Scientific Program

Sunday, August 2, 2020

8:00pm – 10:00pm EDT
Spectacular Problems in Surgery, Theatre

8:00pm – 8:15pm EDT
SP 7. ROBOTIC TRAUMATIC HERNIA REPAIR AFTER BLUNT IMPACT WITH PROJECTILE BEER KEG
Presenter: Jonathan Jou MD | University of Illinois, Peoria

8:15pm – 8:30pm EDT
SP 2. ECMO SUCCESS AFTER AN ELECTRIFYING NEAR-DROWNING
Presenter: Arthur D Grimes MD | University of Oklahoma

8:30pm – 8:45pm EDT
SP 3. FREE AIR, UP THERE? TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX FROM GASTRIC ULCER PERFORATION
Presenter: Jameil Abou-Hanna MD | University of Illinois, Peoria

8:45pm – 9:00pm EDT
SP 4. FULMINANT GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING AS A LATE COMPLICATION AFTER ISOLATED PANCREAS TRANSPLANT
Presenter: Tara Barry MD | University of South Florida

9:00pm – 9:15pm EDT
SP 5. A RARE CASE OF AN INVASIVE ANTERIOR MEDIASTINAL TERATOMA
Presenter: Kurt Piening | University of Illinois, Peoria

9:15pm – 9:30pm EDT
SP 6. AN UNEXPECTED SECOND PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA IN PREGNANCY
Presenter: Anna Quian BS | MetroHealth Medical Center

9:30pm – 9:45pm EDT
SP 1. EVISCERATION AFTER ABDOMINAL PERINEAL RESECTION
Presenter: Kyle D Harris DO | Wright State University

9:45pm – 10:00pm EDT
SP 8. COLONIC ENDOMETRIOSIS: A CASE STUDY OF OBSTRUCTING SIGMOID ENDOMETOMA
Presenter: Kaitlyn Stevens DO | Genesys Regional Medical Center

Monday, August 3, 2020

7:45am – 7:50am EDT
Featured Poster, Theatre

7:45am – 7:50am EDT 
P 24. INDICATIONS FOR DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE IN THE MODERN ERA OF TRAUMA: A CASE SERIES
Presenter: Christopher Thacker MD| Geisinger Medical Center

8:00am – 10:15am EDT
Scientific Session I, Theatre

8:00am – 8:15am EDT
+1. CLINICAL STAGING ACCURACY AND THE ROLE OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY FOR CT3N0 RECTAL CANCER: PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED NATIONAL CANCER DATABASE ANALYSIS
Presenter: Dominykas Burneikis MD | Cleveland Clinic Foundation

8:15am – 8:30am EDT
+2. REGISTRY-BASED TRAINEE ASSESSMENTS: LEVERAGING A QUALITY COLLABORATIVE FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION
Presenter: Jonah D Thomas MS | Cleveland Clinic Foundation

8:30am – 8:45am EDT
+3. OUTCOME OF CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN US VETERANS WITH CIRRHOSIS
Presenter: Awni D Shahait MD | Wayne State University

8:45am – 9:00am EDT
4. CONTRALATERAL BREAST CANCER RISK AND ENDOCRINE THERAPY USE IN DCIS PATIENTS TREATED WITH UNILATERAL MASTECTOMY IN THE MODERN ERA
Presenter: Stephanie Valente DO | Cleveland Clinic Foundation

9:00am – 9:15am EDT
+5. A COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT: CHARACTERIZING THE PROGNOSTIC UTILITY OF OBTAINING WOUND CULTURES IN SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS
Presenter: Graham McLaren MD | Western Michigan University

9:15am – 9:30am EDT
6. THE ASSOCIATION OF MICROSCOPIC POSITIVE MARGINS WITH SURVIVAL IN RESECTED SMALL GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS: IS THERE A NEED TO RE-RESECT THOSE MARGINS?
Presenter: Dhruv Patel BS | Loyola University Medical Center

9:30am – 9:45am EDT
7. DISPELLING MYTHS: SPINAL CORD INJURY LEVEL AND PHRENIC NERVE CONDUCTION STUDIES DO NOT PREDICT DIAPHRAGM PACING SUCCESS- ALL PATIENTS SHOULD UNDERGO EARLY DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY
Presenter: Raymond Onders MD | University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

9:45am – 10:00am EDT
8. HOTTER THAN IT LOOKS: CHOLECYSTITIS IS MORE COMMON THAN IMAGING STUDIES INDICATE
Presenter: Kathrine Kelly-Schuette DO | Spectrum Health Hospitals

10:00am – 10:15am EDT
+9. RISK OF DELAYED INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE IN PATIENTS ON ANTICOAGULATION WITH NEGATIVE INITIAL IMAGING
Presenter: Meryl Ethridge MD | Ascension St. John Hospital and Medical Center

10:15am – 10:30am EDT
Morning Break, Theatre Foyer and Gerald Ford Conference Room

10:30am – 11:45am EDT
Scientific Session II, Theatre

10:30am – 10:45am EDT
10. GENDER PERCEPTION BIAS OF OPERATIVE AUTONOMY EVALUATIONS AMONG RESIDENTS AND FACULTY IN GENERAL SURGERY TRAINING
Presenter: Caitlyn Cookenmaster MD | Western Michigan University

10:45am – 11:00am EDT
11. DUODENAL COMPLICATIONS IN NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS: CHALLENGES OF AN OVERLOOKED CONDITION
Presenter: Lucas R Banter BS | Indiana University School of Medicine

11:00am – 11:15am EDT
+12. NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION, BUT NOT CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN, IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE IN PANCREATIC CANCER
Presenter: Jonathan Hue MD | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

11:15am – 11:30am EDT
+13. PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS: SURGICAL OUTCOMES AND SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Presenter: Joseph N Fahmy MD | Loyola University Medical Center

11:30am – 11:45am EDT *Best Paper by a New Member Winner*
+14. TRANSANAL TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION ACHIEVES EQUIVALENT ONCOLOGIC RESECTION COMPARED TO LAPAROSCOPIC APPROACH BUT WITH FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES
Presenter: Gabie K Ong MD | Indiana University School of Medicine

11:45am – 1:00pm EDT
Scientific Session III, Theatre

11:45am – 12:00pm EDT
+15. IS BARIUM ESOPHAGRAM ENOUGH TO GUIDE OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE? COMPARISON OF ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY FOUND ON BARIUM ESOPHAGRAM TO HIGH RESOLUTION MANOMETRY?
Presenter: Giuseppe Zambito | Spectrum Health Hospitals

12:00pm – 12:15pm EDT
16. APPLYING ISO 9001 TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE SURGICAL QUALITY COMMITTEE
Presenter: J. Scott George MD | Christ Medical Center, Advocate Aurora Health

12:15pm – 12:30pm EDT
+17. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HOSPITALS CARING FOR DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES AND POST-SURGICAL OUTCOMES
Presenter: Anghela Z Paredes MD, MS | The Ohio State University

12:30pm – 12:45pm EDT
18. BLUNT CEREBRAL VASCULAR INJURY DOES TREATMENT MATTER?
Presenter: Jonathan M Saxe MD, MAR, MBA | St. Vincent Hospital

12:45pm – 1:00pm EDT
+19. GERIATRIC RIB FRACTURE MORTALITY: ARE THERE CLUES IN THE CORE?
Presenter: Kathrine Kelly-Schuette DO | Spectrum Health Hospitals

1:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
William Hunter Harridge Lecture, Theatre

Find Your Joy… Peter J. Fabri MD, PhD I am fortunate to have enjoyed a 45 year career in academic surgery. I was a confirmed workaholic, but after a massive heart attack, my wife laid out a 10 year plan to retire. I walked away from medicine five years ago and never looked back.

5:30pm – 6:30pm EDT
Family Yard Games, Lawn

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

8:00am EDT
Virtual 5k Fun Run Deadline

8:00am – 10:15am EDT
Scientific Session IV, Theatre 

8:00am – 8:15am EDT
+ 20. RESIDENT PARTICIPATION FOR SELECT GENERAL SURGERY PROCEDURES IS ASSOCIATED WITH VARYING OUTCOMES
Presenter: Tara Barry MD | University of South Florida

8:15am – 8:30am EDT
+21. LAPAROSCOPIC LIGAMENTUM TERES CARDIOPEXY TO THE RESCUE; AN OLD PROCEDURE WITH NEW USE IN MANAGING REFLUX AFTER SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
Presenter: Robert Foster MD | Ascension St. John Hospital and Medical Center

8:30am – 8:45am EDT
+22. DISCHARGE TIMING: DOES TARGETING AN IDEAL LENGTH OF STAY FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING COLECTOMY IMPACT READMISSIONS AND COSTS OF CARE?
Presenter: Evelena C Cousin-Peterson MD | University of South Florida

8:45am – 9:00am EDT
+23. CHANGES IN MARIJUANA AND CANNABINOID USE IN PATIENTS TREATED FOR TRAUMATIC INJURY BEFORE, DURING AND AFER THE PROCESS OF LEGALIZATION
Presenter: Mercedes Nikzad MD | Ascension St. John Hospital and Medical Center

9:00am – 9:15am EDT
+24. IS THERE A GENDER BIAS IN MILESTONE EVALUATIONS IN GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENCY TRAINING?
Presenter: Lauren Kwasny DO | Western Michigan University

9:15am – 9:30am EDT
25. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MARGIN OF RESECTION AND USE OF RADIOTHERAPY IN NON-LIPOMATOUS RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA
Presenter: Michael J Littau BA | Loyola University Medical Center

9:30am – 9:45am EDT
26. ENDOSTAPLER VS. ENDOLOOP CLOSURE OF THE APPENDICEAL STUMP IN LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY: WHICH HAS BETTER OUTCOMES?
Presenter: Cynthia White BS | Wright State University

9:45am – 10:00am EDT
27. SURGICAL INTERVENTION FOR MECHANICAL LARGE BOWEL OBSTRUCTION AT A TERTIARY HOSPITAL:  WHICH PATIENTS RECEIVE A STOMA AND HOW OFTEN ARE THEY REVERSED?
Presenter: Michael Valente DO | Cleveland Clinic Foundation

10:00am – 10:15am EDT
28. LOWER PREOPERATIVE 48-HOUR PH SCORE ASSOCIATED WITH REFLUX RESOLUTION AFTER SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
Presenter: Abdelkader Hawasli MD | St. John Hospital and Medical Center

10:15am – 10:45am EDT
MSA Annual Business Meeting & Awards, Theatre

1:00pm EDT
Golf Tournament, The Jewel Course

+Indicates a candidate presentation for the “Best Surgeon in Training Paper”

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