Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD

General Surgeon. Peruvian 🇵🇪. Go Wildcats!

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

Now that all the celebrating has settled down, I’m ecstatic to announce that I matched into General Surgery at the University of Arizona - Phoenix. I’m coming home!!! Couldn’t have done it without my amazing mentors, friends and family! Thank you!! #Match2019 #SurgMatch @RASACS

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@RodGerardo HCC by radiologic findings!

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I want to share what I think about MDs. I love each and everyone that busted their ass, borrowed too much money, sacrificed more than we can ever quantify, in hopes of helping their patients. Medicine is an imprecise science. The uncertainties far outnumber the absolutes.

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@KariLake Lolololol

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@LindaLauren @EM_RESUS I understand, because I’m equally tired of people thinking they know what HIPAA is.

[UAZ Medicine - PHX Surgery @uazphxsurgery]

Thank you Dr. Brink for sharing your vast experiance in private practice Vascular Surgery.

The legacy of Dr. Cintora lives on in your practice. Thank you for all you do.

@jsbrinkmd @BannerHealth @uazmedphx #Vascularsurgery #surgtwitter

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@uazphxsurgery @NatSoper @MiraMilasMD @jpreston226 @uazmedphx @BannerHealth @KericNatasha @ATompeck @BosargeMD @SBourikian @organxchanger @jsbrinkmd Way to go, Dr. Detlefs!

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@TanyaAnand8 @UofAZSurgery @UofAZSurgeryRes @AZTraumaCats @topknife Nancy, you don’t have enough pagers. 😂

[Christine Lovato MD @DrCLovato]

Wonderful work! Thank you all for your hard work, support and inspiration!

@uazmedphx @MiraMilasMD @jpreston226 @KericNatasha @mmdavis16 @ATompeck @SBourikian @AliciaTaaseMD @VLRisemberg

[Relatable Resident @relatableafmd]

A thread about things I wish other specialties knew re: calling surgical consults. Obvious disclaimer this is based on my experience/my institution, YMMV. Other thoughts welcome, defending consult-callers will be met with 🙄 because this isn’t to bash them just discuss pitfalls

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@DavidZodda I found out I got into medical school the same day we found out you had stage IV breast cancer, mom. You never got to see me graduate, but you’re with me every shift ❤️

[Jamie Coleman, MD FACS @JJcolemanMD]

All. Of. This. 👏👏👏

The future of surgery is bright.

[Emily Fridenmaker @emily_fri]

Anybody else remember asking their parents about that weird hole in their arm?

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@realDonaldTrump Lolololol

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Keep the faith, guys. We’re gonna win this.

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

Exactly why I legally hyphenated my last name to keep my mom’s maiden last name 😊

[Alvaro Proaño @proanoA]

Latino patients usually have 2 last names. Our first last name is he paternal last name and our second last name is the maternal. There is a space in between. Some of us (for simplicity) prefer just going by just the first last name. There are many Hispanic patients in the US..

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@jzaraterod Omg! exactly why I hyphenated mine to keep my mom’s .

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@KBrookeGolisch @pgolisch Haha I remember being on trauma nights and getting a weird consult, and my attending telling me to call colorectal....... but.... I’m also colorectal lol

[Valeria Leon-Risemberg, MD @VLRisemberg]

@KBrookeGolisch Yeeeessss

[Sara Segneri @Sara_Segneri]

Quote of the year: “If you expect elementary school children to endure the trauma of active shooter drills for your freedoms, you can wear a mask to Costco.”

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

Remarkable scene at 12th and Grant, where two healthcare workers from a Denver-area hospital — they declined to say which or give their names — are standing in the crosswalk during red lights as a “reminder,” they say, of why shutdown measures are in place.