History and Archives

The History of Surgery Research Recognition Day

In 2006, with the support of then Chairman of Surgery and now President of MUSC Dr. David J. Cole, Vice Chair for Education Dr. Jon van Heerden, and Program Director Dr. Tom Brothers, the MUSC Department of Surgery instituted its first Resident Research Recognition Day. The day was designed to showcase and celebrate the exceptional research work in which our residents and fellows participate.

Resident Research Recognition Day expanded over the next several years to include presentations from department postdoctoral scholars. As such, the day was renamed Surgical Research Recognition Day.By 2011, in addition to the individual project mentors, Dr. Denise Carneiro-Pla served as moderator of Surgical Research Recognition Day. Her role grew and in 2012 she served as both moderator and Surgical Research Recognition Day program director. Also in 2012, the program expanded to include a guest lecturer to deliver a talk, providing an opportunity for faculty and residents to stay abreast of the latest data and research.

In 2016, in honor of Dr. Eric R. Frykberg, an MUSC Surgical alumnus who built a brilliant and productive career that has made the practice of Surgery safer, better, and smarter, the MUSC Department of Surgery dedicated the Surgical Research Recognition Day lecture in Dr. Frykberg’s memory. The event was renamed and is now the Eric R. Frykberg, M.D. Lecture and Surgery Research Recognition Day.

Dr. Jean Marie Ruddy led the efforts of Surgery Research Recognition Day and Drs. Denise Carneiro-Pla, then Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Program Director for Research, and Dr. Michael Yost, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of General Surgery Research, facilitated and instructed the residents, medical students and postdoctoral scholars in the principles of research.

From 2018-2021, as Associate Program Director for Resident Research, Dr. Jean Marie Ruddy assisted residents in identifying research mentors and engaging resources to help them meet their individual research goals as well as the residency program’s research requirements, and coordinated the program for the annual Eric R. Frykberg, M.D. Lecture and Surgery Research Recognition Day event. In 2022, Dr. Heather Evans, Vice Chair for Clinical Research and Applied Informatics, assumed the leadership of the event, bringing on a program committee of representative department faculty and building on Dr. Ruddy’s innovations to facilitate audience engagement and resident participation. In 2023, Dr. Thomas Curran joined the leadership team, co-chairing SRRD.

The coordination of our 2024 program was led by Thomas Curran, M.D., MPH, Chair of Surgery Research Recognition Day, Kathryn Engelhardt, M.D., MS, Vice Chair of the Surgery Research Recognition Day Program, and Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D., Vice Chair for Research.

To learn more about the Surgeon Scientist and Clinical Research Pathways and other research opportunities in the Department of Surgery, check out https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/surgery/research/research-opportunities

Posters:

Breast Cancer Care in the Setting of COVID-19 pandemic

Melanie Bertolino, Benjamin Usry, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Andrea M Abbott MD

Cardiopulmonary bypass in lung transplant

Walker Blanding, M.D., Morgan A. Hill, M.D., Z.A. Hashmi, M.D., Timothy Whelan, M.D., Luca Paolett, M.D., Kathryn Engelhardt M.D., M.S., Barry C. Gibney, D.O.

Performance of an AI Large Language Model in Guiding Therapy in Coronary and Aortic Valve Disease

Brady Gunn, DO, Maxwell F. Kilcoyne, DO, Zachary W. Sollie, MD, Ahmed Alameldin, MS, John Del Gaizo, PhD, Roshan Mathi, BS, Brett Welch, MBA, Khaled Shorbaji, MD, Arman Kilic, MD

Changes in Aortic Diameter and Aortic Valve Competency after HeartMate III Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Maxwell F. Kilcoyne, DO, Khaled Shorbaji, MD, John Foster, MD, Christa Haran, BS, Jennie Kwon, MD, Brett Welch, MBA, Arman Kilic, MD

Overexpression of PD-L1 in mesenchymal stromal/ stem cells improves the immunomodulatory properties and therapeutic effects in nonobese diabetic mic

Ahmed Lotfy, Hua Wei, Wenyu Gou, Erica Green, Hongjun Wang

Predicting Imminent Mortality in a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Using Artificial Intelligence

Roshan Mathi, MS, Zachary W. Sollie, MD, John Del Gaizo, PhD, Brett Welch, MBA MHA, Sanford Zeigler, MD, Arman Kilic, MD

Assessing adherence to NCCN guidelines for screening and risk reduction strategies among patients with Lynch Syndrome

Rohith S Raman, Benjamin Usry, Mira Clavecilla, Adam Hochman, Kiersten Meeder, Rupak Mukherjee, Kevin S Hughes, Colleen Donahue

Anatomic position of femoral-popliteal bypass grafts and patency

Jeffrey Rodgers, M.S., Thomas Brothers, M.D.

Morbidity and Mortality of Heterotopic Partial Heart Transplantation in Rodent Models

Savannah Skidmore; Morgan Hill, MD; Katherine Bishara; Haley Konsek; Jennie Kwon, MD; Kelvin G. M. Brockbank; T. Konrad Rajab, MD

Utilization and Impact of Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Donors on Outcomes of Heart Transplantation

Zachary W. Sollie, MD, Suraj Rao, BS, Khaled Shorbaji, MD, Brett Welch, MBA, MHA, Arman Kilic, MD

Oral Presentation Abstracts:

Impact of Lung Allocation Policy Change on Hispanic Lung Transplant Outcomes: Addressing Disparities and Improving Access

Eric Klipsch MD, Khaled Shorbaji MD, Jennie Kwon MD, Walker Blanding MD, Ian Bostock MD, Barry Gibney DO, Luca Paoletti MD, Tim Whelan MD, Arman Kilic MD, Kathryn E Engelhardt MD

Extended chemical prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism after colorectal cancer surgery is associated with improved survival: a natural experiment in the chemotherapeutic benefit of heparin derivatives

Alexander Booth, MD, MSCR, Daniel Brinton, PhD, Colleen Donahue, MD, Kit Simpson PhD, Thomas Curran, MD, MPH

Evaluation of Ventilation at 10øC as the Optimal Storage Condition for Donor Lungs in a Murine Transplant Model

Morgan A. Hill, MD, Megan Tennant, BS, Richard O?Neil, PhD, Barry C. Gibney, DO

Effects of PTSD-Dependent Neurogenic Hypertension and Inflammation on Thoracic Aortic Wall Homeostasis

Heather Holman, Sara J. Sidles, Ying Xiong, Jennifer A. Rinker, Jean Marie Ruddy, Amanda C. LaRue, Rupak Mukherjee, Jeffrey A. Jones

Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 2 Inhibits Triple Negative Breast Cancer Metastases

Hsu, Lillian, Nasarre, Patrick, Siegel, Julie, Hilliard, Eleanor, Mukherjee, Rupak, Klauber-DeMore, Nancy

Waitlist and Transplant Outcomes in Organ Donation After Circulatory Death: Trends in the United States

Jennie H. Kwon, Walker M. Blanding, Khaled Shorbaji, Joseph R. Scalea, Barry C. Gibney, Prabhakar K. Baliga, Arman Kilic

DSA after CTA for BCVI: grade changes but management rarely does

John Lucas MD, Georgia Lydon MD, Elizabeth Wallace, Cynthia Talley MD FACS

Defining the Rate of Pathologic Upstaging in Patients with Clinical T1b Esophageal Cancer: Should we consider Neoadjuvant Therapy?

David R. Mann DO MS, Kathryn E. Engelhardt MD MS, Barry C. Gibney DO, Macelyn E. Batten, DO, Eric C. Klipsch, MD, Rupak Mukherjee, PhD, Ian C. Bostock, MD MS

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Outcomes Using a Single Surgical Note

Curry Sherard, John Del Gaizo, Roshan Mathi, Khaled Shorbaji, Brett Welch, Arman Kilic

Femoral vessel occlusion enhances cardiac and cerebral perfusion in porcine model of cardiac arrest

Joshua Y. Kim MS, Benjamin Usry, Maren Downing MEng, Samuel Seigler, Heather Holman, Kris Helke DVM, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Jeffrey Jones PhD, Kristen M Quinn MD

2022

Posters:

General Surgery applicant perspectives: A two-year cohort of virtual interview experiences and supplemental application impressions

Kristen M Quinn MD, Louis T Runge, Raphael H Parrado MD, Cynthia L Talley MD, Christian J Streck MD, Andrea M Abbott MD

Impact of Institutional Variables on Center-Level Performance in Longer Term Survival in Heart Transplantation

Weston McDonald, Khaled Shorbaji MD, Maxwell F. Kilcoyne DO, Brett Welch MBA, Arman Kilic MD

Risk Factors for Mortality Following Heart Transplantation in Obese Patients Bridged with an LVAD

Krishna Bhandari MD, Khaled Shorbaji MD, Vineeth Sama MS, Lucas Witer MD, Brian A. Houston MD, Ryan J. Tedford MD, Brett Welch MBA, Arman Kilic MD

Liposomal bupivacaine versus catheter-based blocks in patients undergoing surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF)

John Lucas MD, Leeanna Clevenger MD, Alicia Privette MD, Stuart Leon MD, Mujahed Laswi MD, Evert Eriksson MD

Proteomic Profiling of Exosomes Derived from Immortal Human Bone marrow Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Overexpressing Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Their Protective Effect at Cellular Levels

Sara Shoeibi, Hua Wei, Wenyu Gou, Erica Green, Charlie Strange, Hongjun Wang PhD

The Utility of Smartphone-Based Thermal Imaging in the Management and Monitoring of Microvascular Flap Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Todd Hudson MS, Elizabeth Hogue, Donna Mullner MD, Isis Scomacao MD, Fernando Herrera MD

Introduction of the Robotic Surgical Approach in an Academic Hernia Surgical Practice

William Dacus, Bruce Crookes MD, Stephen Fann MD, Heather Evans MD MS

Artificial interstitial fluid synergistically interacts with triblock polymers to reduce purinergic signaling in an engineered skeletal muscle implant model

Mara L. Lennard Richard PhD, Kim K. Sutton, Keshav Chandran, Michael J. Yost PhD

Generating Patient-Derived Organoid Models of Disease from Pre-treated Patients in a Clinically Certified Laboratory Setting: A Critical Step Towards Precision Medicine in Pancreatic Cancer

Haley A. Zlomke MD, Jacquelyn Zimmerman MD PhD, Toni Seppälä MD PhD, Reecha Suri MD, William R. Burns MD, Christopher Shubert MD MHA, Kelly J. Lafaro MD, Christopher L. Wolfgang MD PhD, Jin He MD PhD, Richard A. Burkhart MD

Injury characteristics associated with combined fractures of the forequarter (rib/clavicle/scapula)

Richard Slay MD, Alicia Privette MD, Stuart Leon MD, Evert Eriksson MD

Oral Presentations

2:00 - Multilevel Intervention To Improve Equity In Access To Kidney Transplant For African Americans
Ammar Mahmood MD, David Taber PhD, Zemin Su, Patrick Mauldin PhD, Thomas Morinelli, Michael Casey MD MS, Joseph Scalea MD, Derek DuBay MD

2:12 - A Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-2 as a Targeted Therapy for Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Julie B. Siegel MD, Dean Connor PhD, Patrick Nasarre PhD, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Eleanor Hilliard, Ann-Marie Broome PhD MBA, Nancy Klauber-Demore MD

2:24 - Early Outcomes of Heart Transplantation Using Donation after Circulatory Death Donors in the United States
Jennie H. Kwon MD, Alexander D. Ghannam MD, Khaled Shorbaji MD, Brett Welch MBA, MHA, Z. A. Hashmi MD, Ryan Tedford MD, Arman Kilic MD

2:36 - Smooth muscle cell specific activity of SGK-1 alters pulse propagation velocity as a major indicator of wall stiffness in AAA
Mario Figueroa MD, Ryan Gedney MD, Victoria Mattia, Ying Xiong, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Jeffery A. Jones PhD, Jean Marie Ruddy MD

2:48 - Diastasis recti is associated with incisional hernia after midline abdominal surgery
Alexander Booth MD, Kirkpatrick Gillen MD, Isabela Visintin MD, Wilson Ford, Mark Kovacs MD, Colston Edgerton MD, Virgilio George MD, Thomas Curran MD MPH

3:00 - Break - Please gather in the lobby for refreshments and e-poster viewing

3:15 - WNT Dependency In Patient-Derived Pancreatic Organoid Models For Precision Medicine Approaches
Haley A. Zlomke MD, Jacquelyn Zimmerman MD PhD, Toni Seppälä MD PhD, Reecha Suri MD, William R. Burns MD, Christopher Shubert MD MHA, Kelly J. Lafaro MD, Christopher L. Wolfgang MD PhD, Jin He MD PhD, Richard A. Burkhart MD

3:27 - Is there Implicit Bias in Kidney Transplant Evaluations?
Sam Kavarana, David Taber PharmD MS, Zemin Su MAS, Patrick Mauldin PhD, Thomas Morinelli, Michael Casey MD MS, Joseph Scalea MD, Derek DuBay MD

3:39 - Sex Disparities in the Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease with Infra-Inguinal Arterial Bypass
Saranya Sundaram MD, Tyler Buckley, Sharee Wright MD, Ravikumar Veeraswamy MD, Elizabeth Genovese MD

3:51 - Hybrid Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Model Improves Prediction of New-Onset Dialysis in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Patients
Roshan Mathi MS, Weston McDonald, Benjamin Usry, Khaled Shorbaji MD, Brett Welch MBA, Arman Kilic MD

4:03 - Routine post-operative chest radiographs provide little diagnostic value for pediatric patients undergoing central venous catheter placement
Alice Le, David Mann MD, Richard Jones MD, Lucas McDuffie MD

4:15 - Femoral vessel occlusion increases cardiac and cerebral perfusion in a pilot cardiac arrest porcine model
Heather Holman, Jennie Kwon MD, Joshua Kim MS, Samuel Siegler, Jasmine Richards, Kris Helke PhD/DVM, Rupak Mukherjee PhD, Jeffrey A. Jones PhD, Kristen M. Quinn MD

4:45 - Awards Ceremony

Congratulations!

Best Poster: Krishna Bhandari, MD

Best Basic Science Presentation: Heather Holman

Best Clinical Science Presentation: Jennie H. Kwon, MD

Yarbrough Award: Kristen Quinn, MD

2021

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

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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.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Worsens Pre-Existing Racial Disparities on the Care of Pediatric Acute Appendicitis

Raphael H Parrado M.D., Michael Reynolds M.D., Robert A Cina 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.

Diversity in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Surgeon Workforce Between 2000 and 2020

O. Agata Walkowiak; William Hardy; Lauren V. Huckaby, M.D., MS; Morgan Hill, Suyog Mokashi, M.D.; Minoo N. Kavarana, M.D.; Taufiek Konrad Rajab, 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.

2020

Guest Speaker: Alan Kirk, M.D. Ph.D.

Best Clinical Science Presentation: $300 Award

Melissa Hite, M.D. PGY-5 general surgery administrative chief resident with mentor Thomas Curran, M.D. MPH

Gastrointestinal Surgical Procedures for Adult Patients with Cystic Fibrosis are Increasing and Associated with Significant Morbidity

Best Basic Science Presentation: $300 Award

Jerec Ricci, M.D. PGY-3 general surgery resident

with mentor Stephen Tomlinson, M.D. Novel P-Selectin Targeted Complement Inhibition Reduces Injury Following Hindlimb Ischemia/Reperfusion and Transplantation

Best Poster Presentation: $200 Award

Christopher Thomas, M.D PGY-2 general surgery resident with mentor Heather Evans, M.D., MS

Congratulations to the Clinical Science Abstracts for electronic Poster Presentation:

Marissa DiNapoli with mentor Tom Curran, M.D. MPH

"Postoperative C-reactive protein is not associated with underlying pathology following laparoscopic colectomy"

Richard Huetteman, M.D., PGY-3 with mentor Tom Curran, M.D. MPH

"Though rarely used, same day discharge is safe in selected patients following laparoscopic right colectomy in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project"

Chris Thomas, M.D., PGY-2 with mentor Evert Eriksson, M.D.

"Are Rib Fractures Stable?"

Chris Thomas, M.D., PGY-2 with mentor Heather Evans, M.D., MS:

"The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Appendicitis Admissions and Severity of Illness "

Raphael Parrado M.D., PGY-4 with mentor Satish Nadig, M.D. Ph.D. and Nagraj Kasi, M.D.

"Can we safely avoid nasogastric feeding in children with chronic liver disease? An evaluation of gastrostomy tube placement in a high-risk population"

Raphael Parrado, M.D., PGY-4 with mentor Robert Cina M.D.

"Does the Hispanic Paradox apply to children? Outcomes of Hispanic children treated for acute appendicitis in the U.S."

Yulia Gavrilova, Research Instructor with mentor Aaron Lesher M.D. MSCR

"A Paradigm Shift in Burn Care: Introducing an Innovative Mobile Health Technology"

Julie Siegel, M.D., resident research year with mentor Andrea Abbott, M.D. MSCR

"Prognostic Factors for Residual Occult Disease in Shave Margins During Partial Mastectomy"

Brandon Sloan, medical student with mentor Sanford Zeigler, M.D.

2019 - 2018 Award Winners

2019

Guest Speaker: Gerard Doherty, M.D.

Congratulations to the 2019 Winners!

Basic Science Oral and Poster Presentations – Kunal Patel, M.D.

Clinical Science Oral Presentation: Ryan King, M.D.

Clinical Science Poster Presentation: Shelby Allen, M.D.

2018

Guest Speaker: Melina Kibbe, M.D.

Congratulations to the 2018 Winners!

Clinical Science Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation: Denise Garcia, M.D.

Basic Science Oral Presentation: Kunal Patel, M.D.

Basic Science Poster Presentation: Wenyu Gou, Ph.D.

2017

Guest Speaker: Harvey Pass, M.D. an MUSC Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Class of 1982

Congratulations to the 2017 Winners!

Clinical Science: First Place: Ashley Hink, M.D. and Mathew Gibson, M.D.

Basic Science: First Place: Kunal Patel, M.D. Second Place: Daniel Patterson Allen, M.D. candidate

2015

Guest Speaker: Jennifer Walker, M.D. Class of 1998 "Evolution of Surgical Education"

Congratulations to the 2015 Winners!

Basic Science Jason Wheeler, M.D., MSCR, CCRE

Clinical Science Ashley Hink, M.D., MPH, William Lancaster, M.D.

2014

Guest Speaker: Mohamed Ali, Jr., M.D., Class of 2001 "Metabolic Recovery Following Bariatric Surgery"

Congratulations to the 2014 Winners!

Basic Science: Shaina Eckhouse, M.D. Alicia Patterson, M.D.

Clinical Science:Marcie Dorlon, M.D.,Christa Jillard, M.D.

2013

Guest Speaker: Randolph Smoak, Jr., M.D., Class of 1966 "Blending Life's Gifts"

Congratulations to the 2013 Winners!

Clinical Science: William Lancaster, M.D., Marcie Dorlon, M.D.

Basic Science: J. Matthew Rhett, PhD, E Wern Su, PhD

2012

Guest Speaker: Eric Frykberg, M.D., Class of 1982 "One Surgeon's Academic Odyessy"

Congratulations to the 2012 Winners!

Aaron Lesher, MD, Shaina Eckhouse, M.D., Brent Jewett, M.D.

2011

Congratulations to the 2011 Winners!

Shaina Eckhouse, M.D., Cindy McCord, M.D.

2010

Congratulations to the 2010 Winners!

Jennifer Dixon, M.D., Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D.

2009

Congratulations to the 2009 Winners!

Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D., Allison Lundy, M.D.(Discussant)

2008

Congratulations to the 2008 Winners!

Craig Blum, M.D., Dennis Schimpf, M.D., John Barbour, M.D.

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