International College of Surgeons United States Section

 and

American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons

2020 Annual Meetings

April 30 to May 2, 2020 - Renaissance Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island


Preliminary Program Schedule
 (as of February 13, 2020)

Speakers are listed in alphabetical order within each session. Check back regularly for updates.

 

Thursday         4/30/2020   2pm-6pm

Opening Session / Global Surgery Part 1 - Surgical Consortia

   Surgical Mission Surprises - Honduras and the Philippines - How to Manage Them Out of Our Comfort Zone

   Domingo T. Alvear, MD, Mechanicsburg, PA

   Chairman, World Surgical Foundation

   Bridging Gaps by Sharing Resources to Save Lives: A High School Student’s Perspective

   Shrinit Babel, Lutz, FL

   Sophomore at George Steinbrenner High School and International Visiting High School Intern at

   Department of Surgery, Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital Ltd, Pravas, Tansen, Nepal

   Surgical Challenges: A Surgeon’s Perspective from the Developing World

   Suman Baral, MD, Tansen, Nepal

   Lecturer and General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital Ltd

   Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment: Building Programs in Bangladesh and Kenya

   Susan Cu-Uvine, MD, Providence, RI

   Professor, Ob-Gyn and Medicine; Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice; Director,

   Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research; Director, Brown Global Health Initiative, Brown University

   Team Broken Earth – Concepts and Accomplishments

   Andrew Furey, MD, St. John's, NL, Canada

   Founder and CEO, Team Broken Earth; Associate Professor of Surgery, Memorial University of Newfoundland

   Partners for World Health

   Elizabeth McLellan, RN, MSN, MPH, DrPH (Hon), Portland, ME

   Founder and President, Partners for World Health

   Disparities in Global Surgical Education Between Developed and Developing Countries: Fullbright Project

   Vijay Mittal, MD, Southfield, MI

   Professor of Surgery, Wayne State University and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

   Bariatric Surgery – The Swiss Experience

   Peter Nussbaumer, MD, Lachen, Switzerland

   Head of Surgical Department, Spital Lachen AG

   Non-surgical Management of the Infectious Complications of Severe Acute Pancreatitis in Paraguay

   Guido Parquet, MD, Asuncion, Paraguay

   Professor of Surgery and Anatomy, National University of Asunción School of Medical Sciences; Head of

   Service of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Instituto de Previsión Social

   The Evolution of the ICS Volunteerism Registry into a Functional Global Surgery Search Engine

   Mark Perlmutter, MD, Rocky Mount, NC

   Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolina Regional Orthopaedics


  The Dr. Arno Roscher Endowed Lecture - Stem Cell Therapies: Facts and Fiction

   Tobias Raabe, PhD, Philadelphia, PA

   Research Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine

   Patient Safety: Global Movement - Indian Scenerio

   Rajesh Shah, MS, DGO, Ahmedabad, India

   Prof. of Surgery & Medical Superintendent, Sheth L.G. Hospital & AMCMET Medical College

   Update on Operation Giving Back Ethiopia

   Girma Tefera, MD, Madison, WI

   Prof. of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Medical Director

   Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons

   The ICS Role in Global Surgery

   George Tsoulfas, MD, Thessaloniki, Greece

   Associate Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Friday               5/1/2020   8am-12pm

AANOS Annual Scientific Meeting

Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery Part 1

   Total Knee Replacement Outcomes in 2020

   David Ayers, MD, Southborough, MA

   The Arthur Pappas Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School

   International Healthcare: From Volunteering to Creating

   Jacob Babu, MD, MHA, Providence, RI

   Orthopedic Trauma Surgery Fellow, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

   Incorporating Regenerative Therapies within your Clinical Practice

   J. Matthew Burnett, DC, McMurray, PA

   Legacy Medical Centers

   Direct Anterior Approach Total Hip Arthroplasty

   Eric Cohen, MD, East Providence, RI

   Adult Reconstruction Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Brown University

   Complications Requiring Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty Within the First Year of Primary Surgery

   Matthew Deren, MD, Worcester, MA

   Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts

   Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center


  Centers of Excellence; A Winning Proposition

   John Froehlich, MD, MBA, East Providence, RI

   Clinical Professor of Orthopedics, Warren Alpert/Brown School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Adult

   Reconstruction Program and Director, Total Joint Center at The Miriam Hospital

   Incorporating Regenerative Therapies within your Clinical Practice (Introduction)

   Mark Perlmutter, MD, Rocky Mount, NC

   Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolina Regional Orthopaedics

   Progress of Head Transplantation:

   Reconstruction of the Severed Spinal Cord

   Xiaoping Ren, MD, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

   Department of Orthopedics, Ruikang Hospital, Affiliate of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine

   ACDF with O Profile Cages

   Lucia Zamorano, MD, Birmingham, MI

   Neurological Surgeon

 

Friday               5/1/2020   8am-10:00am

Global Surgery Part 2

 
Utilization of an Intraoperative Grading System to Predict Conversion in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A

   Nepalese Perspective

   Suman Baral, MD, Tansen, Nepal

   Lecturer and General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital Ltd

   Research Collaboration

   Abraham Jaffe, MD, Boston, MA

   Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine

   Overexpression of FOXM1 Predicts Poorer Sorafenib Response and Links to Regorafenib Resistance

   Kung-Kai Kuo, MD, PhD, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

   Prof. of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University; Director of General Surgery & Digestive Surgery, KMUH;

   President of ICS-Taiwan Section

   Global Surgery in the SDG Era

   John Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, Boston, MA

   Kletjian Professor of Global Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, Boston

   Children's Hospital

   International College of Surgeons and the Global Surgery Challenge

   Peter Nussbaumer, MD, Lachen, Switzerland

   Head of Surgical Department, Spital Lachen AG


 Roadmap for Medical Education in Modern Rural Nepal: Our Challenges and Achievements

   Chetraj Pant, MD, Tansen, Nepal

   Professor of Ophthalmology/ Academic Advisor, Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital Ltd


Friday
               5/1/2020   10:15am-12pm

Telemedicine as a Platform to Increase Access to Care

 

   Telemedicine for Trauma, Emergency and Disaster Management: Trauma Surgeon’s Perspective

   Rifat Latifi, MD, Hawthorne, NY

   Chair and Professor of Surgery, Director Department of Surgery, Program Director Surgical Critical Care

   Fellowship, Chief of General Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College

   Surgical Telementoring and What is New in Telemedicine: Editor’s Perspective

   Ronald Merrell, MD, Mentone, AL

   Editor-in-Chief: Telemedicine and e-Health

   Building a Telemedicine Clinical Practice and Guidelines of American Telemedicine Association:

   President’s Perspective

   Andrew R. Watson, MD, Pittsburgh, PA

   University of Pittsburgh


Friday
               5/1/2020   1pm-1:30pm

Special Luncheon Presentation

Practice Management

   Success Factors for Retirement: What to Know if Years Away or in Retirement Today

   Andrew Taylor, CFP, Cincinnati, OH

   Member Financial Planning Association


Friday
               5/1/2020   1:30pm-3:00pm

Update on Transplant


  
Robotic Transplant Surgery

   Mohamed Akoad, MD, Burlington, MA

   Assistant Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine

   Laparoscopic LDLT

   Adel Bozorgzadeh, MD, Worcester, MA

   Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

   Liver Preservation

   Paulo Martins, MD, PhD, Worcester, MA

   Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts


  Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiac Death in the United States: A pipe dream or potential reality?

   Trevor Nydam, MD, Aurora, CO

   Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Director of Transplant Fellowship Program, University of Colorado

   Xenograft

   Joe Tector, MD, Birmingham, AL

   Professor of Surgery and Director of the Xenotransplant Program at the University of Alabama


Friday
               5/1/2020   1:30pm-5:00pm

Annual Research Scholarship Competition


  
Post-operative Pain Management in Laparoscopic Surgery: Developing a Model for Balanced Opiate

   Prescribing and Promoting Responsible Disposal of Narcotics

   Brett Baker, MD, MBA, MS, Reading, MA

   General Surgery Resident, University of Massachusetts Medical School

   A Retrospective Analysis of Low Socioeconomic Medicare/Medicaid Population Undergoing Laparoscopic

   Sleeve Gastrectomy in an Urban Setting: Are We Doing Enough?

   Vishal Chandel, M.D., Brooklyn, NY

   Resident, General Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, University of Brooklyn Health Science

   Does History of Mesh Implantation Effect Outcomes in Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction?

   James Choi, MD, MA, New York, NY

   General Surgery Resident, New York Medical College - Westchester Medical Center

   Safety Analysis of a Voluntary Multispecialty Surgical Mission - Age is not a Contraindication

   Shekhar Gogna, M.D, Valhalla, NY

   Resident, General Surgery, Westchester Medical Center

   Referral Patterns of Burn Injury in Rural Kenya

   Mary Hunter, MD, MA, ScM, Providence, RI

   Resident, Brown University

   Distal Pancreatectomy Outcomes: Perspectives from a Community based Teaching Institution

   Manu Kaushik, MD, Farmington Hills, MI

   Resident, Michigan State University

   The 5-factor Modified Frailty Index (mFI-5): An Effective Predictor of Mortality in Brain Tumor Patients

   Adham Khalafallah, MD, Baltimore, MD

   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


  Epidemiology of Head Trauma in a Secondary Level Hospital in Northern Haiti

   Jean Wilguens Lartigue, MD (c), Boston, MA

   Research Associate, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School

   Online Informational Seminars: Increasing Access to Bariatric Surgery?

   David Leenen, MD, Providence, RI

   Resident, General Surgery, Brown University

   Readmission with New Drug Use in Patients with and without Mental Illness After Firearm Injury

   Miriam Neufeld, MD, Boston, MA

   Resident, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center

   Outcomes Acute Pancreatitis: Analysis of 127,274 Patients from Nationwide Impatient Sample Database

   Kenji Okumura, MD, Port Chester, NY

   Resident, Department of Surgery, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College

   Thoracoplasty: Still Relevant to Current Practice

   Rebecca Lee Phillip, MD, Lexington, KY

   Resident, Integrated Residency Program in Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky

   Carotid Endarterectomy vs Carotid Stenting for Carotid Disease: A Nationwide Analysis of 6-Months Outcomes

   Muhammad Zeeshan, MD, Tarrytown, NY

   General Surgery Resident, Westchester Medical Center

   Predictors and Outcomes of Postoperative Bleeding in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Long-Term

   Dialysis Undergoing Elective Abdominal Surgery

   Joy Zhou, BA, MHS, Providence, RI

   Medical Student, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University


Friday
               5/1/2020   3:15pm-5:15pm

Ethics Workshop


  
Reefer Madness and Medical Marijuana: A 21st Century Reality

   Frank Bongiorno, MD, MPS, Murfreesboro, TN

   Tennessee Health Service Chair Knights of Columbus


Saturday
           5/2/2020   8am-12pm

AANOS Annual Scientific Meeting

Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery Part 2


  Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for the Treatment of AIDS-

   Related Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

   Andres Alvarez Pinzon, MD, PhD, MHA, Los Gatos, CA

   Clinical Research Fellow, Neurosurgical Oncology & Neuroimmunology, Miami Neurosciences Center at

   Larkin, South Miami, FL

   “Battlefield Brain” Resulting from a Civilian Gas Plant Explosion

   Saptarshi Biswas, MD, Brentwood, TN

   Attending Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Forbes Hospital, Allegheny Health

   Network

   Novel Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Review of Specific and Nonspecific Means of Reversal

   W. Craig Clark, MD, PhD, Carrollton, MS

   Neurosurgeon, Greenwood Leflore Hospital

   Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas

   W. Craig Clark, MD, PhD, Carrollton, MS

   Neurosurgeon, Greenwood Leflore Hospital

   Challenges in the Management of Chronic Subdural Hematoma

   Shankar Gopinath, MD, Houston, TX

   Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine

   Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures: A History of Treatments

   Gerald Greenfield, Jr, MD, MS, San Antonio, TX

   Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital

   Assessing the Efficacy of Repeat Resections in Recurrent Glioblastomas: A Systematic Review

   Adham Khalafallah, MD, Baltimore, MD

   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Department

   The Impact of Extent of Resection on Survival in Adult Brainstem High-Grade Glioma Patients

   Adham Khalafallah, MD, Baltimore, MD

   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Department

   Update On Aging Knees

   Robert Mathews, MD, Millersville, PA

   Penn Surgery Institute, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

   Gammaknife Radiosurgery Management of Primary CNS Lymphoma: State of the Art from a Prospective Observational Comparative Study

   Jose Valerio, MD, MBA, South Miami, FL

   Neurosurgery Chair, Palmeto Hospital, Tenet Healthcare; Neurosurgery Oncology, Miami Neurosciences

   Center at Larkin


  MISS Lumbar Fusion

   Lucia Zamorano, MD, Birmingham, MI

   Neurological Surgeon


Saturday
           5/2/2020   8am-10:45am

Robotics and Technology Symposium


  
How May the Next Generation of Robots Transform Surgery?

   Mehran Anvari, OONT, MBBS, PhD, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

   Professor of Surgery, McMaster University

   Robotic Surgery in a Busy Academic Minimally Invasive Surgical Practice

   Andrew Duffy, MD, New Haven, CT

   Associate Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine

   Robotic Extraperitoneal Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

   Omar Yusef Kudsi, MD, MBA, Brockton, MA

   Chairman Dept of Surgery, Good Samaritan Medical Center

   Robotics has no Place in Colorectal Surgery

   Justin Maykel, MD, Worcester, MA

   Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Joseph Streeter and Mary Streeter

   DeFeudis Chair in Surgery

   Robotic Ventral Hernia Repairs

   Yuri Novitsky, MD, New York, NY

   Professor of Surgery Columbia University Medical Center

   Robotics is the future of colorectal surgery

   Larry Sasaki, MD, Bossier City, LA

   Colorectal Surgeon

   The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Surgery: Are We There Yet?

   Georgios Tsoulfas, MD, PhD, Thessaloniki, Greece

   Associate Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


Saturday
           5/2/2020   11am-11:45pm

The Andre Crotti Lecture


  
Magnetic Surgery: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

   Michel Gagner, MD, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   Professor of Surgery, Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine, FIU Senior Consultant, Hôpital du Sacre

   Coeur, Montreal


Saturday           5/2/2020   12:45pm-1:15pm

Honors Luncheon

Special Lecture

   The Business of Surgery: Challenges and Opportunities

   Sibu P. Saha, MD, MBA, Lexington, KY

   Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Kentucky


Saturday
           5/2/2020   1:30pm-3:15pm

Bariatric Surgery Forum


  
Bariatric Surgery: RYGB and Sleeve

   George Ferzli, MD, Staten Island, NY

   Professor of Surgery NYU

   Strategies to Decrease Esophageal Cancer Risk Following Sleeve Gastrectomy

   Michel Gagner, MD, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   Professor of Surgery, Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine, FIU Senior consultant, Hôpital du Sacre

   Coeur, Montreal

   Weight of the World- The Role of Bariatric Surgery

   John J. Kelly, MD, Worcester, MA

   Associate Prof of Surgery, Umass Medical School; Chief General Surgery, Umass Memorial Medical Center

   The Role of the Robot in Bariatric Surgery

   Sharique Nazir, MD, Milltown, NJ

   Assistant Professor of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine

   Gastric Bypass/Sleeve Emergencies for the Acute Care Surgeon

   Siva Vithiananthan, MD, Providence, RI

   Associate Professor of Surgery (clinical) at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University


Saturday
           5/2/2020   3:30pm-4:45pm

Trauma Plenary Session


  
Trauma Patients Previously Opioid Naive with Multisystem Orthopedic Injuries are at the Highest Risk for

   Protracted Opioid Use. A Suburban Level II Trauma Center Experience.

   Saptarshi Biswas, MD, Brentwood, TN

   Attending Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Forbes Hospital, Allegheny Health Network

   Isolated Left Lower Lobe Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis Presenting as Hemothorax: A Case Report

   Michael Fassler, BS, Chicago, IL

   Medical Student, University of Illinois, Chicago


   Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and its Effects on Complex Necrotizing Wounds on the Lower Limb
 
Federico Gattorno, MD, Elizabeth, NJ

   Professor of Surgery, St. George University School of Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center - New York

   School of Medicine

   Withdrawal of Care in ‘Functionally Independent’ Seriously Injured Elderly: Risk Factors and Predictors

   Shekhar Gogna, MD, Valhalla, NY

   Resident, General Surgery, Westchester Medical Center

   Utilization of Psychosocial Services Among Pediatric Patients with Penetrating Trauma

   Miriam Neufeld, MD, Boston, MA

   Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center


Saturday
           5/2/2020   3pm-5:30pm

General Plenary Session

   The Role of Formal Mentorship in General Surgery Training: A Survey Portraying a Single Institution's Experience

   Manu Kaushik, MD, Farmington Hills, MI

   Resident, Ascension Providence Hospital

   The Role of Preoperative PET Examination for Metastatic Liver Cancer from Colorectal Cancer

   Yoshihito Kotera, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan

   Associate Professor, Tokyo Women's Medical University

   Infected Port-a-cath Leading to Sterno-Manubrium Costochondritis Requiring Serial Debridement and

   Prolonged IV Antibiotic Treatment

   Andy Chao Hsuan Lee, MD, Chicago, IL

   General Surgery Resident, University of Illinois, Chicago

   New Treatment Approaches to Atrial Fibrillation - A surgical or Medical Entity?

   Tessa London, MD, MPH, Lexington, KY

   Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky

   Sub-Classification of Breast Masses by Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology

   Chimezie Madubogwu, MBBS, MSc, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

   Consultant General Surgeon/ Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

    University Teaching Hospital

   Management of Neglected Hirschsprung’s Disease in Adults and Adolescents

   Sunita Ojha, MS, MCh, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

   Head of the Department and Senior Consultant, Department of Minimal Invasive Surgery and Pediatric

   Reconstructive Surgery, Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital and Research Institute


  Emphysematous Aortitis

   Aditya Safaya, MD, Ossining, NY

   Resident, General Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College

   Applicability of Buccal Fat Pad Grafting for Reconstruction of Surgically Created Defects in the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions

   Joji Sekine, DDS, PhD, Nagasaki, Japan

   Deputy Director, Nagasaki Diagnostic Pathology Clinic

   Indication of Glossectomy, Cervical Lymph Node Dissection and Reconstructive Surgery in Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma

   Joji Sekine, DDS, PhD, Nagasaki, Japan

   Deputy Director, Nagasaki Diagnostic Pathology Clinic

   Management of Lower Extremity Tibial Arterial Disease: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?

   Ehab Sorial, MD, Stanford, CA

   Associate Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Stanford University

   Surgical Treatment for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

   Masakazu Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan

   Professor of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical University

 

Session dates and times are likely to remain unchanged. Final program is subject to change.

If not attending the entire meeting, Speakers should contact ICS Headquarters to confirm speaking times prior to making travel arrangements.