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Haytham Kaafarani

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Haytham Kaafarani

@hayfarani

Chair of Surgery, Tenured Professor & Asst Dean @AUB_Lebanon; Professor of Surgery @HarvardMed; Tweets= personal opinion

Joined April 2013

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Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Jun 19
I moved back. Home. After 23 years in beloved Boston. In the middle of uncertainty, 3 months after my house was hatefully destroyed in Beirut. Cheers for love, hope, purpose & life with the most resilient & life-loving people of #Lebanon, & the most amazing family of @AUB_Lebanon
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Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Apr 3, 2020
Update tweet from the #COVIDー19 ICU Trenches: 1. Staff morale is high 2. Real sick patients: 18/18 patients intubated, 11 prone 3. Age range: 30s to 80s 4. ICU nurses are heroes: watching them prone a patient in < 3 min is humbling 5. Proning works 6. No families around is sad
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Oct 18, 2021
My 3 cents for #Match2022: 1. IMGs are needed & enrich. 2. #IMG does not sum up or define an applicant. They have different shades & stories. Ask about #distancetravelled 3. Prejudice & discrimination hurt. The blanket statement "our program does not take IMGs" will not age well.
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Mar 7, 2024
From being told 2 decades ago, as a hopeful @AUB_Lebanon student "we do not take IMGs", to Full Professor @Harvard @harvardmed @MGHSurgery today, this was a challenging journey. I could not have done it without the support of amazing family, mentors, & friends. #Grateful
Mass General Surgery
@MGHSurgery
Mar 5, 2024
Congratulations @hayfarani on his appointment to Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.
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Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Jun 3, 2022
My advice to interns starting soon: You are not here to prove anything to anyone. Focus only on: 1) taking care of patients as if they were your own family members, 2) always being honest, & 3) having a learning attitude & mindset. For the surgical interns: scrub in the OR.
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
May 6, 2022
I am humbled by @TJCommission trust, excited for the national responsibility & impact potential, & promise to bring the bedside clinician's voice to the highest levels. I will retain my clinical appointment @MGHSurgery. jointcommission.org/resources/news…
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Aug 17, 2019
Son: Daddy, I think I want to become a surgeon. Me (with mixed feelings of pride & apprehension): How come? Son: I want to tickle the intestines. #medtwitter #surgparenting #thuglife
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Mar 21, 2025
IMG who matched categorical? 1. Write down here where you are from, what you matched in, and where you matched. 2. We need to celebrate you &, as importantly, amplify your program that removed discrimination against IMGs. #MatchDay2025 #Insight to programs that "don't take IMGs"
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Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Dec 27, 2020
للدكتور مارون خوري ، عندي سؤال واحد: كم مريض كورونا عم ينازع الموت عالجت؟ يا جماعة، حكيه مغلوط 100%. عندكم بلبنان أطباء و اخصائيين بيفهموا، رجاءً اسمعوا منهم مش منه. مع تحيات جامعة هارفارد يلي نسب لها حكي مش صحيح. كلنا في هارفارد سنأخذ اللقاح ونؤمن بالعلم وليس بالتهريج الاعلامي
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Apr 23, 2020
#COVID19 is more than a respiratory disease. Please help disseminate to front line intensivists & surgeons: GI complications in 141 critically ill patients at Mass General: * 74% w/ ons or more GI complication * Severe Ileus * Ogilvie * non-classical mesenteric ischemia
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Jun 23, 2023
2 incidents, 4 days apart, one with hundreds escaping poverty/war & one with 5 men who paid 250K to enjoy an extreme adventure, dying. First with no rescue efforts or media coverage; second with minute-to-minute coverage & billions spent in rescue efforts despite the odds #Titan
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Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Sep 2, 2021
This month, I joined the editorial board of the @AnnalsofSurgery - probably the top surgical journal. All I can think of now is how bad I felt years ago when I received the 4th consecutive rejection email for my 4th attempt to publish in it. #grateful
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Oct 12, 2020
This is my 1st time voting. #ProudMoment #VOTE #VoteEarly #IchosetobeAmerican
Haytham Kaafarani
@hayfarani
Jan 22, 2019
Today, I became a #USA citizen 🇺🇸. I was not born American; I chose to be American. The quote that comes to mind, today, is that there is nothing wrong in America that cannot be corrected with what's right in America. I will be #Voting in #Election2020, for a woman president.