Online Poster Presentations
Viewing and Judging from Monday, October 25 - Friday, October 29!
Friday, October 29 1 - 5 p.m. Drug Discovery Auditorium | Virtual
Each year, our Surgery Research Recognition Day gets bigger and better. This year we had a record number of submissions and the in-person presentations are ones you will not want to miss! New this year, Poster Presentations will be hosted on our website October 25 - 29 with opportunities to vote using your MUSC e-mail.
Schedule of Events
1 – 1:05 p.m. Opening Remarks
1:05 – 1:50 p.m. Eric R. Frykberg M.D. Lecture
Let’s reboot together: Finding new purpose in the almost post-pandemic era
Barbara L. Bass, M.D. FACS
Vice President for Health Affairs Dean of the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences Chief Executive Officer of The George Washington Medical Faculty Associates
Podium Presentations
1:50 - 5 p.m. Podium Presentations
1:50 – 2:02 p.m. Complications are associated with ECLS duration in pediatric ECLS
Authors: Adams, L. Evey, BS; Mukherjee, Rupak PhD; Hollinger, Laura E. MD
2:02 – 2:14 p.m. Towards equitable surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review of disparities in surgery for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
Authors: Alexander Booth, MD, Wilson Ford, BA, Emily Brennan, MLIS, Gayenell Magwood, RN, PhD, FAAN, Erin Forster, MD, MPH, Thomas Curran, MD, MPH
2:14 – 2:26 p.m. Serum and Glucocorticoid Inducible Kinase-1 (SGK-1) Activity is Upregulated in Hypertension and Promotes IL-6 Expression to Drive Aortic Macrophage Accumulation
Authors: Adam Brown, SarahRose Hall, Ying Xiong, Rupak Mukherjee, Jeffrey A. Jones, Jean Marie Ruddy
2:26 – 2:50 p.m. Nine-Year Experience with the Arterial Switch Operation with Closed Coronary Transfer
Authors: Sarah Chen, MD; Jennie H. Kwon, MD; Srujan Ganta, MD; T. Konrad Rajab, MD; Scott Bradley, MD; and Minoo N. Kavarana, MD
2:50 – 3:02 p.m. Mesenchymal stromal cells for the treatment of pain associated with chronic pancreatitis
Authors: Rebecca P. Chow, Wenyu Gou, Katherine Morgan, William Lancaster, Charlie Strange, Hongjun Wang
3:02 – 3:14 p.m. Break
3:14 – 3:26 p.m. Preoperative chronic partial obstruction is associated with ileus following right sided colectomy
Authors: Matthew Di Leo, Mark Kovacs, Alexander Booth, Pinckney Johnstone Maxwell IV, Virgilio V George, Thomas Curran
Presenter: Matthew Di Leo, Medical Student
3:26 – 3:50 p.m. Blockade of Serum and Glucocorticoid Inducible Kinase-1 (SGK-1) can Attenuate Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Growth
Authors: Mario Figueroa, Sarah Rose Hall, Ying Xiong, Rupak Mukherjee, Jeffrey Jones, Jean Marie Ruddy
3:50 – 4:02 p.m. Plaque Contact Surface Area and Flow Lumen Volume Predict Stroke Risk in Extracranial Carotid Artery Stenosis
Authors: Ryan Gedney, Veena Mehta, Matthew Bridges, Adam Brown, Ravi Veeraswamy
4:02– 4:14 p.m. Partial Heart Transplantation: A New Operation to Deliver Growing Heart Valve Replacements
Authors: Jennie H. Kwon, M.D., Brielle Gerry, M.D., Morgan A. Hill, Jordan Morningstar, Russell A. Norris, Ph.D., Satish N Nadig, M.D., Ph.D., Minoo N. Kavarana, M.D., T. Konrad Rajab, M.D.
4:14 – 4:26 p.m. Secreted frizzled related protein 2 is prognostic for survival in pancreatic cancer and is associated with tumor fibrosis
Authors: Julie B. Siegel, Patrick Nasarre, Laura Spruill, Kristi Helke, Eleanor Hilliard, Rupak Mukherjee, Nancy Klauber-DeMore
4:26 – 4:50 p.m. A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Time to Initiation of Enteral Feeds after Non-Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis using a Consensus based Guideline
Authors: Head, William T; Patel, Ekta U; Rohrer, Allison; Ryan, Rita M; Lesher, Aaron P
4:50 – 5 p.m. Winners Announced & Thank you
Posters
- A Supportive Culture Maintains General Surgery Wellness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kristen M. Quinn, M.D.; Julie B. Siegel, M.D.; Andrea M. Abbott, M.D.
- A Surgery-First Approach Improves Overall Survival for Clinical T1 Gastric Cancer
Julie B. Siegel, M.D.; Rupak Mukherjee, PhD; Bryce De Champlain; David M. Mahvi, M.D.; William P. Lancaster, M.D.
- Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Following Kidney Transplantation
Caitlin Watts, Nicole Pilch, Nina Crowley, Ph.D., Karl Byrne, M.D. Rana Pullatt, M.D. David Taber, Pharm D, Vinayak Rohan, M.D.
- Decreased Incidence of Rib Fractures in Pregnant Patients After Motor Vehicle Collisions
Marissa Di Napoli, M.D.; William DeVoe, M.D.; Stuart Leon, M.D.; Bruce Crookes, M.D.; Alicia Privette, M.D.; Whitney Graybill, M.D., MS; Evert Eriksson, M.D.
- The Effect of Hypoxic Cold Storage and Reperfusion Injury on Autophagy and Endothelial Cell Health During Transplantation
Authors: Kirsten Snyder, Dinesh Jaishankar, Ph.D., Satish N. Nadig, M.D. Ph.D.
- Go See the Patient! Reflexive fever workup after elective colectomy is of limited utility
Wilson Ford, Alexander Booth, M.D., Taofeek Olajire-Aro, M.D., Virgilio George, M.D., Thomas Curran, M.D.
- Impact of the Coronavirus 19 Pandemic on the Care of Pediatric Acute Appendicitis
William T Head BA, Raphael H Parrado M.D., Robert A Cina M.D.
- Implementation and reception of a shelf exam review session for medical students
Alexander Booth, M.D.; Mathew Wooster, M.D.; Cynthia Talley, M.D.
- Microsurgery Training Chicken Thighs as a Microsurgery Training Model: A Survey Study
Donna Mullner, M.D., Jose Gallegos, Georgina Nichols, M.D., Fernando Herrera, M.D., Isis Scomacao, M.D.
- The Perioperative Experience During COVID-19: Exploring Patient Pandemic Anxiety
Kristen M Quinn M.D., Andrew Dippre, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Melinda Walto RN, Prabhakar Baliga M.D., Andrea M Abbott M.D. MSCR
- Prolonged Ischemic Times for Heart Transplantation: Impact of the 2018 Allocation Change
Jennie H. Kwon, M.D.1; Lauren V. Huckaby, M.D., MS2; Brandon Sloan, M.D., MS1; Nicolas H. Pope, MD1; Lucas J. Witer, v1; Ryan J. Tedford, M.D.3; Brian A. Houston, M.D.3; Z.A. Hashmi M.D.1; Marc R. Katz, M.D.1; Arman Kilic, M.D.1
- Residency Programs’ Online Presence is More Important During Virtual Application Cycles
Kristen M Quinn M.D., Raphael H Parrado M.D., Cynthia L Talley M.D.
- Ruptured Complex Aortic Aneurysms Treated with Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Repairs Using Physician Modified Endografts
Dias AP, Genovese EA, M.D., Veeraswamy RK, M.D., Wooster M.D.
- A Simplified Rodent Model for Heterotopic Heart Valve Transplantation
Morgan A. Hill, Jennie H. Kwon, M.D. Satish N. Nadig, M.D. Ph.D., T. Konrad Rajab, M.D.
- Stabilization of Gap and Tight Junctions Ameliorates Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in a Porcine Model of Renal Transplantation
Leah Plumblee, M.D. MS; Jane Kilkenny M.D.; Kunal Patel, M.D. PhD; Patterson Allen, M.D.; Logan Langerude BS; Satish Nadig M.D. PhD; Carl Atkinson PhD
- Step 1 is Pass/Fail, Now What? Can Clinical Clerkship Grades be Used as a Reliable Metric to Screen General Surgery Residency Applicants?
Kristen Quinn M.D., Laura Campbell BS, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Andrea Abbott M.D., Chris Streck M.D.