Dr. Maxwell discusses her JOGS article “Postoperative Opioid Use Is Associated with Increased Rates of Grade B/C Pancreatic Fistula After Distal Pancreatectomy”

JOGS Article Review: Drain Placement after pancreatic resection:  Friend or foe for surgical site infection

Tailoring Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Biologic response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy impacts overall survival in pancreatic cancer.   “Elie Ghabi et al.  J Gastrointestinal Surg 27, 2023

 “Fragmentation of Care in Pancreatic Cancer: Effects on Receipt of Care and Survival” 

SSAT Mentor of the Month Interview January 30, 2023 4 PM EST / 3 PM CST Host: Linda Qu, MD Interviewee: Rebecca Minter, MD Topic: Surgical Culture 1.    Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room, which is that many people – medical students, colleagues in other specialties – still view surgery as having an intimidating, malignant culture, which often influences how they interact with our field. Do you think this view is justified, and if so, what can we do to reform or dispel it? 2.    Leaders set the tone of any workplace. As chair, how do you “brand” your department, specifically as it relates to department culture?  3.    On any team, there will be differing personalities and individual priorities. How do you generate buy-in from faculty towards promoting a healthy culture? Have you ever encountered resistance? 4.    What advice would you give if someone is witness to or the subject of a toxic interaction? As chair, how have you handled these issues? 5.    Culture is set at any level of the totem pole. Trainees often learn habits and behaviors by example of their faculty, but students and residents also learn from each other. How can we coach trainees to themselves lead by example? 6.    In closing – if you can describe the ideal surgical culture in 3 words, what would they be?  

A Tailored Approach to Laparoscopic Fundoplication: Outcomes in Patients with Esophageal Dysmotility

Evaluation of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Surgical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The episode aims to focus on the financial education for residents and fellows as they embark life as new young career surgeons. This webinar will discuss investment strategies, opportunities in innovation, gender disparity in financial compensation, and understand the financial compensation models for surgeons.

Differential Performance of Machine Learning Models in Prediction of Procedure-Specific Outcomes

This month, Drs. Daniel Nelson and Jessica Zaman are joined by Dr. James Ellsmere. In this episode, Dr. Ellsmere talks about the recent article published in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery titled, "Morbid Obesity and Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: Which Should Be Treated First"

In this edition of SSAT Mentor of the Month, Dr. Young K. Hong, a member of the SSAT Resident and Fellow Education Committee, and Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant Director of Surgical Research in the Division of Surgical Oncology of the Department of Surgery at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, NJ, interviews Dr. Jason Hawksworth. Dr. Hawksworth is Chief of Robotic Surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and an experienced, board-certified transplant and minimally invasive hepatobiliary surgeon with additional expertise in liver, kidney, and intestinal transplant surgery. He is the only surgeon in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and one of the few in the country who performs robotic surgery to treat benign and malignant liver, pancreas, and bile duct tumors. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, Dr. Hawksworth has served in three combat tours in Afghanistan on a Forward Surgical Team. He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest Bowman Gray School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He completed his fellowship in hepatobiliary and multi-organ transplant surgery at MedStar Georgetown Hospital. Dr. Hawksworth is an active researcher focused on hepatobiliary surgery outcomes and intestinal transplantation

This month, Drs. Jessica Zaman and Connie Shao are joined by Dr. Phillip Fleshner In this episode, Dr. Fleshner talk about the recent article published in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery titled, "A Single-Center Comparative Study of Open Transabdominal and Laparoscopic Transanal Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis with Total Mesorectal Excision. Has the Bar Been Raised?”