Surgery and Perioperative Care Annual Research Symposium
The Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care Annual Research Symposium aims to enhance awareness of research taking place in the department and provide networking and presentation opportunities for researchers.
All faculty, residents and students conducting research in or with the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care are invited to submit abstracts to the symposium.
Upcoming Symposium
May 5, 2023
Visiting professor: Karen Woo, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Past Symposia
5th Annual Research Symposium: May 6, 2022
Visiting professor: Rachel Patzer, Ph.D., MPH, professor and director of transplant health services and Outcomes Research Program, Emory University School of Medicine
Awards:
- Health Equity Award: James Bradford, third-year student, “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prehospital Pain Management”
- Value Award: Catherine Dawson, fourth-year student, “Understanding the Cost of Case Conference in Congenital Heart Disease”
- Best Resident/Postdoc Presentation: Niels Brinkman, Visiting Researcher/Scholar, “Artificial Neural Networks Outperform Linear Regression in Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Upper Extremity Fractures”
- Best Student Presentation: Joshua Cummings, third-year student, “Performance of a Clinical Decision Tool in Patient Selection for Same-Day Discharge after Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty”
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4th Annual Research Symposium: April 23, 2021
Visiting professor: Zara Cooper, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Kessler Director for the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Awards:
- Health Equity Award: Melissa Miller, M.D., Emergency Medicine, third-year resident, “Are There Gender or Racial Disparities in EMS-Administered Sedation Among Patients in Police Custody?”
- Value Award: Catherine Dawson, third-year student, “Evaluating Variation in Preoperative Care for Children Undergoing Atrial or Ventricular Septal Defect Repair”
- Best Poster: Simin Roward, M.D., General Surgery, third-year resident, “Does BiPAP Affect Intubation Rates in Trauma Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure?”
- Best Resident/Postdoc Presentation: ” Mary Bokenkamp, M.D., General Surgery, third-year resident, “Agitation in the Trauma Bay as an Early Indicator of Severe Injury and Hemorrhagic Shock”
- Best Student Presentation: Eugenia Lin, Orthopaedic Value-Based Health Care Fellow, “Patient-Perceived Involvement in Shared Decision-Making Does Not Align With Provider-Rated Involvement”
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3rd Annual Research Symposium: April 24, 2020
Visiting professor: Thomas Varghese Jr., M.D., M.S.; Associate Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine; Chief Value Officer, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Due to the change to a virtual format, there were no awards for this symposium.
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2nd Annual Research Symposium: March 29, 2019
Visiting professor: Carla Pugh, M.D., Ph.D.; Professor of Surgery, Stanford University
Awards:
- 1st place: Anish Patel, third-year student, “Opiate Prescriptions Are Highest Among Urologic Reconstructive Surgery: A Claims Dataset Analysis”
- 2nd place: David Archer, Jr., M.D., General Surgery, preliminary resident, “Risk Factors for Failure of Non-Operative Management After Splenic Angioembolization: Results of a Multicenter Study of Level 1 Trauma Centers”
- 3rd place: Sabino Lara, M.D., General Surgery, second-year resident, “Desmopressin Is a Transfusion Sparing Option To Reverse Platelet Dysfunction in Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury”
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1st Annual Research Symposium: March 30, 2018
Visiting professor: John Holcomb, M.D., Professor of Surgery, UT Health Science Center at Houston
Awards:
- 1st place: Christina Thorngren, M.D., MPH, Emergency Medicine, third-year resident, “Innovative Approaches to Age Adjustment of D-Dimer Values for Pulmonary Embolus Across a Hospital Network”
- 2nd place: Elisa Furay, M.D., General Surgery, third-year resident, “Goal Directed Platelet Transfusions Correct Platelet Dysfunction and Improve Mortality in Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury”
- 3rd place: Brandon Oyler, D.O., Emergency Medicine, third-year resident, “Outcomes From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest After Scripting the Initiation of Mechanical CPR”