SAVE THE DATE- END OF YEAR PARTY:The end of the year party for our 2012 graduating Chief Residents and Fellows will be held on Wednesday, June 20^th at the Tribeca Rooftop located at 2 Desbrosses Street (between Hudson & Greenwich Street). Invitations will be sent out soon. Please mark your calendars. The party will be from 7-11pm.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Mary Ann Hopkins who was appointed as President Elect of the Association of Surgical Education.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Tom Diflo who was elected as Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the New York Organ Donor Network.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
At the annual meeting of the Association for Surgical Education 2 weeks ago in San Diego, the Educational Team had three of the approximately 35 podium presentations:

“Self Assessment of Resilience in Advanced Surgery Students” – Alexandra Berger, Umut Sarpel and Jennifer Ogilvie

“Medical Students as Human Subjects in Educational Research” – Umut Sarpel and Mary Ann Hopkins

“The Stress of Residency Recognizing the Signs of Depression and Suicide in You and Your Co-residents” – Mark Hochberg, Russell Berman and H. Leon Pachter

Dr. Kepal Patel had a paper published: “Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Encapsulated, Nonencapsulated, and Diffuse: Distinct Biologic and Clinical Entities” Sachin Gupta, MD; Oluyomi Ajise, MD; Linda Dultz, MD; Beverly Wang, MD; Daisuke Nonaka, MD; Jennifer Ogilvie, MD; Keith S. Heller, MD; Kepal N. Patel, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012;138(3):227-233.

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