October 20, 2008

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Department of Surgery Grand Rounds will be on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 7:30am in Alumni Hall B. Dr. Thomas Maldonado will present on "The Future of Endovascular Repair of Abdominal and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms." Please mark your calendars with the date and time. All surgical faculty and resident must attend.

DATE CHANGE- DEPARTMENT HOLIDAY PARTY: Due to unforeseen conflict and also recruitment day, the Department's 2008 Holiday party will now be held on Monday, December 22nd, 6:30-10 pm at the Twenty Four Fifth, 5th avenue between 9th and 10th streets. Please mark the new date on your calendars and R.S.V.P to Arelis Espinal at 263-2225 or via email at Arelis.espinal@nyumc.org

RESIDENCY RECRUITMENT: The 2009 general surgery residency recruitment dates are as follows:
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Faculty will be contacted this week for participation on the interview days. The interview day will be from 7am-2:30pm.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Dr. Thomas Diflo presented Transplant Grand Rounds yesterday on "Transplant Tourism" at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The talk was simulcast to the Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale and Jacksonville.

Dr. Thomas Riles presented the following at the American College of Surgeons' 94th Annual Clinical Congress (October 12-15, 2008) "What is the Optimal Technique for Performing a Carotid Endarterectomy?"

Dr. Manish Parikh wrote chapters in the following 3 books released at ACS:
1) Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch by Manish Parikh, Michel Gagner, Alfons Pomp in
SAGES MANUAL: A Practical Guide To Bariatric Surgery

2) Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy for Malignancy by Manish Parikh, Alfons Pomp in
Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery

3) Minimally Invasive Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch by Manish Parikh, Michel Gagner, Alfons Pomp in Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Drs. Marc Soares and Tomer Avraham are authors on a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology enitled "TGF-{beta}1 is a negative regulator of lymphatic regeneration during wound repair." Clavin NW, Avraham T, Fernandez JG, Daluvoy SV, Soares M, Chaudhry A, Mehrara BJ.

The following residents who presented work or were part of Surgical Forum oral presentations at the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco last week:

Phuong Nguyen
1) A Novel Murine Model of Isolated Skin Radiation Injury
Phuong D. Nguyen, MD; Richard A. Zoumalan, MD; Christopher C. Chang; Robert J. Allen, Jr, MD; Alexander M. Sailon; Stephen M. Warren, MD; Jamie P. Levine, MD, FACS; Pierre B. Saadeh, MD. From NYU.
2) "Endogenous Bone Engineering Using Solid Scaffolds with Time-Released Porosity" P.D. Nguyen, A.C. Allori, C.D. Lin, E. Clark, C. Cretieu-Vasiliu, J. Smay, J.L. Ricci, S.M. Warren

3) The Effects of AMD3100 on Diabetic Wound Healing
Robert J. Allen, Jr, MD, Clarence D. Lin, MA, Phuong D. Nguyen, MD; Evan Garfein, MD; Stephen M. Warren, MD. From NYU.

Tomer Avraham
Decreased Cutaneous Scarring Is Associated with More Rapid Lymphatic Regeneration and Decreased Acute Lymphedema
Nicholas W. Clavin, MD; John G. Fernandex, MD; Tomer Avraham, MD; Arif Chaudhry, MD; Babak J. Mehrara, MD, FACS. From Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Jennifer Stableford and George Plitas
Human Liver Dendritic Cells Contribute to Liver Tolerance
Zubin M. Bamboat, MD, Jennifer A. Stableford, MD, George Plitas, MD; Bryan M. Burt, MD; Hoang M. Nguyen, MD, Alexander P. Welles, Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD. >From Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Daniel Ceradini
Diabetes Impairs the Hypoxia Response by Blocking Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 Alpha Binding to P300
Hariharan Thangarajah, MD; Yubin Shi, PhD; Dachun Yao, PhD; Leila Jazayeri; Edward I Chang, MD; I. Nick Vial; Robert D. Galiano, MD; Daniel J. Ceradini, MD; Michael Brownlee, MD; Geoffrey C. Gurtner, MD, FACS. From Stanford University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Shang Loh
Novel Therapy for Age-Associated Defects in Neovascularization and Wound Healing Through Augmentation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 Stabilization with Dimethyloxalylglycine and Deferoxamine
Edward I Chang, MD, Michael G. Galvex; Samyra El-Ftesi; Shang A. Loh, MD; Geoffrey C. Gurtner, MD, FACS. From Stanford University.

The following abstracts were presented by NYU students, resident, faculty at the 25th Annual Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons: (Oct 2-5)

Presenter: Chris Derderian
Co-authors: Mihye Choi, M.D., Nolan S. Karp, M.D.
Wise-Pattern Breast Reconstruction: Pocket Augmentation using Alloderm and a Vascularized Dermal-Subcutaneous Pedicle

Presenter; Oren Tepper
Co authors: Jacob G. Unger, BA, Kevin H. Small, BA, Daniel L. Feldman, BA, Mihye Choi, MD, Nolan S. Karp, MD.
3D Analysis of Breast Augmentation Patients Defines Operative Changes and their Relationship to Implant Dimensions

Presenter: Doug Steinbrech
Co-authors: Oren Tepper, MD, Benjamin Ge, BS, Elizabeth Jelks, MD, Glen W. Jelks, MD.
Which Lower Lid Procedure to Choose A Precise Evaluation of the Lower Eyelid for a Scoring System to Select the Most Appropriate Canthoplasty Technique

Presenter: Nolan Karp
Algorithm and Operative Techniques for Breast Augmentation and Mastopexy

Presenter: Mihye Choi
Co-Authors -Oren M. Tepper, MD, Jacob G. Unger, BA, Kevin H. Small, BA, Daniel L. Feldman, BA, Nolan S. Karp, MD.
3D Analysis of Breast Augmentation Patients Defines Operative Changes and their Relationship to Implant Dimensions

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