Sabha GanaiAug 8, 20201 minEthics of Oncology Care During the COVID19 PandemicCOVID-19 Brings New Ethical Dilemmas to the World of Oncology Today I had the great privilege of participating in a panel discussing the...
Sabha GanaiJul 8, 20201 minASCO20 Health Policy HighlightsThis is a link to a recent post I did summarizing a few Health Policy abstract presentations at the ASCO Virtual Meeting Scientific...
Sabha GanaiNov 22, 20191 minSurgical Metrics ProjectHaha - Quoted! But is really important that these metrics are studied, not just in trainees, but establishing construct validity in...
Sabha GanaiMay 22, 20191 minRural-Urban Disparities in Thyroid Cancer Incidence and SurvivalThis is a study where we show national incidence of thyroid cancer is higher for urban populations, likely related to overdiagnosis, a...
Sabha GanaiApr 3, 20191 minRural Cancer Care | ASCO Daily NewsThis is a piece from ASCO Daily News that Dr. Whitney Zahnd and I worked on highlighting cancer disparities in rural America. Improving...
Sabha GanaiMar 26, 20191 minPrognostication and Communication in OncologyIt is exceedingly difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future." —Neils Bohr Journal of Oncology Practice -...
Sabha GanaiOct 12, 20181 minA teacher, not forgotten | The BulletinA teacher, not forgotten | The Bulletin: The legacy of Jeanine Chalabian, MD, a victim of intimate partner violence, and her effect on...
Sabha GanaiAug 10, 20183 minStudents of Our PatientsI am very privileged to have spoken at the White Coat Ceremony for the SIU Medicine Class of 2022(!). Here is my speech: First of all, I...
Sabha GanaiJun 3, 20181 minInnovation in an Era of Patient SafetyThis is a panel I put together on behalf of the SSAT Resident and Fellow Education Committee focusing on the implementation of new...
Sabha GanaiMay 21, 20181 minAlpha Omega AlphaTruly an honor to be selected as faculty Alpha Omega Alpha at SIU! I'm the one in white! https://www.siumed.edu/pr/highlights/honor-medi...
Sabha GanaiMay 8, 20181 minOligometastasis!This is a nice piece that summarizes a recent publication in Nature Communications examining a whole lot of liver mets and creating a...
Sabha GanaiFeb 27, 20181 minHopeHope is a funny thing that changes strategically. We may not always hope to be an astronaut or a marine biologist, but we can hope with...
Sabha GanaiFeb 23, 20182 minTeaching me to teach📷 Today, Dr. Mark Talamonti came to SIU as visiting professor and gave a great talk on Pancreas Cancer. Here is my introduction to his...
Sabha GanaiJan 31, 20181 minIntraop Dilemmas in Resident EducationToday at Academic Surgical Congress, I moderated the following session: 📷 Dr. Rebecca Minter started with discussing entrustment, and...
Sabha GanaiJun 5, 20171 minQuasi-normative Error This is a post in The Academic Surgeon that describes how details matter and don't matter in surgery. I cite the following book, Forgive...
Sabha GanaiMay 20, 20171 minLeonard Tow Humanism in Medicine AwardIt has now been 20 years since I prepared to be a medical student, not having any idea what I would do and what it would mean to be able...
Sabha GanaiNov 6, 20161 minBreast Cancer Boot Camp, or Why do Clinical Trials Take So Much Effort?This is a post in Academic Surgeon that I wrote while I was taking a pragmatic clinical trials class at Harvard. I was talking to my...
Sabha GanaiApr 22, 20151 minTiming of Therapies for Patients with Resectable Hepatic Colorectal MetastasesIn this month's ASCO connection, I introduce the concept of oligometastasis, which is a state of limited spread of a cancer that could...
Sabha GanaiFeb 4, 20151 minHIPEC - Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal ChemotherapyHere are two recent articles that discuss hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with cytoreduction (HIPEC) as an innovative new...
Sabha GanaiFeb 26, 20141 minNeoadjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic CancerPancreas cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death, but estimated to become in the top three within a few years. Results are...