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This past weekend Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, was installed as the President of the Surgical Outcomes Club.  Congratulations @drlolafayanju.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This past Saturday, Thoracic Surgery had their Fall Outing at the Penn Park Picnic Grove. Great food! Great friends! Great time had by all! The weather couldn't have been any nicer. For more pics, please visit:
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September 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Yesterday was our biennial Faculty/House Staff photo that takes place after our yearly "State of the Department" in front of the John Morgan Building.
September 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Congratulations to Mary Y. Wang, DNP, CRNP on her promotion to Associate Clinical Manager of Urology at PMWS
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September 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We'd like to welcome (back) Jane Keating, MD, FACS this time as an Associate Professor of Surgery who will practice in all areas of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care at HUP, PPMC, and PAH. For more on Dr Keating, please visit: instagram.com/pennsurgery
September 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Some outstanding work being done by members of our Housestaff🎉🥳🎉🥳
September 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
To promote secure storage of firearms, learn directly from owners what they are looking for in a lock: strong, tough, smooth to open, no glitches.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are proud to announce that Margaret Pichardo is a recipient of a 2025 Doctors Day Community Grant Award for her submission: “Characterizing Longitudinal Dietary Quality During Breast Cancer Treatment among Hispanic/Latina Women”.
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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And it's a BIGGIE!!
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August 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Some of your favorite Penn Medicine and CHOP Department of Surgery Attending’s are proving that hard work and dedication pays off. Congratulations to all of you on your well-deserved promotion.
July 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bariatric Surgeon Maria AltierI MD discusses the various options for treating obesity, the role of the GLP-1 weight loss medications and surgery, and the mindset needed to be successful with weight-loss for the long term.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Last night we celebrated Pete Atherton who will be retiring as a full time Penn Medicine employee after 31+ years. For more pictures of this DOS legend, please visit: instagram.com/@pennsurgery
May 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thank you Dr Julie K. Heimbach, The Mayo Clinic Director, William J von Liebig Transplant Center for giving this morning’s Division of Transplant Surgery D. Hayes Agnew Lecture. The full program is now available at:
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May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s Clinical Research Week at Penn. Our Division of Breast Surgery is currently raising awareness about clinical trial opportunities at Penn. More details can be found: www.pennmedicine.org/research-at-...
May 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Congratulations to our Division of Trauma Program Manager Kristen Chreiman who was awarded Villanova University’s Louis Fitzpatrick College of Nursing Medallion; Distinguished Leadership in Nursing Practice Award.
May 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
ICYMI:
Last weekend our Division of Breast Surgery was represented by a team of accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons (#ASBrS2025).
May 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We will be represented by a team of
accomplished researchers at the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons.
We're encouraging everyone to visit the Poster & Oral Presentation Sessions to support faculty, trainees & students as they deliver impactful info on new & ongoing research projects.
April 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Last night Dr Peter Mattei was inducted into the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians. Dr Mattei is Professor of Surgery, Attending Pediatric Surgeon in the Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   #PennMedicineAOMC
April 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations to Dr BenjaminSmood for his prestigious Mend a Heart Foundation Award from The Children’s Heart Foundation. Dr. Smood is pursuing his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, which focuses on novel interventions to treat lymphatic failure in congenital heart disease. Excellent work!
April 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Julia Tchou, MD, PhD, Lola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, and Jennifer Q. Zhang, MD, are representing the Penn Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program at the 2025 SSO meeting in Tampa, FL #SSO2025 #SSOCommunity #SSO
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Excellent presentation by Dr Neha Shafique at the #SSO2025 Melanoma session presenting our institutional experience with single-dose neoadjuvant pembrolizumab. Congratulations!
March 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Endocrine Surgery Section Chief Heather Wachtel presenting her excellent work on PARP-1 as a novel theranostic marker in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma for which she won the Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Investigator Award in 2023. #SSO2025
March 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Dr Cara Berkowitz presenting work from @drlolafayanju.bsky.social Penn Breast Surgery lab at #SSO2025
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
SSO Ewing Lecturer Dr Susan Domchek at #SSO2025. @penncancer.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
President of The Society of Surgical Oncology AND our Chairman Dr Ron DeMatteo giving his first keynote 😉 at the #SSO2025 Pre-meeting Surgical Clinical Trials Primer Course.
March 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM