maggie rose connolly, MD

Shout out to all janitorial and environmental service heroes!! This week @MGHsurgery residents have delivered nearly 50 individual thank you’s for their extra hard work keeping our hospital clean and safe for us and for our patients. 💙

Charlie’s story @MassGenBrigham youtu.be/L5b1A_tE63A

Honored and privileged to serve as the Mortimer J. Buckley Visiting Professor at @MassGenBrigham. Many thanks to the Buckley family, Thor Sundt, and entire @Harvard faculty and staff for your graciousness. Special recognition to the superb residents in whom I see...

The @amjtransplant has launched a dedicated #Xenotransplantation series and we have the privilege to lead it! Our inaugural AJT XenoPulse synthesizes the first nine patients who received xenotransplants. Excited to shape this w/ @JoeMLadowski & @SandyFeng8 amjtransplant.org/article/S1600-…

Cool story about a very special patient of mine who had two failed prosthetic heart valves at a very young age. youtube.com/watch?v=i03Mxl…

So well-deserved!! Congratulations @motazqadan

Congratulations to our recent CT graduates Drs. Maggie Connolly, David Miranda, Jordan Secor and Nik Panda!! So many amazing accomplishments, with so many more to come. @returnofthemags @JordanSecor @NikhilPanda_MD

June in Boston. 🤍

Can’t think of a more fun way to pass the day!!

“The bus was out of gas. It was time to go home.” 😂

Over 50% of patients under 60 in California are getting TAVR. This is absurd! Huge shoutout to @JoChikweMD and team for exposing the alarming truth: TAVR has a 250% higher risk of death in 5 years compared to SAVR. annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-…

On October 16, 1846, Mass General hosted the first successful public demonstration of ether as a surgical anesthetic. This groundbreaking event is commemorated each year as a significant milestone in our hospital’s history.

Standing room only for today’s @MGHSurgery Grand Rounds by Drs. Pierson, Madsen, Kawai, and @LVRiella discussing the first kidney xenotransplantation in a living human recipient

Dr. Jordan P. Bloom has been named the 2024 Supervising Physician of the Year by the Committee for Distinguished Physician Assistants. This award recognizes a supervising physician who supports, educates, and promotes PAs so they can practice to the full extent of their license.

Contraindication to TEE doesn’t mean contraindication to mini mitral: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

check out our case of complete excision of mitral annular calcification and double valve replacement with aortomitral curtain reconstruction! @mghctsurgery

Once again: a🧵about 🧵's It's been about a year since I last posted these, but for the new folks, here is a collection of links to each of my 🧵 about surgical sutures. 9 of these are about suture types and the other 3 are miscellaneous suture-related topics. ⬇️(1/ )

Cardiac surgeons Asishana Osho (@AsishanaOsho) and Ali Rabi (@S_Alireza_Rabi) are part of a team of medical researchers at MGH who are forging a new path aimed at making more and more hearts viable and available for transplantation. Read more: shorturl.at/vLdf3

Important echo views :

Here’s the best fluoroscopic Chest X-Ray of this medical condition I’ve ever seen What’s the diagnosis?

Short 🧵regarding the scissors with black handles: Those who read my original 🧵on the meaning of gold handled surgical instruments may recall I mentioned scissors with black handles (if not, see link at the end). I've now seen one in the wild and got the necessary photos.