Program and Abstracts | Posters
| P1 | Prenatal Tracheal Repair with a Hybrid aMSC-Engineered Construct Derived From Decellularized Airway Fabienne L. Gray, MD, Christopher G. Turner, MD, Azra Ahmed, MS, Catherine E. Calvert, BS, David Zurakowski, PhD, Dario O. Fauza, MD Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P2 | A Practical Prenatal Source of Autologous Neural Progenitor Cells for the Treatment of Spina Bifida Christopher G. Turner, MD1, Elliot C. Pennington, MD1, Justin D. Klein, MD1, Junmei Wang, MD2, Devang Thakor, MD2, Darcy Benedict, MD2, Azra Ahmed, MD1, Yand D. Teng, MD2, Dario O. Fauza, MD1 1Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Department of Neurosurgery, The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P3 | TULAA: A Cost Effective, Efficient, and Easily Learned Appendectomy Technique Constantine G. Saites MS MD, Evan Corey, David P. Mooney MD MPH Department of Surgery, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA |
| P4 | Extra-Cardiac Compression; A Novel Approach to Mechanical Cardiac Assistance Daniel Ventre, MD1, Michael L. Pigula, MD1, Jeffrey Borenstein, MD1, Frank A. Pigula, MD2 1Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA; 2Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA |
| P5 | Optimal Interval Of Imaging Surveillance For Non-Resected And Resected Mucinous Pancreatic Cysts Dimitrios Xourafas, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD, Stanley W. Ashley, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P6 | Hospital Readmission Following Management of Appendicitis at Freestanding Children's Hospitals Samuel Rice-Townsend MD1, Matthew Hall PhD2, Jeff N. Barnes BS2, Jessica K. Baxter BS1, Shawn J. Rangel MD, MSCE1 1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Child Health Corporation of America, Shawnee Mission, KS |
| P7 | Assessment Of Perfusion In A Partial Face Transplanation Model With A Near-Infrared Imaging System J. T. Nguyen, MD, Y. Ashitate, MD, A. Ibrahim, MD, S. Gioux, MD, P. P. Patel, MD, J. V. Frangioni, MD, B. T. Lee, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P8 | TNF? Potentiates Dexamethasone-Induced Expression and Activity of C/EBP? in Cultured Muscle Cells Steven Tizio, MD, Nima Alamdari, MD, Zaira Aversa, MD, Aniket Gurav, MD, Victoria Petkova, MD, Per-Olof Hasselgren, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA |
| P9 | Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Denis Gilmore, MD1, Onkar V. Khullar, MD1, Michael Jaklitsch, MD1, John V. Frangioni, MD2, Yolonda L. Colson, MD1 1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Division of Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA |
| P10 | MA Health Care Reform and the “Young Invincibles”: Insurance Coverage for the Injured Young Bethany Strong, MD1, Sylvia Hobbs, MPH2, Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS1 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Department of Public Health, Boston, MA |
| P11 | Use of Cholecystostomy Tubes in the Management of Complicated Acute Cholecystitis Nicole Cherng, BS, Erica Sneider, MD, Elan Witkowski, MD, Joanne Lewis, NP, Demetrius Litwin, MD, MBA, Mitchell Cahan, MD, Shimul A. Shah, MD Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| P12 | Impact of Lap-Band Size on Weight Loss: Does Gender Matter? Ali Ardestani, MD, MSc, Ardalan Tangestanipoor, MD, Malcolm K. Robinson, MD, David B. Lautz, MD, Ashley H. Vernon, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P13 | Duration of Femoral-Popliteal Bypass Influences Patient Outcomes Tze-Woei Tan, MD, Jeffrey Kalish, MD, Naomi Hamburg, MD, Robert Eberhardt, MD, Gheorghe Doros, MD, Denis Rybin, MD, Alik Farber, MD Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA |
| P14 | Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Mutations and Wound Healing Contribute to the Etiology of Desmoid Tumors Adelaide M. Carothers, PhD, Hira Rizvi, BA, Rian M. Hasson, MD, Yvonne I. Heit, MD, Jennifer Davids, MD, Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, Nancy L. Cho, MD Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA |
| P15 | Endotoxin Tolerance Impairs Antimicrobial Capacity in Pneumonia and Decreases Lung Inflammation Kendra Iskander, MD, MPH, David Stepien, MS, James Becker MD, Daniel Remick, MD Department of Surgery/Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| P16 | Less is More: Management of Pediatric Spleen Injury Justin Lee, MD1, Kaitlyn Wong, MD2, Kevin Moriarty, MD2, David Tashjian, MD2 1St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2 Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA |
| P17 | Cell Cycle Inhibition Enhances the Cytotoxicity of Hyperthermic Oxaliplatin Matthew J. Furman, MD, Barur R. Rajeshkumar, PhD, Giles F. Whalen, MD, FACS, Laura A. Lambert, MD, FACS Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| P18 | Near-Infrared Imaging For Intra-Operative Assessment Of Perfusion In Vascularized Bone Flaps. J. T. Nguyen, MD, Y. Ashitate, MD, A. Ibrahim, MD, S. Gioux, MD, P. P. Patel, MD, J. V. Frangioni, MD, B. T. Lee, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA |
| P19 | Operate Another Day? Increasing Utilization of Cholecystostomy Tube Drainage for Acute Cholecystitis Elan R. Witkowski, MD, Elizaveta Ragulin-Coyne, MD, Zeling Chau, MD, Sing Chau Ng, MD, Heena Santry, MD, Shimul A. Shah, MD, Jennifer F. Tseng, MD University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| P20 | Hepatic Transcriptional Regulation & Mortality in Cecal Ligation and Puncture Alan Sherburne, MD, Kendra Iskander, MD, Holly Sheldon, MD, Zhongyan Wang, MD, Suresh Agarwal, MD, Daniel Remick, MD, Peter Burke, MD Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA |
| P21 | Risk-Adjusted Comparative Analysis of Readmission Rates for Appendicitis at Children's Hospitals Samuel Rice-Townsend,MD1, Matthew Hall, PhD2, Jeff N. Barnes, BS2, Jessica K. Baxter, BS1, Shawn J. Rangel, MD, MSCE1 1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Child Health Corporation of America, Shawnee Mission, KS |
| P22 | Missed Opportunities in the Treatment of Pediatric Appendicitis Justin Lee, MD1, David Tashjian, MD2, Kevin Moriarty, MD2 1St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA |
| P23 | Post Game Analysis: Using Video-Based Coaching for Continuous Professional Development Yue-Yung Hu, MD MPH1,2, Sarah E. Peyre, EdD1,3, Alexander F. Arriaga,MD, MPH1,4, Robert T. Osteen, MD, FACS 5, Katherine A. Corso, MPH1, Thomas G. Weiser, MD, MPH5, Richard S. Swanson, MD, FACS 5, Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS 1,5, Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, FACS 1,5, Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS 1,5, Atul A.Gawande, MD, MPH, FACS1,4, Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH, FACS1,6 1Center for Surgery & Public Health, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 3STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 4Department of Health Policy & Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; 5Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 6 Surgical Outcomes Research, University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics, Madison, WI |
| P24 | Interaction Between Neighborhood Poverty Rate and Outcome Following Burn Injury: A Multicenter Study Anaeze Offodile II, MD, Kenneth Christopher, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| P25 | Adult Intussusception: A Decision Tree Analysis for Operative Management Ali Ardestani, MD, MSc, Oliver Varban, MD, Dan Azagury, MD, Bela Kis MD, PhD, David Brooks, MD, Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P26 | A Reproducible Ovine Model of Right Heart Failure by RCA Ligation Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH1, Michael Kwon, MD1, Ravi V. Shah, MD2, Rita Laurence, BA1, Raymond H. Kwong, MD2, Lawrence H. Cohn, MD1, R. Morton Bolman, III, MD1, Frederick Y. Chen, MD, PhD1 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Department of Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA |
| P27 | Does the EXIT to ECMO Procedure Change Outcomes for High-Risk CDH Patients? Alexander P. Stoffan, MD1, Jay M. Wilson,MD1,2, Russell W. Jennings, MD1,2, Louise Wilkins-Haug, MD2,3, Terry L. Buchmiller, MD1,2 1Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Surgery – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Advanced Fetal Care Center, Children’s Hospital Boston – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| P28 | Report of Phase I Results of a Simplified Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Device for Use in Low Resource Settings Gita N. Mody, MD1, Danielle R. Zurovcik, MD2, Grace Kansayisa, MD3, Gemimah Uwimana, MD4, Dominque Mugenzi, MD3, Georges Natkiyiruta, MD3, Robert Riviello, MD1 1Department of Surgery and the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 3Central University Teaching Hospital, National University of Rwanda; 4Department of Nursing, Rwinkwavu District Hospital, Rwinkwavu, Rwanda |
| P29 | Total Parenteral Nutrition Infusion During Septicemia is Associated with Longer Hospitalization Vihas Patel, MD1, Guotong Man, MD, PhD1, Caryn Domenici Belisle, RPh2, Stanley Ashley, MD1 1Department of Surgery and 2Department of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA |
| P30 | Open Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Endograft Era Tadaki Tomita, MD, Harold Welch, MD Lahey Clinic Medical Center Burlington, MA |
| P31 | Lessons Learned With The Exposure For Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (Alif) Hubert A. Johnson, MD, Richard Ozuna, MD, John B.Sledge, MD, Jeremy Shore, MD North Shore Medical Center, Lynn, MA |
| P32 | Presentation and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma at a Tertiary Care Center in Massachusetts Jason T. Wiseman, MD, Elan R. Witkowski, MD, YouFu Li, MD, MPH, Reza F. Saidi, MD, Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH, Giles F. Whalen, MD, Nicolas Jabbour, MD, Adel Bozorgzadeh, MD, Shimul A. Shah, MD Solid Organ Transplantation, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |