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Penn & CHOP liver and kidney transplant surgeon, Dir Txp Surgery CHOP. @NIH/NIDDK-funded Lab efforts focus on HDACs & estrogens in tissue ischemia/injury tolerance & VCA immunology. Advocate for young surgeon scientists. Posts my own. I dad/run/bike. YNWA.
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First we do an overnight liver transplant in an ice storm and then we root for the Iggles. GO BIRDS! #strongfellows @pennmedicine.bsky.social @amjtransplant.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Images in Transplantation! In this month's issue you can earn CME credit with "Oxalate nephropathy after kidney transplantation: A common cause of graft dysfunction, but uncommon cause of ureter stricture" by Biesterveld et al. https://buff.ly/4h0us8G

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Please see the latest commentary in Kidney International by Lana Christensen and I - Potential nuances in renoprotective properties of estrogen in females doi.org/10.1016/j.kint… Original article: doi.org/10.1016/j.kint��� #KICommentary #kidneyinjury

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

A great living donor kidney transplant story from Penn Medicine @pennmedicine.bsky.social highlighting the benefits of live donor transplantation. You don’t have to be a relative to donate - you can just be a Philadelphia Union fan (and a hero). m.youtube.com/watch?v=5HH3...

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@glaucomflecken.bsky.social Fake news!!!

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x.com/astschimera/... In honor of Giving Tuesday, I donated to the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) today. Not (yet) on Bluesky but they support the research and education missions of the transplant surgery community. I’m proud to serve on their council and support their mission.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Not going to be 7 this year, Pep! That’s how you do it, Reds!!! #YNWA

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Big game today. Big game. Up you mighty Reds! #YNWA

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Most Thursdays at my HS. Friday was for enchiladas.

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Did you hear who is going to be heading up the CDC? Can you picture that?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The Transplantation Society will host a webinar on CMV immunodiagnostics and solid organ transplantation on December 4 at 9 AM Montreal time. I will be the moderator, with terrific speakers. Join us! secure-web.cisco.com/11rBOuNx6aRI...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments

Allow me to introduce myself… Welcome #medsky & #surgsky friends and colleagues. I’m a liver/kidney transplant surgeon at U Penn and CHOP. I love my clinical work and teaching/mentoring fellows/residents/junior faculty. My lab work is supported by the NIH and focuses on organ injury and ischemia….

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Father Time is undefeated

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@pennmedicine.bsky.social Well, fancy meeting you here - welcome aboard!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

go.bsky.app/BZU8RtG Starting #SurgSky ! All science, education and research around surgery! Let me know if you want to be added! 👏

submitted 105 days ago • 29 comments

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

submitted 103 days ago • 2946 comments

Good morning, Philadelphia and #medsky. On the agenda this morning - Chop Surgical Grand Rounds on “Pediatric Renal Transplantation”. Thanks to the esteemed Matthew Goldshore for the invitation.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

If it’s 1am we must be transplanting at CHOP. Getting kids off dialysis is one of the most gratifying parts of my job. Let’s gooooo…

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