International College of Surgeons – United States Section

81st Annual Surgical Update

&

American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons

43rd Annual Scientific Meeting

 

Scientific Program as of February 12, 2019

Presentation titles and other details are subject to change

Speakers in alpha order within each session

 

 

 

 

Thursday, May 02, 2019

2pm-6pm

 

Opening Session - Featured Lectures &

 

Surgical Consortia - A Practical Resource Building Strategy?

 

 

The World Surgical Foundation, What We Do and the Role of ICS

 

Domingo Alvear, MD

Mechanicsburg, PA

 

Chairman, World Surgical Foundation

 

 

Mission Medicine (International Surgery)

 

Gene Bolles, MD

Denver, CO

 

Assoc. Professor Neurosurgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado

 

Health Science Center

 

 

Team Broken Earth: The Evolution of a Sustainable Medical Relief Charity

 

Andrew Furey, MD

St. John’s, NL, Canada

 

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

 

University of Newfoundland

 

 

Telemedicine Programs Albania and Cabo Verde: The Tales from Two Continents?

 

Rifat Latifi, MD

Katonah, 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

 

 

Update from the American Board of Surgery

 

Joshua Mammen, MD, PhD

Kansas City, KS

 

Associate Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, University of

 

 

Partners for World Health: Origins and Collaboration Options

 

Elizabeth McLellan, RN, MSN, MPH

     Portland, ME

 

Founder and President, Partners for World Health

 

 

Matching Resources to Need: A Template for Collaboration

 

Mark N. Perlmutter, MD

Rocky Mount, NC

 

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolina Regional Orthopaedics

 

 

The Dr. Andre Crotti Lecture
24 Years of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A Pivotal Advance in Transplantation

 

Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, MPH

New York, NY

 

Professor of Surgery, Director, Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation, Columbia

 

University/New York Presbyterian Hospital

 

 

 

 

The ACS Approach: Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Girma Tefera, MD

Madison, WI

 

Medical Director, Operation Giving Back; Prof. of Surgery, University of Wisconsin

 

 

The Dr. Arno Roscher Endowed Lecture

 

How to Slow, Stop or Reverse the Aging Process

 

Ara Tilkian, MD

Mission Hills, CA

 

Director of Cardiology, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

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Friday, May 03, 2019

8am-12pm

 

AANOS Annual Scientific Meeting

 

Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery Part 1

 

 

Laboratory Surgical Training Utilizing the Human Anatomy Under Life-like Conditions

 

Emad Aboud, MD

Little Rock, AR

 

Clinical Instructor Creighton University School of Medicine, Surgery Department

 

Director Micro-Neurosurgery Lab, Arkansas Neuroscience Institute

 

 

Should We Wait for the Syringomyelia to Occur Before Treating Chiari Malformations?

Shankar Gopinath, MD                      Houston, TX

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery Baylor College of Medicine

 

 

 

 

Regenerative Medicine: Having Fun Again

Gregory Laurence, MD                       Germantown, TN

 

Cosmetic Surgeon, Private Practice Germantown Aesthetics

 

 

From Cosmetic Surgery to Regenerative Medicine: An Awakening

 

Gregory Laurence, MD

Germantown, TN

 

Cosmetic Surgeon, Private Practice Germantown Aesthetics

 

 

Electrodiagnostic Testing for Compression Neuropathies: It’s Role in Value-Based Healthcare

 

Mark Perlmutter, MD

Rocky Mount, NC

 

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolina Regional Orthopaedics

 

 

Evolution in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures

 

Sudhir Rao, MD

Big Rapids, MI

 

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Big Rapids Orthopaedics

 

 

Management of Tarlov Cysts

 

William Welch, MD

Philadelphia, PA

 

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital

 

 

Medical-Legal Additions to Your Practice: IMEs, AMEs, RMEs, DDs

Charles Xeller, MD                              Seabrook, TX

Orthopaedic Surgeon

 

Endoscopic Management of Lumbar Spine

 

Lucia Zamorano, MD

Birmingham, MI

 

Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of

Medicine

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Friday, May 03, 2019

8am-10:00am

 

Updates on HPB & Oncologic Surgery

 

 

Laparoscopic Whipple

 

Barish Edil, MD

Oklahoma City, OK

 

Professor and Chair of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

 

 

Technical Tips to Consider During Laparoscopic Pancreas Surgery

 

Michael Jacobs, MD

Birmingham, MI

 

Clinical Professor of Surgery, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine,

 

Associate Chair of Surgery, Ascension Providence and Providence Park

 

 

Updates on the Surgical Management of Breast Cancer

 

Colleen Murphy, MD

Lone Tree, CO

 

Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado

 

 

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Associated with Retrieval of Less than Twelve

 

Lymph Nodes Colon Cancer Surgery

 

Yana Puckett, MD, MBA, MPH, MSc

Lubbock, TX

 

General Surgery Resident, PGY-5, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

 

 

A New Conception of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (PMDs) and

 

Surgical Management of PMDs

 

Joji Sekine, DDS, PhD

Nagasaki, Japan

 

Deputy Director, Nagasaki Diagnostic Pathology Clinic

 

 

Management Algorithm for Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms

 

Thav Thambi-Pillai, MD

Sioux Falls, SD

 

Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Surgery, Program Director General Surgery

 

Residency, Surgery Director, Sanford Transplant Center, Sanford School of Medicine,

 

University of South Dakota

 

 

The Role of 3D Printing in Hepatic Surgery

 

George Tsoulfas, MD, PhD

Thessaloniki, Greece

 

ICS World President, Professor Aristoteleion University

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Friday, May 03, 2019

10am-12pm

 

Advances in Transplant Surgery

 

 

Living Donor Liver Transplant: Changing the Paradigm

 

Abhinav Humar, MD

Gibsonia, PA

 

Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

Uterus Transplantation - Progress to a Viable Reality

 

Gregory J. McKenna, MD

Dallas, TX

 

Multi-organ Transplant Surgeon, Baylor University Medical Center; Associate Professor,

 

Texas A&M School of Medicine

 

 

Access to Transplantation: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?

 

Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, MPH

New York, NY

 

Professor of Surgery, Director, Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation, Columbia

 

University/New York Presbyterian Hospital

 

 

Transplant Surgery - Considerations in the 21st Century

 

Amit Tevar, MD

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Associate Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Surgical

 

Director, Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation

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Friday, May 03, 2019

4pm-5:15pm

 

Emerging Surgeons Forum

 

 

Traumatic Abdominal Wall Injuries: A Case Series

 

Beatrice Caballero, MS

Lubbock, TX

 

Medical Student, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Surgery

 

 

Unique Constellation of Thoracoabdominal Injuries in a High-speed Motor Vehicle Collision

 

Caroline Chung, BS, BA

Lubbock, TX

 

Second Year Medical Student, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

 

 

Transpopliteal GSW Causing an Acute Popliteal Venous Thrombosis and Associated Major

 

Pulmonary Embolus

 

Grace Shim

Lubbock, TX

 

Medical Student, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

 

 

A Unique Presentation of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia Rupture in a 37-Year-Old Man

 

Natalie Tully, BS

Austin, TX

 

Medical Student IV, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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Friday, May 03, 2019

5:15pm-6:30pm

 

Annual Research Scholarship Competition

 

 

Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmia Associated with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage:

 

A Literature and Protocol Review

 

Caitlin Clark, MD

Cleveland Heights, OH

 

Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at

 

 

Treatment of Appendicitis: Do Medicaid and Non-Medicaid Enrolled Patients

 

Receive the Same Care?

 

Amanda Fazzalari, MD

Waterbury, CT

 

Resident, University of Massachusetts Medical School

 

 

Endobronchial Ultrasound With Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the

 

Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases; A Single Center Experience

 

Dwight Harris II, BS

Manchester, KY

 

Medical Student, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

 

 

Laparoscopic Colectomies Associated with Decreased Retrieval of Twelve or More

 

Lymph Nodes Compared to Open in Elective Colon Cancer Surgery

 

Yana Puckett, MD, MBA, MPH, MSc

Lubbock, TX

 

General Surgery Resident, PGY-5, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

8am-12pm

 

AANOS Annual Scientific Meeting

 

Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery Part 2

 

 

Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfuntion (POCD)

 

Gene Bolles, MD

Denver, CO

 

Assoc. Professor Neurosurgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado

 

Health Science Center

 

 

Newer Technology in Orthopedics

 

Naga Suresh Cheppalli, MD

Albuqurque, NM

 

Orthopedic Surgeon VA Hospital Albuqurque, Asst. Professor University of New Mexico

 

 

Imaging Alternatives in Pedicle Screw Placement.

Adapting Machine Vision to Spinal Navigation

 

W Craig Clark, MD, PhD

Carrollton, MS

 

Staff Neurosurgeon, Greenwood Leflore Hospital

 

 

Hospital Hip Fracture Protocol Leads to Improved Outcomes

 

Kristy Fisher, MBA, MSc

Bellmore, NY

 

Richmond University Medical Center, SUNY Downstate

 

 

Pediatric Glioblastomas: Study of a Tunisian Surgical Series

 

Ghassen Gader, MD

Ben Arous, Tunisia

 

Resident of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis

 

 

Update in Total Hip Replacement Advancements and Painful Osteoarthritis of the Hip

 

Robert Mathews, MD, PhD

Millersville, PA

 

Medical Director of Penn Surgery Institute

 

 

Current Trends in Hand and Wrist Surgery

 

Mark Perlmutter, MD

Rocky Mount, NC

 

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolina Regional Orthopaedics

 

 

Infection with Spinal Instrumentation: The Current Management Strategies

 

Asem Salma, MD

Lima, OH

 

Attending Neurosurgeon, Mercy Health St Rita’s Medical Center

 

 

Non-traumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Surgical Indications and Technical Considerations

 

Asem Salma, MD

Lima, OH

 

Attending Neurosurgeon, Mercy Health St Rita’s Medical Center

 

 

 

 

Climate Change and Nutritional Perturbations in Children with Hydrocephalus

 

Francis Gregory Samonte, MD

San Diego, CA

 

Asst. Professor University of the Philippines Manila

 

 

A 1-year Prospective Time Study of Email Use

 

William Welch, MD

Philadelphia, PA

 

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital

 

 

Minimally Invasive Spine Lumbar Fusion with Expandable Inter Body: Optimization of Sagittal

 

Alignment

 

Lucia Zamorano, MD

Birmingham, MI

 

Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

8am-10am

 

General Plenary Session

 

Open Forum

 

 

Cleft Lip Prevalence and Management in a Developing Nation

 

Saman Ahmad, BDS

New Delhi, India

 

Dental/Oral Surgeon, Model Hospital Lajpat Nagar

 

 

Do Absorbable Mesh Get Integrated in Fascia in Real Life?

 

Samim Chalabi, MD

Towanda, PA

 

Chief of Surgery, Guthrie Towanda Memorial Hospital

 

 

Creation of a Vaginal Canal for De Novo Vaginoplasty and Salvage Vaginal Replacement for Transgender and Cisgender Women: A Proposed Novel Technique

Maurice Garcia, MD, MAS                     Los Angeles, CA

Associate Clinical Professor, Urology, In Residence Division of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

 

Inguinal Hernia Repair with Mesh-How I do It

 

Michael Jacobs, MD

Birmingham, MI

 

Clinical Professor of Surgery, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine,

 

Associate Chair of Surgery, Ascension Providence and Providence Park

 

 

Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Practical Approaches

 

Rifat Latifi, MD

Katonah, 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

 

 

The Role of Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment of Diabetes

 

Sharique Nazir, MD

Staten Island, NY

 

Associate Professor and Honorary Police Surgeon (NYPD), NYU Langone Medical Center

 

 

Up The Creek Without a Paddle: Adventures in Rural Surgery During My First Year

 

Tracy Sambo, MD

Poplar Bluff, MO

 

General Surgeon

 

 

Contour Mapping of Human Surface Anatomy: Defining Focal Fat Pad Loci and Improving Surgical

 

Outcomes with Anatomically-Guided Adipose Reconfiguration

 

David Teplica, MD, MFA

Chicago, IL

 

Clinical Associate, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery,

 

The University of Chicago

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

10am-12pm

 

Advances in Vascular & Thoracic Surgery

 

 

Noncardiac Massive Thoracic Bleeding

 

Raymond A. Dieter Jr., MD

Glenn Ellyn, IL

 

General and Cardiothoracic Surgeon

 

 

Management of Short Neck Infra-Renal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms with

 

Fenestrated ZFEN Stents: Single Institution Experience

 

Faisal Jehan, MD

Valhalla, NY

 

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

 

 

TAVR- a Multi-Disciplinary Model for the Future Structural Heart

 

Tessa London, MD, MPH

Lexington, KY

 

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky

 

 

Strategies and Management of Concurrent Non-small Cell Lung
and Esophageal GIST Cancers

 

Francis Podbielski, MS, MD

Riverside, IL

 

Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

Nutcracker Syndrome: A New Paradigm in the Diagnosis and Management?

 

Thomas Pshak, MD

Denver, CO

 

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery,

 

University of Colorado Denver

 

 

Delayed Endovascular Repair of Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury

 

Aditya Safaya, MD

Ossining, NY

 

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

 

 

Thinking Outside the Box. Complex Hemodialysis Access, Advanced Approaches

 

and Creative Techniques

 

Ehab Sorial, MD

Los Gatos, CA

 

Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Stanford University

 

 

Changing Paradigm in the Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease

 

Ehab Sorial, MD

Los Gatos, CA

 

Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Stanford University

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

1pm-1:30pm

 

Honors Luncheon

 

Special Lecture

 

 

Cost Management in Healthcare

 

Sibu Saha, MD, MBA

Lexington, KY

 

Professor of Surgery, University of Kentucky

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

1:30pm-3:15pm

 

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Forum

 

 

Fulminant Myonecrosis from a Minor Puncture Wound:

 

A Rare Case of Clostridial Septicum Gas Gangrene

 

Saptarshi Biswas, MD

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Attending Surgeon, Department of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Intensive

 

Care, Forbes Regional Hospital, Allegheny Health Network

 

 

Dog Bites - Dogmas and Evidences

 

Saptarshi Biswas, MD

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Attending Surgeon, Department of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Intensive

 

Care, Forbes Regional Hospital, Allegheny Health Network

 

 

Damage Control Surgery in Trauma

 

Akella Chendrasekhar, MD

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery , SUNY Downstate; Trauma Medical Director,

 

Richmond University Medical Center

 

 

Clostridial Sepsis in the Trauma Patient

 

Anthony Kopatsis, MD

New York, NY

 

Director of Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit

 

NYC H+H Elmhurst Hospital Center; Assistant Professor of Surgery, ICAHN School of

 

Medicine

 

Trauma Patients in the Rural Setting

 

Sharique Nazir, MD

Staten Island, NY

 

Associate Professor and Honorary Police Surgeon (NYPD), NYU Langone Medical Center

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

3:30pm-6pm

 

Pain Management & Ethics Workshop

 

 

Opium and Opioid History: Moving Beyond Opioids

 

Frank P. Bongiorno, MD

Murfreesboro, TN

 

Trauma Surgeon

 

 

Current State of Acute and Chronic Pain Management: Identifying the Non-Opioid Alternatives!

 

Vinita Singh, MD

Atlanta, GA

 

Cancer Pain Director, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Emory University