Julie A Sosa, MD

Don't let work become a habit because you've forgotten how to live any other way. And don't judge colleagues who work less hard. The ultimate 'duty of care' is to yourself. Pinching myself to remember! @AcademicSurgery @ELAMProgram #WorkLifeBalance twitter.com/HarvardBiz/sta…

‼️Acute Care Surgeon Dr. Rachel Koch has received a 2026 Mentored Scientist Award in Global Health supporting efforts to expand surgical care across East #Africa through education, partnerships & systems development. The project received $50,000 from @IGHSatUCSF & @UCSF_CHESA 👏

‼️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

‼️The American Surgical Association bestowed the prestigious 2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ Flance-Karl Award upon @UCSFTransplant Surgeon Dr. Sandy Feng (@SandyFeng8) — our Vice Chair of Research — recognizing research with lasting clinical impact on the field of transplantation👏

‼️Congrats to Dr. Alexander Lin (@AlexLinPlastic) & the FaceShift team on receiving a @UCSF Catalyst Final Award in Digital & Computational Health. The AI-driven platform uses 3D scanning + patient-specific guides to help reshape pediatric facial differences non-invasively🥳

A privilege to hear stories from the early days of laparoscopy from 2 OG’s - @EndoSurgSF and Michel Gagner

‼️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 👏

JUST IN‼️Colon & Rectal Surgeon Dr. Ivy Huang (@IvyHuangMD) will join @UCSF Surgery this September as Assistant Professor of Surgery, integrating colorectal surgical care with a focus on education, shaped by training at @Penn, @UCLAHealth, @NorthwesternMed, and @JohnsHopkins 💫💫

‼️Chosen by the people who experienced it. This evening @UCSFPlastic & Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Esther Kim will receive the Excellence in Teaching for Clinical Faculty Award from the @UCSFMedicine Class of 202⃣6⃣—an honor driven by graduating medical student nominations👏👏

US nonprofit hospitals spent $7.8 billion on management consultants from 2009 to 2023, but contracts were not associated with meaningful changes in finance, operations, or quality of care. 🧵 ja.ma/4d46zfq

‼️This October, Hand & Microvascular Surgeon Dr. Yoshi Toyoda will join @UCSF Surgery as Asst. Professor of Surgery, bringing training from @Cornell, @WeillCornell, @Penn, & @MayoClinic, w/ a clinical focus on hand surgery, extremity salvage, and peripheral nerve reconstruction👏

‼️$1.2M. 4 years. System-wide impact. Associate Prof. Dr. Amrita Basu helped secure a PCORI Health System Implementation Initiative award to implement real-time symptom monitoring for cancer patients across 33 practices. Less guesswork. Earlier intervention. Better outcomes👏👏

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump. wapo.st/4eDLPO4

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the NIH is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. wapo.st/4trInL7

NEW: NIH spending on new medical research has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. @benjmueller @irenatfh nytimes.com/2026/04/22/sci…

A 31% drop in NIH grants focused on women in 2025. Behind that number are labs, scientists, and diseases like endometriosis and ovarian cancer - areas that have long been misunderstood, underfunded, and deprioritized. inequity reinforced by science in real time.

In other news, the sky is blue.

Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline. Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).

NIH slowdown hit women hardest. Five years of gain erased in ~1.5 cycles. Female PI-led R01 grants ⇣938 with $444M gone. This chart is the cleanest capture of this loss. Cuts landed where women lead: breast, ovarian, and gynecologic cancers. Dig deeper & the gap keeps widening: ▫️ women start small: $0.94M vs $1.4M for men ▫️ larger losses: 57.9% vs 48.2% for men ▪️ early-career hit hardest: 59.8% of affected assistant professor grants are women led This is how you reset a generation: ↳ cut funding → fewer labs ↳ fewer labs → fewer leaders ↳ fewer leaders → fewer women at the top Pipelines don't bounce back, they just thin out silently. If you are a woman in science, now is the time to pay attention Read more about this in first comment below = = = = = Source: NIH RePORTER via Jori (@jori_health) Method: PI gender-inference is non-trivial. Jori classified 91% algorithmically, then we manually reviewed profiles to classify another 6% (ie, ~ 3% remain unclassified). This chart reflects the 97% classified names with high confidence. = = = = =

Dr. Michael DeBakey and his protege Dr. Denton Cooley once formed the world’s most elite heart surgery team at Baylor. On April 4, 1969, Cooley implanted the first Total Artificial Heart (TAH) without DeBakey’s permission. DeBakey claimed Cooley "stole" the device from his research lab while DeBakey was out of town. Cooley argued it was a desperate "bridge to transplant" to save a dying patient; DeBakey called it a "childish" bid for glory. The move triggered a federal investigation and an immediate, irreparable split in their professional relationship. Cooley left Baylor to build the Texas Heart Institute (THI), creating two rival surgical empires on the same Houston block. Despite working doors away from each other, the two legends didn't speak for nearly four decades. In 2007, a 99-year-old DeBakey and an 87-year-old Cooley finally shook hands and reconciled just before DeBakey’s death.

‼️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.