of our transplant and HF team for their presentations in Prague! @WVUMedicine @mojopreo @ISHLT @baileymcolvin

Breaking🔥 STEP-HFpEF-DM 🔥 Semaglutide (vs placebo) leads to more weight loss, improved health status (KCCQ-CSS), increased walking distance, improved glycemic control, reduced inflammation (CRP), reduced natriuretic peptides, reduced HF hospitalizations, with favorable safety and tolerability. @MkosiborodMD @MidAmericaHeart @saintlukeskc

Great to spend some quality time with our cardiology fellows and WVU Medicine HVI team at @ACC24. Great work everyone. Proud of your science! @sudarshanballa @WvuCvFellows @WVUMedicine @DrBrijPatel @cardiooncCMB @WVUKids

@AndrewJSauer Praying for all of the victims and their families. And all of you! May God be with you

All the video I’ve seen of these shootings is Kansas City citizens and police officers and military personnel running into the danger to stop the violent acts from continuing. That’s the kind of people we have in this city. Love and courage conquers fear and hate. My family is safe. I hope to learn my friends are safe too.

@WVUMedicine @BadhwarVinay @STS_CTsurgery Congratulations!

@FudimMarat @manesh_patelMD @robmentz @DukeHeartCenter @NirUrielMD @JavedButler1 @texhern @DukeHealth Congratulations!! Looking forward to see how this can integrate with our other monitoring tools.

🎉Ending the week on a high note with our first Fire 1 inferior vena cava remote monitoring sensor implant —>Measures IVC distention and collapse at a high resolution —>Can we get to assessing pressures and volumes at the same time? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34837447/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej…

@WVUMedicine Welcome addition to our excellent cardiac surgical team at the HVI. We looking forward to working with you both!

phenomapping strategy and diuresis score for ADHF and differential response to diuretic therapy, which was associated with length of stay and mortality A Phenomapping Tool and Clinical Score to Identify Low Diuretic Effici... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @JACCJournals

@lauradavisson @LuismiNieto14 @wvudeptofmed @TreahHaggerty Congratulations!

Proud to announce: Dr. Phani Surapaneni, WVU’s 1st fellow to train in Obesity Medicine (Nutrition & Metabolic Disease Fellowship class 2022-2023), has passed her exam & is board-certified by American Board of Obesity Medicine! Next is @LuismiNieto14 @wvudeptofmed @TreahHaggerty

@HeartOTXHeartMD All true! Congratulations on 40 years!!

#SuziQ & I were sitting at a bar last night, and the bartender was poking fun at us for being dressed in the same festive sweater. Then we told her that we’ve been together for 40 years: “You’re so lucky you have such a good husband.” No. It isn’t luck. All these years later and I can tell you with certainty… There’s nothing lucky about our #marriage. I think we need to stop painting the picture of a happy marriage that doesn’t come through hard work. Any couple who has a healthy, happy marriage that has lasted didn’t get there by luck. They didn’t just stay happily married. They sacrificed. They forgave. They rebuilt trust that was broken. They apologized. THEY TRUSTED GOD! They kept trying. They got help when they were stuck. They kept dating. They made time for each other. They learned how to communicate. They cared more about the marriage than their pride. There was nothing lucky about the marriage. They worked. They worked hard for one another. They got up on their crosses and denied themselves for one another- A LOT! The truth is—there is no happily ever after without the blood, the sweat, and the tears. The truth is that you can’t get to happy without going through the hard stuff. Your marriage is worth working for. ❤️ ”Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.“ 1 Corinthians 13:7 Original Author: Katy Ursta

@DrQuinnCapers4 @HowardU Congratulations!

Sr year at HU I would drag my girlfriend with me to eat lunch in the hospital cafeteria. Why? I was mesmerized by seeing Drs in their white coats, daydreaming that I would 1 day join their ranks. We’re back. Chair of Medicine & #Wifey That’s my @HowardU story. What’s yours?

@AndrewJSauer Happy birthday!!

December 5, 2013 changed my life for the better, forever. Happy Birthday Charles. Glad we got to hang out today and I didn’t have to work. A tradition I will always strive to preserve. Love you, and so glad I get to be your Dad.