March 16, 2009

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Surgery Grand Rounds lecture will be this Wednesday March 18, 2009 at 7:30 AM in Smilow 1st Floor Seminar Room. Dr. Marc Bessler, Surgical Director of the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery and Director of Minimal Access Surgery at Columbia will present on "Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery - NOTES." All Surgery Faculty and Residents are strongly encouraged to attend.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Jason Maggi who was selected into the Physician-Scientist Training program at NYU for his research fellowship under the guidance of Dr. Harold Brem. The award for this program is $90,000 for 1 year starting July 2009.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
On March 4, Dr. Keith Heller delivered surgical Grand Rounds at Nassau University Medical Center. The topic was "Surgery for Hyperparathyroidism."

Dr. Marcovalerio Melis had a podium presentation at the Society of Surgical Oncology in Phoenix entitled "Complete Pathologic Response to Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is the only predictor of survival in patients with esophageal cancer." Society of Surgical Oncology. Phoenix, AZ. March 2009. Published on Annals of Surgical Oncology 2009; 16 (Suppl.1): 26. Meredith KL, Weber JM, Siegel EM, McLoughlin JM, Melis M, Shah NR, Karl RC.

Daniel Ceradini won first place in the New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons Resident's Night competition for a presentation entitled "Inside-Out Tissue Engineering: Using Free Flaps as Vascularized Scaffolds for Organ Level Tissue Engineering."

Jennifer Capla won third place in the New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons Resident's Night competition for a presentation entitled "When Must a Lateral Canthoplasty Be Done? A Precise Evaluation of the Lower Eyelid for an Algorithm to Select the Most Appropriate Canthal Technique."

Phuong Nguyen had a paper published entitled "Establishment of a critical-sized alveolar defect in a rat: a model for human gingivoperiosteoplasty." Plast Recon Surg. 123(3):817-275, March 2009. Nguyen P.D., Lin C.D., Allori A.C., Ricci J.L., Saadeh P.B., Warren S.M.

Anathea Powell was a co-author on a paper published in Cancer Research this month:
Shen HC, He M, Powell A, Adem A, Lorang D, Heller C, Grover AC, Ylaya K, Hweitt SM, Marx SJ, Spiegel L, Libutti SK. Recapitulation of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in Human Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type I Syndrome via Pdx1-Directed Inactivation of Men1. Cancer Res. 2009;69:1858-1866.

Anathea Powell had an essay published in the March Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons in honor of her late medical school mentor, Dr. Erwin Hirsch, Chief of Trauma Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, who died in an accident in May 2008. http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2009/powell0309.pdf

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Kajal Desai
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