February 09, 2009

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Surgery Grand Rounds lecture will be on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 7:30 AM in Smilow 1st Floor Seminar Room. Dr. Patricia O'Neill, Co-Director of Trauma Surgery and Critical Care at Kings County Hospital Center will speak on "Blast Injuries: Are you prepared?" All surgical faculty and residents are strongly encouraged to attend.

RRC VISIT: Thank you to all faculty and residents who participated in the Residency Review Commission's site review last week. Preliminary feedback from the site visitor was good; we will get a full report after the RRC reviews our report at its summer's meeting. Special thanks to Dr. Russell Berman, Dr. Glyn Morgan, Sophia Pierre-Louis and the entire Surgery Admin staff for their hard work in preparing the Department for the visit.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
The following poster was presented by the Plastic Surgery team at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference and won the poster competition:
Title: Visualizing Treatment Options for Breast Reconstructive Surgery
Authors: John Qualter, Melissa Fana, Nicolette Deluccia, Kari Colen, Carrie Scharf, Alexes Hazen
Conference: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Long Beach, California, January 19-22

Dr. Laki Rousou had a poster presentation at the annual "Society of Thoracic Surgeons" January 24 - 27 in San Francisco, CA entitled: "Risk Factors for Mediastinitis?: Does Vancomycin Paste Make a Difference?" Laki J Rousou, MD, MS; Nancy A Healey, BS; Sharon J Willner, RN, BSN, MBA; Vladimir Birjiniuk, MD; Miguel Haime, MD; Shukri F Khuri, MD; Michael D Crittenden, MD

Dr. Anathea Powell had a paper published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons: Results of a National Survey of Surgical Resident Interest in International Experience, Electives, and Volunteerism. J Am Coll Surg. 2009;208:304-312.
Powell AC, Casey K, Liewehr DJ, Hayanga A, James TA, Cherr GS.

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