COVID-19 Brings New Ethical Dilemmas to the World of Oncology Today I had the great privilege of participating in a panel discussing the...

This is a link to a recent post I did summarizing a few Health Policy abstract presentations at the ASCO Virtual Meeting Scientific...

Haha - Quoted! But is really important that these metrics are studied, not just in trainees, but establishing construct validity in...

This is a study where we show national incidence of thyroid cancer is higher for urban populations, likely related to overdiagnosis, a...

This is a piece from ASCO Daily News that Dr. Whitney Zahnd and I worked on highlighting cancer disparities in rural America.  Improving...

It is exceedingly difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future." —Neils Bohr Journal of Oncology Practice -...

A teacher, not forgotten | The Bulletin: The legacy of Jeanine Chalabian, MD, a victim of intimate partner violence, and her effect on...

I am very privileged to have spoken at the White Coat Ceremony for the SIU Medicine Class of 2022(!). Here is my speech: First of all, I...

This is a panel I put together on behalf of the SSAT Resident and Fellow Education Committee focusing on the implementation of new...

Truly an honor to be selected as faculty Alpha Omega Alpha at SIU!  I'm the one in white! https://www.siumed.edu/pr/highlights/honor-medi...

This is a nice piece that summarizes a recent publication in Nature Communications examining a whole lot of liver mets and creating a...

Hope is a funny thing that changes strategically.  We may not always hope to be an astronaut or a marine biologist, but we can hope with...

📷 Today, Dr. Mark Talamonti came to SIU as visiting professor and gave a great talk on Pancreas Cancer.  Here is my introduction to his...

Today at Academic Surgical Congress, I moderated the following session: 📷 Dr. Rebecca Minter started with discussing entrustment, and...

This is a post in The Academic Surgeon that describes how details matter and don't matter in surgery. I cite the following book, Forgive...

It has now been 20 years since I prepared to be a medical student, not having any idea what I would do and what it would mean to be able...

This is a post in Academic Surgeon that I wrote while I was taking a pragmatic clinical trials class at Harvard. I was talking to my...

In this month's ASCO connection, I introduce the concept of oligometastasis, which is a state of limited spread of a cancer that could...

Here are two recent articles that discuss hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with cytoreduction (HIPEC) as an innovative new...

Pancreas cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death, but estimated to become in the top three within a few years. Results are...