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D1.
Interpretable Machine-Learning Risk Prediction for 30-Day Outcomes After Panniculectomy
John J. Lee B.A.1,2, Bashar M. Alsamman B.A.2, Dany Y. Matar B.A.2, Anahita Nimbalkar B.S.2, Dennis P. Orgill M.D., Ph.D.3, Gabriel Hundeshagen M.D., M.M.S.4, Adriana C. Panayi M.D., Ph.D.5 1University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA 2Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany 5Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
D2.
Outcomes After Surgical Release for De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis: Variability and Predictors of Persistent Symptoms
Jahnavi Challagonda, BS1; Courtney Heitmiller, BS1; Terrence L Jiang, BS1; Hannah E Rice, BS1; Moeko Agata, BS1; Douglas M Rothkopf, MD2; Anselm Wong, MD2 1 UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 2 UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
D3.
Novel Reconstruction Method for Renal Autotransplantation
Spedding, Victoria MD1; Schassberger, Molly DO1, Pomposelli, Thomas MD1,2, Christopher, Derrick MD2 1. Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 2. Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
D4.
Association of Social Vulnerability with Diagnostic Pathways and Outcomes After Carpal Tunnel Release
Authors: Jahnavi Challagonda, BS1; Giorgianna E. Ellis, BA1; Courtney A. Heitmiller, BS1; Ashley Roes, BA1; Yeji Lee, BA1; Elissa Daniel, BS1; Anselm Wong, MD2 Affiliations: 1UMass Chan Medical School 2UMass Memorial Medical Center
D5.
Robotic Cholecystectomy with Intraoperative Cholangioscopy for Common Bile Duct Exploration: A Single-Institution Case Series
Maria Fernanda Queiroz Ferreira1, Zeynep Bilgili1, Daniel Bent1, Charles Parsons1 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
D6.
Access to Trauma Centers in the United States: A Geospatial Analysis of Social Vulnerability and Rurality
Avery A Thompson1,2; Matthew T. Hey1,2; Kiana R Winslow3; Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz4,5; Alexander J. Ordoobadi1,2; Tanujit Dey1; Molly P. Jarman1; Geoffrey A. Anderson 1,6 1. Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 2. Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 3. Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 4. Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 5. Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 6. Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
D7.
Sternal Wound Complications After Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors, Reconstructive Burden, and 30-Day Outcomes
Dany Y. Matar, BA1,2; Savo Bou Zein Eddine, MD1; John J. Lee, BA3; Josip Plascevic, MBChB1; Patrick Bou Samra, MD4; Thoralf M. Sundt, MD5; Dennis P. Orgill, MD, PhD1. 1 Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA 4 Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 5 Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
D8.
Urgency and Equity: Analytic Study of Site Context Representation in US Emergency (EFIC) Clinical Trials
Sai Sankeerth Madakasira, MD, MS,1 Anne Kathleen. Buck, MS, PHD 1,2 Janice Weinberg, ScD 1,2 Susan S. Fish, PharmD, MPH 1. 1 Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2 Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
D9.
Changing Pain Paradigms in Breast Reconstruction: The Impact of an ERAS Protocol Including Gabapentin on Postoperative Opioid Use
Cathleen Huang1, Tyler Shern2, Victoria Chamberlain2, Logan Holt2, Barbara Smith2, Amy Colwell2 1Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Massachusetts General Brigham, Boston, MA 2Division of Breast Surgery, Massachusetts General Brigham, Boston, MA
D10.
E-Bike Trauma in Adults: A Comparison With Other Two-Wheeled Vehicles
Katherine Palmer Loveluck MD1, Matthew Mancini BS2, Hannah Rice BS2, Jon Dorfman MD3 1.University of Massachusetts Department of Surgery 2.University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine 3.University of Massachusetts Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma
D11.
Optimizing Technique and Timing in Sternal Reconstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Complications and Pulmonary Outcomes
Anahita Nimbalkar, B.S.1, Dany Y. Matar, B.A1, Puneet Gupta, B.S.2, John J. Lee, B.A1, Bashar Alsamman, B.A.1, Tobias Niederegger3, Thomas Schaschinger3, Gabriel Hundeshagen, M.D.3, Adriana Panayi, M.D. Ph.D.4, Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D.5, Hooman Soltanian, M.D.1, Ala Elhelali, M.Sc, Ph.D.1, Salih Colakoglu, M.D.1 1 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 2 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, Amherst, MA, USA 3 Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany 4 Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse, Zurich, Switzerland 5 Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
D12.
Flap Reconstruction After Sternal Debridement: National Trends, Outcomes, and Patient Selection
Dany Y. Matar, B.A.1,2; Savo Bou Zein Eddine, M.D.1; John J. Lee, BA3; Josip Plascevic, MBChB1; Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D.1 1 Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
D13.
Modified 5-Item Frailty Index Aids in Risk Stratification for Panniculectomy: A Multi-Institutional Cohort Study of 30,485 patients
Bashar M. Alsamman, B.A.1,2 ; John J. Lee, B.A.1,3; Dany Y. Matar, B.A.1; Anahita Nimbalkar, B.S.1; Adriana C. Panayi, M.D., Ph.D.4; Salih Colakoglu, M.D., Ph.D.1; Sashank Reddy, M.D., Ph.D.1; Savo Bou Zein Eddine, M.D5; Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D.5 1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 2University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA 3University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA 4Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse, Zurich, Switzerland 5Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
D14.
“As Complex as It Gets”: Elucidating Challenges of Multidisciplinary Care for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Emily E. Witt, MD MSc1,2, Chukwuma N. Eruchalu, MD1,2, Carly Amon, MD MPH1,2, Abolfazl Salari, MD1, Amanda Reich, PhD MPH2, Motaz Qadan, MD PhD1, George Molina, MD MPH1,2 1Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA 2Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA
D15.
Stepping Strong Trauma Recovery Clinic: A Replicable TACS Multidisciplinary Follow-Up Model
Mary M. Leech1,2, Maria A. Montoya-Rubiano2, Sivaram S. Emani1, Vishnu S. Emani3, Jack H.A. Miller1, Jessica Ramadei1, Jawad Tariq1, Juan P. Herrera-Escobar2, George Velmahos1,3, Ali Salim1,2,3, Geoffrey A. Anderson2,4, Lydia R. Maurer1,2, Casey M. Luckhurst1 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston, MA 2Brigham And Women's Hospital, Center For Surgery And Public Health, Boston, MA 3Harvard School Of Medicine, Brookline, MA 4University Of Southern California, Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA
D16.
Prenatal MRI Evaluation of Suspected Hypospadias - Postnatal Confirmation and Associated Conditions
Karim Mikhail1, Melise A. Keays1, MD MSc, Victoria Larocca1, PhD, Erin McNamara1, MD MPH, Richard Yu1, MD PhD, Siam Oottamasathien1, MD, Olivia Oppel1, RN, Esra Abaci Turk1, PhD, Ryne Didier1, MD, Patricia Ellen Grant1, MD MSc. 1Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
D17.
The Metacarpal Injury Severity Score as a Predictor of Operative Management and Outcomes
Jahnavi Challagonda, BS1; Jane McLarney, MD2; Andrea Rhikkaella Buendia, MASc1; Caitlyn Lee, BS1; Jilun Zhang, BS1; Anselm Wong, MD2; Douglas Rothkopf, MD2 1UMass Chan Medical School 2UMass Memorial Medical Center
D18.
End-to-End Automated Trauma Triage: AI Triage from Prehospital Radio Calls
Alexander J Idárraga, MD;1 Mohamed Suufi, BS;1,2 Chi-Sheng Chen;1 Alok Gupta, MD;1 Anupamaa J Seshadri, MD;1 Amy Wyrzykowski, MD ;1 Daniel Bent, MD ;1 Stephen Odom, MD;1 Charles Parsons, MD;1 Charles H Cook, MD;1 Larry A Nathanson, MD ;3 Gabriel A Brat, MD, MPH1,4 1 Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 2 Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 4 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical Center, Boston, MA
D19.
A FULLY AUTOMATED, MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN 3D MODEL HELPS PREDICT DIFFICULTY IN ELECTIVE SPLENECTOMY
Ali Homaei, Thomas J. Martin, Eric G. Sheu, Ali Tavakkoli Division of GI and General Surgery, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
D20.
Predictors of Overnight Stay and Failure to Launch
Palak Walia1, Mohamed Yousef1, Samuel W. Rice1, Daria Bakhtiari2, Harlene Kaur2, Marcelo Costa2, Aaron Lee2, Joshua Bindon1, Daniel Mandell1 1Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA 2University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
D21.
Comorbidity Burden and 30-Day Outcomes After Brachial Plexus Surgery: A National ACS-NSQIP Study
John J. Lee, B.A.1,2; Dany Y. Matar, B.A.1,3; William Huang, B.S.4; Felix J. Klimitz, M.D.5; Maximilian Mayrhofer-Schmidt, M.D.5; Sami Tuffaha, M.D.1; Gabriel Hundeshagen, M.D., M.M.S.6; Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D.3; Leila Harhaus, M.D.5; Adriana C. Panayi, M.D., Ph.D.5,7; Martin Aman, M.D., Ph.D.5 1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 2University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA 3Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA 5Department of Hand, Replantation, and Microsurgery, Department of Burn- and Plastic Surgery, BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin and Chair of Hand, Replantation, and Microsurgery at the Charité University Medicine Berlin 6Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany 7Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Berlin, Germany, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
D22.
A Novel Patient-Centered Severity Measure for Pilonidal Disease
Anna Ghelfi1, Ashley Stoeckel1, Madelyn McArthur1, Tayana Jean Pierre1, Gheed Murtadi1, David P. Mooney1 1Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
D23.
Life After Drainage: Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Cholecystostomy Tubes for Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
Timothy Borjas1, Zeynep Bilgi1, Alexander Chacon1, Anupamaa Seshadri1, Stephen Odom1, Amy Wyrzykowski1, Gabriel Brat1, Charles Cook1, Daniel Bent1 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
D24.
Who Gets Left Behind? Factors Associated with Loss to Follow-Up in a Novel Pediatric Pilonidal Clinic
Tayana A. Jean Pierre1, Anna Ghelfi1, Madelyn McArthur1, Ashley Stoeckel1, Gheed Murtadi1, David P. Mooney1 1 Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Surgery
D25.
Attitudes Toward Disclosing Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Care: A Survey of Healthcare Professionals and Patient Stakeholders
Justin S. Heidel1, Eileen Yung2, Zain Nichols3, Nina Feinberg4, Jonathan Nguyen5, Cassie Duffy4, Shahla Siddiqui5 1Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 2Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 3Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 5Department of Anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
D26.
Personalized Complication Risk Prediction After Glossectomy and Tongue Reconstruction Using Artificial Intelligence
Dany Y. Matar, B.A.1,2; Anthony Y. Matar, B.A.3; Anahita Nimbalkar, B.S.2; Charbel G. Saad, M.D.2; John J. Lee, B.A.4; William Huang, B.S.5; Samuel Knoedler, M.D.6; Iman Ghanad, M.D.6; Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D.1; Gabriel Hundeshagen, M.D., M.M.S.6; Adriana C. Panayi, M.D., Ph.D.6. 1 Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 Machine Learning Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 4 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 5 George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington D.C., USA 6 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Germany
D27.
Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Education for the Prevention of Positional Plagiocephaly
Anna Bogursky M.Ed1, Yvonne Nguyen BS1, Ashley Roes BA1, Andrea Buendia MASc1, Courtney Heitmiller BS1, ​Elissa Daniel BS1, Seo-Hyun Yoo BA1, Yiming Zhang M.S1, Janice Lalikos MD2 Affiliations: 1UMass Chan Medical School 2UMass Memorial Medical Center
D28.
Upper-Extremity Trauma Patterns and Care Pathways Among Incarcerated Patients
Jane McLarney, MD2; Jahnavi Challagonda, BS1; Mollie B. Smith, BA1; Simryn Covarrubias, BS1; Geethika Janga, BS1; Anselm Wong, MD2; Douglas M Rothkopf, MD2 Affiliation: 1UMass Chan Medical School 2UMass Memorial Medical Center
D29.
Perspectives from Chairs of Surgery on Surgical Leadership During Times of Uncertainty
Rachel Huselid MD1,2, Tiffany R. Bellomo MD MSc3, Mario O’Connor, MD4, Patrick Soonthornprapruet, BS1, Gentian Kristo, MD MPH1,5 1 Department of Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, MA 2 Department of Surgery, UMass Memorial Healthcare, Worcester, MA 3 Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA 4 Harvard T Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 5 Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
D30.
Minimally Invasive Hepatobiliary Surgery Offers Better Perioperative Outcomes than Open Surgery in Obese Patients: A Comparative Analysis from a Tertiary Care Center
Divya Randhawa1, Angela Chen1, Jackson Fulk-Logon1, Nicholas DeStefino1, David Lee1, Vanessa Cowan1, Amy Evenson1, Vincenzo Villani1, Devin Eckhoff1, Martin Dib1 1 Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States
D31.
Burns as a Neglected Surgical Disease: A Call for Recognition and Global Action
Anna Bogursky M.Ed1, Mollie B. Smith BA1, Elissa Daniel BS1, Imraan Sherman MD2,3, Decontee N. Wonokay MD4, Amaka Ehighibe MD5,6, Peter M. Nthumba MD7,8, Joyce K. McIntyre MD9 Affiliations: 1UMass Chan Medical School 2Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital 3Pwani University 4University Teaching Hospital of Kigali 5Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria 6University of Louisville Medical School 7AIC Kijabe Hospital 8Vanderbilt University Medical Center 9UMass Memorial Medical Center
D32.
The Stablyx Arthroplasty System for Thumb CMC Arthritis: Comparative Outcomes Against Trapeziectomy
Jahnavi Challagonda1, Sivana Barron2, Megan Berube1, Jessica Farzan2, Jane McLarney2, Daniel Flynn1, Andrea Rhikkaella Buendia1, Janice Lalikos2, Anselm Wong2 1UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 2UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
D33.
Neonatal Outcomes Following Cesarean Delivery in First-referral Hospitals of Rural Nepal: A Multi-Center Prospective Cohort Study
Matthew Elmore Merritt1,2, Abigail Knoble 2,3, Sanjeev Sahani3, Ruma Rajbhandari MD1,2,3 1 Harvard Medical School 2 Nick Simons Institute 3 Massachusetts General Hospital
D34.
Prognostic Utility of the Barlow Classification and an Expanded Injury Severity Score in Proximal Ulna Fracture-Dislocations
Michael G. Flood1, Samuel W. Rice1, Joseph Werenski2, John McDonald1, Hieu Tran2, Harlene Kaur2, Gregory Iovanel1, Lydia Parzych1, Scott Pascal1, Judith Siegel1, Christine Bub1, Matthew DeFazio1 1Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA 2University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
D35.
Polytrauma and Innate Immune Cell Dysfunction Delay Wound Healing in a Model of Soft Tissue Injury and Infection
Anupamaa Seshadri1, Paula Alves1, Bruna Santos1, Vanessa Voltarelli1, James Harbison1, Golda Gershanok2, Giovanni Traverso2, Leo Otterbein1
D36.
Assessing Variability in the Management of Small Superficial Pediatric Burns to Inform Development of Cross-Specialty Educational and Clinical Pathway
Jahnavi Challagonda, BS1; Zhuxuan Pan, MHA1; Ashley Roes, BA1; Anam J. Furrukh, BA1; Lisa Nguyen, ScB1; Nikita K. Joshi, BS1; Jennifer N. Grauberger, MD2; Janice Lalikos, MD2 1UMass Chan Medical School 2UMass Memorial Medical Center