Education News - Current Academic Year
Congratulations to Richard Oppletz, MD, General Surgery Research Resident, whose
paper entitled 'Impact of Burn Injury on Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)-Mediated
Inflammatory Responses by Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL) Cells', has been accepted for an oral
presentation at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Boston, MA, March 9-12,
2010. More about Dr. Oppeltz (11-20-09)
Congratulations to Carlo Martinez, MD, General Surgery Resident, who has been
awarded a 2010 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 'Looking to the Future' Scholarship.
The scholarship, sponsored by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and its members, is designed to
support and offset travel expenses to the STS 46th Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from Jan. 25-27, 2010, for general surgery residents with an interest in cardiothoracic surgery.
More about Dr. Martinez (11-17-09)
Congratulations to Sam Bastani, MD, General Surgery Resident, whose abstract,
Chemokine receptor blockade with a synthetic nonpeptide compound attenuates cardiac allograft
vasculopathy, has been published in the October 2009 edition of
Transplantation. More about Dr. Bastani (11-2-09)
Congratulations to Heather Pidcoke, MD, General Surgery Resident, whose abstract,
Anemia
causes hypoglycemia in intensive care unit patients due to error in single-channel glucometers: Methods of reducing patient risk*, has been published in
Critical Care Medicine. More about Dr. Pidcoke (10-29-09)
Congratulations to Surgery residents who took three out of five awards at the 2009 annual meeting of the Texas Society of
Plastic Surgeons (TSPS): (pictured left to right)
Stacy Stephenson, MD, Plastic Surgery resident, won the TSPS Cronin Award - Best Senior Resident Paper for her research, "Prevascularization of bony constructs with
endothelial differentiated adipose-derived stem cells." First place, Scientific Award, went to
Megan Steigelman, MD, General Surgery resident, for her
study, "In vitro osteogenic differentiation of adipose stem cells after lentiviral transduction with
green fluorescent protein."
Patrick Schaner, MD, Plastic Surgery resident, won the 2nd place Clinical Award for his paper,
"Hairline lowering with Endotine anchors for foreheadplasty."
More about the Plastic Surgery Residency Program (10-4-09)
Welcome to our Fall 2009 VISSA participants: This fall we have three Visiting International Students in San Antonio
(VISSA) participants: Daniel Escobar from Colombia, and Elias Javier-Martinez and German Almonte, both from the
Dominican Republic. Mr. Almonte and Mr. Javier-Martinez are both senior medical students at the
Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. The VISSA program is designed
designed to bring top international senior medical students to rotate and train
in our institution for a period of from three to six months. |
VISSA Program website (9-29-09)
Matthew Sideman, MD, Vascular Surgery (pictured right); Patrick Nguyen,
MD, General Surgery; and Ross Willis, PhD, Director of Surgery
Education, assume leadership of Surgery Student Clerkship: Due to his
new role as Interim Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Bob Esterl
will no longer be able to serve as Director of the Surgery Clerkship
program; his outstanding service in this role will be missed by medical
students as well as the Surgery faculty, staff, and residents. Dr.
Sideman, who will serve as clerkship director, served in a similar
capacity at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa, OK,
and will be assisted by Drs. Nguyen and Willis.
More about Surgery's Clerkship Program |
More about Dr. Esterl |
More about Dr. Sideman |
More about Dr. Nguyen |
More about Dr. Willis
(9-9-09)
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