Board certified General Surgeron
Colorectal Surgery Fellow @UMJMHSurgery | @UWSurgery Alum | NYUSoM Alum
Passionate about health equity and global surgery
Our Chiefs have finalized their plans for next year and we are thrilled to be able to share this exciting news with you! Please join us in celebrating our colleagues and send them your congratulations!
@drebolloMD and Kyle Bilodeau @UWSurgery kicked butt presenting their work at WA-OR ACS this weekend, and I got to run uphill way too much! (Don’t worry, I presented too)
Dr. Daniela Rebollo Salazar
I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to the US after high school to pursue my dream of becoming a surgeon. I'm now a surgical resident at UW with a dual MD/MPH degree and can say that dreams do come true! 🇻🇪 #LatinxSurgeons#HispanicHeritageMonth
Dr Daniela Rebollo @drebolloMD speaking with @edrum19@wfsawca on long-term follow up of #Lifebox pulse oximeters & current anesthesia monitoring gaps in #Ethiopia: 88% of identified devices still functional 8 years post distribution but gaps in availability remain @SaferSurgery
You can do the most beautiful operation known to man... Every stitch can be perfect...but if the patient goes back to the same disadvantaged area to fully recover and live are we really doing them a service? It's more than just the operation. It goes beyond the operating room.
In the wake of #ChadwickBoseman's death, GI docs are reflecting on how we can best stop further tragic deaths from #ColonCacncer in the young. My take-- I think we need to be honest that at present, we do not have the tools we need to effectively address this problem.
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Ever look up at night and feel small? Don't. Instead feel large. Atoms in our bodies trace to the remnants of exploded stars. We are Stardust. We are alive in the universe. And the universe is alive within us.
Assisted in three cases, ran the floor, and opened the abdomen and closed fascia for the first time today! How can residency be so exhausting yet so increidbly exciting at the same time?
My mom lives in FL. Bc of the pandemic her business closed and she rented out a guest room to help pay rent. Housemate got COVID and didn’t say he was symptomatic for a week. My mom is now COVID+ and says it’s one of the hardest things she’s dealt w. This is real. Be responsible
Practicing safe surgery and anesthesia in a limited resource setting during the COVID19 pandemic? #Lifebox together with @WFSA and @SmileTrain developed the #COVID19 Surgical Patient Checklist to optimize provider and patient safety: https://t.co/pz27LpBSgh
Breaking News: Harvard and M.I.T. sued the Trump administration over a move to strip visas from foreign students whose courses have moved entirely online https://t.co/k53ZBJO5Kt
Last week: our paper in @BJSurgery describing the #Lifebox Surgical Headlight Project.
What is the process to address poor surgical lighting in resource-constrained operating environments?
https://t.co/BCqvuTKaZB
A thread 🧵to answer this and other❓s...