Andy Dong

Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident @CedarsSinai🫀 @EmoryMedicine alum 🍑 First gen, MedEd 🚴‍♂️🏐🏞️✈️

[Milad Sharifpour, MD @MSharifpourMD]

We do have the best CT surgery residents and fellows here!

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

@MSharifpourMD @tyechang Duh 💁🏻‍♂️

[Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency @CedarsCTSurgery]

Congrats to our new residents @SavannahG_UUSOM and @DucGiao1!! We are excited to have you 🥳 #MATCH2024

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

Pediatric Heart Transplant...isn't it so small. Kudos to surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and the whole teams who do this great work daily.

[Jo Chikwe @JoChikweMD]

🧵1/ With patient permission. This is one of our I6 PGY2s (right) doing a mitral repair, a superb PA (left) is assist and an attending is 2nd assist. A resident anesthesiologist is at bedside.

Many patients wonder how residents participate in their care.
One asked this week:

[Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency @CedarsCTSurgery]

It’s Match Day!! Congrats to Veronica and Zach 🥳 can’t wait to see you in July!

#Match2023 #ctsurgery #ctsurgerymatch @JoChikweMD

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

The future is here. Honored to have these amazing surgeon-leader role models 💪

[Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency @CedarsCTSurgery]

Thank you so much Dr Colson for an amazing Grand Rounds! Us residents are proud to have you, our Surgery Chair Dr Ferrone, and Cardiac Surgery Chair @JoChikweMD as leaders paving the way for women in surgery.

#ILookLikeASurgeon #CTSurgery #DEI @WomenInThoracic

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

@brandomaakan with downplaying 💀

[Jo Chikwe @JoChikweMD]

Team did a lot this week
10 heart transplants
3 bilateral lungs
10 robotic mitrals
25 TAVRs
Couple Ross’s
10 aortas
All the other elective cases
This gingerbread cardiac OR

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

🥳 Good luck to everyone!! Such an exciting time

[Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency @CedarsCTSurgery]

Good luck to everyone interviewing tomorrow for our I6 program!! You’ve all been so fun to hang with.

Much love,
Your future resident colleagues

#CTSurgery #Match2023

[Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency @CedarsCTSurgery]

Welcome to our CTS residency page! 🫀🫁

Pictured L to R: Rishab Humar, Federico Sertic, Shruthi Nammalwar, Andy Dong, Ali Own, Brian Lim, Jad Malas, and our aPD extraordinaire Dr. Emerson

[Luis J Castro MD @LuisCastroMD]

I operated 18 yrs ago, on patient in mid 30’s, now mid 50’s w sev Prosthetic AS (29mm Mosaic). Decided on redo SAVR (29mm Epic), as too young for V-in-V. Impressive calcification… ⬆️CVA risk w TAVR. @GilbertTangMD @samsaid75 @JJahanyarMDPhD @M_Pompeu_Sa_MD @BobbyYanagawa

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

@brandomaakan OB-GI

[Josh Karsner @JoshKarsner]

It's a little known fact that the lungs are sisters. How do I know this? It's simple: it's atelectasis, not atelectabro

[Robert Oubre, MD | The Doctor of Documentation @Dr_Oubre]

270,000 Americans die of sepsis each year.

But we can't agree on how to diagnose it.

The problem is more complex than you think...

A thread 🧵

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

@MSharifpourMD I’m on nights all month 😎 hmu anytime

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

@DrMigueQC https://t.co/jmh2eLWs5I

[Jo Chikwe @JoChikweMD]

Last night this team performed our 100th and the 101st 🫀🫁transplants of 2022….both lung transplants. Thank you to everyone in 6OR, CSICU, cardiac anesthesia, perfusion and the entire heart and lung transplant teams @CedarsSinai

[Andy Dong @AndyDongMD]

1st day of residency: *gets stuck in the stairwell*

Also 1st day of residency: rides shotgun on a helicopter 🚁😎