Education News - Current Academic Year
Congratulations to 2nd year General Surgery Resident Mayank Roy, MD, whose
paper, "Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy:
A First Step for Rapid Weight Loss in Morbidly Obese Patients Requiring a Second Non-
Bariatric Procedure", has been published in the
December 2011 Obesity Surgery.
More about Dr. Roy |
More about the General Surgery Residency Program
(1-31-12)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Hanuma Nanda Kumar, MD, who has
been selected to present his project, 'Nonlineaer statistical algorithms improve probability of survival prediction using TRISS variables',
at the 7th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in Las Vegas, NV, in February 2012.
More about Dr. Nanda Kumar |
More about the Academic Surgical Congress |
More about the General Surgery Residency Program
(1-11-12)
Congratulations to 2nd year General Surgery Resident Mayank Roy, MD, whose
paper, "Experience
of laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair at a single institution", has been published in the
October 2011 American Journal of Surgery.
More about Dr. Roy |
More about the General Surgery Residency Program
(1-11-12)
Congratulations to General Surgery Research Resident Heather Hancock, MD, and General
Surgery Chief Resident Jason Kempenich, MD, who were recently selected for promotion to
the rank of Major in the US Air Force.
More about Dr. Hancock |
More about Dr. Kempenich |
More about the General Surgery Residency Program |
More about the General Surgery Research Resident Program
(1-4-12)
Ross Willis, PhD, Director of Surgery Education, et al, publishes paper in
The American Journal of Surgery –
'Comparing
three pedagogical approaches to psychomotor skills acquisition'.
Additional authors include Patrick Nguyen, MD, UT School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Surgery, General Surgery residents Jacqueline Richa, MD,
Richard Oppeltz, MD, Kelly Wagner, BS, Associate Professor of Surgery Kent Van Sickle, MD,
and Professor of Trauma Surgery and Director of the General
Surgery Residency Program Dan Dent, MD.
More about Dr. Willis |
More about the General Surgery Residency Program
(1-3-12)
Congratulations to our Medical Student Research Summer Program poster winners and their mentors! This year, Department of
Surgery faculty mentors and their students produced four winning posters for the annual Student Research Day.
Mark Sparkman, MD, Division of Emergency Medicine, mentored medical student
Jeffrey Rouse, who took 2nd prize for his poster, 'A comparison of
personal protective equipment usage by procedure in the Emergency Department'.
Daniel Dent, MD, Division of Trauma
and Emergency Surgery, mentored medical student Zachary Smith, who received an honorable mention for his poster,
'Temporal evaluation of evacuated hemothorax blood for auto-transfusion in Trauma'.
Peter Hornsby, PhD, cross-appointed faculty
with the Department of Physiology, mentored medical student Jason Rocha, whose poster,
'Improved skin window for visualizing implanted cells
in vivo', earned an honorable mention.
Paula K. Shireman, MD, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, mentored medical student
David Melton, whose poster, 'Differential microRNA expression patterns in CCR2 -/- vs. wild type mice following
skeletal muscle regeneration'.
(Photo, l to r – Mark Sparkman, MD; Daniel Dent, MD; Peter Hornsby, PhD; Paula K. Shireman, MD) |
Medical School Summer Research Program |
Dept of Surgery Medical Student Programs (11-2-11)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Agustin Cornejo, MD, whose
manuscript, Pig Heart Preservation with Antegrade
Intracellular Crystalloid versus Antegrade/Retrograde Miniplegia, was recently published in the Journal
of Extracorporeal Technology.
Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology |
More about Dr. Cornejo
(10-25-11)
Congratulations again to General Surgery Resident Saif Hassan, MD, whose
manuscript,
Modified
laparoendoscopic gastrostomy tube (LEGT) placement,
has been published in the September 2011 Pediatric Surgery International journal.
More about Dr. Hassan (10-25-11)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Saif Hassan, MD: Dr. Hassan will be presenting his abstract, 'Benefits of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Children with Biliary Dyskinesia', at the 2011 meeting of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons in September 2011. He will also be presenting his abstract, Needle-core versus open biopsy for diagnosis of intermediate and high risk neuroblastoma in children', at the October 2011 meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Boston, Mass. More about Dr. Hassan (8-26-11)
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Agustin Cornejo, MD, whose manuscript,
'The Use of Visible Light Spectroscopy to
Measure Tissue Oxygenation in Free Flap Reconstruction',
has been published in the June 2011 Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery.
Surgery Research Publications | More about Dr. Cornejo
(7-27-11)
Welcome to our Fall 2011 VISSA participants:
Daniel Escobar (left) and Ana Maria Botero (right), both from the Universidad del Valle Medicine
and Surgery in Cali-Colombia, will be here from July through September 2011 to
participate in our Visiting International Students in San Antonio (VISSA)
program. This program, led by Alejandro Jaramillo, MD (center), Plastic & Reconstructive
Surgery, is designed to bring top international senior
medical students to rotate and train in our institution for three months.
More about the VISSA program
(7-25-11)
Announcing our 2011 Chief Residents for the General Surgery Residency Program:
Drs. Brett Solomon, Lauren Buck, Maui Martinez, Carlo Martinez (Chief Administrative Resident),
Kishore Malireddy, Pranjali Gadgil, Prejesh Philips, and Jason Kempenich (Chief Administrative Resident) will serve as
Chief Residents for the next academic year, and graduate the program in June of 2012. Our new chiefs are pictured (right)
after participation in July 2010 in the Ropes Course at the Don Strange Ranch, a rite-of-passage for our rising PGY4 residents.
Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Saif Hassan, MD, whose study,
'Tumor volume to fetal weight ratio as an early prognostic classification for fetal sacrococcygeal
teratoma,'
has been published in the June 2011 Journal of Pediatric Surgery. Surgery Research Publications | More about Dr. Hassan
(6-29-11)
Congratulations to our 2011 Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program graduates - Lillian Liao, MD, MPH; Ronald J. Kembro, DO;
and Daun J. Milligan, MD. The Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is designed
to offer additional training in care of the critically ill patient. Fellows rotate through the two Level One current trauma
centers in San Antonio - University Hospital and Brooke Army Medical Center - incorporating the best elements of each into
their training.
More about the Surgical Critical Care Program
(6-27-11)
Congratulations to our 2011 Plastic Surgery Residency Program graduates, Shiliang Chang, MD, and Son Xuan Nguyen, MD:
(pictured front, center). Also in the photo are, left to right, Richard A. Levine, MD, DDS; Douglas T. Cromack; MD, Howard T. Wang, MD,
Chief of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; Robert C. Lyons, MD, and L. Alejandro Jaramillo, MD.
More about the Plastic Surgery Residency Program
(6-27-11)
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)
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