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8 PATIENT SAFETY & OUTCOMES Matching gender of surgeon, patient does not affect outcomes: Study By Mariah Taylor A recent University of California Los Angeles study found patient- surgeon "gender concordance" does not affect patient outcomes. e study, published in e BMJ, examined data from more than 2.9 million Medicare patients who underwent one of 14 types of surgeries between 2016 and 2019. Procedures included abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, appendectomy, coronary artery bypass surgery, knee or hip replacement, hysterectomy, spinal fusion, removal of the prostate and removal of the thyroid. Among patients, 44.4% had operations by surgeons of the same gender (41.4% male and male, 3% female and female) and 55.6% were done by surgeons of different genders (1.8% male patient and female surgeon, 53.8% female patient and male surgeon). e study found no clinically meaningful difference between genders in 30-day mortality outcomes. According to a separate study published in August in JAMA Surgery, female surgeons have better long-term patient outcomes. n AdventHealth reaches landmark 1,000 liver transplants By Ashleigh Hollowell A team of surgeons at Orlando-based AdventHealth Transplant Institute performed the 1,000th liver transplant since the program's inception in 2007, according to a Nov. 30 news release. The 1,000th procedure was performed by Michael Angelis, MD who was assisted by surgeons, Philip Wai, MD, and Thomas Chin, MD, who helped start the liver transplant program 16 years ago. The center typically has shorter transplant wait times than the national average and boasts some of the top surgical outcomes for patients of transplant hospitals across the country. "We're able to handle one of the most difficult surgeries and continue to do so with excellent outcomes," Dr. Chin stated in the release. "I think that should bring a lot of confidence." n