January 12, 2009

RESIDENCY RECRUITMENT: Just a reminder that the forth and last residency recruitment day will be this Thursday, January 15th. All faculty and residents are encouraged to attend the welcome presentation from 7-7:45 am, followed by the M&M conference from 7:45-8:45 am, in Frank Spencer M&M Conference Room at Bellevue. Also please note that, so that the presentation will not be disrupted, faculty and residents who are not in attendance at the start of the welcome presentation will be asked not to enter M&M Conference Room while the session is in progress from 7-7:45 am. All faculty and residents also are encouraged to attend the lunch from 1-2:30 pm in the Faculty Dining Room at NYU.

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Surgery Grand Rounds lecture will be on Wednesday January 21, 2009 at 7:30 AM in Alumni Hall A. Dr. Charles B. Rosen, Associate Professor of Surgery and Surgical Director for the Mayo Clinic Rochester Liver Transplant Program will speak on "Neoadjuvant therapy and liver transplantation for unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma - a new paradigm for hepatobiliary malignancy."

TRAUMA REGIONAL PAPER COMPETITION EVENT: The annual American college of surgeons committee on trauma regional resident paper competition was hosted at Bellevue on 12/11/08. Guest speaker was Thomas Scalea, MD from Maryland Shock Trauma. Not only did Linda Dultz present a paper there, but she came in 2nd place and her paper "Emergency Surgery: The new era in trauma, but is it a financially sustainable model?" has been submitted to represent the region at the national COT meeting in Chicago.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Dr. Marco Melis had a publication in the Journal of Surgical Oncology entitled "Management of positive margin following resection of desmoid tumors." Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008; 98: 594-602. Melis M, Zager JS, Sondak VK.

Dr. Kepal Patel had a book chapter published:
Patel KN. Molecular Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer. Medical and Surgical Management of Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease. Editors: Terris, Gourin. Publisher- Thieme Medical, 2009.

Dr. David Hirsch had two articles that were published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery:
1) Analysis of Microvascular Free Flaps for Reconstruction of Advanced Mandibular Osteoradionecrosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

2) Minimizing Microstomia while Maximizing Esthetics in the Reconstruction of Acquired Lip Defects: The Evolution of the Bilateral Paramedian Cross-Lip Flap.

The following presentations were made at the 31st San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Dec 10-14, 2008 by the Breast Surgery physicians and surgical residents:
1- Non-image guided fine needle aspiration of palpable axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.
Marti JL, Ayo D, Levine P, Hernandez O, Rescigno J, Axelrod DM. New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY

2- Evidence that SOM230 can prevent experimental mammary hyperplasia by blocking IGF-I and thus estrogen action in the mammary gland: preliminary evidence for an effect in humans.
Ruan W, Singh B, Smith J, Axelrod D, Kleinberg DL. New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

3- Patient perception of choice in decision-making for early-stage breast cancer: do race and socioeconomic status matter?
Dhage S, Fei K, Weidman J, Guth AA, Bickell N. NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

4- Does the recurrence of pregnancy-associated breast cancer during subsequent pregnancy 10 years after mastectomy support the unique hormonal milieu of pregnancy as a cause of tumorigenesis? A case and literature review.
Schlager A, Unger JG, Schnabel F. NYU Medical Center, NY, NY

5- Assessment of breast cancer risk prediction models in a high-risk population.
Chun J, Schnabel F, Ogunyemi O. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; New York University Medical Center, New York, NY; Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Laki Rousou was first author on a paper in Annals of Thoracic Surgery entitled "Saphenous Vein Conduits Harvested by Endoscopic Technique have Structural and Functional Damage." Laki J. Rousou1, Hemant S. Thatte2, Kristin B. Taylor2, Xiu-Gui Lu2, Nancy A. Healey2, Michael D. Crittenden2, Miguel Haime2, Shukri F. Khuri2
1. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
2. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Boston Health Care System, West Roxbury, MA, USA.

Dr. Phuong Nguyen presented at the 2008 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society - North America (TERMIS-NA) meeting in San Diego, CA, 12/7-12/10. "Sustained Release of Growth Factors from a Composite Ceramic Scaffold: Implications for Bony Engineering" P.D. Nguyen, D.D. Reformat, I. Chesnoiu-Matei, J.A. Lee, A.C. Allori, C. Cretiu-Vasiliu, R.J. Allen, E.A. Clark, J.E. Smay, J.L. Ricci, S.M. Warren

Dr. Nguyen was co-author on another presentation: "Improving Postnatal Vasculogenesis Restores Diabetic Wound Healing" R.J. Allen, P.D. Nguyen, L. Varjabadean, J.P. Levine, P.B. Saadeh, S.M. Warren

Dr. Mark Hobeika along with Dr. Ronald Simon, Dr. Spiros Frangos and Dr. Omar Bholat had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Trauma entitled: U.S. Surgeon and Medical Student Attitudes Towards Organ Donation.

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