Surgeons, trainees, and others were honored with special awards presented during Clinical Congress 2024. They include:听
Distinguished Service Award听
Layton F. Rikkers, MD, F番茄社区app (Madison, WI)听
番茄社区app Lifetime Achievement Award
David B. Hoyt, MD, F番茄社区app (San Diego, CA)
Distinguished Lifetime Military Contribution Award
C. William Schwab, MD, F番茄社区app (Philadelphia, PA)
Mary Edwards Walker Inspiring Women in Surgery Award
Barbara J. Pettitt, MD, MHPE, F番茄社区app (Atlanta, GA)
Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Award
Mary T. Hawn, MD, F番茄社区app (Stanford, CA)听
番茄社区app/Pfizer Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards听
- Academic Global Surgeon Award: Catherine J. Juillard, MD, MPH, F番茄社区app (Los Angeles, CA)
- Surgical Humanitarian Award: Jason P. Fader, MD, F番茄社区app, FCS(ECSA) (Gitega Province, Burundi)听
- International Surgical Volunteerism Award: Alfred Qui帽ones-Hinojosa, MD, F番茄社区app (Jacksonville, FL)
- Domestic Surgical Volunteerism Award: Damon H. Clark, MD, F番茄社区app (Los Angeles, CA)
- Resident Surgical Volunteerism Award: Nichole Starr, MD, MPH (San Francisco, CA)
Advocate of the Year Award听
Don J. Selzer, MD, F番茄社区app (Indianapolis, IN)
RAS-番茄社区app Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award听
Maie A. St. John, MD, PhD, F番茄社区app (Los Angeles, CA)
Jameson L. Chassin Award for Professionalism in General Surgery听
Katharine E. Caldwell, MD, MSCI (St. Louis, MO)
Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching听
Rick D. Vavolizza, MD, Charlottesville, VA
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Promising Investigator Award听
Jashodeep Datta, MD (Miami, FL)听听
Distinguished Philanthropist of the Year Award
Raghuvir Gelot, MD, F番茄社区app (Ahoskie, NC)
Impact Award
Christina Hewes Corson (Albuquerque, NM)
History of Surgery Poster Competition听
- First Place: Savanna Banks and Isaiah Ware (Macon, GA): 鈥淭ragedy and Healing: The Impact of Two Black Surgeons in The Jim Crow South鈥�
- Second Place: Alexandria Soto (Cambridge, MA): "Triage Tracks: A History of Wartime Hospital Trains"
CoC State Chair Outstanding Performance Award
- Diana Dickson-Witmer, MD, F番茄社区app (Rehoboth Beach, DE), Delaware State Chair听
CoC Cancer Research Paper Competition听
Clinical Research听
- First place: Richard Sassun, MD (Rochester, MN): 鈥淎 Valid Integration of Tumor Deposits in N Staging for Prognostication in Colon Cancer鈥�
- Second place: Kelley Chan, MD, MS (Chicago, IL): 鈥淐ommission on Cancer Hospital Accreditation Status is Associated with Increased Delivery of Guideline-Concordant Care for Highly Vulnerable Patients with Breast Cancer鈥�
- Third place: Jamie Hillas, MD (Boston, MA): 鈥淩elationships Matter: Matching Barriers to Implementation Strategies for Commission on Cancer鈥檚 Breast Surgical Standards鈥� and Amelia Wong, DO (Honolulu, HI), 鈥淎n Innovative Pathway to Diagnose, Stage and Treat Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Addressing Treatment Delays in the Pacific Region鈥�
Medical Student Program Poster Awards听
Basic Science听
- First place: Karla Rivera (Lillington, NC): 鈥淕ene Delivery During Ex Vivo Sub-normothermic and Hypothermic Machine Perfusion to Cardiac Allografts鈥�
- Second place: Syim Salahuddin (Iowa City): 鈥淟oss of Muscarinic Receptors Innervation Following Lung Transplantation Drives Unregulated Cell Proliferation in Acute Airway Injury鈥�
Clinical Science听
- First place: Marissa Michael (New York, NY): 鈥淥CCULT: A Novel Scale for Occult Tethered Cord Syndrome: Proposition As A Diagnostic Tool And Utility In A Retrospective Cohort鈥�
- Second place: Elaha Noori (Irvine, CA): 鈥淐omparing the Incidence of Osteoporotic Fractures in Patients Taking Preinjury Warfarin or Direct Oral Anticoagulants鈥�
Education, Innovation, or Outcomes听
- First place: Dontranika Horton (Charlottesville, NC): 鈥淰alidation of The African Surgical Outcomes Study Surgical Risk Calculator at Kigali Teaching Hospital鈥�
- Second place: Jarinya Wilasrusmee (Bangkok, Thailand): "The Plastic Covering Method For Self-gripping Mesh Placement In Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair"听
Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum ePosters of Exceptional Merit
- Mardi Karin, MD, F番茄社区app (Stanford, CA): 鈥淢ale Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy and Areolar-Sparing Mastectomy: A Multi-Institution Retrospective Review of Indications and Outcomes鈥�
- Mark Broadwin, MD (Allentown, PA): 鈥淰isualization of ECM Microparticle Uptake in a Murine Model of Myocardial Infarction: Intramyocardial vs. Intravenous Routes鈥�
- Hala Al Asadi, MD (New York, NY): 鈥淭he Impact of Adjuvant Radiotherapy Administration on Disease Specific Survival in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Parathyroid Cancer鈥�
- Bethany Slater, MD, F番茄社区app (鈥淗amilton, ON): 鈥淟arge Language Model-Derived Clinical Practice Guideline for the Surgical Management of Appendicitis鈥�
- Blake Westling, MD (Akron, OH): 鈥淕eriatric Surgery Verification Initiative Improves Goals of Care Discussions and Code Status Documentation鈥�
- Escar Kusema, MD (Fargo, ND): 鈥淚mpact of Rurality on Time to Therapy and Survival for Stage II-III Esophageal Adenocarcinoma鈥�
- Rennie Qin, MBChB (Aukland, New Zealand): 鈥淚nstitutional Learning Curve Associated with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand鈥�
- Chenao Yu (Xi鈥檃n, China): 鈥淪afety and Efficacy of Magnetic-Anchoring Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) versus Conventional Vats Pulmonary Resection: A Randomised, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Clinical Trial鈥�
- Kayla Wilson, MBA (Copperas Cove, TX): 鈥淩eviving Donation: Exploring the Temporal and Geographic Utilization of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) in Organ Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD)鈥�
- Mohammadreza Zarisfi, MD (Pittsburgh, PA): 鈥淢odulating Platelet Function with Red Light Exposure: Implications for Thrombosis and Post-Trauma Recovery鈥�
- Elsie Ross, MD, MSc (La Jolla, CA): 鈥淯nsupervised X-Ray Lower Extremity Angiogram Segmentation鈥�听
Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Excellence in Research Awards听听
Bariatric/Foregut听
- Andrew Behrmann (Columbia, MO): 鈥淚ntestinal Bypass as Metabolic Surgery Leads to More Significant Changes in Circulating Metabolites Compared with Restrictive Operation
Breast听
- Summer Sami Yono, MD (Detroit, MI): 鈥淭he Effect of Lymphatic Microsurgical Preventive Healing Approach in Reducing Breast Cancer-Related Arm Lymphedema鈥�
Colon and Rectal Surgery听
- Tiffany Cho (Lynchburg, VA): 鈥淓lucidating a Key Mechanism of Perioperative and Postoperative Ileus: Microvascular Serum Leak-Activation of the Cyclooxygenase Pathway Causing Colonic Dysmotility鈥�
- Christopher J. Neylan, MD (Philadelphia, PA): 鈥淭he Relationship between the Microbiome and Diverticular Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study鈥�
Endocrine听
- William R. Lightle, MD, MPH (Waco, TX): 鈥淯nderstanding Reasons for Underutilization of Parathyroidectomy in the Treatment of Primary Hyperparathyroidism鈥擜 Mixed-Methods Approach鈥�
Ethics
- Kathryn Wittrock (Iowa City): 鈥淐onflict of Interest Statements and Disclosure Policies for Surgical Societies鈥�
General Surgery听
- Nina M. Clark, MD, MS (Seattle, WA): 鈥淪hould They Stay or Should They Go? Factors Associated with Transfer in Emergency General Surgery Patients Requiring Short Hospitalization鈥�
- Yatee A. Dave, MD (Rochester, NY): 鈥淭hink Twice: Deimplementation of Routine Laboratory Testing in Acute Care Surgery鈥�
Global Surgery and Humanitarian Outreach
- Ami Hayashi (Los Angeles, CA): 鈥淩anking Modifiable Predictor Variables for Traumatic Brain Injury Mortality in Cameroon Using the Super Learner Machine Learning Algorithm鈥�
Health Services Research听
- Ray Thomas Ramizer Jr., MD, MS (Chicago, IL): 鈥淢eeting the Challenge: Experiences of Vice Chairs of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Confronting Resistance to Change
- Daniel R. Stelzl, MD (Boston, MA): 鈥淎ssociation Between Surgical Team Familiarity in the Operating Room and Patient Outcomes鈥�
Hepatobiliary and Pancreas听
- Tejeshwar Jain, MBBS (Birmingham, AL): 鈥淭argeting a Developmental Pathway Improves Chronic Pancreatitis in Murine Models鈥�
- Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD, PhD (Columbus, OH): 鈥淕enomic Variation in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Based on Race/Ethnicity and Sex鈥�
Orthopaedic Surgery
- David Richter (Kalamazoo, MI): 鈥淎utologous Blood Clots as a Therapeutic Vehicle for Treatment of Femoral Defects鈥�
Neurosurgery听
- Matthew Culkin (Philadelphia, PA): 鈥淒ose Dependent Tranexamic Acid (TXA) Blunting of Penumbral Leukocyte Mobilization and Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) Permeability Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): An In-Vivo Murine Study (Quick-Shot)鈥澨�
Otolaryngology
- Muhammad Bilal Mirza, MD (Nashville, TN): 鈥淒istinct Populations of T-Cells Predict Immunotherapy Response in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Insights from a Clinical Trial鈥�
Pediatric Surgery听
- Nicole J. Kus, MD (Baltimore, MD): 鈥淪ystemic Delivery of LNP mRNA in Utero Permits Editing in a Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy鈥�
Plastic/Maxillofacial Surgery听
- Ipek Berberoglu, MD (Ann Arbor, MI): 鈥淣erve Regeneration and Functional Recovery after Delayed Application of Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface鈥�
Surgical Education
- Katherine I. Portelli, MD (New York, NY): 鈥淪culpting Success: Optimizing Complication Self-Reporting Methodologies鈥�
Surgical Oncology听
- Ilan Layman, MD, MS (Providence, RI): 鈥淚mpact of Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery of Nelitolimod (SD-101) into the Liver with Systemic Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor for Treating Metastatic Uveal Melanoma with Liver Metastases鈥�
Thoracic Surgery
- Scott Z. Mu, MD, MHS (Newark, NJ): 鈥淧ropensity Score Analysis of Association between Frailty and Survival after Lung Resection in 42,929 Patients鈥�
Transplantation & Tissue Engineering听
- Teresa Belledent, MS (Nashville, TN): 鈥淭imely Referral of Deceased Organ Donors Increases Odds of Liver and Heart Transplantation鈥�
Trauma/Burn/Critical Care听
- Nathaniel McLauchlan, MD, SM (Philadelphia, PA): 鈥淏ack to the Drawing Board: Exploring the Composition and Mechanical Properties of Traumatic Hemothorax鈥�
- Ana M. Reyes, MD, MPH (Miami, FL): 鈥淔inancial Toxicity and Firearm Injury: Exploring Financial Needs of Participants in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program鈥�
Vascular Surgery听
- Melina Recarey (Washington, DC): 鈥淚nfrainguinal Bypass for Limb Salvage in Octogenarians with CLTI Has Comparable Mortality and Higher Morbidity Compared with Major Amputation, with Improved Likelihood of Home Discharge鈥�听
Acknowledgment of 2023 Award Winner (General Surgery)
- Jennifer Darby, MD (Chicago, IL): 鈥淭he Impact of Exercise on the Systemic Response to Hemorrhagic Shock and Trauma in Mice Assessed by Plasma Proteomics鈥�
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