Rodrigo Jacobucci, MD

Surgeon | Former Resident @HMsurgery | Incoming MIS Fellow @OrlandoHealth

[JAMA Surgery @JAMASurgery]

Bariatric surgery was associated with more effective, durable treatment of class II and III obesity at lower costs than #GLP1 receptor agonists.

https://t.co/G64vkbfL6Y

[Houston Methodist General Surgery Residency @HMSurgery]

Today’s hands-on education session, featuring endoscopic tips & tricks with wet models in our resident lab @HMethodistMD #GenSurgMatch2026

[Tactical Manager @ManagerTactical]

South American fans are built different, the Copa Libertadores will forever be the best atmosphere in club soccer.

Bravo Palmeiras 🇧🇷 fans, bravo. One of the best fans in the World.

[Patrick Reardon @scopdoc]

@DrJacobucci @ameinders4 @JuliaSchroerMed @HMSurgery @HMethodistMD
Having a cool day in the MITIE lab practicing off-axis suturing doing jejuno-jejunostomies!!

[Houston Methodist General Surgery Residency @HMSurgery]

Wrapping up an incredible week of hands-on robotic training at MITIE, with sessions on lung transplant, transversus abdominis release (TAR), Whipple, and liver transplant! #roboticsurgery #GenSurgMatch2026

[Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS @TheNotoriousHPB]

Applies to surgery 100%.
All complications are on the surgeon.
How a surgeon handles M&M tells you a lot about their character and integrity.
Always astounded watching “leaders” shift blame to house staff or spinning their errors into “learning experiences” or “great saves.”

[RAS-ACS @RASACS]

Congratulations to our finalists and to team ACS South Texas team for winning the ACS CC 2025 Surgical Jeopardy!

[Patrick Reardon @scopdoc]

@HMSurgery @HMethodistMD @AmCollSurgeons #ACSCC2025
Dr. Rob Brumer and Dr. Connie Au bring home the big W at the 2025 Surgical Jeopardy event at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress.

[Patrick Reardon @scopdoc]

I had a rewarding holiday weekend. With the help of my sweet bride and partner, Debra Reardon, I fed our residents and fellows from the Houston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery. @MethodistHosp @HMethodistMD @HMSurgery Then, after the clean up on Sunday, I got to visit with 2 of my grandsons. I am wore out, but happy.

Our residents and fellows do hard work every day helping us care for our patients and must spend time “in-house” being on call as part of their training and profession. I truly appreciate all of the work that they do on behalf of my patients and me. As such, and as part of this social contract, I wanted to reward them by feeding them.

I get asked “Why don’t you just cater the meal?” Well, these young men and women don’t pay someone to help me in my clinic, in the operating room, and out on the floor caring for my patients. They do all of this work themselves. It just seems appropriate, and appeals to my sense of “right and wrong”, that I should personally do a little hard work for them, in return.

The picture you see of the 3 young surgeons best exemplifies the concept. I wanted to reward our trainees by cooking some BBQ for them, but they couldn’t come to the get together. They were in-house on call for all of our patients. This is the exact kind of sacrifice which I wanted to reward. Since they couldn’t come to the BBQ, the BBQ came to them. We delivered to them a heapin’ helpin’ of the meats, the sides, and the desserts.

On this holiday weekend, it is good to remember that, no matter how important or unimportant you think you are, there are people for whom there are no holidays who are out there working on your behalf. Doctors, first responders, the men and women in our military, all miss holidays and special occasions because someone has to do the truly vital work on your behalf. I can’t say “thank you” by feeding them all, but I can do so for our HMH surgery residents and fellows.

[Rodrigo Jacobucci, MD @DrJacobucci]

@scopdoc @MethodistHosp @HMethodistMD @HMSurgery Huge thanks to Dr. Reardon for fueling our call night with delicious homemade barbecue! Your kindness (and cooking skills!) kept our team going strong. #BBQTime #stitchesandribs

[Min Kim @DrMinPKim]

Congratulations to @SamarSemaanMD and Rodrigo Jacobucci @HMSurgery for getting their video "Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Repair of a Type III hiatal hernia using EndoFLIP as a Bougie" accepted for presentation at ACS Clinical Congress 2025!

[The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology @TheLancetEndo]

New—Effect of gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy on the #remission of type 2 #diabetes, weight loss, and cardiovascular risk factors at 5 years (Oseberg): secondary outcomes of a single-centre, triple-blind, randomised controlled trial https://t.co/gnolCopeyF #T2D

[Zhi Ven Fong, MD MPH DrPH @ZhiVenFongMD]

1/As more 🏥s purchase 🤖s & more surgeons adopt robotic approaches to their cases, it begs the ❓:

Did 🤖 truly enable more open cases to be done MIS, or did it just replace laparoscopy but at ⬆️cost?

We tried answering this in this @AnnalsOpen📝. A🧵:

https://t.co/IESgHZu2nk

[World Obesity @WorldObesity]

🏥 Only 13 countries have adequate health system readiness to address obesity, despite a projected 110% increase in adults living with obesity by 2030.

We need a "whole-society approach" to build resilient health systems.

👉 https://t.co/HSbBnORBY0
#WorldObesityDay

[Patrick Reardon @scopdoc]

The Division of Minimally Invasive General Surgery

Our trainees had 7 videos accepted to the 2024 @AmCollSurgeons Clinical Congress

Kayla Callaway, MS
Mary Oh, MD (2)
Connie Au, MD
Priya Arunachalam, MD
Rodrigo Jacobucci, MD
Liam Cato, MD
@HMSurgery @HMethodistMD

[NicTap MD @nic_tap]

As well as the resident jeopardy and skills competition residents (and their supporters!) who represented @HMethodistMD and @HMSurgery