October 05, 2009

GRAND ROUNDS: The next Department of Surgery Grand Rounds is scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st at 7:30am in Smillow Seminar Room, 1st Floor. Dr. Jennifer B. Ogilvie will present on "The Adrenal Incidentaloma and Minimally Invasive Approaches to Adrenalectomy." All surgical faculty and residents are strongly encouraged to attend. Please mark your calendars of this date.

IN THE NEWS: Dr. Freya Schnabel appeared on Good Morning America Health with Dr. Tim Johnson to speak about issues related to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Dr. Freya Schnabel also appeared on WCBS-TV's Health Watch: Breast Cancer Study-by Dr. Max Gomez to discuss a study that shows breast cancer death rates are declining.

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 will be sent out shortly.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Dr. Lewis Teperman gave an invited talk at the Long Island Transplant Recipient International Organization (TRIO) General Membership Meeting on September 9, 2009 and at the Manhattan TRIO Chapter Meeting on September 15, 2009.

Dr. Neal Cayne had 2 publications in September:
1) Annals of Vascular Surgery -
Experience and Technique for the Endovascular Management of Iatrogenic Subclavian Artery Injury.
Cayne NS, Berland TL, Rockman CB, Maldonado TS, Adelman MA, Jacobowitz GR, Lamparello PJ, Mussa F, Bauer S, Saltzberg SS, Veith FJ.
Ann Vasc Surg. 2009 Sep 4

2) Seminars in Vascular Surgery -
Current status of investigational devices for EVAR: similarities and differences.
Cayne NS, Adelman MA, Veith FJ.
Semin Vasc Surg. 2009 Sep;22(3):127-31

Dr. Marcovalerio Melis had a publication in September issue of Cancer entitled "Histologic characteristics enhance predictive value of American Joint Committee on Cancer staging in resectable pancreas cancer." Helm J, Centeno BA, Coppola D, Melis M, Lloyd M, Park JY, Chen DT, Malafa MP.
Cancer. 2009 Sep 15;115(18):4080-9.

Dr. Michael Golinko with Dr. Harold Brem had a paper published in Wound Repair and Regeneration entitled "Preliminary development of a diabetic foot ulcer database from a wound electronic medical record: A tool to decrease limb amputations."

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