The APSA Foundation funds fundamental research and education in pediatric surgery.

Joined April 2021
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So proud of @docwilson13 for being selected as a Grosfeld Scholar and presenting her potentially game changing work in using PDT to decrease infections in perf appendicitis!! @APSASurgeons @APSAFoundation @URochesterSurg #APSA24
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Packed room at the Surgical Investigators Course. @amysuwanabol breaking down how @NIHFunding works! @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery #ASC2024
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NEW - Our latest work from from @StJudeResearch and @COGorg in @NatureComms determined the genetic and epigenetic modes of predisposition for bilateral Wilms tumor (children that kidney cancer in both kidneys simultaneously). rdcu.be/dtT2C stjude.org/media-resources/n…
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Who’s YOUR mentor? Honor them today with a donation in their honor/name to the @APSAFoundation to support future surgeon scientists ⬇️ #NationalMentoringDay #InspiredGiving
Today is #NationalMentoringDay! Just as mentors are essential in developing young careers, the APSA Foundation also promotes the growth of fostering scientific, clinical and educational endeavors. Consider a donation in honor of your mentor: buff.ly/3wcS8PM
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How a US government shutdown could disrupt science nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @the_asci @AsianAcadSurg
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On June 29, Allan Goldstein, MD, was on the mound for the first pitch at the @RedSox / @Marlins game to raise awareness for Hirschsprung disease. The pitch was thrown by Anabella Legare, a 2-year-old with total intestinal aganglionosis, the most severe form of the disease.
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Congratulations to pediatric surgeon Dr. Thomas M. Krummel on being honored with this year’s ACS Jacobson Innovation Award! 🏆 His innovations have pioneered life-saving advances in newborn life support and surgical education. fal.cn/3z462
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Proud to present the inaugural Fetal Therapy Award by @NAFTNet and @APSASurgeons to Alicia Eubanks @CHOPFetalCenter in honor of Dr. Eric Jelin, who demonstrated investigative fervor and unbridled enthusiasm in fetal therapy research with @perrone_erin @Mychaliska #apsa23
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NEW- We found an unquantified late effect of childhood cancer therapy - a significant burden of surgery across nearly all organ systems. Anticipate surgical issues in ped cancer survivors! @StJudeResearch @BCHPedSurg @TheLancetOncol authors.elsevier.com/a/1h3b3…
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Congratulations @docwilson13!!!!! You are such an amazing person, scholar, and surgeon! @URMCSurgery is lucky to have you, and I'm so proud of you! Can't wait to see what you do! @APSASurgeons #APSA23
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Hello to all 100 of you!! 💯 Thanks for following along! Share with your colleagues and friends so we can all join in on the pediatric surgery conversation #pedsurg
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Main messages: 1.Surgical discovery gives hope and saves countless lives. Let us support it and see it continue to thrive. 2. Medicine is a service not a business. Let us shed the burden of for-profit medicine and reclaim our great vocation of healing. #ASA23. @APSASurgeons
Visionary and inspiring address by #ASA23 President ⁦@DianaFarmerMD⁩ in Toronto this morning. Only the 2nd pediatric surgeon to lead the American Surgical Association in 143 years. ⁦@APSASurgeons⁩
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Congratulations to Dr. Ankush Gosain for his new role as the Chair of Pediatric Surgery at @ChildrensColo. With over 100 publications, international lectures and expertise in #PediatricSurgery and #HirschsprungsDisease, he will undoubtedly elevate our center to new heights.
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Thrilled to have received the NOA today for my #R01 ⁦@NIH⁩ ⁦@NIDDKgov⁩ #nec Thanks to all who helped along the way (lab team, mentors, collaborators). ⁦@OUHealth⁩ ⁦@okchf⁩ ⁦@Okla_Childrens⁩ ⁦@OUPedSurg⁩ I’m excited to work on this project!
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Learn more about prenatally diagnosed lung malformations with this visual abstract. #APSALearning
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Congrats to the Secretary Elect of @UnivSurg @AshGosain
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Wonderful Roslyn lecture by Allan Goldstein “Be a neural crest cell” @UnivSurg @MGHSurgery @AcademicSurgery #ASC2023 @mghpedisurg
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Proud to share our recent publication on the role of TLR4 inhibition following traumatic brain injury @nasr_isam @davidhackam @HopkinsKids journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abs…
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