July 06, 2009

 

MANDATORY CODE OF CONDUCT & HIPAA TRAINING - It is mandatory for all faculty members, officers, full-and part-time employees, students, and volunteers to complete this training by July 31, 2009. The two-part, on-line session consists of:

Code of Conduct (10-15 minute "open book" quiz on the Code) 

HIPAA Awareness (24 minute refresher on HIPAA Privacy and Security)

Please click on link below to access training:

http://www.nyumc.org/hccs_web/logon/html/checkmain.html

 

SURGICAL SKILLS LAB DESIGNATED AS ACS ACCREDITED EDUCATION INSTITUTE: The Surgical Skills Laboratory received ACS Level 1 Comprehensive Education Institute accreditation. This is the highest level of the ACS Accredited Education Institutes. There are only 18 in the United States. The goal of our Education Institute will be to focus on competencies and to specifically address teaching, learning and assessment of technical skills using simulation and state-of-the art educational methods. 

Thank you to Dr. Tom Diflo, Peggy Gluszak and the Education Committee team for doing all the hard work to get this accreditation.

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:  

Drs. Marina Kuiran, George Fielding, Manish Parikh and Christine Fielding presented at the annual American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric surgery meeting in Dallas June. Below are their presentations:

Oral Presentations:

1.) 5-Year outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes who underwent laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. S Sultan, D Gupta, M Parikh, H Youn, M Kurian, G Fielding, C Ren Fielding.

2.) Evaluating gastric erosion in band management: an algorithm for stratification of risk. M Kurian, S Sultan, K Garg, H Youn, G Fielding, C Ren Fielding.

3.) Does participation in a ‘supervised program' affect outcomes after the Lap-Band in the medicaid population? S Sultan, J Saunders, M McMacken, M Parikh.

 

Poster Presentations:

1.) Relationship between percent excess weight loss and baseline BMI with the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB): A retrospective seven-year follow-up study. G Fielding, M Kurian, H Youn, C Ren.

2.) Predicting hiatal hernia with preoperative reflux symptoms and barium esophagram. R Jain, S Sultan, E Balthazar, J Sanders, M Parikh.

3.) Does participation in post-op support group affect outcomes after Lap-Band surgery in medicaid patients? L Navie, I Samaroo, J Saunders, M Parikh.

 

Post-Graduate CME course faculty lectures:

Dr. Ren:

1.) Course Director of ASMBS Controversies in Restrictive Procedures: Adjustable Band vs. Sleeve Gastrectomy. 

2.) "How I Do It: Band". Controversies in Restrictive Procedures: Adjustable Band vs. Sleeve Gastrectomy. 

3.) "Hiatal Hernia and Reflux After Banding". Controversies in Restrictive Procedures: Adjustable Band vs. Sleeve Gastrectomy.

4.) "The Band and the Role of the Non-Surgical Medical Specialist". ASMBS/TOS Medical Specialties Course

 

Dr. Fielding:

1.) "Adolescent Care Insights". ASMBS/TOS Medical Specialties Course

2.) "Adolescents? Best with Banding or Best with Sleeve?". Controversies in Restrictive Procedures: Adjustable Band vs. Sleeve Gastrectomy.

The Bariatric Surgery team also got a manuscript published in the July issue of Surgical Endoscopy entitled "Early U.S. outcomes after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in patients with a body mass index less than 35 kg/m2." Sultan S, Parikh M, Youn H, Kurian M, Fielding G, Ren C.  Surg Endosc. 2009 Jul;23(7):1569-73.

Below are the publications from the Transplant team:

1.      The Transplant Surgery team had an abstract poster presentation on 5/31/09 at the American Transplant Congress in Boston, MA: "Increased Morbidity Following Donation after Cardiac Death in Liver Transplantation."  Vincent Peyregne, Ivaylo Mitsiev, Ahmed Fahmy, Devon John, Thomas Diflo, Glyn Morgan, Lewis Teperman.

2.      Dr. Lewis Teperman gave an oral presentation on 5/31/09 at the American Transplant Congress in Boston, MA: "Efficacy of Mycophenolate Mofetil/Sirolimus Maintenance Therapy after CNI Withdrawal in Liver Transplant Recipients: 1-Year Outcomes of the Spare-the-Nephron (STN) Trial."  L. Teperman, L. Sher, P. Marotta, A. Sebastian, D. Moonka, D. Patel, B. Koneru, G. Klintmalm, J. Roberts.

3.      Dr. Lewis Teperman gave a poster presentation on 5/31/09 at the American Transplatn Congress in Boston, MA: "Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (FTC/TDF) Fixed Dose Combination in Patients with Normal and Impaired Renal Function Post-Orthotopic Liver Transplant for Prevention of Hepatitis B Recurrence in the Presence or Absence of Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG): Preliminary Safety Analysis."  Lewis Teperman, James Spivey, Fred Poordad, Thomas Schiano, Derek Coombs, Jane Anderson, David Oldach, Franck Rousseau.

4.      Dr. Lewis Teperman co-authored the following abstracts presented at the American Transplant Congress in Boston, MA:

 

• "Tolerability of Mycophenolate Mofetil/Sirolimus Maintenance Therapy after Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawal in Liver Transplant Recipients: 1-Year Outcomes of the Spare-the-Nephron (STN) Trial." J. Roberts, L. Sher, P. Marotta, L. Teperman, A. Sebastian, D. Moonka, D. Patel, B. Koneru, G. Klintmalm.

 

• "Donor Serologic Screening: Current Practices and Future Challenges A Survey Reported by the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Diseases Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)." Michael G. Ison, T. Pruett, L. Teperman, S. Covington, K. Taylor, E. Blumberg, K. Carney, J. Cutler, M. DiMaio, M. Green, R. Hasz, B. Kubak, B. Vasudev, M. Nalesnik.

 

• "Donor-Derived Disease Transmission Events in the United States in 2008: A Report from the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Diseases Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)." Michael G. Ison, S. G. Covington, K. Y. Taylor, E. G. Blumberg, K. J. Carney, J. G. Cutler, M. DiMaio, M. Green, R. Hasz, B. Kubak, T. Pruett, L. Teperman, B. Vasudev, M. Nalesnik.

 

5.      Dr. Lewis Teperman appeared on Good Morning America Health on 6/4/09 with Christopher Kennedy Lawford to discuss Hepatitis C. 

 

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