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.