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Congratulations to the winners of the 5th Annual Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Competition:
Ten worthy competitors came to the JC yesterday for this year's FLS Competition. Competitors were
faced with 2 tasks: peg transfer and intracorporeal suturing. It was a fierce battle and all scores were
quite high. A mere 7 points separated 1st from 4th place.
First place goes to Nanda Kumar, MD, with a total of 593 points. Nanda completed peg transfer in 40
seconds and intracorporal suturing in 41 seconds.
Second place goes to Jessica Goetz, MD, with 592 points. Jessica completed peg transfer in 34 seconds and
intracorporeal suturing in 58 seconds.
First and second place winners receive $300 and $100 (respectively) gift cards to the Apple Store.
Congrats to Nanda and Jessica!! (6-21-11)
Congratulations to our 2011 Aust Society Resident Paper Competition winners! (pictured in order, left to right)
Held during the 2011 Annual Meeting of the J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society in
San Antonio, TX, 1st place in Basic Science
went to Jeremy Simmons, MD, and 2nd place to Agustin Cornejo, MD.
In Clinical, 1st place went to Joga Ivatury, MD; 2nd place to Adham Saad, MD, and 3rd place was a tie between
Ruchir Puri, MD, and Jacqueline Richa de Arco, MD.
More about the J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society (6-21-11)
We are very pleased to extend our congratulations to Travis Holloway, MD, and Emmanuel Gabriel, MD, General Surgery Residents,
who have been nominated and chosen by fourth year
medical students for the 2011
Arnold P. Gold Resident Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given by the medical students
to the residents they believe best embody the following characteristics:
consistently compassionate & empathic in the delivery of care to patients;
serve as role models & illustrate professional behavior for students and colleagues by
example; exhibit enthusiasm and skill in professional and personal interactions with students;
demonstrate cultural sensitivity in working with patients and family members of diverse
ethnic or religious backgrounds; engender trust and confidence; and adhere to professional and
ethical standards.
More about Dr. Gabriel |
More about Dr. Holloway (6-8-11)
Congratulations to Amani Jambhekar, BA, BS, UT School of Medicine San Antonio 3rd Year Medical Student,
who won best poster presentation at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress in
Ko Olina, Hawaii. Her poster was entitled 'Temperature as an early predictor of outcome'; authors also
include AG Mora, JA Jones, and SE Wolf. Ms. Jambhekar's research was conducted at
the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.
(6-6-11)
Congratulations to Pranjali Gadgil, MD, General Surgery Resident, who
took first place in a statewide Resident Jeopardy competition at the
2011 Austin Trauma & Critical Care Conference. The Austin Trauma & Critical
Care Conference is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals
caring for critically ill and injured patients in rural, urban and suburban
hospitals in Texas.
More about Dr. Gadgil
(6-3-11)
Congratulations to Ruchir Puri, MD, General Surgery Resident, whose paper,
'Transthoracic Repair of Slipped Nissen
Fundoplications: Technique and Results', has been accepted for oral
presentation at the Fall 2011 Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) 58th Annual
Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
More about Dr. Puri
(5-24-11)
Congratulations to Meeghan Lautner, MD, whose recent manuscript,
In vitro sarcoma cells release a lipophilic substance that
activates the pain transduction system via TRPV1, has been published in the
March 2011 Annals of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Lautner's research was conducted under the mentorship of Ken M. Hargreaves,
DDS, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology and Professor and Chair of Endodontics at the UT Health Science Center
San Antonio.
More about Dr. Lautner (4-11-11)
Congratulations to 2004 General Surgery Residency Program graduate,
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD, who was awarded the first Association for Surgical Education /
Association of Program Directors in Surgery Collaborative Initiative Award by the societies at the 2011
Surgery Education Week. Dr. Stefanidis was awarded $5000 by the societies for his project
submission, 'Establishing national resident performance benchmarks'.
More
about Dr. Stefanidis (4-11-11)
Congratulations to Agustin Cornejo, MD, General Surgery Research Resident,
who has been chosen to receive the Duke Fellow / Resident Travel Grant Award
for the March 2011 Masters of Minimally Invasive Adominal Surgery in Orlando, Florida –
a two-day Duke University course in surgery covering the latest minimally invasive therapies in abdominal surgery.
More about Dr. Cornejo |
More about the Department of Surgery
Research Residents Program (2-9-11)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Guillermo Portillo, MD, who has
been selected to do a Bariatric and Gastrointestinal Surgery Fellowship at Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York,
from July 2011 through June 2012.
More about Dr. Portillo (1-31-11)
Congratulations to Agustin Cornejo, MD, General Surgery Research Resident, whose
poster, 'Effect of osteoblasts and endothelial cells differentiated from adipose-derived stem
cells on vascularity and osteogenesis using bony constructs in vivo', was accepted for
presentation at the 2nd Annual Frontiers of Translational Science Research Day at the January 2011
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.
More about Dr. Cornejo |
More about the Department of Surgery
Research Residents Program (1-18-11)
Congratulations to Trauma / Critical Care Fellow Lillian Liao, MD, MPH, whose abstract,
'Endovascular repair of secondary aortoenteric fistula after abdominal gunshot wound', has been
accepted for presentation at the April
2011 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress in Hawaii.
More about Dr. Liao |
Southwestern Surgical Congress
(1-3-11)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Jacqueline Richa de Arco, MD, who has two abstracts accepted for
presentations at two separate major surgical conferences in 2011:
'Fourier analysis of non-continuous glucose monitoring data in critically ill trauma patients', has been
accepted for presentation at the 40th Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in San Diego, Calif.
More about the Society of Critical Care Medicine
'Practice patterns with inferior vena cava filters in a Level I Trauma Center: What has changed?', accepted for presentation
at the April 2011 63rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress in Hawaii.
More about the Southwestern Surgical Congress |
More about Dr. Richa de Arco |
(1-3-11)
Congratulations to 2nd year medical student Marc Salhanick whose abstract,
'Autotransfusion of hemothorax blood in trauma patients: is it the same as fresh
whole blood?' has been selected for oral scientific presentation at the April
2011 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress in Hawaii. Daniel Dent, MD, (pictured right)
Professor of Trauma Surgery and Director of the General Surgery Residency Program,
serves as mentor to Mr. Salhanick.
More about Surgery's mentorship program |
More about Dr. Dent |
Southwestern Surgical Congress
(1-3-11)
Congratulations to Pranjali Gadgil, MD, General Surgery Resident, whose abstract, 'Phyllodes Tumors: Race Related Differences',
has been accepted for presentation at the 64th Annual Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium to be held in March 2011 in San
Antonio, Texas.
More about Dr. Gadgil |
Society of Surgical Oncology |
(12-03-10)
Congratulations to Maria Luisa Martinez, MD, General Surgery Resident, who placed 3rd in the Society of
American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) November 2010 Advanced Laparoscopic Intestinal
and Solid Organ Surgery Workshop skills competition held in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
More about Dr. Martinez |
SAGES website |
SAGES Advanced Laparoscopic
Workshops for Surgical Residents and Fellows (11-29-10)
Congratulations to Grigorios Lamaris, MD, PhD, General Surgery Resident, who successfully defended
his PhD thesis in November 2010, earning his PhD from the University of Crete.
Dr. Lamaris' thesis,
'Increased virulence of Zygomycetes organisms following exposure to voriconazole: a study
involving fly and murine models of zygomycosis,' was published in the Journal
of Infectious Diseases.
More about Dr. Lamaris (11-29-10)
Congratulations to Richard Oppeltz, MD, General Surgery Research Resident:
Dr. Oppeltz's abstract, "Burn wound iNOS expression is regulated by
gamma/delta T-cells" has been selected for an oral presentation at the
American Burn Association 43rd Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, in March 2011. Dr. Oppeltz's research is conducted under the guidance
of Martin Schwacha, PhD, Professor of Trauma Research and Director of the Trauma Immunopathology Laboratory.
More about Dr. Oppeltz |
More about our Research Resident program |
Trauma Immunopathology Research Laboratory
(11-16-10)
Congratulations to the selected General Surgery Resident Council for 2010-2011:
Members of this year's General Surgery Resident Council are (pictured, back row) Joe Monfre PGY1, Ray Hosein PGY1, Rafael Diaz PGY5,
Gustavo Guajardo PGY5 and Administrative Chief, Adham Saad PGY5, John Wiersch PGY2, Brett Solomon PGY4, (pictured, front row)
Richard Oppeltz PGY3, Jacky Richa - Research Resident, Meeghan Lautner PGY3, Lisa Thomas PGY5 and Administrative Chief,
Susannah Nicholson PGY3, and Nandy Kumar - Research Resident. Not pictured: Jason Kempenich, PGY4, and Travis Holloway PGY2.
(11-1-10)
Welcome our Fall 2010 VISSA students: Our latest group of Visiting International Students in San Antonio (VISSA)
will be here from October – December 2010. Participants will rotate
through selected surgial rotations for three months. Sponsored by the Department of
Surgery, the VISSA program is designed to bring top international senior medical
students to train in our institution for a period of three to six months. Pictured, left to right:
Dr. Chiscano, Rodolfo Adrian Elizondo Saenz, Jessica Alexandra Ardila Gatas,
Gonzalo Alberto Romero Gonzalez, Oriana Haran Orta, L. Alejandro Jaramillo, MD (Program Director), Jahanzaib Idrees.
More about our VISSA program
(10-9-10)
Surgery/Trauma MS2 summer research student earns 2nd Place in Medical Student
Research Day on October 4, 2010: Working with Trauma and Emergency Surgery faculty
members Drs. Robert Johnson and Ronald Stewart, medical student Sarah Crandall's project,
'Hemoperitoneum: Abdominal Blood, Endogenous Carbon Monoxide and Hemostasis', earned
2nd place in this year's competition. Congratulations to Ms. Crandall!
More about the School of Medicine Summer Research Program
(10-7-10)
Congratulations to LIllian Liao, MD, MPH, Critical Care Fellow, whose abstract,
"Endovascular repair of secondary aortoenteric fistula after gunshot wound to the
abdomen," was presented at the 2010 Annual Fall meeting of the Texas Society for Vascular and Endovascular
Surgery in San Antonio, Texas. More about Dr. Liao |
More about the
Texas Society for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. (10-4-10)
Fall 2010 Surgeons Overseas Newsletter – Our latest update from one of our residency program graduates,
Adam Kushner, MD, and his work with the Society of Humanitarian Surgeons.
Click here to read the newsletter |
Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons |
More about Dr. Kushner (9-27-10)
Congratulations to Sebastian Ernesto Cuevas Pareja, MD, General Surgery
Resident, whose research at the
Methodist Institute for Technology Innovation and Education (MITIE), Methodist
Hospital, Houston, was recently published in the Journal of Surgical Endoscopy:
"Chopstick" surgery: a novel technique improves surgeon performance and eliminates arm collision in
robotic single-incision laparoscopic surgery and
Chopstick surgery: a novel technique enables use of the
Da Vinci Robot to perform single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
More about Dr. Cuevas Pareja |
Surgery Research Publications
(9-7-10)
Congratulations to Ashwini Kumar, MD, General Surgery Resident, who won the
recent national FLS and Endoscopy Competency held at the August 2010 Society of American
Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Resident Basic Endoscopy and
Laparoscopy Workshop held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
More about Dr. Kumar
(8-10-10)
Congratulations to Meeghan A. Lautner, MD, MSc, General Surgery Resident, whose abstract entitled
Production of a lipophilic compound by sarcoma cells activates TRPV1' has been accepted for poster presentation
at the August 2010 International Association for the Study of Pain 13th World Congress on Pain in Montreal, Canada.
More about Dr. Lautner (7-26-10)
2010 Ropes Course at Don Strange Ranch: Each year, the rising PGY4
General Surgery residents go to the Don Strange Ranch for the Ropes Course. Our 2010
participants are (left to right in first picture below) Drs. Brett Solomon,
Lauren Buck, Maui Martinez, Carlo Martinez, Kishore Malireddy, Pranjali Gadgil,
Prejesh Philips, and Jason Kempenich. The ropes course allows our fourth year residents
to explore climbing as a metaphor for accomplishing goals and achieving personal growth —
discovering new resources within themselves that inspire action and positive change.
(7-12-10)
Congratulations to the winners of the Department of Surgery
Teaching Awards for 2009-2010:
Voted most favorite teaching faculty by the medical students, with Dr. Rosenthal being 'Most Favorite' –
Arthur Rosenthal, MD; Robert M. Esterl, Jr., MD; and Patrick Nguyen, MD, received awards for Excellence in Teaching
Medical Students.
Voted most favorite teaching resident or intern by medical students in their 3rd year, with Dr. Diaz voted 'Most
Favorite' –
Rafael Diaz Flores, MD; Prejesh Philips, MD; and Elizabeth Thomas, MD, received awards for Excellence in Teaching
Medical Students.
Voted most favorite teaching faculty by residents, with Dr. Logue voted 'Most Favorite' –
Alicia Logue, MD, and Ashraf Hilmy, MD, received the awards for Excellence in Teaching Residents.
Awards were presented June 3, 2010, during the annual meeting of the J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society.
Pictured, left to right: Drs. Esterl, Nguyen, Diaz, Philips, Thomas, Logue and Hilmy.
(6-23-10)
Congratulations to the 2010 first place winners of the J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society Annual Meeting Resident Paper
Competition:
Heather Hancock, MD, 1st Place, Basic Science category for her presentation, 'Hind Limb Ischemia/Reperfusion with
Hemorrhagic Shock In a Porcine Survival Model of Functional Limb Salvage,' and Mark Muir, MD, 1st Place, Clinical
Research category for his presentation, 'Novel Toxin Assays Implicate Mycoplasma Pneumoniae in Prolonged Ventilator Course
and Hypoxemia in the Intensive Care Unit'. Other Basic Science category winners included 2nd place, Joga Ivatury, MD, and
3rd place winner Gabe Burkhardt, MD. Additional Clinical Research category winners included 2nd place winner
Sam Bastani, MD, and 3rd place winner
Lillian Liao, MD. Read more on the Aust Society website
(6-14-10)
Congratulations to the winners of the 4th Annual Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)
Competition, Ashwini Kumar, MD (1st place) and Kshitij Kakar, MD (2nd place).
Several residents participated and Dr. Kumar (pictured
left) proved to have the best laparoscopic skills. He was awarded a $300
Apple Store gift card, a Surgical Atlas, and bragging rights for the
year. Second place winner, Dr. Kakar, (pictured right) was awarded a
$100 gift card to the Apple Store. Other participants included Nanda Kumar, MD,
Jacky Richa de Arco, MD, and Matt McHale, MD. Past winners include Jason
Kempenich, MD (2009), Gustavo Guajardo, MD (2008), and Danny Kim, MD (2007).
More about Dr. Kumar |
More about Dr. Kakar |
More about the Johnson Center (JCSI) |
More about the FLS curriculum
(6-2-10)
Congratulations to General Surgery Residents Prejesh Philips, MD, and Jeremy Simmons, MD, who have been chosen as 2010
recipients of the prestigious Arnold P. Gold Foundation Resident Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards:
Nominations and awards were determined by the rising fourth year medical students. This award reflects those residents who best
reflect a commitment to teaching and compassionate treatment of patients and families, students, and colleagues.
More about Dr. Philips |
More about Dr. Simmons (6-1-10)
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