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Surgery Grand Rounds
MONDAY MAY 19, 2008 - THIS DATE ONLY - GRAND ROUNDS 6:30 A.M., M&M 7:30 A.M.
Steven Venticinque, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
Topic: Dynamic intravascular volume responsiveness
More about Grand Rounds | All Surgery Grand Rounds are Mondays at 7:30 a.m. in Room 309L.
Leo Cuello, MD, first chair of cardiothoracic surgery at the UT Health
Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine, passed away early on
Monday, May 12, 2008. Dr. Cuello, who served as the chair of
cardiothoracic surgery from 1966 – 1972, was an accomplished and well-respected physician
and a great friend of San Antonio. He had many great achievements
over his long career, and continued throughout his professional and
personal life as an advocate for his patients. Dr. Cuello will be missed
by the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, as well the rest of the
University and the city he loved. (5-12-08)
Physician and educator shares his love of the art and science of surgery:
Bob Esterl, MD, Surgery Medical School Education Director and Professor of Surgery (Transplant),
is featured in the first edition of the School of Medicine's
Future magazine.
Since 1994, Dr. Esterl has been sharing his experience, knowledge and skills as a transplant surgeon, and has won
numerous teaching awards, many of them awards from the students themselves.
Read article (4-30-08)
Congratulations to Thelma Hurd, MD, Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology,
who has been selected to receive the President's Volunteer Service Award and Congressinoal Awards at the
United Nations General Assembly, New York, in recognition of her service and ongoing work in Nigeria with the
Africa Cancer Prevention Group, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Center for Research on Minority
Health.
More about Dr. Hurd | More about Dr. Hurd's award
(4-30-08)
Congratulations to Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, John Calhoon, MD, who has been chosen as
an Outstanding Physician – one of San Antonio's Health Care Heroes – by the San Antonio Business Journal,
recognizing health care professionals who make a difference in health care in San Antonio.
More about Dr. Calhoon | Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
(4-23-08)
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Congratulations once again to General Surgery research resident Francis Ali-Osman, MD, who has been awarded
1st place in the resident competition of the Department of Medicine 11th Annual Research Day. (5-14-08)
Congratulations to General Surgery research resident Francis Ali-Osman, MD, whose abstract, 'Lentiviral Mediated Genetic Downregulation of Murine CCR2', was accepted for poster presentation for the UTHSCSA 11th Annual Department of Medicine Research Day, May 13, 2008. (5-07-08)
Congratulations to General Surgery research resident Susannah Nicholson, MD, whose abstract,
'Heme derived iron reduces wound thickness,' has been accepted for
presentation at the October 2008 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress
Surgical Forum in San Francisco, CA. (4-29-08)
Congratulations to General Surgery resident Shaun Gifford, MD, who has been invited to present
the keynote address to the
International Surgical Congress of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in
May 2008, in Bournemouth, UK. Dr. Gifford's keynote address topic:
'Damage control adjunts in the setting of wartime vascular injury: U.S. persective.'
Dr. Gifford will also be presenting 'A porcine model of ischemia- reperfusion using temporary vascular shunts: the
impact of early versus late shunt placement' at the May 2008 Rochester Vascular Conference in Rochester, NY.
(4-23-08)
Congratulations to the medical students who have been selected to receive summer research stipends for research projects with Department of Surgery faculty mentors. Summer research stipends are funded through the Medical Dean's Office, and are awarded each year to support medical students engaged in summer research with HSC faculty. Read more about the 2008 Summer Research Stipends. (4-17-08)
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Congratulations to Michael Corneille, MD, Assistant Professor, Trauma,
who has been awarded a $50k American Association for the Surgery of Trauma / KCI
Research and Education scholarship, which will be awarded to him at the September 2008 AAST
annual meeting in Hawaii. More about Dr. Corneille (4-29-08)
Congratulations to General Surgery research resident Shaun Gifford, MD, who has been awarded $102k in
funding by the Office of Biomedical Research, Surgeon General of the Air Force, for his project,
'Global War on Terror (GWOT)
Vascular Injury Initiative'. More about Dr. Gifford (4-24-08)
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Hispanics between the ages of 1 and 44. Lizette
Villarreal, coordinator of the Madrina-Padrino Traffic Safety Project, discusses issues of Hispanic traffic
safety at a press conference in Laredo, TX.
Read HSC News article |
More about Surgery injury prevention research programs
(4-11-08)
Recent research awards | Faculty Funding Opportunities | Research Residents Funding Opportunities
San Antonio Critical Care Society:
Tuesday May 20, 2008 - Reception and Dinner Meeting
Guest speaker: James Fortenberry, MD, Assoc Prof, Pediatrics, Emory University
School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Topic: ECMO: Useful for Young and Old? |
More about this meeting, and more information about SACCS
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J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society Annual Meeting, June 19-21, 2008
For more information, please email Ana Guerrero or
call her at 210-567-3623.
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SURGERY TUMOR CONFERENCE CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
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City-Wide Thoracic Grand Rounds:
Schedule | City-Wide Thoracic Grand Rounds are on Thursdays,
4:30 pm, in Room 309-310L in the School of Medicine. CME-accredited for physicians. |
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Topic: Update on Endovascular Aortic Surgery
V. Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA/ Assistant Professor,
Director, Emerging Technology & Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio |
More about Dr. Reddy
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Topic: Case Presentation
Truc Ly, MD, Senior Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
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Transplant Grand Rounds:
More about Transplant Grand Rounds |
All Transplant Grand Rounds are Fridays at 8 a.m. in Room 444B.
Friday May 16, 2008
Topic: Long-term follow-up of kidney donors: what we know, what we don't know, what
we should know
Robert Gaston, MD, Professor of Medicine / Nephrology and Medical Director, Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation
University of Alabama - Birmingham | More about Dr. Gaston
Friday May 23, 2008
Topic: M&M
Greg Abrahamian, MD, Assistant Professor, The Transplant Center
UT Health Science Center San Antonio | More about Dr. Abrahamian
Martin G. Schwacha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Trauma Research - Dr. Schwacha joins us in May 2008 from the
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Surgical Research.
He received his PhD from Albany
Medical College, Albany NY in 1992. Postdoctoral studies in immunology
were completed at the Gamble Institute, Cincinnati, OH and Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA. In 1997 he joined the Surgery faculty at
Brown University, Providence, RI.
Dr. Schwacha's research has been presented at numerous scientific
meetings and he is a member of the Shock Journal editorial board as well
as an ad hoc reviewer for other professional journals. Read more about Dr. Schwacha (4-08-08)
Elizabeth J. Tracy, MSN, Faculty Associate / Division Administrator, Trauma -
Elizabeth earned her Associate Degree in Nursing from Austin Community College in
1992. While working as an Emergency Nurse, she returned to school,
earning her BSN in 2001, and her MSN in Administration in
Community & Health Care Systems in Nursing in 2004, both from UTHSCSA.
Before joining the Trauma Division here, she spent the previous three years as
the Trauma Program Manager at Brooke Army Medical Center. Read more
about Elizabeth Tracy, MSN (4-08-08)
Guiming Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Vascular Research - Dr. Li joined Surgery in
April 2008, as an
Assistant Professor in the division of Vascular Surgery. He received his Master's
Degree in Forensic Medicine from Shanxi Medical University, China, in 1988. In 2005, he
did a research internship at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado.
He completed his research fellowship here at the Health Science Center from 2005 to 2008.
Read more about Dr. Li (4-08-08)
Moore FA, Nelson T, McKinley BA, Moore EE, Nathens AB, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Beilman GJ, Cohn SM; StO2 Study Group. Massive transfusion in trauma patients: tissue hemoglobin oxygen saturation predicts poor outcome. J Trauma. 2008 Apr;64(4):1010-23.
Johnson RA, Johnson FK. Heme oxygenase-derived endogenous carbon monoxide impairs flow-induced dilation in resistance vessels. (Epub ahead of print) SHOCK, Vol.29, No.4, pp.526-530, 2008.
Greenberg CC, Diaz-Flores R, Lipsitz SR, Regenbogen SE, Mulholland L, Mearn F, Rao S, Toidze T, Gawande AA. Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Surg. 2008 Apr;247(4):612-616.
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Surgery's Employee of the Month for April 2008:
Congratulations to Clint Thane, LAN Manager, Surgical Informatics and Networking Group, on
selection as the Surgery Employee
of the Month. Read more ...
