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Top Gun Competition
The Massachusetts Chapter ACS congratulates the 2021 Top Gun Competition Winners:

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Pictured from left to right is Lahey's top Gun winners Michael Joncyzk, Joshua Hayden and Piyush Gupta. Not pictured, 2021 President, Dr. Dmitry Nepomnayshy and team mentor/coach Heather Ford and Angela Jellison.

Thank you to our industry partners at Applied Medical, Ethicon, and Limbs & Things for their in-kind equipment support of the Top Gun Competition.
The Massachusetts Chapter ACS congratulates the 2021 Survivor Team Winners: Dr. Jacques Townsend of Berkshire Medical Center and Dr. Joshua Bloom of Tufts Medical Center.

2021 Survivor Game Winners

Pictured from left to right: Dr. Jacques Townsend of Berkshire Medical Center, Host Dr. George Velmahos, and Dr. Joshua Bloom of Tufts Medical Center.

Participating programs will be asked to send 1 senior resident representative to the meeting. Five participants will be randomly selected to participate. Those not selected will sit on an expert panel that can overrule audience votes. Dr. George Velmahos of Massachusetts General Hospital, our host, lead the teams through the various rounds of questions, where then the audience will vote participants off the "Island" with an audience response system through their smart phones.

2021 Survivor Competitors

Picture from left to right: Host, Dr. George Velmahos, and participants:

(Non) Survivors	Institute
Jacques Townsend	Berkshire Medical Center
Niki Arinze	Boston Medical Center
Katherine He	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ali Al Jabri	Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Joshua Bloom	Tufts Medical Center
Ricardo Bello-Boccardo	UMass Memorial Medical Center

Awards

Commission on Cancer:
	Michael M. Jonczyk, Lahey Medical Center "Predicting acute post-operative complications: the Breast Cancer Surgery Risk Calculator"
	Susanna W.L. de Geus, Boston Medical Center, Boston Medical Center "A Catch-22: Neoadjuvant Therapy without Posmiddleerative Therapy for Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer"
Basic Science Poster:
	Ashlyn E. Whitlock, MD, Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA "Routing Kinetics of Human Immunoglobulin G after Transamniotic Fetal Immunotherapy (TRAFIT) in a Rodent Model"
Clinical Poster:
	Ander Dorken Gallastegi, MD, Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA "Optimal Dose of Cryoprecipitate Infusion in Massive Transfusion Following Traumatic Injury"
Clinical Oral:
	Margaret Siu, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA "Can An Appendectomy Fit In A Space Capsule: A Pilot Study"
JOSEPH MURRAY RESIDENT RESEARCH BASIC SCIENCE ORAL: In memory of Dr. Joseph E. Murray who conducted the world's first successful organ transplant and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990.
	James N. Luo, Laboratory for Surgical and Metabolic Research, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School "Modified Gut Microbiome Induced by Sleeve Gastrectomy Promotes Colitis-associated Colorectal Cancer"

Sponsors
The Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons wishes to recognize and thank the following companies for their monetary commercial support that contributed to the success of the 68th Annual Meeting!

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Exhibitors:
3M KCI
Abbott Nutrition
Applied Medical
BD
Boston Scientific
Ethicon
Fuji Films
Genentech
Heron Therapeutics
Innocoll Biotherapeutics
Karl Storz
Limbs & Things Global
Medtronic
Olympus America, Inc.
Stryker
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.