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Top Gun Competition
The Massachusetts Chapter ACS congratulates the 2024 Top Gun Competition Winners:

UMass Memorial Medical Center

To Gun Team Winners: Image from left to right: Coach: Dr. Donald Czerniach, Marcus Vinicius Padilha, Jiddu Guart, Jonathan Durgin, President: Dr. Jacqueline Wu, Top Gun Chair: Dr. Georgios Orthopoulos



Thank you to our industry partners at Applied Medical and Ethicon for their in-kind equipment support of the Top Gun Competition.

The Massachusetts Chapter ACS congratulates the 2024 Survivor Winner: Michelle McCarthy of Lahey Clinic. <

Awards

Commission on Cancer:
	Winner: Carly Wareham, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA Title: “A Cost-Utility Analysis of the Use of -125mmHg Closed-incision Negative Pressure Therapy in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery”
Commission on Trauma:
	Winner: Cara Michael, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA Title: “Disparities in Opioid Prescribing in Traumatically Injured Patients”
Basic Science Poster:
	Winner: Thomas McNamara, MD, Boston Medical Center Title: “Food Insecurity is Associated with Poor Outcomes After Revascularization for Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia"
Clinical Poster:
	Winner: Claire Ostertag-Hill, Boston Children's Hospital Title: “Validation of an anorectal malformation trainer - Can a high-fidelity model simulate real life?”
Clinical Oral:
	Winner: Ali Dzhemiliev, ,Brigham and Women’s Hospital Title: “Education in Adversity: A Pioneering Initiative to Enhance Surgical Knowledge in Wartime Ukraine”
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.
	Winner: : Eddy Rios, MD, UMass Title: “Mechanical Stimulation Improves Recovery from Volumetric Muscle Loss Injury in Swine”