2010 Program and Abstracts

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7:00 a.m.	Registration - Essex Foyer North Exhibits Open Continental Breakfast Essex Foyer North
7:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Poster Setup Staffordshire
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m.	Legislative Advocacy Meeting St. George B
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m.	Residents and Fellows Breakfast St. George C & D How to get the Fellowship you Want: A Directors Perspective Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA Anne C. Larkin, MD, FACS UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA Thomas E. Read, MD, FACS Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA Raphael Bueno, MD, FACS Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Desmond H. Birkett, MD, FACS, President Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA *All Scientific Sessions and Talks will take place in the Essex North Ballroom
8:05 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.	Resident Research Paper Competition (8 Minute Presentation/ 3 Minute Discussion) Moderators: Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD, FACS Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Shimul A. Shah, MD, FACS University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA Edward E. Whang, MD, FACS Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 1. Improving Outcomes at National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Utilizing Centers, 2005-2008 Deepak K. Ozhathil, MD YouFu Li, MD, Margaret M. Hudlin, MD, Jillian K. Smith, MD, Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, Shimul A. Shah, MD Department of Surgery University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 2. PLX4720 Reverses Cachexia And Induces Regression Of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Matthew A. Nehs, MD, Sushruta Nagarkatti, MD, Carmelo Nucera, MD, Peter M. Sadow, MD, Richard A. Hodin, MD, Sareh Parangi, MD Thyroid Cancer Research Laboratory, Division of Endocrine Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 3. Compliance with the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Results in Improved Cardiac Surgery Out Paresh Mane MD, Afshin Ehsan MD Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 4. Preclinical Validation of a Diaphragmatic Tendon Engineered with Amniotic Mesenchymal Stem Cells Christopher G. Turner1, MD, Justin D. Klein1, MD, Shaun Steigman1, MD, Myriam Armant2, MD, Grace Nicksa1, MD, David Zurakowski1, MD, Jerome Ritz2, MD, Dario O Fauza1, MD 1Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2Center for Human Cell Therapy, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 5. Performance Ramifications of Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery: Measuring Differences in Task Performance Using Simulation Nathan E. Conway MD, John R. Romanelli MD, Ron W. Bush BS, Neal E. Seymour MD Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA
9:05 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.	Scientific Talk I- Oncology Trials: Recruiting Surgeons Not Just Patients Monica Bertagnolli, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Coffee Break in Exhibit Area View posters - Staffordshire
10:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.	PANEL 1- Medicare Reform Moderator: Desmond H. Birkett, MD, FACS, President Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA Understanding Medicare Payment Reforms in 2010 Nancy Kane, Professor of Management, Associate Dean for Educational Programs Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA American College of Surgeons Perspective on Medicare Reform A. Brent Eastman, MD, FACS Scripps Health, San Diego, CA Latest American College of Surgeons Initiatives for Health Policy Andrew Warshaw, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Ellenberger Award Presentation Conferred to Peter T. Masiakos, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
10:55 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Scientific Talk II- "What Biology Teaches Us About Prosthetic and Orthotic Design" Hugh Herr, PhD Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Director of the Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Laboratory Cambridge, MA
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Coffee Break in Exhibit Area View posters - Staffordshire
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	PANEL 2- Present and Future of General Surgery Moderator: Kamal M. F. Itani, MD, FACS VA Medical Center, West Roxbury, MA What Does it Mean to Be a General Surgeon Richard B. Wait, MD, FACS, PhD, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA Shortage of General Surgeons: The State's Hospitals View Karen S. Nelson, MPA, RN Massachusetts Hospital Association, Burlington, MA The American Board of Surgery Perspective Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
12:45 p.m. – 1:05 p.m.	MCACS Annual Business Meeting
1:05 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Luncheon St. George BCD Introduction of Chapter Regents and Governors 1942: A Historic Year For Boston Surgery Guest Speaker: Francis D. Moore, Jr., MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Resident Research Paper Award Competition Announcements & Announcement of Poster of Distinction Awards
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Commission on Cancer Session Essex North Ballroom
2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.	American Cancer Society Role in Helping Cancer Liaison Physicians and Their Cancer Programs Janet McGrail, Vice President for Health Initiatives, American Cancer Society
2:20 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.	Update on Comprehensive Cancer Control Plans for Massachusetts Gail Merriam, Program Director Massachusetts Department of Public Health
2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Update on Legislative Initiatives Regarding Cancer Care in Massachusetts and Nationally Marc Hymovitz State Government Relations & Advocacy Director, Legislative Liaison American Cancer Society
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	How the Web and Informatics Can Improve Your Cancer Program Peter Hopewood, MD, FACS Cape Cod Surgeons, Falmouth, MA
3:30 p.m.	Meeting Adjourn
POSTERS
P1.	Ethyl Pyruvate Prevents Delayed Paralysis In a Murine Model of Spinal Cord Ischemic Injury Bao-Ngoc H Nguyen, MD, Hassan Albadawi, MD, Robert S. Crawford, MD, Hyung-Jin Yoo, MD, Mark Conrad, MD, Richard P. Cambria, MD, Michael T. Watkins, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA
P2.	Transmural Atrial Fibrosis After Epicardial Andendocardial Argon-Powered Cryomaze Ablation Robert P Gallegos, MD1, Andrew L Rivard, MD2, Taufiek Konrad Rajab, MD1, John Connell, MD1, Matthew Lahti, MD2, Nicole Kirchhof, MD2, Richard W. Bianco, MD2 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
P3.	Conversions in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Is the Quicker Surgery Worth the Price? Balazs Lengyel, MD, Maria Theresa Panizales, MD, Jill Steinberg, MD, Stanley Ashley, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
P4.	Tumor Size and Depth Predict Rate of Lymph Node Metastasis in Colon Carcinoids and Can Be Used to Select Patients for Endoscopic Resection? Riad H. Al Natour MD,1Mandeep S. Saund MD,1Ashish M. Sharma MD,2Qin Huang MD,1Valia A. Boosalis MD,2Jason S. Gold MD1 1Brigham and Women's Hospital and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, 2Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
P5.	Hand Hygiene Compliance and Multi-Drug Resistant Organism Infection in the Surgical Intensive Care U Dorothy W. Bird, MD, Carol Sulis, MD, Peter A. Burke, MD, Suresh Agarwal, MD Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
P6.	Hypoglycemia is Associated with Poor Outcomes In Critically Ill Surgical Patients Holly K. Sheldon, MD, Joanna Ng, MD, Gustavo Bauza, MD, Juan Mella, MD, Peter Burke, MD, Suresh Agarwal, MD Boston Univeristy School of Medicine, Boston, MA
P7.	Effect of Sunitinib Therapy on Adhesion Formation and Functional Outcome in a Leporine Model Erica M. Fallon, MD, Hau D. Le, MD, Vincent E. de Meijer, MD, MSc, Mark Puder, MD, PhD Department of Surgery and The Vascular Biology Program, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
P8.	Amniotic Cells Augment Fetal Wound Healing Justin D. Klein, MD1, Christopher G. Turner, MD1, Fabienne L. Gray, MD1, Grace A. Nicksa, MD1, Azra Ahmed, MD1, Taro Koyama, MD2, David Zurakowski, MD1, Elof Eriksson, MD2, Dario O. Fauza, MD1 1Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
P9.	Restraint To The LV Alone Is More Effective Than Standard Ventricular Restraint Suyog A. Mokashi MD, Lawrence S. Lee MD, Jan D. Schmitto MD, PhD,Rita G. Laurence BS, Ravi Ghanta MD, Siobhan McGurk BS, Lawrence H. Cohn MD, R. Morton Bolman III MD, Frederick Y. Chen MD, PhD Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
P10.	Positive Predictive Value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator Postoperative Sepsis Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH1,2Ann M. Borzecki, MD, MPH3,5Qi Chen, MPH5 Patricia A. Zrelak, PhD, CNRN, CNAA-BC6Marlena Shin, JD, MPH.6Patrick Romano, MD, MPH6Kamal M.F. Itani, MD7Amy K. Rosen, PhD4 1VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 2Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Bedford VAMC, Bedford, MA, 5Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 6VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 7University of California, Davis, CA, 8Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
P11.	Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Increased Risk of Postoperative DVT/PE: An Analysis Using the NSQIP Andrea Merrill BA1, Frederick H. Millham MD, MBA2 1Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA, 2Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, USA
P12.	Exploiting Hypotonicity in the Treatment Of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Matthew J. Furman, MD, Barur R. Rajeshkumar, PhD, Gamze Ayata, MD, Donald H. Lambert, PhD, MD, Giles F. Whalen, MD, Laura A. Lambert, MD University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
P13.	Preoperative Biliary Drainage for the Jaundiced Pancreatic Cancer Patient: A Decision Analysis Stephen J. Skinner, MS, Jillian K. Smith, MD, Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, Theodore P. McDade, MD Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research (SOAR), University Of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
P14.	Nine Out Of Ten Patients With T1 Rectal Cancer Do Not Need Radical Surgery. But Who Is The One That Harry M. Salinas, MD1, Abdulmetin Dursun, MD1, C. L. Klos, MD2, Paul Shellito, MD1, Patricia Sylla, MD1, David Berger, MD1, Liliana Bordeianou, MD1 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
P15.	Independent Predictors of Vertebral Artery Injury Secondary to Cervical Spine Trauma Darren R. Lebl, MD1, George Velmahos, MD2, Umesh Metkar, MD3, Kirkham B, Wood, MD2, Christopher M. Bono, MD1, Mitchel B. Harris, MD1 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
P16.	Anti-inflammatory Effects of Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase on Intestinal Luminal Fluids Angela K. Moss, MD, Madhu S. Malo, MD, PhD, Halim Yammine, MD, Sayeda Nasrin Alam, MD, Sundaram Ramasamy, PharmD, PhD, H. Shaw Warren, MD, Elizabeth Hohmann, MD, Richard Hodin, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
P17.	Post-Bariatric Surgery Ethnic Differences In Alt Serum Levels: A Marker Of Visceral Adiposity Dimitrios Xourafas, MD, Ali Ardestani, MD, Stanley W. Ashley, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
P18.	Application of Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees to Predict Weight Loss Following Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Ali Ardestani, MD, David B. Lautz, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
P19.	Incidence and Outcomes of Pseudomembranous Colitis. Analysis of the NIS 2005-2007 Haisar Dao, MD1, Nathan Narasimhan, MD1, Reza Kermani, MD1, Peter Lee, MD1, Akshay Raizada, MD2, Kevin O’Donnell, MD, FACS1, Alan Hackford, M.D, FACS1 1St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
P20.	Integral Components of Patient Safety Climate Among Orthopaedic Surgery Residents John Kadzielski, MD, Frank McCormick, MD, David Zurakowski PhD, James H. Herndon, MD, MBA Partners Health System, Boston, MA
P21.	Predictors of the Need for Surgical Intervention in Cervical Tracheomalacia David D. Odell, MD1, Adnan Majid, MD1, Armin Ernst, MD1, Gaetane Michaud, MD1, Malcolm M. Decamp, MD2, Sidhu P.Gangadharan, MD1 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
P22.	Preoperative Infliximab and Short-Term Complications After Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis Melanie L. Gainsbury MD, Daniel I. Chu MD, Lauren A. Howard MPH, Jennifer A. Coukos BS, Francis A. Farraye MD MSc, Arthur F. Stucchi PhD, James M. Becker MD FACS Department of Surgery and Section of Gastroenterology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
P23.	Disruption of Circadian Feeding Patterns in Obese ZDF Rats Hina Y Bhutta, MD1, David B Rhoads, MD2, Stanley W Ashley, MD1, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD1 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, 2Massachusetts General, Boston, MA
P24.	A Preliminary Experience with Minimally Invasive Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy Luis F. Tapias-Vargas, MD, Christopher R. Morse, MD Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
P25.	DMSO Downregulates KC and MIP-2 Chemokine Production During Murine Acute Lung Inflammation Kendra Iskander, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Schuller, MA, Jiyoun Kim, PhD, James Becker MD, Daniel Remick, MD Department of Surgery/Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
P26.	Initial Experience with the AdVance Male Urethral Sling Stephen J. Eyre, MD Urology Practice Associates, Needham, MA
P27.	Perfusion-Decellularization of Human Hearts: Bringing the Native Cardiac Matrix to Clinical Scale Jeremy J. Song, BS, Joseph P. Vacanti, MD Joren C. Madsen, MD Harald C. Ott,MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
P28.	Necroptosis: A Novel Mechanism that Regulates Chemotherapy-Induced Cell Death Chi-Iou Lin, MD1, Edward E. Whang, MD1, Alexei Degterev, MD2, Nancy L. Cho, MD1, David B. Donner, MD3, Robert S. Warren, MD3, Francis D. Jr. Moore, MD1, Daniel T. Ruan MD1 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Tufts University, Boston, MA,, 3University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
P29.	Cost-effectiveness of an External Ventricular Drain in Trauma Patients in Ethiopia Jared D. Ament, MD13, Yohans Wodaje, MD2, Richard Moser, MD3, Peter M. Black, MD1 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston, MA, 2Addis Ababa University Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3University of Massachusetts, Department of Surgery, Worcester, MA
P30.	A Fetal Model of the Tracheal Stenosis / Atresia Spectrum Christopher G. Turner, MD, Justin D. Klein, MD, Azra Ahmed, MD, David Zurakowski, MD, Dario O. Fauza, MD Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
P31.	The Post-Exercise Common Femoral Artery Doppler Waveform Improves Detection of Aortoiliac Disease Tony Nguyen, MD1, Alik Farber, MD1, Naomi Hamburg, MD2, Robert Eberhardt, MD2, Palma Shaw, MD1, Fernando Joglar, MD1, Jeffrey Kalish, MD1 1Boston Universiy Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA