Surgery’s Research Day Showcases 51 Projects

There were 36 posters and 15 formal oral presentations. First-, second- and third-place winners were chosen from the oral presentations. There were four groups of nine each in the poster presentations with one winner from each group.

The event took place May 23 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building in downtown Buffalo.

The following projects and researchers were recognized as best in their categories:

“Improving the Performance of the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) for Pediatric Trauma Patients Using Shock Index (SI) and Oxygen Saturation (SpO2) — a National Trauma Databank Study (NTDB) 2011-2015§”

Presenter: Radu Filipescu, MD

Other co-authors: Colin Powers, research assistant of surgery; Han Yu; David H. Rothstein, MD, associate professor of surgery; Carrol M. Harmon; Brian Clemency, DO, associate professor of emergency medicine; Weidun Alan Guo, MD, PhD, professor of clinical surgery; Kathryn Bass, MD, clinical associate professor of surgery

“Multisource Feedback Driven Intervention Improves Surgeon Leadership and Teamwork”

Presenter: Jinwei Hu, MD, clinical informatics fellow

Other co-authors: Robert Lee, MD, clinical assistant professor of anasthesia; Sarah Mullin, biomedical informatics doctoral candidate;  Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, professor and chair of surgery; Larry Harmon, PhD; Paul Gregory, PhD; Peter L Elkin, MD, professor and chair of biomedical informatics

“The Association of Nodal Upstaging with Surgical Approach and its Impact on Long Term Survival after Resection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”

Presenter: Luke DeGraaff  

Authors: Mark W. Hennon, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery; Adrienne Groman, PhD; Todd L. Demmy, MD, professor of surgery; and Sai Yendamuri, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery

“Teaching Surgery Novices and Trainees Advanced Laparoscopic Suturing: A Trial and Tribulations”

Authors: AT Train, DO, MPH1, J Hu, MD1, JR Narvaez, MD1, LM Miller, MA2, GE Wilding, PhD2, L Cavuoto, PhD3, E Noyes, PhD, MPH4, AB Hoffman, MD1, SD Schwaitzberg MD, MA1

“Reentry Devices at the Infra-Popliteal Level”

Authors: Elias N Fakhoury, DO, medical resident; Mariel Rivero, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery; Sikandar Z. Khan, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery; Gregory Cherr, MD, associate professor of surgery; Linda M. Harris, MD, professor of surgery; Maciej L. Dryjski, MD, PhD, professor of surgery; Hasan H. Dosluoglu, MD, associate professor of surgery

“Ex Vivo Perfusion of Tumor Containing Human Liver Specimens: A Novel Model for Malignancy”

Authors: Michael M. Wach, MD, medical resident; Samantha M. Ruff, Reed I. Ayabe, Mohammed Jafferji, Kirsten Remmert, Imani Alexander, Surajit Sinha, Alok Ranjan, James D. McDonald, Shreya Gupta, Maureen George, David Kleiner, Jeremy L. Davis, and Jonathan M. Hernandez

“Fluorescent Cholangiography in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and the Use in Pediatric Patients”

Authors: Kristen A. Calabro, MD; Carroll M. Harmon, MD, PhD, John E. Fisher Chair and professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery; Kaveh Vali, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery