PGY-1 @mghsurgery | Data science & health services research @CoreLabUCLA | @dgsomucla trained 🩺 | Prev MS/MPH/MBA @columbia @bumedicine @uclaanderson
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2 Dec 2025
Unbelievable news walking into rounds this morning.... Thank you @Forbes for this incredible honor. Forbes 30 Under 30!!!
I am so grateful for my mentors & whole team. We share this together. I can't believe it!
#ForbesUnder30 @ForbesUnder30
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As many other oncologists will also attest, we were taught this was a dead end
It was, dogmatically, never going to work — kras was too much of a “greasy ball” to be targeted
And yet here we are, with truly meaningful survival curves👇
Inspiration on multiple levels #ASCO26
May 31
What I love about this news is that this is not simply a new pancreatic cancer drug. It’s that KRAS, one of cancer biology’s most notorious undruggable targets, has finally become druggable.
A powerful reminder that persistence in science can eventually unlock the impossible.
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We are ecstatic to match our new class of MGH surgery interns. Congratulations and welcome to the family!!
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Feb 17
The world has lost a shining light.
@DVervoort94 walked this world with grace, compassion, and a deep passion for health equity.
We are heartbroken to have lost Dom and are grieving with his family and all those around the world who knew him and loved him.
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And one more… see you at 3pm for an absolutely 🔥 session on AI in (and out) of the OR! Come learn about how AI is being integrated in surgical practice, consider ethics, and debate what the future looks like - only at #ASC2026 @AcademicSurgery @UnivSurg @CarlaPughMDPhD
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Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Donington @jdoningtonmd of @UChicago, past president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, on her recent election as second Vice-President of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons @STS_CTsurgery. She will assume her role as STS President in January 2028.
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Unbelievably excited to be at #ASC2026 🤩 and even more excited for our upcoming panel on the triple threat in crisis- see you at 4pm @AcademicSurgery @UnivSurg! @tdonahuemd @sandralwong
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27 Dec 2025
Seeing our work cited in the national guidelines is incredibly humbling. Research hits differently when you realize it’s shaping policy & influencing how patients are cared for at scale. This is why the work matters!
Our paper in @annalsthorsurg ⬇️
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14 Dec 2025
Check out our work on Hospital Market Competition, Morbidity, & Resource Utilisation following Cancer Surgery!
@SaraSakowitz @CoreLabUCLA
13 Dec 2025
This is a reflection of low volume hospitals doing complex care rather than referring to academic centers because they fear losing patients to competition and down stream revenue. @JAMASurgery
Hospital Market Competition, Morbidity, and Resource jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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8 Dec 2025
🔥 commentary by the group @CedarsSinai on our paper in @annalsthorsurg looking at Cardiac Vasculopathy following DCD 🫀
⬇️ below
@SaraSakowitz @CoreLabUCLA
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8 Dec 2025
Treatment in competitive markets was associated with higher morbidity risk and costs following elective cancer resection. ja.ma/4psJ590
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AI isn't the future—it's now. Meet the Forbes 30 Under 30 revolutionaries harnessing machine learning to build robotic astronauts, cut off funding for terrorists, and turn anyone into a genius coder.
This is the new class of innovators making history.
See the full 2026 #ForbesUnder30 list: forbes.com/30-under-30/2026/…
(Photography by Sebastian Nevols; Additional Photography by Guerin Blask)
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28 Nov 2025
High-markup hospitals are associated with inferior quality and value of care and represent an important initial target for national policy aimed at promoting transparency and regulating hospital pricing.
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ALT Two graphs titled 'Hospital Markup Ratios and Quality of Care.' Graph A plots 'Hospital price markup ratio' vs 'Mean hospital-level morbidity risk, %.' Graph B compares 'Non-HMH' and 'HMH' correlations in mortality, complications, and readmission.
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23 Nov 2025
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CL…
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17 Nov 2025
A clinic visit is never routine for our patients. It can be the event of their week or even their month. Writing about the day I finally understood that.
Read the new Editor’s Page in JACC:
“The Day I Became a Doctor”
jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.…
@JACCJournals @YaleMed
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4 Oct 2025
Treatment in competitive markets was associated with higher morbidity risk and costs following elective cancer resection.
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1 Oct 2025
Fresh off the press @JAMASurgery
Another 🔥 analysis looking at the association of market competition & surgical oncological outcomes!!
@SaraSakowitz @tdonahuemd
1 Oct 2025
Thrilled to publish our latest work in @JAMASurgery evaluating the impact of hospital market competition on outcomes of oncologic surgery 📈🏥
By ⬇️competition, does centralization increase quality and value of care?
Full paper👇
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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1 Oct 2025
Thrilled to publish our latest work in @JAMASurgery evaluating the impact of hospital market competition on outcomes of oncologic surgery 📈🏥
By ⬇️competition, does centralization increase quality and value of care?
Full paper👇
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
@tdonahuemd @Aortologist
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29 Sep 2025
🚨10% of US hospitals mark up the true cost of surgical care a median ~8x- and demonstrated greater morbidity & readmissions
Already one of @JAMASurgery's most viewed papers this month👇
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Presented at @PCSAsurg #PCSA
@Aortologist #SurgTwitter #MedTwitter
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29 Sep 2025
The goal of our work is not only to spark discussion, but action to promote price transparency &better regulate hospital pricing.
Featured by @BeckersHR
beckershospitalreview.com/fi…
@sarahkliff @charlesornstein @statnews @NYTHealth @cnnhealth @WSJhealth @PostHealthSci @forbeshealth
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🔎Key target for quality improvement? Identifying high-markup, low-value hospitals ®ulating pricing practices could represent an initial approach to lowering costs- while protecting patients.
📍If we're serious about creating a better system: ⬆️transparency is the first step!
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Thank you to @ShereneSharath @KougiasP & Dr David Berger for thinking about the implications of health systems driven by profit & for writing such a thoughtful commentary on our article
Read their commentary ⤵️
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