Surgical Oncologist and HPB Surgeon @IU_Health | Health services researcher focused on access to cancer care and pragmatic clinical trials | Tweets are my own

Indianapolis, IN
Joined July 2017
In a meta-analysis of pancreatoduodenectomy, broader antibiotic prophylaxis was associated with fewer infectious complications, suggesting broader coverage may represent a potential new standard. journals.lww.com/annalsofsur…
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Had a great time! Thanks @HalletJulie and @PatricioPolanc0 for the invite and expert podcast guidance!
🚨 #AHPBA2025 recap🎙️ Missed the meeting? Spent time at the beach🏖️? Too many sessions to pick from? Get your update in 🆕 #SurgOncToday with @RyanEllisMD & @michael_lidsky: HAIP⛽️, locally advanced PDAC, PNETs, NSQIP & more! 🔗open.spotify.com/episode/3AJ…
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With #AHPBA2025 & #SSO2025 back to back, we had a chance to recap AHPBA during live #SurgOncToday podcast 🎙️recording in Tampa Bay🌴 Thanks @michael_lidsky and @RyanEllisMD for reviewing top studies presented in Miami! HAIP, pancreas cancer, POPF, ablation & more. Stay tuned!🎧
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Our @kristen_kaiser1 crushed another talk this morning on the use of large language models (LLMs) in clinical decision support at #ASC2025 @AcademicSurgery @IU_SOQIC @IU_Surgery @RyanEllisMD @kbilimoria
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Second year @IU_SOQIC research resident @JacksonBaril presenting work on the impact of surgeon-scrub tech familiarity on operative time and costs. Great job representing @IU_Surgery in the #ASC2025 Clinical Outcomes Plenary session!
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Get ready for your 2024 HPB Wrapped!🎁 🎙️ Coming in December! #SurgOncToday podcast will cover the🔝 10 studies in HPB surgical oncology 🔹Vaccine therapy 🔹Neoadjuvant for PDAC 🔹Adjuvant for IPMN 🔹TXA 🔹PRRT for PNETs 🔹Drains! 🔹MRI for CRLM 🔹Transplant for CRLM & more!
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Thanks to all the amazing patients, surgeons, and researchers who made this trial possible. TXA did not reduce bleeding or blood transfusion but increased periop complications after liver resection. ⁦@JAMA_current⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Year 13 of the annual SOQIC BBQ for our research team! Beautiful day and loved seeing everyone together. Great fun to have some of the Chicago folks come down and hang with our Indy team. (Always forget to take enough pics) @IU_Surgery @IU_SOQIC @Regenstrief
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⭐️Coming Soon to IU Surgery and @IU_SOQIC in October! Help us welcome: ➡️Cary Schlick, MD, MS (@CarySchlick) 👩⚕️ Dr. Schlick comes to us from @MSKCancerCenter 🏥Dr. Schlick is a health services and outcomes researcher with areas of focus in optimizing healthcare delivery utilizing quality improvement methodology and in surgical education. We can't wait for you to join us! #IUSurgery #IUSurgeryResearch #SOQIC
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Great presentation by Dr @JacksonBaril on the rate of upstaging of clinical T2N0 gastric cancer and the implications on treatment sequencing. Engaging discussion on how to interpret and apply these findings at #CSA2024 @IU_Surgery @IU_SOQIC @RyanEllisMD
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Herculean effort by so many to get this important + very timely trial activated. #EA2222 will answer a critical question for oncologists, and most importantly for patients. #HAI #HAIconsortium @eaonc @NCICTEP_ClinRes @colontown @FightCRC @MichaelDAngeli2 @AndreaCercek @skmaithel
Trial Activation: EA2222/PUMP, led by @michael_lidsky of @DukeSurgOnc and @DukeCancer, is a randomized phase III study of #systemictherapy with or without hepatic arterial infusion for unresectable #colorectal liver metastases. For more info: bit.ly/ea2222-pump #ColonCancer
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Join Surgical Oncology experts on October 16 as they discuss and provide their insights on unique and challenging Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) cases. Register Now: ow.ly/cj0o50PS7KW
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You know you made a good choice when the Vice President of the ⁦@AmBdSurg (⁩@jmellinger58⁩) calls out the work of our new faculty member in his talk & uses HER slides - and it’s only her 3rd day as faculty! Glad you are here, ⁦@AmyHolmstromMD⁩! ⁦@IU_Surgery⁩
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Welcome to IU Surgery, Amy Holmstrom, MD! [@AmyHolmstromMD] Quick facts: 👉FEL: @WeillCornell 👉Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in General Surgery focused on MIS 👉Research Focus: Surgical education with a focus on autonomy and assessment Learn more: medicine.iu.edu/faculty/6511… #IUSurgery #IUGeneralSurgery
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August 1st means it’s official! So grateful to have spent my final year of surgical oncology training with this brilliant group of co-fellows and the world-class @MSKCancerCenter faculty. Excited to join faculty @IU_Surgery next month. But first…vacation!
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Excited to see the first ever @AmCollSurgeons NSQIP-linked RCT published today! Significant reduction in post-Whipple SSI with change in periop antibiotics Large, multi-center surgery trial performed without formal funding! @MichaelDAngeli2 @cliffordkomd @AHPBA @MSKCancerCenter
Study findings support the use of piperacillin-tazobactam as perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis for open pancreatoduodenectomy. ja.ma/3USLRpA
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Association between Biliary Pathogens, Surgical Site Infection, and Pancreatic Fistula: Results of a Randomized Trial of Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients Undergoing Pancreatoduodenectomy @ryanellismd @MSKCancerCenter @Bbrajcich @NMSurgery @NU_SOQIC #AmerSurg23
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