October 06, 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.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. H. Leon Pachter who was elected Vice-President of the American Association for Surgical Trauma (AAST) at the National meeting in Hawaii.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Evan Nadler who received a K08 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for "The Role of TGF-beta in the pathogenesis of Experimental Biliary Atresia." The grant is for 5 years from 2008-2012 for $153,360/year.

SAVE THE DATE- DEPARTMENT HOLIDAY PARTY: The Department's 2008 Holiday party will be held on Thursday, December 11th, 6:30- 10 pm at the Twenty Four Fifth, 5th avenue between 9th and 10th streets. Invitations will be sent out shortly.

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. Phuong Nguyen gave a talk this weekend at the 25th Annual Northeastern Society of Plastics Surgeons in Philadelphia, PA entitled: "Design of Solid Scaffolds with Time-Released Porosity for Endogenous Bone Engineering." P.D. Nguyen, A.C. Allori, C.D. Lin, J.L. Ricci, S.M. Warren

If you have news, announcements, papers and presentations that you want to include in the Cutting Edge, please email Kajal Desai @ kajal.desai@nyumc.org