Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors, Staffordshire

Exhibits Open, Staffordshire

Continuous Poster Viewing, Essex Ballroom

Welcome and Opening Remarks from the President, Essex Ballroom
Anne C. Larkin, MD, FACS
UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester

Concurrent Resident Research Paper Competition: General Surgery / Quality and Safety, Essex Ballroom

Moderator:	Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH, FACS Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Co-Moderator:	Anupamaa Seshadri, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Utility and Feasibility of Intra- and Post-Operative Crisis Management Checklists in Cardiac Surgery
Sameer Hirji¹, Christopher Tarola², Houman Amirfarzan², Steven Yule²,¹, Jennifer Gabany², Roger Dias², Jacquelyn Quin², Miguel Haime², Marco Zenati^2
1Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA; ²VA Hospital, West Roxbury, MA

A Comparison of Patient Satisfaction when Office-based Surgical Procedures are Performed by Surgical Residents versus an Attending
Brandon M. Wojcik, Noor Amari, Sophia K. McKinely, David C. Chang, Heather Wachtel, Emil Petrusa, John T. Mullen, Roy Phitayakorn
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures: Is It Time For Centers of Excellence?
Erica D. Kane MD, MPH¹, Elan Jeremitsky, MD¹, Fredric M. Pieracci MD, MPH, FACS³, Sarah Majercik, MD, MBA, FACS², Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS^1
1Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA; ²Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; ³Denver Health Medical Center/University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO

Disease Burden Following Non-Operative Treatment of Appendicitis in the Adult Population.
Andrew Felber¹, Deven Catalano¹, Caitlin Stafford¹, Todd Francone¹, Pat Roberts²,Rocco Ricciardi^1
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA; ²Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA USA

Physicians Working in New Hospital Environments: Understanding their Challenges to Develop Real Solutions
Janaka Lagoo¹, Bill Berry¹, Alex Haynes²,¹, Atul Gawande³,¹, Susan Haas^1
1Ariadne Labs, Boston MA; ²Massacuhsetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Brigham and Women’s, Boston, MA

The Current State of the Acute Care Surgery Workforce: Results of a National Survey
Vijaya T. Daniel, MD, MPH¹; Didem Ayturk, MS¹; Catarina I. Kiefe, MD, PhD²; Heena P. Santry, MD, MS, FACS^3
1Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; ²Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School ³Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Concurrent Resident Research Paper Competition: Subspecialty & Basic Science, St. George

Moderator:	Laura S. Dominici, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Co-Moderator:	Georgios Orthopoulos, MD, PhD St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton

Sleeve Gastrectomy Restores Mucosal CD8+ t-cell Immunity.
David A. Harris, MD, Renuka Subramaniam, PHD, Keyvan Heshmati, MD, Ali Tavakkoli, Eric Sheu MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Tissue Expander Stimulated Lengthening of Arteries for the Treatment of Midaortic Syndrome in Children
Gabriel J. Ramos-Gonzalez, MD¹, Khashayar Vakili, MD¹, Deborah R. Stein, MD², Michael A. Ferguson, MD², Diego Porras, MD³, James E. Lock, MD³, Gulraiz Chaudry, MD⁴, Ahmad Alomari, MD⁴, Steven J. Fishman, MD¹, and Heung Bae Kim, MD^1
1Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ²Division of Nephrology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ³Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ⁴ Division of Interventional Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Pre-clinical Evaluation of Spliceosome and Proteasome Inhibition in Triple Negative Breast Cancer.
Praveen Sridhar, Stefanie Chan, Ying-Jie Lock, Fabio Petrocca
Boston University Department of Surgery, Boston, MA, USA

Cost Analysis Comparison of Single-Stage, Two-Stage Implant with Alloderm, and DIEP Reconstruction
Bao Ngoc N. Tran, MD Sherise Epstein, BA Bernard Lee, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Metabolic Inhibition of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer with 3-BP Depends on Hexokinase II Expression
Abha Aggarwal, Sonia Aggarwal, Benjamin Pollard, and Matthew A. Nehs
Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA USA

Outcomes of Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Octogenarians –Surgery Still An Option?
Sameer A. Hirji MD¹, Fernando Ramirez-Del Val MD MPH¹, Ahmed A. Kolkailah MD¹, Julius I. Ejiofor MD MPH¹, Siobhan McGurk BS¹, Ritam Chowdhury MBBS MPH PhD SM², Jiyae Lee BS¹, Pinak B. Shah MD³, Piotr S. Sobieszczyk MD³, Sary F. Aranki MD¹, Marc P. Pelletier MD MSc¹, Prem S. Shekar MD¹, Tsuyoshi Kaneko MD¹.
¹Division of Cardiac Surgery; ²Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH); ³Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Panel: Non-Technical Skills Training, Essex Ballroom

Moderator:	Robert P. Driscoll, MD, FACS South Shore Surgical Specialists, S. Weymouth
Panelists:	Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston David Lindquist Brown University, Providence, RI Dana Siegal Crico, Boston Jean Kelley South Shore Hospital, Weymouth

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall, Staffordshire

The Survivor Game: Only the Strongest Survives, Essex Ballroom
Moderator: George C. Velmahos, MD PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

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. The audience will vote participants off the "Island" with an audience response system through their smart phones.

Debate: Town and Gown, Essex Ballroom

Moderator:

Thomas E. Clancy, MD, FACS Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

Panelists:

Bariatric: Rayford S. Kruger, MD, FACS Southcoast Hospital, Fairhaven Donald T. Hess, Jr., MD Boston University Medical Center, Boston   Breast: Suniti N. Nimbkar, MD, FACS South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth Faina Nakhlis, MD, FACS Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston   Colorectal: Tamar Lipof, MD Beverly Hospital, Beverly Rocco Ricciardi, MD, FACS, MPH Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston   Vascular: Marcus E. Semel, MD South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth Alik Farber, MD Boston Medical Center, Boston

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall, Staffordshire

Panel: Disparities of Healthcare, Essex Ballroom

Moderator:	Laura A. Lambert, MD UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester
Panelists:	Global: Ulises Torres, MD UMass Memorial Hospital, Worcester Safety Net Hospital/Rural Hospital: Jacqueline Wu, MD Baystate Medical Center, Springfield Trauma Education in Africa: Deepika Nehra, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

ACS Foundation, Essex Ballroom
David McAneny, Boston
University Medical Center, Boston

Award Winner Announcements, Essex Ballroom

Joseph Murray Resident Research Basic Science Award
Resident Research Clinical Paper Award
Poster of Distinction Awards
(ACS: Commission on Cancer, Committee on Trauma)

Annual Business Meeting, Essex Ballroom

Luncheon Speaker, St. George Ballroom

Developing Cultural Dexterity: As Fundamental as Learning How to Tie a Knot?
Adil Haider, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

American Board of Surgery Maintenance of Certification
Gerard M. Doherty
Brigham and Women's Health Care, Boston

Resident Top Gun Competition, Staffordshire
Chair: Rocco Ricciardi, MD, FACS, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Scorekeeper: Georgios Orthopoulos, MD, PhD
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Brighton

In this contest, surgical residents from each of the ten general surgery residencies throughout Massachusetts will be invited to showcase their laparoscopic skills. The competition will consist of teams of 3 residents from each institution participating in a series of tests where laparoscopic skills such as intracorporeal knot tying, transferring of objects from one hand to another, and pattern cutting will be timed and graded. The winners of the competition will receive a trophy to showcase at their institution for the year.