ben bryner

heart failure & heart transplant surgeon @NM_CTSurg // previously @DukeCTSurgery // residency @UMichSurgery // q1 call for the Hot Take Service

[AATS Journals @AATSJournals]

Infant #HeartTx following donation after circ death using normothermic regional perfusion and distant transport, first reported case in North America.

Read the #JTCVS TECH article by Beckerman, @TurekPedHearts et al: https://t.co/2f6BF3tHTu

@benbryner @JacobNiall @SCasalinova

[University of Michigan Medical School @UMichMedSchool]

Decades ago, U-M's Dr. Robert Bartlett was on the life-saving team when Hannah Abraham was born and went into severe respiratory distress. Today, he handed Hannah her diploma as she graduated with her M.D./Ph.D. https://t.co/3UNo9R5Pnd #UMichMSTP #GoBlueMed

[NM Cardiovascular @NMCardioVasc]

Duc Thinh Pham, MD, surgical director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, discusses the highly skilled clinical team members involved in caring for a patient throughout the heart transplant process. https://t.co/Ae37GJqca3

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@carly_lodewyks @JacobNiall @smccartney31 @Transmedics @DukeHeartCenter @_adevore Uh yeah it is. @alliancebakery and @smccartney31 crushed it

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@JacobNiall Almost everything I know about heart preservation I learned while listening to 1990s hiphop with @JacobNiall

[Satish Nadig, MD PhD @SatishNadig]

First En bloc heart-liver in the books! Congrats to our liver and heart transplant teams. Great concerted effort. @NM_Transplant #NMtransplantstrong

[NM Cardiovascular @NMCardioVasc]

Take a full look at a successful heart transplant with the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Cardiac Surgery team, led by Duc Thinh Pham, MD (@DTPham_CVSurg), and Benjamin S. Bryner, MD (@benbryner). Watch the full video: https://t.co/7m2wKQFeMQ

[Duke Surgery @DukeSurgery]

“Transplant has historically been a therapy reserved for the most privileged of patients." Dr. Lisa McElroy, Assistant Professor of Surgery, aims to address why inequities exist in accessing organ transplant, & how to eliminate them.

@DukeMedSchool | @LMcElroy23

[Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc @WilcoxHeart]

@NMCardioVasc MCS director @VorovichHeartMD giving some guidance on living with a VAD. So needed. 💜

[JHLT @TheJHLT]

The first pediatric #DCD heart transplantation using ex-vivo perfusion. Let’s make sure we don’t leave children behind in the new era of DCD heart donation and transplantation! @JacobNiall

🔗: https://t.co/Zb8YGNVnBk

[NM Cardiovascular @NMCardioVasc]

Duc Thinh Pham, MD (@DTPham_CVSurg), cardiac surgeon and surgical director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Northwestern Medicine, discusses his passion for working in #CardiacSurgery and why he chose to practice medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@MathurAmitK @LMES_Eagles @MayoClinic @CaveCreekUSD93 What’d you tell them guts are

[Hasan Alam @DrHasanAlam]

Yet another reason to join @NMSurgery @purplesurg

Chicago named best big city in U.S. for sixth year in a row https://t.co/gUCi9vJcub via @crainschicago

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@MichaelCutrone3 @readietee @DukeAnesRes @DukeAnesFellows No, the only person I know who would purchase and use this is @smccartney31

[Duke University School of Medicine @DukeMedSchool]

Duke University School of Medicine is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s medical school rankings, Dean @MaryEKlotman & Vice Dean for Education Edward Buckley said Friday. Duke is the latest medical school to pull out of the annual rankings.
https://t.co/cOU2tRO5Mm

[Quentin Youmans, MD, MSc @QuentinYoumans]

Diversity is occurring rapidly…

And we are committed to providing our patients with #EXCELLENT care.

No matter what.

#DiversityDrivesExcellence

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@DoctorJSpicer @STS_CTsurgery @AATSHQ @thoracic @ThoracicsCanada From a self-serving perspective STS should also reprint this article from @JasonHanMD, @iyengaramit et al who reviewed all the past addresses by STS presidents and found increasing DEI to be one of 6 common themes.
https://t.co/sfOqiFgBLk

[ben bryner @benbryner]

@DoctorJSpicer @STS_CTsurgery @AATSHQ @thoracic @ThoracicsCanada They should absolutely publish the address alongside rebuttals from members of the CT community and experts in DEI in medicine.