Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS
@thenotorioushpb.bsky.social
1. #GirlDad | 2. Husband | 3. HPB Surgical Oncologist | Patients come first and outcomes matter
Pinned
Thrilled to join the amazing group at Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest/Jefferson Health. It will be a privilege to contribute to a great program and help bring #HAI to patients in the region. I cannot wait to collaborate with partners and leadership to prioritize patients, safety, and clinical excellence.
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End of year content continues!🎊
2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ HPB Wrapped by SSO with Cecilia Ethun & Sajid Khan
Top 10 studies🌟 - in this episode
🔟AMPLIFY
9⃣Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-PDAC
8⃣HELIX
7⃣CAMINO
6⃣PANDAS
Which one had the most impact #HPBSky?
🎧 tinyurl.com/5c5yj5ye
#SurgSky #MedSky #OncSky
2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ HPB Wrapped by SSO with Cecilia Ethun & Sajid Khan
Top 10 studies🌟 - in this episode
🔟AMPLIFY
9⃣Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-PDAC
8⃣HELIX
7⃣CAMINO
6⃣PANDAS
Which one had the most impact #HPBSky?
🎧 tinyurl.com/5c5yj5ye
#SurgSky #MedSky #OncSky
December 13, 2024 at 12:20 AM
End of year content continues!🎊
2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ HPB Wrapped by SSO with Cecilia Ethun & Sajid Khan
Top 10 studies🌟 - in this episode
🔟AMPLIFY
9⃣Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-PDAC
8⃣HELIX
7⃣CAMINO
6⃣PANDAS
Which one had the most impact #HPBSky?
🎧 tinyurl.com/5c5yj5ye
#SurgSky #MedSky #OncSky
2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ HPB Wrapped by SSO with Cecilia Ethun & Sajid Khan
Top 10 studies🌟 - in this episode
🔟AMPLIFY
9⃣Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-PDAC
8⃣HELIX
7⃣CAMINO
6⃣PANDAS
Which one had the most impact #HPBSky?
🎧 tinyurl.com/5c5yj5ye
#SurgSky #MedSky #OncSky
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Does the impact of pancreatic fistula (POPF) differ between minimally invasive (MIPD) vs open (OPD) #Whipple?
In pts with POPF after MIPD:
⬆️ sec complications ⚠️
⬆️ hemorrhage 🩸
⬆️ hospital stay 🏥
⬆️ reoperations 🔪
@carobruna.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social
▶️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…
In pts with POPF after MIPD:
⬆️ sec complications ⚠️
⬆️ hemorrhage 🩸
⬆️ hospital stay 🏥
⬆️ reoperations 🔪
@carobruna.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social
▶️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…
December 4, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Does the impact of pancreatic fistula (POPF) differ between minimally invasive (MIPD) vs open (OPD) #Whipple?
In pts with POPF after MIPD:
⬆️ sec complications ⚠️
⬆️ hemorrhage 🩸
⬆️ hospital stay 🏥
⬆️ reoperations 🔪
@carobruna.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social
▶️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…
In pts with POPF after MIPD:
⬆️ sec complications ⚠️
⬆️ hemorrhage 🩸
⬆️ hospital stay 🏥
⬆️ reoperations 🔪
@carobruna.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social
▶️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…
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Liver embolization for #NETs metastases: bland or chemo?
⬆️PFS for TACE vs TAE (after PSM)
Same complications
⚠️Selection bias...
⏭️RETNET RCT should answer this once and for all - 👀 out for results
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ihpba.bsky.social 🗞️
#NETsSky #MedSky #SurgSky
⬆️PFS for TACE vs TAE (after PSM)
Same complications
⚠️Selection bias...
⏭️RETNET RCT should answer this once and for all - 👀 out for results
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ihpba.bsky.social 🗞️
#NETsSky #MedSky #SurgSky
Trans-arterial embolization versus chemoembolization for neuroendocrine liver metastases: a propensity matched analysis
Locoregional therapies are a mainstay of treatment for patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases (NELM), yet the optimal transarterial approach re…
sciencedirect.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Liver embolization for #NETs metastases: bland or chemo?
⬆️PFS for TACE vs TAE (after PSM)
Same complications
⚠️Selection bias...
⏭️RETNET RCT should answer this once and for all - 👀 out for results
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ihpba.bsky.social 🗞️
#NETsSky #MedSky #SurgSky
⬆️PFS for TACE vs TAE (after PSM)
Same complications
⚠️Selection bias...
⏭️RETNET RCT should answer this once and for all - 👀 out for results
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ihpba.bsky.social 🗞️
#NETsSky #MedSky #SurgSky
We’ve been through a lot in the past year but kept the faith, kept the focus, and came out the other side harder, better, faster, stronger, and wiser. More to be thankful for than can be put into words and looking forward to some amazing adventures. 💎⬆️💨💪🏼🧙🏼♂️😍 🦃
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 AM
We’ve been through a lot in the past year but kept the faith, kept the focus, and came out the other side harder, better, faster, stronger, and wiser. More to be thankful for than can be put into words and looking forward to some amazing adventures. 💎⬆️💨💪🏼🧙🏼♂️😍 🦃
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If you do not already know this, Radio France FIP is the best radio station in the universe. An eclectic mix of music and at best, I know every tenth song. Can't imagine my admin/research days at work without FIP.
Expand your musical mind - check FIP out!
www.radiofrance.fr/fip
Expand your musical mind - check FIP out!
www.radiofrance.fr/fip
FIP – Écouter la radio en direct et les radios thématiques
Tout l'univers musical de FIP, sélection de titres Jazz, Electro, Rock, Pop, Groove et bien plus. Écoutez la radio en direct et les radios thématiques.
www.radiofrance.fr
November 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM
If you do not already know this, Radio France FIP is the best radio station in the universe. An eclectic mix of music and at best, I know every tenth song. Can't imagine my admin/research days at work without FIP.
Expand your musical mind - check FIP out!
www.radiofrance.fr/fip
Expand your musical mind - check FIP out!
www.radiofrance.fr/fip
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🐳 Reoperation for pancreatic fistula on @ihpba.bsky.social journal
🤜🤛 Completion pancreatectomy or pancreas-preserving procedures ?!
💦 Drainage / wirsungostomy 44% vs. Completion panc 37%
😱 Mortality as high as 67%!
👀 What is your policy?
🆓 paper 👉 www.hpbonline.org/article/S136... #HPBSky
🤜🤛 Completion pancreatectomy or pancreas-preserving procedures ?!
💦 Drainage / wirsungostomy 44% vs. Completion panc 37%
😱 Mortality as high as 67%!
👀 What is your policy?
🆓 paper 👉 www.hpbonline.org/article/S136... #HPBSky
November 27, 2024 at 6:48 AM
🐳 Reoperation for pancreatic fistula on @ihpba.bsky.social journal
🤜🤛 Completion pancreatectomy or pancreas-preserving procedures ?!
💦 Drainage / wirsungostomy 44% vs. Completion panc 37%
😱 Mortality as high as 67%!
👀 What is your policy?
🆓 paper 👉 www.hpbonline.org/article/S136... #HPBSky
🤜🤛 Completion pancreatectomy or pancreas-preserving procedures ?!
💦 Drainage / wirsungostomy 44% vs. Completion panc 37%
😱 Mortality as high as 67%!
👀 What is your policy?
🆓 paper 👉 www.hpbonline.org/article/S136... #HPBSky
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More and more people joining @bsky.app
For all those interested in HPB surgery - here is a starter pack of people and organizations in that field #HPBSky #SurgSky #MedSky
Let me know of others to add!
go.bsky.app/KyNk7sx
For all those interested in HPB surgery - here is a starter pack of people and organizations in that field #HPBSky #SurgSky #MedSky
Let me know of others to add!
go.bsky.app/KyNk7sx
November 27, 2024 at 1:56 AM
More and more people joining @bsky.app
For all those interested in HPB surgery - here is a starter pack of people and organizations in that field #HPBSky #SurgSky #MedSky
Let me know of others to add!
go.bsky.app/KyNk7sx
For all those interested in HPB surgery - here is a starter pack of people and organizations in that field #HPBSky #SurgSky #MedSky
Let me know of others to add!
go.bsky.app/KyNk7sx
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@eahpba.bsky.social now also on BlueSky 👍👍
E-AHPBA Dublin 🍀
10-12 June 2025
9 June, pre-congress course and guideline meeting!
10-12 June 2025
9 June, pre-congress course and guideline meeting!
November 26, 2024 at 6:34 PM
@eahpba.bsky.social now also on BlueSky 👍👍
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First-Line Systemic Treatment for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases
Post Hoc Analysis of the CAIRO5 Randomized Clinical Trial
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Post Hoc Analysis of the CAIRO5 Randomized Clinical Trial
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
First-Line Systemic Treatment for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases
This randomized clinical trial examines different treatments for patients with unresectable colorectal cancer with liver-only metastases.
jamanetwork.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
First-Line Systemic Treatment for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases
Post Hoc Analysis of the CAIRO5 Randomized Clinical Trial
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Post Hoc Analysis of the CAIRO5 Randomized Clinical Trial
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Survival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer Diagnosis
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Survival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer Diagnosis
This cohort study evaluates the survival outcomes of currently smoking patients with cancer who entered into a smoking cessation treatment program based on the time between diagnosis and program entry...
jamanetwork.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Survival Outcomes of an Early Intervention Smoking Cessation Treatment After a Cancer Diagnosis
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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For next time a patient with new cancer diagnosis asks "what can I do?"
Finally some evidence to answer:
🛑Stop smoking
⤴️median OS by 1.8 yrs with cessation within 6 months
Love data that can change what we do immediately in clinic! 😀
tinyurl.com/etwcd4yv
#MedSky #SurgSky #HPBSky
Finally some evidence to answer:
🛑Stop smoking
⤴️median OS by 1.8 yrs with cessation within 6 months
Love data that can change what we do immediately in clinic! 😀
tinyurl.com/etwcd4yv
#MedSky #SurgSky #HPBSky
November 25, 2024 at 3:30 AM
For next time a patient with new cancer diagnosis asks "what can I do?"
Finally some evidence to answer:
🛑Stop smoking
⤴️median OS by 1.8 yrs with cessation within 6 months
Love data that can change what we do immediately in clinic! 😀
tinyurl.com/etwcd4yv
#MedSky #SurgSky #HPBSky
Finally some evidence to answer:
🛑Stop smoking
⤴️median OS by 1.8 yrs with cessation within 6 months
Love data that can change what we do immediately in clinic! 😀
tinyurl.com/etwcd4yv
#MedSky #SurgSky #HPBSky
💯
Unsolicited career advice:
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
November 25, 2024 at 2:14 AM
💯
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My friend, I am currently writing an update of “Simone’s Maxims” and I may cite you
November 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM
My friend, I am currently writing an update of “Simone’s Maxims” and I may cite you
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS
Unsolicited career advice:
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
November 24, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Unsolicited career advice:
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
Be humble enough to know you are replaceable.
Be arrogant enough to know that it will be a downgrade.
“Hey Siri, make me smile…”
Siri: 😍😍😍
Siri: 😍😍😍
November 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
“Hey Siri, make me smile…”
Siri: 😍😍😍
Siri: 😍😍😍
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Cancer recurrence and survival among patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment and surgery for esophageal cancer: A single-institution 10-year experience
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
Cancer recurrence and survival among patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment and surgery for esophageal cancer: A single-institution 10-year experience
Standard of care for locally advanced esophageal cancer is neoadjuvant therapy followed
by surgical resection. The objective of this study is to explore perioperative factors
associated with recurrenc...
www.surgjournal.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Cancer recurrence and survival among patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment and surgery for esophageal cancer: A single-institution 10-year experience
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
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How common is recurr cholangitis after Whipple/HJ without HJ-stenosis (NSC)? Treatment?
🔑 4.2% of 1179 pts with HJ developed NSC
🔑 'step-up approach' = resolution of NSC in 15pts (30%) and reduction of NSC in additional 21pts (42%).
🔑 ✅ UDCA +stopping PPI
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔑 4.2% of 1179 pts with HJ developed NSC
🔑 'step-up approach' = resolution of NSC in 15pts (30%) and reduction of NSC in additional 21pts (42%).
🔑 ✅ UDCA +stopping PPI
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM
How common is recurr cholangitis after Whipple/HJ without HJ-stenosis (NSC)? Treatment?
🔑 4.2% of 1179 pts with HJ developed NSC
🔑 'step-up approach' = resolution of NSC in 15pts (30%) and reduction of NSC in additional 21pts (42%).
🔑 ✅ UDCA +stopping PPI
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔑 4.2% of 1179 pts with HJ developed NSC
🔑 'step-up approach' = resolution of NSC in 15pts (30%) and reduction of NSC in additional 21pts (42%).
🔑 ✅ UDCA +stopping PPI
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧐🧐🧐…
Saw this post on X from Dr. Tala Alrousen.
Which one are you?
Which one are you?
November 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
🧐🧐🧐…
On this #WorldPancreaticCancerDay, I wish my mom a happy heavenly birthday. She would have been 77 years old today if not for this terrible disease. I will continue to fight for her and all of my patients. We must do better. 💜
November 21, 2024 at 6:05 PM
On this #WorldPancreaticCancerDay, I wish my mom a happy heavenly birthday. She would have been 77 years old today if not for this terrible disease. I will continue to fight for her and all of my patients. We must do better. 💜
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🔵 ISGPS papers you should know
1️⃣ Easy and reliable stratification of risk classes of POPF based on
🧈 pancreas texture
📏 duct size
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
1️⃣ Easy and reliable stratification of risk classes of POPF based on
🧈 pancreas texture
📏 duct size
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
November 21, 2024 at 6:39 AM
🔵 ISGPS papers you should know
1️⃣ Easy and reliable stratification of risk classes of POPF based on
🧈 pancreas texture
📏 duct size
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
1️⃣ Easy and reliable stratification of risk classes of POPF based on
🧈 pancreas texture
📏 duct size
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
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🔵 ISGPS papers you should know
2️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying after pancreatic surgery
DGE represents the inability to return to a standard diet 🍕 by the end of the first postoperative week 🐘
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
2️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying after pancreatic surgery
DGE represents the inability to return to a standard diet 🍕 by the end of the first postoperative week 🐘
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
November 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM
🔵 ISGPS papers you should know
2️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying after pancreatic surgery
DGE represents the inability to return to a standard diet 🍕 by the end of the first postoperative week 🐘
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
2️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying after pancreatic surgery
DGE represents the inability to return to a standard diet 🍕 by the end of the first postoperative week 🐘
#HPBSky #SurgSky #PancreasSky
www.surgjournal.com/article/S003...
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS
Degrees are great if you use the skill sets. Otherwise they’re fancy certificates that hang on walls.
November 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Degrees are great if you use the skill sets. Otherwise they’re fancy certificates that hang on walls.
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Here is my first attempt at creating a Starter Pack — The House of Surgery!
Looking forward to having folks adding other Surgeons that have joined #BlueSky!
Looking forward to having folks adding other Surgeons that have joined #BlueSky!
November 20, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Here is my first attempt at creating a Starter Pack — The House of Surgery!
Looking forward to having folks adding other Surgeons that have joined #BlueSky!
Looking forward to having folks adding other Surgeons that have joined #BlueSky!
Reposted by Lee Ocuin, MD, FACS
Effective leaders need core competencies and experience (e.g. funds flow, managing PnLs, fund raising, managing conflict, recruiting).... if someone had an example demonstrating their ability in those domains, I'd be way more interested than someone with an additional degree.
Physician leadership programs, MBAs, etc. are everywhere…what’s their success rate in great leaders?
#medsky
#medsky
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Effective leaders need core competencies and experience (e.g. funds flow, managing PnLs, fund raising, managing conflict, recruiting).... if someone had an example demonstrating their ability in those domains, I'd be way more interested than someone with an additional degree.