October 26, 2009

RRC NEWS: ACGME recently reaccredited the plastic surgery residency and the hand surgery fellowship for five years, the maximum period (2014). Special thanks to Drs. Pierre Saadeh and David Chiu, as well as all faculty members and staff, especially Carla Navarro, for their hard work.

FACULTY MEETING: Please note that the next Departmental Faculty meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 9th at 5 PM in Smilow 1st Floor Multipurpose Room. All Surgery attendings are strongly encouraged to attend.

SAVE THE DATE- DEPARTMENT HOLIDAY PARTY: The Department's 2009 Holiday party will be held on Thursday, December 10th, 6:30- 10 pm at the Twenty Four Fifth, 5th avenue between 9th and 10th streets. Invitations are being sent this week.

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Department of Surgery Grand Rounds is scheduled for Wednesday, November 18th at 7:30am in Smillow Seminar Room, 1st Floor. Dr. Michel Makaroun, Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will present on "Carotid Stent Versus Endarterectomy - A rebirth of the Phoenix" All surgical faculty and residents are strongly encouraged to attend. Please mark your calendars of this date.

IN THE NEWS: Dr. Freya Schnabel was on CBS 2 news on October 20th discussing prophylactic double mastectomies with Max Gomez. A prime reason why patients decide to get the procedure is: "Any woman who has had cancer is at increased risk to develop a new cancer in the same or the other breast, and that risk increases about 1 - 2% per year." Double mastectomies lower the risk of breast cancer recurring to as close to zero as possible.

RESIDENCY RECRUITMENT: The 2010 general surgery residency recruitment dates are as follows:

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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. Lewis Teperman gave talk titled "H1N1 Guidance" at the UNOS Region 9 Meeting in Pittsford, NY on October 14, 2009.

Dr. Thomas Riles moderated a session at the American College of Surgeons meeting on October 14th in Chicago on Professionalism, Communication and Lessons Learned. Speakers for this session included Dr. Carlos Pellegrini, Dr. Erik Van Eaton and Dr. Paul Gauger.

Dr. Umut Sarpel gave an oral presentation entitled "Age criteria for Hepatocellular Carcinoma screening in Young Asians" at the Center for the Study of Asian American Health's 5th Annual Conference at NYU.

Dr. Harvey Moore was a co-author on a paper presented at the American College of Gastroenterology national meeting, San Diego, CA, October 23-28: MALDI imaging and LCMS identification of colon cancer biomarkers in benign polyps and normal tandem mucosa. [Abstract]. Am J Gastro 2009; 104(S3): S575. Imanpour J, Pevsner P, Kachalov V, Mathur S, Moore HG, Melamed J, Remsen T, Kanaparthi C, Mujtaba G, Kothiya P, Momin Z, Vasani N, Vasani N, Sobel N, Oprihory J, Francois F, Momeni M, Stern A, Anand S.

Dr. Marcovalerio Melis presented the following posters last week at the 95th Clinical Congress of American College of Surgeons in Chicago:

1) Melis M, Karl RC, Wong SL, Brennan MF, Matthews JB, Roggin KK. Evidence-based surgical practice in academic medical centers: consistently anecdotal. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. Chicago, IL. October 2009.

2) Turaga KK, Meredith KL, Weber J, Siegel EM, Shah N, McLoughlin JM, Melis M,Karl RC. Histologic subtype predicts outcome in esophageal cancer patients who achieve complete pathologic response after neoadjuvant therapy. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. Chicago, IL. October 2009.

Dr. Ryan Gobble gave a talk at ACS titled "A Multi-gene Predictor Improves Risk Stratification for Patients with Liposarcoma." Ryan Gobble MD, Li-Xuan Qin PhD, Elliott Brill MD, Christina Angeles MD, Mariana Lagos-Quintana PhD, Penelope DeCarolis BS, Rachael O'Connor BS, , Samuel Singer MD

Dr. Gobble also published a paper in the Journal of Vascular Surgery with Dr. Maldonado titled "Endovascular Treatment of Spontaneous Dissections of the Superior Mesenteric Artery." Ryan M Gobble, Eliott R Brill, Caron B Rockman, Elizabeth M Hecht, Patrick J Lamparello, Glenn R Jacobowitz, Thomas S Maldonado

Dr. Gobble also had a paper published in the journal Placenta titled "Differential Regulation of Human PlGF Gene Expression in Trophoblast and Nontrophoblast Cells by Oxygen Tension." R.M. Gobble, K.A. Groesch, M. Chang, R.J. Torry, D.S. Torry

Dr. Phuong Nguyen gave a talk over the weekend at the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) meeting in Seattle, WA on 10/24/09, entitled: "Vasculogenic and Apoptotic Mechanisms Impair Diabetic Wound Healing." P.D. Nguyen, J.P. Tutela, V.D. Thanik, R.J. Allen Jr., E.H. Davidson, J.P. Levine, S.M. Warren, P.B. Saadeh

Dr. Avraham Schlager was one of the authors on an article in Archives titled "Image of the month--quiz case." Khalaileh A, Adileh M, Schlager A, Abu-Gazalah S, Mintz Y, Rivkind AI, Keidar A. Arch Surg. 2009 Oct;144(10):975

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