Dr. Leah Backhus promoted to Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Stanford Medicine So very excited for this!!!! @WomenInThoracic @STS_CTsurgery @StanfordAlumni @StanfordMed
Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS
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Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS
@leahbackhusmd
I am a thoracic surgeon, wife, mother and fierce Stanford and USC football fan!
- This is ME!!!...New Deputy Editor—March 2022 ja.ma/3DohE8Q via @JAMASurgery part of @JAMANetwork @StanfordCTSurg @StanfordSurgery @StanfordMed @StanfordODME
- 25 missed text messages during my case today but this one from my son was the winner! #distancelearning2020 @WomenSurgeons @WomenInThoracic #ILookLikeASurgeon
- Rec’d this FB message and it really made my day! Back in my @LACUSCMedCenter @KeckMedUSC trauma days!
- So very cool to receive the inaugural @STS_CTsurgery @WomenInThoracic Extraordinary Women in CTS Award! Huge thanks to @DavidCookeMD for the nomination and intro and to my colleagues @StanfordCTSurg !!!
- My biggest emotion right now is actually fear…for my son who is 6’2” and looks like a grown man from afar but is every bit a 13 yr old boy! Hard to convice him that these things are real and can absolutely affect him from our vantage point of the bubble we live in #GeorgeFloyd
- Ok so b careful of what you allow to be posted online…today my patient said she liked the idea of me being her surgeon bc she read that I said I listen to ganster rap in the OR! 😅 (yes I said that and yes I DO!)
- Women in thoracic surgery! Stanford has to be one of the most diverse CTS departments around! 5 faculty + 5 trainees! #ILookLikeASurgeon #stanfordmedicine
- Until you’ve done a lung transplant wearing high heels (and halfway through asked them circulator to remove them and replace with triple layered OR booties!) you haven’t lived (the life of 1/2 of the surgeon population)!Medical students: You can like stilettos, & handbags, & the color pink... & still be a surgeon. #girlmedtwitter #MedStudentTwitter #ILookLikeASurgeon @traumadoctors
- Stanford CTS female faculty = 9 (11 in July) Stanford CTS female residents = 8 (9 in a July) Avg nbr of female faculty in Div/Dept CTS nationally…0-1!!! 😬 #stanfordCTX @StanfordCTSurg @StanfordMed @ests_womenThor @womeninsurgery @WomenInThoracic @WomenSurgeons
- well what do we have here? A rare event…and right on time before the end of #BHM! One faculty, 2 residents and one med student! @StanfordMed @stanfordctsurg @StanfordSurgery
- National Women’s physician Day...Stanford CT Surgery representing strong!!!! @StanfordMed @STS_CTsurgery @StanfordCVI
- Soooo….I was in a forest (=OR) and spotted not ONE but TWO purple unicorns (= Black female CT surgeons)! This might b first ever sighting of this phenomenon sweeping the nation! #ilooklikeasurgeon @StanfordCTSurg @StanfordSurgery @StanfordMed
- THIS is impressive! Annual dept photo w/all of our amazing women faculty and residents! Fac:left, Res:right w/Shumway and Woo in middle 😊 Truly incredible since the mean # female fac in any CTS Dept is ONE! #ILookLikeASurgeon @WomenInThoracic @StanfordMed
