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“Safer Surgery Today, Better Surgery Tomorrow”

The Surgical Scope

Issue 9 www.surgery.northwestern.edu September 2014

A newsletter for the faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the Department of Surgery

Welcome to the 2014 version of the annual Department of

Surgery newsletter! I am excited to share news of note

from the department and from Northwestern Medicine.

The institution is definitely on a roll with an upward tra‐

jectory that makes it fun to come to work every day.

From an institutional standpoint, we are now 1 year into

the creation of a new health system following integration

of the full‐time academic faculty into the clinical health

system. Northwestern Memorial Hospital again was listed

on the Honor Roll of hospitals by U.S. News and World

Report, ranking 10th nationally. The physicians’ organization—Northwestern Medical

Group—has markedly improved access to our system, opening a number of outpatient cen‐

ters and acute care facilities. Our ability to broaden our clinical accessibility to Chicagoland

will be further enhanced by a merger with Cadence Healthcare, a 2‐hospital system in the

southwestern suburbs. This merger will almost double Northwestern Memorial Health‐

care’s (NMHC) clinical volume, with the recognition that increasing size for a medical or‐

ganization is a necessity in the current healthcare climate. Likewise, Dr. Michael Abecassis,

Chief of Transplant Surgery, is working with NMHC to develop ‘value‐based’ insurance

products to get ahead of the expected transformation of health care delivery.

Our core clinical and research facilities also continue to be enhanced. We will break ground

this fall on the new hospital that will replace Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital’s

current facility in the northern suburbs. In Streeterville, the new outpatient care pavilion at

259 E. Erie Ave. is scheduled to open in October. This 1 million square foot facility, which

sits on more than one acre of land, will significantly increase outpatient capacity here at the

‘mother ship’ and will be the primary site of our musculoskeletal program. The new facility

includes 8 new outpatient operating rooms opening immediately and another 8 O.R.s to be

operational in the ensuing 18 months. Meanwhile, the old Prentice Women’s Hospital

building, the source of much local architectural controversy, is in the final stages of demoli‐

tion to make room for a new basic science research building.

In the Department of Surgery, our faculty and staff continue their great work in furthering

the mission of the department—“Safer surgery today, better surgery tomorrow”. From a

clinical standpoint, we have successfully initiated a lung transplant program following the

recruitment of Dr. Ankit Bharat from Washington University. Along with G.I. medicine, we

have formed the Digestive Health Center, a true multidisciplinary center for the manage‐

ment of G.I. diseases. The center is co‐directed by Dr. Steve Hanauer and me. Steve was

recently recruited from the University of Chicago to head up the IBD program, and we are

currently recruiting a senior colorectal surgeon to partner with him and fully develop this

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

NEWSNEWS

04 New Lung Transplant Program

05 50 years of Organ Transplantation

06 Best Hospitals Honor Roll

Surgical Resident Service Trip

07 In Memoriam

08 New Faculty and Promotions

EVENTSEVENTS

09‐10 Edelstone‐Bendix Resident’s Day

11 2013 ACS Annual Conference

Named Lectureship Speakers

RESEARCH & GRANTSRESEARCH & GRANTS

12 Department Research Updates

13‐16 Newly Funded Projects

17‐18 EDUCATION UPDATESEDUCATION UPDATES

19‐29 DIVISION UPDATESDIVISION UPDATES

30‐32 AFFILIATE UPDATESAFFILIATE UPDATES

33 DoS PARTNER UPDATESDoS PARTNER UPDATES

Philanthropy

Information Services

34‐50 FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTSFACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

51 UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

Message from the Chair: Message from the Chair:

Nathaniel J. Soper, MDNathaniel J. Soper, MD

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Continued...Message from the Chair: Nathaniel J. Soper, MD

area of clinical and academic endeavor. Dr. Karl Bilimoria, the director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center,

recently was awarded significant research funding from Blue Cross‐Blue Shield to set up a cooperative of Illinois hospitals to improve

their surgical quality. He is also the principal investigator of a project to assess the effect of general surgery duty hour limitations on

quality of surgical care delivered around the United States.

Multiple faculty in the department obtained new research funding, as detailed in the research report summarized by our Vice‐Chair

of Research, Dr. Melina Kibbe. Dr. Kibbe was recently appointed Editor‐in‐Chief of JAMA Surgery beginning January 1, 2015. In this

role she will have a major impact on the quality of surgical publications in the coming years. Under her watch, the department con‐

tinues to be ranked in the top 15 surgery departments for NIH funding. Given the federal funding climate, this ongoing level of re‐

search productivity is a tribute to the hard work by so many faculty and staff.

The surgical education program, both graduate and undergraduate, has been a national leader for years. Our team recently devel‐

oped, and published, a new program for rapidly assigning a measure of trainee autonomy immediately following surgical procedures.

The PASS program (Procedural Autonomy and Supervision System) has been shown to be a valid measure of trainee independence

during operations at our institution and will be undergoing beta testing at several other residency programs over the next few years.

Sadly, our long‐time Vice‐Chair for Education, Debra DaRosa Ph.D., retired in May, but will remain an emeritus professor at North‐

western. Dr. Jonathan Fryer will replace Dr. DaRosa as Vice‐Chair for Education and Shari Meyerson will take Dr. Fryer’s place as

Program Director for the General Surgery residency (as well as Program Director for the Cardiothoracic Residency). Dr. Nabil Issa

was appointed as an Associate Program Director for the General Surgery residency and Dr. Jeffrey Wayne will continue in his role as

an Associate Program Director for the General Surgery residency. Our surgical residency graduates from last year all entered excel‐

lent postgraduate specialty fellowships and will undoubtedly serve as Northwestern emissaries in future years.

Finally, we enjoyed the presence of a number of visiting professors over the past year who helped enlighten us while assuring we are

not inwardly focused. Bruce Gewertz gave the Ujiki Surgical Education lectureship, Julie Freischlag the Harold Method lectureship,

Selwyn Vickers the Loyal Davis lectureship, Carlos Pellegrini the Charles Mayo lectureship, and David Sugarbaker the Thomas

Shields lectureship. Many thanks go to these surgical leaders for sharing their time and wisdom with our faculty and residents.

Please peruse the entire newsletter for details of these highlights and many other aspects of our surgical program. You will appreciate

the significant progress our faculty, staff and trainees are making towards advancing academic surgery in the 21st century.

Respectfully yours,

Nathaniel J. Soper, M.D., FACS

Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chair

Department of Surgery

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

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Northwestern Medicine Launches New Lung Transplant Program

Northwestern Medicine is proud to announce the inauguration of our newly developed Lung Transplant Program.

This program will join our already established Advanced Lung Disease Program. Together, these programs offer a

multidisciplinary approach to the patient with advanced lung disease that will provide patients with state‐of‐the‐art

care and comprehensive support for their lung disease.

Northwestern Medicine has successfully recruited two new lung transplant faculty to lead this new effort.

Sangeeta Bhorade, MD, Medical Director of the Lung Transplant Program, and Ankit Bharat, MD, Surgical Direc‐

tor of the Lung Transplant Program, have joined the existing faculty and have already performed two lung trans‐

plants at Northwestern. Dr. Bhorade has over 15 years of experience in lung transplantation and has done extensive

research regarding optimization of immunosuppression specifically for the lung transplant patient. As Surgical Di‐

rector, Dr. Bharat will head up the surgical components of the program. He is well published on the topics of al‐

lograft dysfunction, autoimmunity, and alloimmunity. At Northwestern, he will also pursue research focused on a

mouse model of lung transplantation for lung preservation, transplant, immunology, and airway biology.

Lung transplantation has been shown to improve survival in carefully selected patients with advanced lung disease.

The 1‐year survival is greater than 80 percent with over 50 percent of patients surviving beyond 5 years. Any patient

with advanced lung disease that has failed standard medical therapy may be a candidate for lung transplantation.

Faculty from both the Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery Divisions at Northwestern will work together to provide

these patients with a treatment plan that includes novel therapies, clinical trials, as well as consideration for lung

transplantation. With this in mind, Northwestern Medicine's Lung Transplant program is committed to providing a

thorough patient evaluation and development of a plan of care in collaboration with the referring physicians. Our

team will be happy to see any patient with advanced lung disease including (but not limited to) the following

diagnoses:

Emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Interstitial lung disease including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary hypertension Rare lung diseases including Alpha‐1 antitrypsin deficiency and Sarcoidosis. Adult cystic fibrosis Bronchiectasis

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY NEWSNEWS

Left to right: Sangeeta Bhorade, MD; Malcolm DeCamp, MD; Ankit Bharat, MD

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Northwestern performed its first kidney

transplant in February 1964. For the first time

in history, Northwestern University scientists

collaborated with a clinical team from North‐

western Memorial Hospitals’ predecessor in‐

stitutions, Wesley and Passavant Memorial

Hospitals. This event heralded the develop‐

ment of Northwestern Medicine’s current transplant

program.

To commemorate the patients, donors, families, doctors, re‐

searchers, nurses, social workers and other clinicians who

participated in the first 50 years of our journey, the North‐

western Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC)

launched a campaign to invest in our vision for the future.

This vision means focusing our attention on helping the body

heal itself. We will

achieve this vision by

bioengineering healthy

organs and tissues and

creating novel therapies

to improve patients’

tolerance for new cells,

tissues and organs

throughout their lives.

As part of this very special year, we hosted two open advisory

meetings that brought over 250 patients and their families

together with transplant program team members and a

dinner for high‐

end donors and prospects with Nobel Prize winner Al Roth.

The capstone event, a celebratory brunch, was held on April

6th. Over 500 transplant recipients, organ donors, families of

recipients and donors, referring physicians and transplant

program faculty and staff were in attendance to hear com‐

ments from David Plummer from ABC Channel 7, Jesse

White, Illinois’ Secretary of State, Daniel Dickinson, Chair of

the Transplant Village, and Dr. Michael Abecassis. Before

and after the brunch, attendees were able to view posters

highlight‐

ing CTC

research

projects

and discuss

these initia‐

tives with

the investi‐

gators. At‐

tendees were

invited to

sign personal messages of gratitude on a piece of artwork,

which was unveiled in June and hung in the Transplant

Patient Education Room.

Overall, the 50th Anniversary Celebration has been a suc‐

cess. Recipients, donors and their families have shown their

support as the number of donors and gifts quadrupled and

annual giving increased 110%. These generous gifts will en‐

able the CTC to continue to be the place where tomorrows

begin.

Celebrating 50 years of Organ Transplantation at Northwestern


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Northwestern proud to rank in Top 10 of US News’ Best Hospitals Honor Roll

Both Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Lake For‐

est hospital are proud to again be recognized as part of the US News

and World Report ranking of America’s Best Hospitals. Northwest‐

ern Memorial Hospital was ranked 10th in the nation and earned a

spot on the national Best Hospitals 2014‐2015 Honor Roll—ranking

nationally in 13 specialties including Cardiology & Heart Surgery and

Gastroenterology & GI Surgery. Northwestern Memorial was ranked

in all but two of the 16 specialties evaluated, and in nine categories

received a ranking of 15th or higher. Additionally, Northwestern

Memorial Hospital was ranked as No. 1 in Illinois and Chicago for

the third year in a row.

Surgical resident completes service trip to Guatemala

In March 2014, I was honored to accompany Drs. Wilson Hartz and Mark Toyama from Northwestern Surgical Associates on a

week‐long surgical mission trip to Retalhuleu, Guatemala. This mission was organized through Faith in Practice, a non‐profit that

has been making trips to Guatemala since 1991. Dr. Hartz has been involved with Faith in Practice for the last 8 years. He has led

multiple Faith in Practice surgical missions and taken along several Northwestern General Surgery residents in the

past. Throughout our week in Retalhuleu, our team performed a total of 55 operations and 70 dental procedures. The surgical

operations performed ranged from pediatric hernia repairs to cholecystectomies to hysterectomies. This was accomplished by the

hard work of all the team members including anesthesiologists and CRNAs, OR nurses, pre and post‐op nurses who made the trip

to Guatemala. Our patients are profoundly underserved by the Guatemalan medical system, so many of our patients had been

waiting months or even years to have their operations. I was continually struck by how grateful the Guatemalan patients and

their families were for the Faith in Practice team. They waited hours to be seen by the team on our triage day without a single

complaint. Many of the patients traveled long distances away from their families in order to have surgery with the Faith in Prac‐

tice team.

Overall, this surgical mission trip to Guatemala was a wonderful experience for me as a surgical resident. It gave me the opportu‐

nity to provide care to a woefully underserved population. It is easy to forget how good the US medical system is in comparison.

The Guatemalan patients make do with so much less in terms of access to basic and specialized medical care. This trip really rein‐

forced why I became a physician and I am grateful I had the opportunity to participate in the mission. I believe it is our duty as

physicians and surgeons to provide surgical care not just to US patients, but to those abroad as well. I hope to work on similar

surgical mission trips in the future and would encourage both residents and attending surgeons to get involved.

Jill Streams, MD

Vascular Surgery Resident


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In Memoriam

John J. Bergan, MD, a pioneering

vascular surgeon and the first

Chief of the Division of Vascular

Surgery at Northwestern, died on

June 11, 2014. Dr. Bergan’s illustri‐

ous career spanned more than 50

years. He completed his residency

at Chicago Wesley Memorial Hos‐

pital in 1959 and began his medi‐

cal career as a clinical assistant in

surgery at Northwestern University Medical School. He rose

through the ranks at Northwestern and served as the chief of

the Division of Transplantation at Northwestern University

Medical School from 1969 to 1976. When the Division of

Vascular Surgery was formed in 1976, Dr. Bergan was ap‐

pointed as the first division chief (1976‐1988). Along with

Dr. James Yao, Dr. Bergan established one of the earliest

clinical vascular fellowship programs in 1976 at Northwest‐

ern. This fellowship program was the genesis for many fu‐

ture leaders of vascular surgery. In 1989, Dr. Bergan left

Northwestern for southern California where he concentrated

on developing clinical and basic research in venous disease.

Dr. Bergan was instrumental in founding and developing

many new societies and publications, including Midwestern

Vascular Surgical Society. He also participated in the devel‐

opment of many practice guidelines including a method for

data retrieval using computer programming and guidelines

for venous disease diagnosis and treatment. He served as

president of numerous societies, including the Society for

Vascular Surgery, the American Venous Forum, American

Venous Forum Foundation, Midwestern Vascular Surgical

Society, European‐American Venous Symposium, Gulf Coast

Vascular Society, Chicago Surgical Society, Lymphedema

Association of North America, and Southern California Vas‐

cular Surgical Society.

In his career, he authored and co‐authored more than 750

publications, including peer‐reviewed journal articles, scien‐

tific reports, editorials, and book chapters, as well as editing

over 35 books. He was invited to speak to professional audi‐

ences all over the world and received numerous national and

international honors and awards, including the Rovsing Sil‐

ver Medal from the Danish Surgical Society, Honorary Fel‐

lowship in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the

Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society

for Endovascular Surgery.

Dr. Bergan was a world renowned leader and contributor to

the field of Vascular Surgery. He was a prolific scholar, tire‐

less investigator, eloquent speaker, and dedicated educa‐

tor. When asked what was the most rewarding experience

in his long, successful career, Dr. Bergan responded “to

teach”. We are truly grateful for all that he has contributed

and he will be sorely missed.

Victor Tsirline, MD, assistant pro‐

fessor of Surgery‐Gastrointestinal

and Endocrine, died on November

23, 2013. Tsirline, 35, arrived in July

2012 following a Minimally Invasive

Surgery fellowship at the Carolinas

Medical Center. He earned his MD

at Rush University Medical Center

in 2004.

He also held a master’s degree in

computational neuroscience from Northwestern, the same

university where he completed his bachelor’s degrees in bio‐

medical engineering and computer science, graduating

magna cum laude. Tsirline’s peer‐reviewed work has been

published as book chapters and in journals such as Annals of

Surgery and he has presented to the American College of

Surgeons, the Academic Surgical Congress and the American

Hernia Society on a variety of topics.

“Victor had a great sense of humor, was very self‐deprecating

and always got along well with his patients and peers,” said

Nathaniel Soper, MD, chair of Surgery. “He had quite a

unique skills set. He was a technically gifted surgeon with

fellowship training in advanced minimally invasive surgery

and was also a ‘techno geek’, in that he was an expert in in‐

formation technology.”

“He was a talented surgeon who contributed greatly to our

surgical team in Lake Forest with his minimally invasive sur‐

gical expertise,” said Thomas McAfee, president of North‐

western Lake Forest Hospital. “His clinical excellence and

aspirations exemplified our vision for the Northwestern

Medicine health system.”


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Anthony D. Yang, MD received his under‐

graduate Bachelor of Science degree from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and

then completed his medical degree at the

Northwestern University Feinberg School of

Medicine in 2002. He stayed on at McGaw

and completed his residency General Surgery

in 2009. He spent 2 years during his resi‐

dency at the University of Texas MD Ander‐

son Cancer Center as a research fellow in Cancer Biology and then

returned to MD Anderson as a Surgical Oncology fellow from 2009‐

2011. He spent the last 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Sur‐

gery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the UC Davis Medical

Center in Sacramento, California.

Dr. Yang’s clinical interests include treatment of pancreatic, hepato‐

biliary, and other upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies; endocrine

surgery, including benign and malignant thyroid diseases; and neuro‐

endocrine tumors. Dr. Yang’s research interests are related to health

services/clinical outcomes, healthcare quality, and patient safety, par‐

ticularly in surgical patients.

New Full‐Time Faculty

Felicitas Koller, MD graduated medical

school from the University of Texas Medical

Branch at Galveston in 2005. She completed

a residency in general surgery at Vanderbilt

University Medical Center in 2012, followed

by a fellowship in abdominal transplant

surgery at Northwestern in 2014. Dr. Koller

was appointed as Assistant Professor of Sur‐

gery in July 2014.

Dr. Koller's clinical interests include kidney, pancreas and liver trans‐

plant as well as permanent dialysis access. Her training included large

exposure to living donation as well. Currently, Dr. Koller is studying

the impact of multi‐drug resistant organisms in donor derived infec‐

tions. She is also passionate about surgical education and looks for‐

ward to working with and teaching fellows, residents and medical stu‐

dents.

Faculty Promotions

Welcome! Katherine Barsness, MD MS was promoted

to Associate Professor of Surgery of the full‐

time faculty of Feinberg School of Medicine at

Northwestern University.

Anthony Chin, MD was promoted to Associate

Professor of Surgery of the full‐time faculty of

Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern

University.

Mary Beth Madonna, MD was promoted to

Associate Professor of Surgery of the full‐time

faculty of Feinberg School of Medicine at


Jeffrey Fronza, MD was promoted to Assistant



University.

Robert Galiano, MD was promoted to Associate



University.

Juan Carlos Caicedo, MD was promoted to

Associate Professor of Surgery of the full‐

time faculty of Feinberg School of Medicine at


Daniela Ladner, MD MPH was promoted to




Anton Skaro, MD PhD was promoted to




Nabil Issa, MD was promoted to Associate



University.


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2014 Edelstone‐Bendix Resident’s Day

The 2014 Edelstone‐Bendix Residents’ Research Day was held on Friday, June 20th, 2014. This annual event featured presentations by residents and fellows, showcasing their outstanding work in both clinical and basic science research. The visiting professor this year was Nancy Ascher, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF. Dr. Ascher also served as a guest judge for the chief resident research presentations. Edelstone‐Bendix Day concluded with the graduation dinner and awards ceremony which was held at the Ritz Carlton hotel where members of the Department’s faculty, fellows and residents gathered to honor our graduates.

We congratulate the following 2014 Department of Surgery graduates who were recognized at the Edelstone‐Bendix Day awards ceremony: Breast Surgery: Amanda Amin, MD; Anna Higham, MD Pediatric Surgery: Eric Grossman, MD Pediatric Surgical Critical Care: Christopher Davis, MD Transplant Surgery: Jorge Almario, MD; Felicitas Koller, MD Trauma / Critical Care Surgery: Robert Bertellotti, MD; Jonathan Gale, MD Vascular Surgery: Hari Kumar, MD; Ashley Vavra, MD General Surgery : Geoffrey Chow, MD; Ashley Hardy, MD; Jessica Naiditch, MD; (pictured below) Joseph Phillips, MD; Akhil Seth, MD

A number of awards were presented to fellows and residents for outstanding performance. The 2014 Alan B. Kanaval Surgical Scholar Award is awarded for exceptional accomplishments achieved in the research laboratory. This year’s awardee was Karen Sherman, MD, who was given the opportunity to present her research and who was also awarded a monetary prize. There were three open competitions for excellence in research. The winners presented their research and were awarded a mone‐

tary prize for winning in their respective categories:

Fellow Open Competition: Emily Cassidy, M.D.

Resident Basic Science Research Competition: Jill Streams, M.D.

Resident Clinical Research Competition: Ezra Teitelbaum, M.D.

The chief resident presentation award, which is based on the graduating general surgery residents’ Edelstone‐Bendix Residents’ Day presentations, was awarded to Joe Phillips, M.D. Joe was also awarded a monetary prize for his winning presentation.

From left to right:

Nathaniel Soper, MD

Akhil Seth, MD

Ashley Hardy, MD

Jessica Naiditch, MD

Joseph Phillips, MD

Geoffrey Chow, MD

Shari Meyerson, MD

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY EVENTSEVENTS

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2014 Edelstone‐Bendix Resident’s Day continued

Fellow as Teacher and Resident as Teacher awards are bestowed on those Department of Surgery trainees who meet a series of eligibility criteria. Awardees are regarded as excellent role models, clinicians and learners to their peers, students, and other health professionals. They are noted to make teaching a purposeful activity in their daily efforts and reliably participated in Department of Surgery education‐related activities and reporting systems.

The following individuals were recipients of the 2014

Resident as Teacher Award:

Jeffrey Pearl, MD PGY‐1 Preliminary Surgery Danielle Smith, MD PGY‐3 Thoracic Surgery Molly Wasserman, MD PGY‐3 General Surgery Dustin Yoon, MD PGY‐3 Vascular Surgery Jennifer Cheesborough, MD PGY‐4 Plastic Surgery Bill Luo, MD PGY‐4 General Surgery Jessica Naiditch, MD PGY‐5 General Surgery Akhil Seth, MD PGY‐5 General Surgery Elliot Hirsch, MD PGY‐6 Plastic Surgery

The following individuals were recipients of the 2014

Fellow as Teacher Award:

Attasit Chokechanachaisakul, MD Transplant Surgery Felicitas Koller, MD Transplant Surgery Eric Grossman, MD Pediatric Surgery Tim Lautz, MD Pediatric Surgery Jonathan Gale, MD Trauma/Critical Care Surgery

Tad Tomita, MD Vascular Surgery Hari Kumar, MD Vascular Surgery Ashley Vavra, MD Vascular Surgery

We wish a warm welcome to the new residents

and fellows of the Department of Surgery:

Deborah Farr, & Jilma Patrick Breast Surgery Jennifer Higgins, Stephane Leung, Jota Nakano & Michael Yamashita Cardiac Surgery Raelene Kennedy & Nicole Siparsky Trauma/Critical Care Surgery Ryan Campagna, Edmund Chen, Christopher Davis, Ryan Ellis, Frances Tangherlini & Mimi Wu General Surgery Sifrance Tran Pediatric Surgery Lynn Model Pediatric Surgery Critical Care Lauren Mioton & Sergey Turin Plastic Surgery Mohammed Ahmed, Ali Ansary, Najib El Tecle, John Georgy, Jennifer Krall, Ban Lee & Ben Toren Preliminary Surgery Erberto Michel & Payne Stanifer Thoracic Surgery Cesar Escareno & Thomas Gallagher Transplant Surgery Katie Hekman Vascular Surgery

The two 2013‐2014 General Surgery Administrative Chief Residents were

presented with an award for their leadership and commitment to the gen‐

eral surgery residents.

Drs. Joe Phillips (right)

and Akhil Seth (left)

received engraved crys‐

tal awards in recognition

of their hard work and

dedication. Pictured

with Dr. Jonathan Fryer.

The Harold L. Method Award is presented to the general surgery chief

resident who exhibits “outstanding performance for surgical skill, empathy,

and understanding towards patients, and for dedication to their care.” The

recipient of this honor is

also awarded a cash prize

and will have their name

engraved on a plaque with

all previous winners, which

is displayed in the Depart‐

ment of Surgery adminis‐

trative suite. This year the

recipient of the Method

Award was Jessica Naiditch,

MD (pictured here with Dr.

Nathaniel Soper).


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2013 ACS Annual Conference

After a little consternation over reception room requirements, the Joint Chicago Reception was re‐located in a lobby‐like area of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Our reception was the “hot ticket” of the evening and we had our

largest turnout ever at just over 180 attendees! Old friends and new acquaintances joined us from faculty, alumni, residents and guests repre‐senting Northwestern Medicine, the University of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center, Loyola University Health System and UIC/Metropolitan Group Hospitals.

SAVE THE DATE: The upcoming 100th American College of Surgeons Meeting takes place this October and we look for‐ward to seeing everyone again. Our joint reception

will be held on Monday, October 27th, 2014, from 6pm to 8pm, at the Hilton

San Francisco, Continental Ballroom 6.

2013 –2014 Named Lectureship Visiting Professors

Julie Freischlag, MD

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Harold Method Lectureship: “Clinical and Personal

Comparative Effectiveness”

Selwyn Vickers, MD

University of Alabama‐Birmingham

Loyal Davis Lectureship: “Developing Novel Therapy for

Pancreatic Cancer”

Carlos Pellegrini, MD

University of Washington

Mayo Lectureship: “Surgery, Life, and the Pursuit

of Happiness”

Bruce Gewertz, MD

Cedars‐Sinai Health System

Gerald Ujiki Education Grand Rounds & Teaching Awards:

“Lessons learned—Sustaining fulfillment in life and work”

David Sugarbaker, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Shields Lectureship: “Mesothelioma Progress

Toward a Cure”

William Flinn, MD

University of Maryland

Bergan Lectureship: “I’ve Heard So Much About You”: John Bergan and the Northwestern

Vascular fellowship


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Department Research Updates

The Department of Surgery has had a very productive re‐

search year in 2014. From September 2013 through June 2014

we submitted 116 proposals with an estimated value of al‐

most $73M. Amongst the proposals submitted, 41 were fed‐

eral, with an estimated value of almost $58M, and 75 were

non‐Federal, with an estimated direct value of $15M.

In terms of awards, 89 projects have been awarded from Sep‐

tember 2013 through June 2014 with a total value of over

$17M. This is over a 10% increase in award dollars from

where we were this time in FY13. Of the $17M awarded, we

received over $12.6M in new awards.

The Department of Surgery at Northwestern has once again

earned a top 20 slot in NIH rankings this past year. Coming

in at number 14, we have matched our all‐time high NIH

ranking score.

As part of Edelstone‐Bendix Day, awards were given to the

following residents.

Emily Cassidy, Fellow Research Award

Jill Streams, Resident Basic Science Award

Ezra Teitelbaum, Resident Clinical Research Award

Joe Phillips, Best Chief Resident Presentation

Karen Sherman, Kanaval Surgical Scholar Award

Jessica Naiditch, Method Award

NIH Rankings of Local AMC Surgery Departments

New Faculty

The newest research faculty members in the Department of Surgery have had a busy and pro‐

ductive year as well. Dr. Ankit Bharat received awards from both the AAST and Gift of Hope

this year in addition to submitting an NIH K08 proposal through the NHLBI. Dr. Karen Ho

has focused her research on how the gut microbiome impacts the vasculature and is gearing

up to submit an NIH K08 this upcoming year. Dr. Susan Clare submitted a sizable proposal

to the Dept. of Defense and is gearing up to submit an NIH R01 later this year.

New NIH Awards

The following Department of Surgery faculty members

have received new NIH awards during FY14.

William Pearce/Melina Kibbe: T32 Renewal Melina Kibbe/Sam Stupp: R01 Jason Wertheim: K08 Michael Abecassis: R01 Ramille Shah: K01

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY RESEARCH & GRANTSRESEARCH & GRANTS

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Newly Funded Projects

PI Title Origin Agency Start Date End Date Total Award

Khan The Humanized Mouse Mammary Fat Pad for Testing Breast Cancer Prevention Drugs NMF 9/1/2013 8/31/2014 $50,000.00

ClareDelivery of Nano‐Tethered Therapies to Brain Metastases of Primary Breast Cancer Using

a Cellular Trojan HorseUS Army 9/15/2013 9/14/2014 $141,168.00

Clare Development of a Molecular Encyclopedia of the Normal Human BreastBCRF (via Indiana

University)7/1/2013 9/30/2013 $18,419.00

Jeruss Impact of Pin1 and CDK Inhibition in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Migration NMF 9/1/2013 8/31/2014 $50,000.00

Jeruss Impact of CDK Inhibitor Therapy in Triple Negative Breast CancerA Sister's Hope.

Inc11/5/2013 12/31/2014 $25,000.00

Khan Development of Anti‐Progesterone Drugs for breast cancer PreventionRepros

Therapeutics Inc.10/1/2013 9/30/2016 $96,956.04

BREAST SURGERY


DumanianTargeted Reinnervation as a means to treat Neuromas associated with major limb

amputation

U.S. Army

Medical Research

and Materiel

Command

9/30/2013 9/29/2014 $666,387.00

Galiano In‐vivo functional muscle regeneration utiling an implantable modular bioreactor

US Army Medical

Research and

Materiel

Command

1/1/2014 12/31/2014 $282,050.00

Mustoe AFIRM II: Locally applied statins to reduce scarring

U.S. Army

Medical Research

and Materiel

Command (wake

Forest)

9/22/2013 9/22/2014 $209,403.00

Galiano

A Prospective, Randomized, Multi‐Center Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of th eVAC

Ulta Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Syste with VAC VeraFlo Dressing System in

Operatively Debrided Wounds

KCI USA, Inc 9/4/2013 9/4/2016 $314,919.99

GalianoA Phase 2, Randomized, Double‐Blind, Within‐Subject, Placebo‐Controlled Study to

Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of PF‐06473871 in Reducing Hypertrophic Skin Scarring

Pfizer Inc (via

Pharaceutical

Research

Associates)

7/18/2013 7/18/2016 $379,032.00

Hong Effect of the KLOX Biophonics system on wound healingKLOX

Technologies, Inc.11/27/2013 11/27/2016 101,510.42$

Hong Effect of SOD Mimetics on Wound Healing and Hypertrophic ScarringGalera

Therapeutics, Inc.12/9/2013 12/9/2016 92,902.00$

Hong Development of promiR‐29 to Prevent Hypertrophic ScarringmiRagen

Therapeutics, Inc.11/25/2013 5/24/2014 66,351.00$

Galiano

A Multi‐Center, Prospective, Randomized, Double‐Blind, Within‐Subject Controlled, Phase

2a Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of RXI‐109 on the Outcome of Scar

Revision Surgery on Transverse Hypertrophic Scars on the Lower Abdomen Resulting from

Previous

Rxi

Pharmaceuticals

Corporation

11/27/2013 11/27/2016 $197,123.99

HongEffectiveness of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy with a novel photosensitizer RLP068

against biofilms in vivo in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm rabbit ear wound model

Molteni

Therapeutics s.r.l.8/6/2013 5/31/2014 $135,658.00

Hong The Effect of BRL5990 on Ischemic WoundsBayer Pharma

Inc.4/10/2014 4/10/2017 $133,709.79

Galiano

A Retrospective, Multi‐center study evaluating the outcomes for INTEGRA Skin Sheet

Bilayer or Single Layer Products Used in Complex Lower Extremity Soft Tissue

Reconstruction

Integra

LifeSciences

Corporation

3/20/2014 3/20/2017 $41,334.99

PLASTIC SURGERY


14



Shah Multifunctional Printed Scaffolds for Enhancing Hepatocyte Viability and Function NIDDKD 9/13/2013 7/31/2014 $130,325.00

WertheimA micro‐sized bioscaffold derived from kidney extracellular matrix tissue to evaluate renal

progenitor cell differentiation for tissue engineering applications

National Kidney

Foundation of IL7/1/2013 6/30/2014 $60,000.00

Wertheim Development of a Small Caliber Vascular Graft Using aTissue Engineering Strategy NMF 1/1/2014 12/31/2014 $50,000.00

Ison

CR6261CR8020FLZ2001: Multicenter, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study

to evaluate the effect of CR8020 and CR6261 in hospitalized patients with influenza A

infection

NIAID 2/20/2014 2/19/2015 $5,000.00

Wertheim Optimization and control of hepatocyte activity via biofuncational modification NIDDKD 5/1/2014 3/31/2019 $151,311.00

Levitsky Continuation Funding for the Immune Tolerance Network [ITN030ST (A‐WISH)] NIAID 5/1/2014 1/31/2021 $11,642.01

Abecassis Mechanisms of MCMV reactivation in immunodeficient transplant recipients NIH 7/1/2014 6/30/2015 $396,289.00

Abecassis

Utilization of a Large, Multi‐organizational Database for Clinical Monitoring and

Prognostications: Donor and Recipient Impact of Multi‐Drug Resistant Organisms in

Transplant

Gift of Hope

Organ & Tissue

Donor Network

8/1/2013 7/31/2014 $30,000.00

Luo Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR)EMMES

Corporation9/22/2012 8/31/2017 $31,499.00

Wertheim Development of a Bioartificial Kidney ASTS Foundation 7/1/2013 6/30/2014 $50,000.00

Stosor Hemophilia Liver Transplantation OLTX Observational Study (HOTS)

Health Resources

and Services

Administration

(via Hemophilia

Center of Western

Pennsylvania)

3/5/2014 12/31/2014 $29,250.00

Ison

A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled, Parallel‐Group, Multicenter, Phase 3

Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of CMX001 for the Prevention of

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection in CMV‐seropositive (R+) Hematopoietic Stem Cell

Transplant Recipients

Chimerix, Inc. (via

PRA Health

Sciences)

9/27/2013 9/27/2016 $336,308.00

Kulik

A Multi‐Center, Randomized, Prospective, Open‐Label Phase III Study to Evaluate the

Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Hepatitis C Immune Globulin Intravenous

(Human), Civacir, in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Receipients

Biotest

Pharmaceuticals

Co. (via Covance,

Inc)

1/16/2014 1/16/2016 $166,979.00

Kulik

A Multi‐Center, Randomized, Prospective, Open‐Label Phase III Study to Evaluate the

Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Hepatitis C Immun Globulin Intravenous

(Human), Civacir, in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients

Biotest

Pharmaceuticals

Corporation (via

Covance Inc)

1/16/2014 1/16/2016 $211,978.00

Ho

Protocol IM 103155: An Historical‐Cohort Multi‐Center, Observational Study to Identify

and Characterize Calcineurin Inhibitor Usage Patterns Post‐Transplant and Impact on

Allograft Outcome

Bristol‐Myers

Squibb Company

(via CTI Clinical

Trial and

Consulting

Services)

2/15/2014 2/14/2017 $15,500.00

Baker

A Phase III Randomized, Controlled, Superiority Study Evaluating EVARREST Fibrin Sealant

Patch Versus Standard of Care Treatment in Controlling Parenchymal Bleeding During

Hepatic Surgery

Ethicon, Inc. 12/1/2013 5/31/2015 $60,049.99

Stosor Hemophilia Liver Transplantation OLTX Observational Study (HOTS)

Health Resources

and Services

Administration

3/5/2014 12/31/2014 $29,250.00

LevitskyHCV‐TARGET: Hepatitis C Therapeutic Registry and Research Network‐A Longitudinal,

Observational Study

University of

Florida3/28/2014 3/28/2017 $416,160.00

COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPLANT CENTER


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Grippo Targeting EMT Pathway as a Promising Strategy for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

Hirshberg

Foundation for

Pancreatic Cancer

Research

5/1/2013 1/31/2014 $8,000.00

Hungness General Surgery Residency Training & Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Covidien plc 1/1/2013 12/31/2013 $70,000.00

MahviDevelopment of an Expandable Radiofrequency Ablation Probe for Breast Cancer

TreatmentNCIIA 1/1/2014 12/31/2014 $3,000.00

Halverson Continued National Implementation of Team STEPPS AHRQ 4/1/2014 9/14/2014 $49,000.00

GI/ONCOLOGIC SURGERY


McGeeOPTIVAD Registry: Application of OptiVol Technology in the Evaluation of the Continous

Flow Left Ventrical Assist Device (cf‐LVAD) Population

Medtronic Inc (via

AHS Hospital

Corp)

5/30/2013 5/30/2014 $12,595.00

Yancy Ad5. hAC6 Gene Transfer for CHFRenova

therapeutics, Inc8/9/2013 8/8/2016 $1,359,119.00

KnightUse of an Electrocardiographic Screenin Tool to Determine Candidacy for a Subcutaneous

Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator

Boston Scientific

Corporation10/17/2013 12/31/2015 $39,565.50

Malaisrie

Prot # NEO13‐100: Neomend Progel: A Prospective, Randomized Study to Compare

Progel Vasular Sealant to Gelfoam Plus as an Adjunct for the Control f Bleeding in Subjects

Undergoing Thoracic Aortic Surgery

Neomend, Inc. 10/22/2013 10/22/2016 $136,357.00

McGee

HW004‐A: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Unblinded, Multi‐Center Clinical Trial

to Evaluate the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device System for Destination Therapy of

Advanced Heart Failure

Heartware, Inc. 11/5/2013 11/5/2016 $420,450.00

HoelEvaluation of the GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis for the Treatment of

Common Iliac Artery Aneurysms or Aorto‐iliac Aneurysms

W.L. Gore and

Associates12/20/2013 12/20/2016 $71,760.00

KibbeMarrow Stim PAD Kit for the Treatment of critical limb ischemia (CLI) in Subjects with

Severe Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

Biomet Biologics,

LLC10/1/2013 9/30/2018 $483,796.00

Pearce Non‐Invasive Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Clinical Trial (N‐TA3CT)

University of

Nebraska Medical

Center (via NIA)

2/1/2014 5/31/2014 $87,150.00

RichCAT‐HF: Cardiovascular Improvements with Minute Ventilation‐targeted ASV Therapy in

Heart FailureResMed Corp. 9/1/2013 9/1/2016 $308,304.00

Shah

Prot # B3461028: Tafamidis: A Multicenter, International, Phase 3, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐

Controlled, Randomized Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Daily

Oral Dosing of Tafamidis Meglumine (PF‐06291826) 20 mg or 80 mg in Comparison to

Placebo in Subjects Diagnosed With Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy (TTR‐CM)

ICON Clinical

Research10/1/2013 9/30/2016 $863,750.00

Benzuly SYMPLICITY HTN‐4: Renal Denervation in Patients with Uncontrolled HypertensionMedtronic

Vascular2/1/2014 4/30/2014 $1,901.90

Shah

SOCRATES‐PRESERVED: A randomized, parallel‐group, placebo‐controlled, double‐blind,

multi‐center dose finding phase II trial exploring the pharacodynamic effects, safety and

tolerability, and pharacokinetics of four dose regimens of the oral sGC stimulator PAS

1021189 over 12 weeks in patients with worsening heart failure and preserved ejection

fraction (HFpEF) ‐ SOluble Guanylate Cyclase stimulatoR in heArT failurE patientS with

PRESERVED EF

Bayer HealthCare

Pharmaceuticals,

Inc.

12/18/2013 12/18/2016 $649,182.00

BCVI CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT


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Kibbe Development of a Novel Injectable Therapy to Stop HemorrhageSociety for

Vascular Surgery6/1/2014 8/31/2014 $3,000.00

Kibbe Improving Graft Patency: A Novel L‐Ascorbic Acid ePTFE Modification NHLBI 7/15/2013 6/14/2014 $59,432.00

Kibbe Preclinical Investigation of a Bioengineered Vascular Graft NIBIB 8/15/2013 7/31/2017 $1,715,625.00

Pearce Vascular Surgery Scientist Training Program NHLBI 5/1/2014 6/30/2015 $206,790.00

Tsirline A Two‐Year Follow‐up, Post‐Implantation, Multi‐center International Hernia RegistryEthicon Endo‐

Surgery, Inc.8/6/2013 12/30/2018 $29,235.00

VASCULAR SURGERY


THORACIC SURGERY


Bharat John H. Gibbon Hr. Research Scholarship Award (2014‐2016) AAST 7/1/2014 6/30/2016 $160,000.00

TRAUMA/CRITICAL CARE SURGERY


Schwulst The Role of Innate Immunity in Traumatic Brain‐Injury Induced Immune Suppression Shock Society 7/1/2014 6/30/2016 $60,000.00

BCVI CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT continued


RichPET CAT‐HF: Physical Activity Evaluation in the Cardiovascular Improvements with Minute

Ventilation‐Targeted Adaptive Servo‐Ventilation Therapy in Heart Failure StudyResMed Corp. 9/1/2013 9/1/2014 $11,306.00

Shah FIGHT: Functional Impact of GLP‐1 for Heart Failure TreatmentNHLBI (via Duke

University)4/24/2014 10/31/2018 $65,760.00

Grady Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Transitioning to Adult Care

NHLBI (via Ann &

Robert H. Lurie

Children's Hospital

of Chicago)

7/15/2013 5/31/2014 $55,456.00

ShahPitch‐HF: Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibition with Tadalafil Changes Outcomes in Heart

Failure

NHLBI (via New

England Research

Institutes, Inc.)

11/18/2013 11/18/2016 $364,000.46

KnightVictory AF: Evaluation of Multielectrode Phase RF Technology in persistent Atrial

FibrillationMedtronic, Inc 5/30/2014 5/30/2017 $80,500.00

Shah NEAT: Nitrated Effect on Activity Tolerance in Heart Failure with Preserved Eject NHLBI 4/24/2014 12/31/2014 $43,499.00

FlahertyProtocol IP 011: SALUS Trial: The Direct Flow Medical TranScatheter Aortic Valve

Replacement System US Feasibility Trial

Direct Flow

Medical, Inc.8/13/2013 8/13/2016 $115,747.99

Knight CAP2 ‐ Continued Access to PREVAILBoston Scientific

Corporation8/6/2013 8/6/2016 $663,130.00

McCarthy

A Phase I Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo Controlled Dose Escalation Study to

Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of JVS‐100 Administered by Needle‐free Dermal Injection

to Cohorts of Adults Receiving Surgical Sternotomy Incisions

SironRX

Therapeutics, Inc.3/15/2013 3/15/2016 $69,840.00

AndersonREVIVE‐IT Gatekeeper: Randomized Evaluation of VAD InterVEntion before Inotropic

Therapy Pilot Trial

Thoratec

Corporation (via

University of

Michigan)

6/1/2013 1/14/2016 $55,364.00

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Medical Student Programs

The FSM class of 2014 included ten students who matched into general surgery/vascular surgery programs, including

Northwestern, Mass General, UCLA and Mayo Clinic. An additional thirty students from the class of 2014 matched

into surgical sub‐specialties.

Congratulations to Clarabelle DeVries, the 2013 Julius Conn Award

recipient. The Julius Conn Award is given annually to the highest

achieving surgery clerkship student based upon academic perform‐

ance and professionalism.

The third year surgery clerkship now has an 8‐week format to align

with the new Feinberg School of Medicine Phase 2 curriculum. The

new format continues to build on the success of our interdepartmen‐

tal model with joint participation from the Departments of Surgery,

Orthopedics and Urology. Students continue to enjoy a combination

of apprenticeship and team‐based learning experiences with a four‐week rotation in abdominal surgery and a four‐

week rotation in a specialty or subspecialty surgery. Our popular skills sessions teaching drain care, venipuncture,

suturing and other patient care skills continue with our Nurse Instructor, Elizabeth Even. New learning opportunities

added to the clerkship include a reduction in lecture hours, small group seminar sessions to explore fundamental sur‐

gical principles and a midterm observed patient work up on a standardized patient. Dr. Julia Corcoran continues as

the Clerkship Director and Dr. Amy Halverson as the Associate Clerkship Director.

Our Surgical Sub‐Internship, which was started last year, continues to grow in popularity among students. Led by

Dr. Nabil Issa, unique aspects of this clerkship include mock pages simulating emergent scenarios and verification of

clinical proficiencies in typical tasks assigned to PGY1 residents. Our fourth‐year student program will be expanding

to align with the Feinberg Phase 3 Curriculum with the addition of a "Capstone" experience for students who have

matched into a surgical specialty. The school‐wide Phase 3 curriculum committee currently is working on the core

requirements.

Resident Programs

A Northwestern‐led surgical education team was selected to receive the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) 2014

Award for Excellence in Innovation! The award is given annually to a group of individuals who have demonstrated

exemplary performance in surgical education with the intent to

recognize novel ideas, multi‐center collaboration, and/or meth‐

ods for improving teaching and learning. Team members in‐

cluded: Dr. Debra DaRosa, Dr. Jonathan Fryer, Dr. Brian George

(MGH), Dr. Eric Hungness, Dr. Shari Meyerson, Mary Schuller,

Dr. Nat Soper, Dr. Ezra Teitelbaum, and Dr. Jay Zwischenberger

(U Kentucky Medical School). Way to go Team!

Surgical Education Updates

*Additional residency and fellowship educational updates are described in the

corresponding division sections.

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY EDUCATIONEDUCATION

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Changes in the General Surgery Residency Leadership Team

Jonathan Fryer, MD, who has served as the General Surgery Residency Program Director since 2011, is now serving in the role of Interim Vice‐Chair of Education. During his tenure as Program Director Dr. Fryer was instrumental in instituting several innova‐tions in the surgical training program in‐cluding being a primary inventor and inves‐

tigator of the Procedural Autonomy and Supervision (Zwisch) System (PASS). Dr. Fryer will be completing his Masters of Health Professions Education at UIC in 2014. We appreciate his leadership as Program Director and look forward to his con‐tinuing contributions to the educational efforts of the depart‐ment.

Shari Meyerson, MD ascended to the role of General Surgery Residency Program Director in April. Shari served as Associate Program Director since July 1, 2012. In that role she led the Mock Oral, PAME, semi‐annual resi‐dency evaluation and many other evaluation‐related projects. She’s authored numerous education‐related publications, received two August Webster Educational Innovation

Grants and was one of the awardees of the 2014 Association for Surgical Education Award for Innovation in Surgical Education.

Dr. Nabil Issa joined the General Surgery Residency Leadership team in May as the new Associate Program Director for Evalua‐tion. Dr. Issa has been very involved in Sur‐gical Education for the past few years as the Director of the Surgery Sub‐I since its incep‐tion in 2011 and as the Associate Program Director for the Surgical Critical Care fellow‐ship here at Northwestern. In addition, he

has created an ICU Preparedness Course for the surgery PGY‐1 and PGY‐2 residents and a Bootcamp for the incoming surgical interns, designing those course syllabi, educational activities and evaluation tools. Dr. Issa has also received numerous awards for excellence in teaching both from the surgery resi‐dents and the medical students. In 2013, he was awarded the Philip J. Wolfson Outstanding National Teacher Award from the Associate of Surgical Education. Dr. Issa is currently pursu‐ing a Masters of Health Professions Education at UIC, thereby strengthening his dedication to education. In addition to his leadership role in the General Surgery Residency he is now also serving as the Program Director for the Critical Care Fellowship in the department. These individuals have shown a tremendous commitment to surgical education and we look forward their continued leader‐ship in the Department of Surgery!

A Note of Gratitude

Debra A. DaRosa, Ph.D. retired from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) on May 1, 2014. Dr. DaRosa had served as Vice‐Chair of Education in the Department of Surgery since 1998 and was one of the few non‐MD educa‐tors in the U.S.A. to hold the title of Professor of Surgery. Dr. DaRosa came to us from South‐ern Illinois University in 1996, where she originated the role of surgical educator. Dr. DaRosa is internationally renowned in the field of surgical education and is past‐President of the Asso‐ciation for Surgical Education, the first non‐surgeon to hold this position. She is an honorary member of the Association for Women Surgeons and the Association of Professors of Gynecol‐ogy and Obstetrics. Dr. DaRosa served on multiple editorial boards and was educational consultant to numerous surgical organizations and medical schools. She was instrumental in the development of many American College of Surgeons’ educa‐tional programs, including the ‘Surgeons as Leaders’ and ‘Surgeons as Educators’ courses.

At FSM, Dr. DaRosa served on multiple educational and cur‐riculum committees and is an acknowledged leader in curricu‐lar development and educational research. Her enthusiasm for advancing postgraduate surgical education encouraged many faculty members to pursue advanced degrees in health profes‐sions education and dedicate their academic activities to this endeavor. She was awarded numerous research grants relating to medical and surgical education from groups such as FSM, Augusta Webster, the State of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. She authored or coauthored in excess of 100 peer‐reviewed publications and more than 30 chapters and texbooks.

Dr. DaRosa is a truly engaging lecturer and has given numerous invited lectures regionally, nationally and internationally. With‐out a doubt, Deb DaRosa has been a ‘game changer’ in the realm of surgical education, and we have benefited tremen‐dously from her presence.

Dr. DaRosa has and will continue to represent the Department of Surgery as an emeritus professor at FSM. We look forward to welcoming her back in the coming years as part of the many consulting and lecturing opportunities that will undoubtedly continue to come her way. We are very thankful for her contri‐butions to the department and to the field of surgical educa‐tion.

Surgical Education Updates

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY EDUCATIONEDUCATION

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Division of Breast Surgery

From left to right:

Dr. Nora Hansen Dr. Seema Khan Dr. Kevin Bethke

Clinical Care

The Division’s operational performance was again strong in Fiscal Year 2014. Dr. Seema A. Khan’s cooperative high‐risk breast cancer

clinic shows sustained growth, and the Division of Breast Surgery continues to work in tandem with the Division of Gynecologic On‐

cology and the Cancer Genetics Program to enhance the patient experience for this population. Dr. Jacqueline Jeruss has left her posi‐

tion here at Northwestern to accept a position in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. A search is in progress to

identify a new breast surgeon.

Education

Dr. Amanda Amin and Dr. Anna Higham were the graduating Lynn Sage Breast fellows. Dr. Amin has accepted a position as Assistant

Professor of Surgery at the University Kansas Medical School located in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Higham has joined the staff at the

Carle Hospital in Urbana, Illinois. On July 1, 2014, Dr. Deborah E. Farr and Dr. Jilma Patrick joined the Division of Breast Surgery as

the 2014‐2015 Lynn Sage Breast Fellows.

Research

Seema A. Khan, MD, Professor of Surgery, and the Bluhm Family Professor of Cancer Research, Co‐Leader Breast Cancer Program,

was awarded a $50,000 Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation Grant for her project titled “Impact of Pin1 and CDK Inhibition in Tri‐

ple Negative Breast Cancer Migration” and is heading a clinical trial for Development of Anti‐Progesterone Drugs for breast cancer

Prevention”

Susan Clare, MD, PhD was also awarded a $50,000 Lynn Sage grant for her research “Cytidine Deaminases, Somatic Mutations and

Breast Cancer Etiology, as well as receiving a $141, 168 grant from the US Army for her research “Delivery of Nano‐Tethered Therapies

to Brain Metastases of Primary Breast Cancer Using a Cellular Trojan Horse”.

Dr. Nora Hansen, MD, Chief, Division of Breast Surgery, as the principal investigator on the NCCN project grant titled,

“Opportunities for Improvement (OFI) Project: Quality Evaluation and Improvement in Breast Cancer Care based on NCCN outcomes

data” had her research findings published in the NCCN Journal.

Jacqueline Jeruss, MD, PhD, was awarded A Sister’s Hope award entitled “Impact of CDK Inhibitor Therapy in Triple Negative

Breast Cancer”

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY DIVISION UPDATESDIVISION UPDATES

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From left to right (back):

Dr. Karen Thompson (fellow) Dr. Elizabeth Cassidy (fellow) Dr. Ivan Gambardella (fellow) Dr. Daniel Enter (resident) Dr. Andrei Churyla (fellow) Dr. Mitesh Badiwala (fellow) Dr. Hiroshi Kagawa (fellow) Dr. Danielle Smith (resident), Dr, Christopher Mehta (resident) From left to right (front):

Dr. Edwin McGee, Jr. (Cardiac), Dr. Hyde Russell (Cardiac), Dr. Travis Abicht (Cardiac), Dr. S. Chris Malaisrie (Cardiac) Dr. Patrick McCarthy (Cardiac) Dr. Malcolm DeCamp (Thoracic) Dr. Shari Meyerson (Thoracic) Dr. Alberto de Hoyos (Thoracic) Dr. Robert Vanecko (Thoracic) Dr. Ankit Bharat (Thoracic)

Clinical Care

The Division of Cardiac Surgery has contin‐

ued to enjoy great success in 2014. We are

pleased to share that Northwestern’s heart

and heart surgery programs were ranked #1

in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report for

the seventh straight year and are the high‐

est ranked program in the surrounding

states.

The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute also

celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, hav‐

ing demonstrated a near six‐fold increase in

complex cardiac surgery volume and a

quadrupling of all cardiac surgery volume

over those years. August 2014 was our busi‐

est month ever with over 100 operations.

The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute also

welcomed a world‐renowned cardiologist,

Dr. James Thomas, from the Cleveland

Clinic this summer, as he joins us as the

Director of the Center for Heart Valve Dis‐

ease.

Research

The division welcomed Dr. Tirone David,

Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Sur‐

gery at the University of Toronto, to the

annual Cardiothoracic Surgery Alumni Day,

which was held in June 2014. The event

featured research presentations by faculty

and fellows, as well as Dr. David’s keynote

lecture entitled Treatment of Aortic Root

Aneurysms: When to Intervene, What to Do

and What To Expect as Outcome.

Select ongoing research efforts by our fac‐

ulty include:

Dr. Patrick McCarthy, National PI of

the ABLATE Post‐Approval Study:

AtriCure Synergy Ablation Lesions for

Non‐Paroxysmal Forms of Atrial Fibril‐

lation Treatment during Concomitant

On‐Pump Endo/Epicardial Cardiac Sur‐

gery; 4D Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(MRI) Cardiovascular Flow Imaging;

Multi‐CenTer Experience with the

Rapid Deployment EDWARDS INTU‐

ITY Valve System FOR Aortic Valve

ReplaceMent (TRANSFORMTM Trial);

and AlloCure AC 6071103.

Dr. Patrick McCarthy and Dr. Travis

Abicht are participating in A Prospec‐

tive, Randomized, Controlled, Un‐

blinded, Multi‐Center Clinical Trial to

Evaluate the HeartWare® Ventricular

Assist Device System for Destination

Therapy of Advanced Heart Failure.

Dr. S. Chris Malaisrie (PI) is participat‐

ing in the PARTNER II Trial: Placement

of AoRtic TraNscathetER Valves Trial;

Magna Mitral 23: Clinical Evaluation of

the size 23 mm Carpentier‐Edwards

PERIMOUNT Magna Mitral Biopros‐

thesis, Model 7000TFX; Post‐Approval

Study Protocol Study # 2006‐05: Car‐

pentier‐Edwards® Perimount Magna®

Mitral Pericardial Bioprostheses Models

7000/7000TFX and Carpentier‐

Edwards® Perimount Magna® Mitral

Ease™ Pericardial Bioprosthesis Model

7200TFX; A Prospective, Randomized

Study to Compare Progel® Vascular

Sealant to Gelfoam® Plus as an Adjunct

for the Control of Bleeding in Subjects

Undergoing Thoracic Aortic Surgery.

Dr. Kathleen Grady (PI) received fund‐

ing for the Pediatric Heart Transplanta‐

tion: Transitioning to Adult Care

(TRANSIT). In addition, Dr. Grady (PI)

is participating in the Mechanical Cir‐

culatory Support: Development & Use

of Quality of Life Instruments.

Education

In November, the Melman Family Bicuspid

Division of Cardiac Surgery


Divisions of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Division of Cardiac Surgery Division of Cardiac Surgery

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Clinical Care

The Division of Thoracic Surgery contin‐

ues to show strong double‐digit clinical

growth with more than a 12% increase in

both new patient volumes and operative

procedures in the past year. Dr. Ankit

Bharat joined the division last summer and

has meshed nicely with Drs. DeCamp, de

Hoyos and Meyerson to provide compre‐

hensive care for Northwestern Medicine’s

thoracic patients. Our Galter 21 clinic,

housed within the Robert H. Lurie Com‐

prehensive Cancer Center, is run by Deb‐

ora Campbell, RN, MSN and offers same

day availability for new consults Monday

through Friday.

Late last summer, the Division along with

NMH had a successful site visit from The

Joint Commission to evaluate our Lung

Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) pro‐

gram. The NMH LVRS Program co‐

directed by Dr. Malcolm DeCamp and Dr.

Ravi Kalhan and coordinated by Andrew

Mullen PA‐C was subsequently certified as

a CMS Center of Excellence for LVRS. Our

first LVRS patient (she was reported in last

year’s newsletter) was able to dance with‐

out oxygen at her son’s wedding this past

summer. In fiscal ’14, our team has per‐

formed LVRS on 4 additional patients suf‐

fering from severe emphysema with grati‐

fying results. In addition to LVRS, our

Advanced Lung Disease team is actively

evaluating patients with advanced emphy‐

sema for either lung transplantation or a

novel clinical trial utilizing a staged bron‐

choscopic approach to bilateral lung vol‐

ume reduction.

Under the leadership of Drs. Ankit Bharat

and Sangeeta Bhorade, the Northwestern

Medicine Lung Transplant Program was

formed in January 2014. In May 2014 the

program received UNOS approval and be‐

gan listing patients with Gift of Hope. In

July 2014 we performed our first two lung

transplant procedures. Both patients re‐

ceived bilateral grafts.

Education

The 21st Annual Thomas W. Shields Lec‐

ture was held on May 15, 2014. The guest

lecturer and former mentor to our division

chief Dr. DeCamp, was David J. Sugar‐

baker, MD, immediate past‐President of

the AATS. Dr. Sugarbaker’s presentation

highlighted his career‐long accomplish‐

ments in the multidisciplinary treatment

of pleural Mesothelioma.

Dr. Shari Meyerson has made a major

commitment to surgical education as the

focus of her academic career. In recogni‐

tion of this she has been appointed as the

Program Director for three of our Depart‐

ment’s ACGME‐approved residency pro‐

grams. These include our General Surgery

program and both the Traditional and In‐

tegrated‐6 Year Cardiothoracic Surgery

training programs. Dr. Meyerson has

completed her coursework for a Master’s

degree in Education due to be conferred

later this year.

Research

As one of 13 participating sites across the

country, the Division has enrolled nearly

one fifth of the 1100 patients in the Proven‐

Care Lung Cancer Collaborative. The Col‐

laborative is a joint venture of the Ameri‐

can College of Surgeons Commission on

Cancer and the STS which aims to define

evidence‐based best practices and assess if

subscribing to these practices results in

improved out‐comes and lower costs for

lung cancer care. In 2014, the ProvenCare

Collaborative plans to expand beyond lung

cancer surgery to include medical and ra‐

diation oncology, survivorship and pallia‐

tive medicine.

In October Dr. Bharat received the prestig‐

ious John H. Gibbon Jr. Research Scholar‐

ship from the AATS for his proposal re‐

garding the role of autoantibodies in lung

transplant rejection. This grant provides

$160,000 of support for Dr. Bharat’s labora‐

tory effort over two years.

Second‐year cardiothoracic resident Dr.

Emily Cassidy won the AATS Resident

poster competition in May 2014 at the an‐

nual meeting in Toronto for her work with

Dr. Bharat entitled “Intrapleural Hypercar‐

bia Leads to the Development of Pro‐

longed Air Leaks Following Lung Resec‐

tion.” In collaboration with NU’s McCor‐

mick School of Engineering, this work is

also the focus of an entrepreneurial effort

to develop a novel chest drain to monitor

and adjust the pleural gas environment in

order to enhance lung healing.


Division of Thoracic Surgery Division of Thoracic Surgery

Aortic Valve (BAV) Program collaborated

with the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s

Hospital of Chicago to launch the first

“ABCs of BAV” outreach event,

aimed at educating patients and families

affected by BAV to learn from experts in the

field. With over 100 attendees, the program

will continue on an annual basis and is next

scheduled for September 16, 2014.

We are pleased to welcome a strong group

of incoming trainees this academic year:

Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program: Dr. Eriberto Mi‐

chel

Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship:

Dr. Payne Stanifer

Advanced Cardiac Surgery Fellow‐ship: Dr. Jennifer Higgins, Dr. Stephane

Leung, Dr. Jota Nakano, and Dr. Michael

Yamashita

Finally, this past September, Drs. Patrick

McCarthy, Chris Malaisrie and Hyde Russell

each received an Excellence in Teaching

Award from Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine.

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FY14 proved to be another productive and

successful year for the Division of Gastroin‐

testinal (GI) and Oncologic Surgery.

Clinical Care

In the area of clinical care, the Division

accomplished a number of notable achieve‐

ments. Dr. Jeffrey Wayne and Dr. Karl Bili‐

moria have participated in the develop‐

ment of the Multidisciplinary Skin Cancer

Institute at Northwestern University

(SCINU). In addition, they continue to par‐

ticipate in several important national clini‐

cal trials in melanoma, including the Multi‐

center Lymphadenectomy Trial‐II (MSLT‐

II), and the Minimally Invasive Lym‐

phadenectomy Trial (MILND).

Dr. Cord Sturgeon and the Hageman Foun‐

dation successfully hosted the 2014 Multi‐

ple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) Seminar

and Clinic at Northwestern. A total of 54

MEN patients and caregivers attended the

seminar held on Saturday, March 22nd in

the Feinberg Pavilion. Presentations by

Northwestern faculty members from Endo‐

crinology, Surgical Oncology, and Endo‐

crine & Thyroid Surgery provided patients

and caregivers with vital information about

MEN I and II. The seminar was followed by

a clinic on Monday, March 24th where 4

patients arrived at the Robert H. Lurie

Comprehensive Cancer Center from all

over the U.S. to receive consults from En‐

docrinology, Endocrine & Thyroid Surgery,

and Genetic Counseling in one morning.

Finally, Dr. Jeffrey Wayne was elected Sec‐

retary‐Treasurer of the NMH Medical Staff,

and in September will become the Vice

Chief of the Medical Staff and Chair of the

Credentials Committee at NMH.

Recruitment and Faculty News

In addition to the work and efforts of the

current faculty, a few new team members

joined the group. Dr. Anthony Yang re‐

turned to Northwestern in July 2014 after

completing a Fellowship in Surgical Oncol‐

ogy at the University of Texas MD Ander‐

son Cancer Center and working 3 years as

an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in

the Division of Surgical Oncology at the

UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento,

California. Some of you may remember Dr.

Yang from his time at Northwestern during

his years in medical school and general

surgery residency. Dr. Yang will provide

clinical support for pancreatic, hepatobil‐

iary, other upper gastrointestinal tract ma‐

lignancies, endocrine and thyroid surgery,

as well as general surgery patients.

The Division also seized the opportunity to

further expand and develop the midlevel

provider model in an effort to provide sup‐

port to patients and faculty. Danielle Bas‐

inger, APN arrived in April 2014 and pri‐

marily supports the surgical oncology team

with return/post‐operative care and long

term cancer surveillance. Danielle was pre‐

viously an NMH nurse and completed her

training at Rush University with her APN

Residency at Northwestern in the Division

of GI and Oncologic Surgery. Additionally,

Amber Neal, PA‐C arrived in March 2014

and works with the section of Colon and

Rectal Surgery. Amber comes to North‐

western with colorectal surgery experience

from the Cleveland Clinic as a Surgical

Technologist. She also completed her Phy‐

sician Assistant Residency at the Cleveland

Clinic. Amber will provide return/post‐op

care for colorectal surgery patients, as well

as lead a new service for benign anorectal

patients requesting a consult with colorec‐

tal surgery. Benign anorectal patients will

receive a more expedited consult with Am‐

ber who will triage patients to a colorectal

surgeon if the condition requires surgery.

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From left to right:

Dr. Cord Sturgeon Dr. Amy Halverson Dr. Karl Bilimoria Dr. Jeffrey Wayne Dr. Nathaniel Soper Dr. Anthony Yang Dr. Alexander Nagle Dr. David Mahvi Dr. Eric Hungness Dr. Michael McGee Not pictured: Anne Marie Boller, Dina Elaraj

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Education/Research

In the pursuit of education and research, several Faculty Members also obtained new appointments on committees and local as well as

national organizations:

Dr. David Bentrem was named Deputy Editor of the Journal of Surgical Oncology and appointed as a member of the Quality Meas‐

ures Subcommittee for the Commission on Cancer, and appointed Cancer Liaison Physician for the NMH Committee on Cancer.

Dr. Nathaniel Soper was appointed as the 2014 President of the Central Surgical Association

Dr. David Bentrem was acknowledged for his work with the NMH Admissions Committee

Dr. Karl Bilimoria was appointed as the Chair of the NMH Surgical Oversight and Quality Committee, President‐elect of the Surgi‐

cal Outcomes Club, Chair of the Association for Academic Surgery Outcomes Research Committee, and Director of the Illinois Sur‐

gical Quality Improvement Collaborative.

Dr. Jeffrey Wayne was elected to the positions of Recorder of the Chicago Surgical Society and Secretary‐ Treasurer of the Illinois

Surgical Society. He was also appointed Chairman of the NMH Committee on Cancer.

In addition, a collaboration was formed between Dr. David M. Mahvi and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to obtain a U.S.

Patent (US 8,777,938 B2) for a Fan‐Beam Microwave Horn for Bloodless Resection. This product provides a method of resection of an

organ utilizing a handheld microwave horn antenna as a waveguide that receives microwave signal and applies a planar microwave

beam into the organ for coagulation of a strip of tissue in an organ providing a barrier against blood loss during resection. This item may

be used in lieu of insertable electrodes.


Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery

Development of the Digestive Health Center

The Digestive Health Center combines two of Northwestern Medicine’s nationally recognized specialties of Gastroenterology

and GI Surgery specialties into one comprehensive program. Deemed by US News & World Report’s annual hospital ranking

as one of the top programs in the area of Gastroenterology and GI surgery, the heart of the success of the program is the

complementary approach through Multidisciplinary Centers. Each multidisciplinary center includes gastroenterologists,

interventional endoscopists, surgeons, health psychologists and dietitians.

The Digestive Health Center offers a range of multidisciplinary centers, programs and services with access to clinical and re‐

search expertise from physicians of Northwestern Medicine in areas of gastroenterology and GI surgery including:

Colorectal Disease

Esophageal Disease

Functional Bowel Disease

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Pancreaticobiliary Disease Leading the Digestive Health Center is Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, a distinguished physician‐scientist and international leader

in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. As the Medical Director of the Digestive Health Center and the Clifford Jo‐

seph Baborka Professor of Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. Hanauer will work

closely with the Departments of Medicine and Surgery as well as the Northwestern Medicine Leadership teams to further

develop clinical programs and research to provide top notch digestive healthcare to patients. His clinical and research focus

is on Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and has a reputation as a leading scholar of digestive diseases. Dr. Hanauer brings a

lifetime of experience in complex bowel diseases and offers the Northwestern Medicine team the opportunity to advance

treatment of this important group of complicated disorders.

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From left to right:

Dr. Anton Skaro Dr. Juan Carlos Caicedo Dr. Jason Wertheim Dr. Talia Baker Dr. Felicitas Koller Dr. Joseph Leventhal Dr. Michael Abecassis Dr. Jonathan Fryer Dr. Daniela Ladner Dr. Joshua Miller

Clinical

The Division of Organ Transplantation remains the Chicago market

leader in abdominal organ transplantation and is among the nation’s

leading transplant programs. Over 40% of adult transplants in the

Chicago metro area were performed at Northwestern last year, and our

program is larger than the next two centers combined. Our living do‐

nor kidney program, led by Dr. Joseph Leventhal, continues to be one

of the largest in the United States. Our living donor liver program is

the second largest adult program in the country. When combined with

the living donor liver program at Lurie Children’s (the donor surgeries

are performed at NMH), we are tied as the largest US program. We are

on track to perform 15% more living donor liver transplants in FY14

than in the previous year. Early in the fiscal year, we performed our

1,500th liver transplant. Under the leadership of Dr. Talia Baker, the

complex hepatobiliary program has grown. New patients referred to

this clinic are projected to be 30% higher than the previous year. Dr.

Felicitas Koller has assumed a leadership role within our vascular ac‐

cess program and is partnering with nephrology to ensure we exceed

patient and referring physician expectations for service and access.

The Hispanic Transplant Program, led by Dr. Juan Carlos Caicedo,

continues to provide culturally sensitive services to Hispanic patients

undergoing transplantation and reduce Hispanic disparities in kidney

transplantation. Since this program’s inception, the percentage of

Hispanics on our wait list has increased. We have also experienced a

significant increase in the proportion of Hispanic living donor kidney

transplants in comparison to non‐Hispanic white living donor kidney

transplants, indicating that this program has been and continues to be

successful.

Recruitments and Faculty News

Felicitas Koller, MD joined the transplant faculty in July. Dr. Koller

recently completed her 2‐year transplant surgery fellowship with us.

She will primarily focus on kidney transplantation, pancreas transplan‐

tation and the growing vascular access program.

Drs. Juan Carlos Caicedo, Daniela Ladner and Anton Skaro have all

been promoted to Associate Professor.

Research

The research enterprise at the Comprehensive Transplant Center

(CTC) continues to thrive. We have submitted 30 grant proposals to‐

taling $50.9M thus far this fiscal year, including a P01 and a U01, both

of which were reviewed favorably and will be resubmitted in the next

cycle. In this same period, CTC researchers were awarded 32 grants

totaling $7.5M.

Dr. Michael Abecassis received funding (NIAID ‐ $1.75M) for his

R01 submission “Mechanisms of MCMV Reactivation in Immuno‐

deficient Transplant Recipients”. In addition to his CMV research,

he is continuing his genomic and biomarker research, which is

also NIH‐funded. Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research

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ranked Dr. Abecassis #7, #11, and #9 in 2011, 2012, and 2013 re‐

spectively out of approximately 550 surgeons in overall funding

from the NIH.

Dr. Joseph Leventhal was awarded $500K from the Northwestern

Women’s Board to continue his immune tolerance research. He

recently received an IND from the FDA for the study this grant

will fund, “A Phase 1, Single Center Trial of Adoptive Immunother‐

apy with T‐reg Adoptive Cell Transfer (TRACT) to Prevent Rejec‐

tion in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.” Dr. Anton

Skaro will be the PI on this study and its purpose is to determine

whether regulatory CD4+CD25+T cells (T‐reg) can be expanded

sufficiently ex vivo and used to both prevent renal transplant

rejection and facilitate the reduction and subsequent withdrawal

of drug‐based immunosuppression. Dr. Leventhal also received a

$12 million multi‐year grant sponsored by Novartis to conduct a

multi‐center Phase III study using a Facilitator T‐Cell protocol to

induce tolerance in kidney transplant recipients.

Dr. Jason Wertheim secured a K08 (NIDDK $151K) “Optimization

and Control of Hepatocyte Activity via Biofunctional Modifica‐

tion”, achieving a perfect score of 1.0, to advance his work in the

field of tissue engineering. Most recently, Dr. Wertheim was

awarded a $1.0 million 5‐year grant from the McCormick Founda‐

tion as part of a joint proposal from Northwestern Memorial

Foundation entitled “Operation RESTORE (Rehabilitative Evalua‐

tion, Surgery and Transplant Options for Restoration) at North‐

western Medicine.” In addition, he also received funding from

the Zell Family Foundation, NMH Dixon Translational Grant, as

well as grants from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

(ASTS), American Association for the Study of Liver Disease

(AASLD), National Kidney Foundation of Illinois (NKFI) and the

Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT).

Dr. Josh Levitsky received funding (NIAID $427K) for an R21,

“Biomarkers : Discovery, Validation and Translation”, which lev‐

erages biological specimens garnered from Dr. Abecassis’ Clini‐

cal Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT) Consortium grant as

well as through a collaboration with the Baylor Research Insti‐

tute’s Biorepository. He also received funding to start expanding

liver t‐regulatory cells as a basis for liver tolerance research.

Dr. John Friedewald received funding from NIAID ($160K) in the

form of an administrative supplement to complement Dr. Abe‐

cassis’ CTOT grant to pursue studies in peripheral blood and

urine proteomics.

Dr. Bing Ho received $25K from Bristol‐Myers Squibb for “An

Historical‐Cohort Multi‐Center, Observational Study to Identify

and Characterize Calcineurin Inhibitor Usage Patterns Post‐

Transplant and Impact on Allograft Outcome”.

Dr. Michael Ison will be conducting a new clinical trial spon‐

sored by Chimerix ($336K): “A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Pla‐

cebo‐Controlled, Parallel‐Group, Multicenter, Phase 3 Study of the

Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of CMX001 for the Prevention of

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection in CMV‐seropositive (R+) He‐

matopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients”

Dr. Laura Kulik will be starting a new clinical trial sponsored by

Biotest Pharmaceuticals ($167K): “A Multi‐Center, Randomized,

Prospective, Open‐Label Phase III Study to Evaluate the Efficacy,

Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Hepatitis C Immune Globulin

Intravenous (Human), Civacir®, in Orthotopic Liver Transplant

Recipients”.

Dr. Xunrong Luo is continuing her work with islet transplant

patients through the Clinical Islet Transplantation (CIT) consor‐

tium.

Dr. Ramille Shah, head of the Tissue Engineering and Additive

Manufacturing Lab, received a K01 (NIDDK $130K) to study

“Multifunctional Printed Scaffolds for Enhancing Hepatocyte Vi‐

ability and Function”.

Dr. Valentina Stosor received funding from HRSA ($29K) for

“Hemophilia Liver Transplantation OLTX Observational Study

(HOTS)”, a retrospective review of transplant registry data from

Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) involving

eight U.S. hemophilia transplant centers.

The CTC continues to maintain a robust clinical research portfolio. In

addition to the studies above, we are leading large, multi‐center, NIH‐

funded trials in liver and kidney biomarkers as part of the CTOT Con‐

sortium through a cooperative agreement with the NIAID. In addi‐

tion, over the course of the past 12 years, we have been one of the larg‐

est enrolling sites in a multi‐center national study evaluating outcomes

of adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplant through a cooperative

agreement with the NIDDK. Through industry‐sponsored clinical re‐

search agreements, Dr. Talia Baker has been spearheading studies that

evaluate the use of fibrin patches and fibrin glue to control hemostasis

in hepatic resection and living donor liver patients. We continue to

conduct studies on the effectiveness of new hepatitis drugs and have

several pharmaceutical company‐sponsored studies evaluating the

effectiveness of new drug combinations to prevent early kidney rejec‐

tion. Our kidney transplant combined with a stem cell transplant tri‐

als are yielding exciting results in inducing tolerance.

We have worked with INVO to form two companies that have their

foundation in our research. Transplant Genomics Inc. (TGI) was born

out of our collaboration in biomarker discovery with The Scripps Re‐

search Institute (TSRI). Dr. Michael Abecassis is a Founding Director

and serves as the Chief Clinical Advisor and Dr. Dan Salomon from

Scripps, the other Founding Director, is the Chief Scientific Advisor.

TGI recently raised $3M and has signed sponsored research agree‐

ments with both Northwestern and TSRI to further develop peripheral

blood gene expression signatures diagnostic and predictive of graft

injury including rejections.

Dr. Joseph Leventhal was part of forming the second company, TRACT

(T‐Reg Adaptive Cell Transfer) Therapeutics, which is in the process of

licensing the technology we have developed. TRACT Therapeutics

will support ongoing CTC clinical trials with therapeutic cell transfer



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using regulatory T cells (T‐regs) for the control of the human immune

system, representing a compelling approach to reduce or eliminate the

need for anti‐rejection drugs.

We are continuing to build the CTC Biorepository by accelerating col‐

lection of biological samples from transplant patients and furthering

our partnership with TSRI and TGI. In a collaborative effort, we are

working to improve transplant outcomes using “precision medicine”,

which hinges on the ability to characterize individuals based on a wide

range of molecular and phenotypic data—genomic, epigenomic, pro‐

teomic and other—that together convey a more accurate image of di‐

agnosis that is personalized and multifaceted. Together with TSRI and

TGI, we are committed to improving organ transplant outcomes with

noninvasive serial monitoring guided by genomics by developing tests

that predict organ rejection without the need for a biopsy. As part of

our efforts to engage Key Opinion Leaders in the field of transplanta‐

tion, we will be coordinating a proof‐of‐concept trial with UC‐Davis

this year sponsored by TGI.

The Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes Research Collabo‐

rative (NUTORC), led by Dr. Daniela Ladner, has continued expanding

trans‐disciplinary health services and outcomes research in transplan‐

tation. In addition to the ongoing relationships with other NU schools

and departments, we have started engaging new industry partners,

which we anticipate leading to long‐term collaborations.

Education

Our transplant surgery fellowship, directed by Dr. Joseph Leventhal,

was re‐accredited for five more years by the American Society for

Transplantation Surgery (ASTS). We had very successful fellowship

recruitment this year, interviewing 13 highly qualified candidates and

matching with our top two choices. This year’s match was very com‐

petitive. Of the 70 positions available at 63 programs, 13 positions did

not match, including positions at some of the country’s largest pro‐

grams.

Dr. Jonathan Fryer is serving as the Interim Vice‐Chair of Education in

the Department of Surgery. In addition to this role, he leads trans‐

plant’s education activities for residents and medical students. He also

coordinates the didactic learning for CTC fellows, which includes a

weekly lecture series.

Our three T32 fellows are beginning the second year of the Transplant

Scientist Training Program. Lisa McElroy, MD is on the NUTORC

track and in the past year, she has been conducting outcomes research

in the area of postoperative patient handoff assessment and implemen‐

tation of handoff interventions. She was also selected to receive a

highly competitive award from the NIH/NMA Travel Awards program

to attend the 112th National Medical Association Convention and Sci‐

entific Symposium. John Paul Savaryn, PhD and Derrick McCarthy,

PhD and are both on the NUCTRIBE track. Dr. Savaryn’s focus over

the past year has been basic/translational research in the area of mo‐

lecular mechanisms governing cytomegalovirus reactivation from la‐

tency identification. Dr. McCarthy’s research examines mechanisms of

peripheral tolerance induction in models of transplantation and auto‐

immunity, including allogeneic islet transplantation, bone marrow

transplantation, graft‐versus‐host disease, experimental autoimmune

encephalomyelitis, and type 1 diabetes.

Twenty‐two students, including medical students and undergraduates,

participated in the CTC Summer Student Immersion Program. In this

program, every student is given a project and assigned a mentor for the

summer. As part of the project, they must formulate a hypothesis and

execute a succinct hypothesis driven project. A critical review of the

literature is performed, data are collected and analyzed, and results are

summarized and presented to the entire research team. This is the

second year of this program in its formal structure. Students from last

year’s program had 3 publications and 18 abstracts accepted. One of

these students, who is in his third‐year of medical school, was awarded

an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) 2014 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Re‐

search Fellowship to continue his project.

RAPID: Real‐time Analytics and Process Improvement Dashboard Under the direction of Dr. Bing Ho and in collaboration with Dr. Anton Skaro, the CTC has developed software to help trans‐

plant centers across the country with their quality improvement efforts. The product, RAPID (Real‐time Analysis and Process

Improvement Dashboard RAPID), provides outcomes and quality dashboards to individual transplant centers relevant to UNOS

and SRTR reporting. The system is intended to be easily extensible and sufficiently generic to support any future evolution to

center specific or SRTR reporting. Because of its value to transplant centers, we have made the software free and available

through the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. For more information, please visit http://asts.org/resources/knowledge‐

base/rapid‐real‐time‐analytics‐and‐process‐improvement‐dashboard .



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From left to right:

Dr. John Kim

Dr. Robert Galiano

Dr. Gregory Dumanian

Dr. Mohammed Alghoul

Clinical Care/Education

The Division of Plastic Surgery continues in its growth and educational advancements. For education, there were over 250 applications

for the two coveted PGY‐1 spots. One‐third of the interviewed candidates were AOA and 68% were from the Top 25 Medical schools.

Of the two graduating chief residents, Dr. Elliot Hirsch has relocated to the Los Angeles area where he is continuing his career in plastic

surgery private practice. Dr. Jordan Steinberg obtained a Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

where he will continue to pursue his career in academic medicine. Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Cheesborough and Dr. Elliot Hirsch

for being recognized as this year’s Resident as Teacher’s Award Winners.

Research

Dr. Robert Galiano serves as the Director of Research for the Division and is being promoted to Associate Professor on September 1. The

Laboratory for Tissue Repair and Regenerative Surgery, led by Dr. Galiano, has commenced 2 studies sponsored by the Department of

Defense as part of the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine Consortium (AFIRM2) bringing in nearly 2 million dollars over

the next 5 years. The number of translational clinical trials in the Division also continues to grow, with 6 clinical research studies being

performed by Dr. Galiano’s team in the areas of scarring and wound healing.

Recruitment and Faculty News

Dr. Mohammed Alghoul has successfully completed board certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Clark Schierle, a

former graduate, has joined the contributed services faculty. At Lurie Children’s Hospital, Dr. Joshua Adkinson has joined the faculty

from the University of Michigan, specializing in Pediatric Hand and Microsurgery.

Dr. Arun Gosain, Chief of Pediatric Plastic Surgery at Lurie Children’s Hospital, was named the Millard Visiting Professor, Indian Society

of Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies for 2014. Dr. Gosain was awarded over $100,000 in grant funding to further his re‐

search in the genetic study of craniosynotosis.

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From left to right:

Dr. Mamta Swaroop

Dr. Marie Crandall

Emily Franchi

Christine Schilling, RN

Dr. Steven Schwulst

Dr. Michael Shapiro

Dr. Nabil Issa Not pictured: Elizabeth Beck, PA

Clinical Care

The Trauma and Surgical Critical Care services have seen sig‐

nificant clinical growth in the last year. Violence and injury in

the Chicago area continue at a brisk pace, and the Trauma

program at NMH continues to participate robustly as a Level 1

Trauma Center. Even as division faculty participate in commu‐

nity and state initiatives to reduce the incidence of violent

crime, the need for this service remains very pressing. Emer‐

gency General Surgery services have expanded dramatically,

maintaining a high level of practice diversity and quality out‐

comes. The Critical Care Service has been valued as a local and

tertiary referral resource, and it has recently expanded with

the inclusion of lung transplant patients.

Education

The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship has begun its sixth year

with two new fellows. Prior graduates have taken a variety of

academic and clinical positions around the country, and all

have successfully completed the Surgical Critical Care certifi‐

cation exam. Division faculty members were recognized again

this year by the Department of Surgery for excellence in teach‐

ing. Faculty members have assumed leadership positions in

the medical school curriculum committee and the surgical

residency program, and have been recognized nationally for

work in curriculum development.

Research

Divisional research activity remains diverse and productive.

Faculty members have been recognized locally and nationally

for work in public health and crime prevention, international

health, basic science, and education research. A substantial

list of awards, publications, and presentations attest to the

robust effort of the faculty. Faculty members have assumed

administrative key leadership positions within the medical

school and hospital.

Division of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery


Dr. Marie Crandall speaking with CBS Chicago about how

medical advancements to treat gunshot victims have

evolved over time and how these advancements continue

to save lives.

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From left to right: Heron Rodriguez, MD; Melina Kibbe, MD; William Pearce, MD; Karen Ho, MD; Mark Eskandari, MD; Andrew Hoel, MD

Clinical Care

The 38th annual Northwestern Vascular Symposium was held in Chicago on December 12-14, 2013. The symposium provided a comprehensive analysis of the current management of vascular disease as it relates to treatment of extracranial cerebrovascular and supra-aortic trunk disease, new approaches to lower extremity arterial an venous problems, recent cutting-edge developments in open and endovascular approaches to treat aortic and visceral arterial disease, novel techniques for hemodialysis access, complex venous problems, and upper extremity disorders. Fifty-one world-renowned physicians presented on their areas of exper-tise. One-hundred-thirty-six registered attendees represented the United States and several other countries.

Faculty News

It is with much sadness that we learned of the death of John J. Ber‐

gan, M.D., on June 11, 2014. Dr. Bergan’s illustrious career spanned

more than 50 years. He began his medical career as a clinical assis‐

tant in surgery at Northwestern University Medical School. He

rose through the ranks at Northwestern and served as the chief of

the Division of Transplantation at Northwestern University Medi‐

cal School from 1969 to 1976. When the Division of Vascular Sur‐

gery was formed in 1976, Dr. Bergan was appointed as the first divi‐

sion chief (1976‐1988). Along with Dr. James Yao, Dr. Bergan es‐

tablished one of the earliest clinical vascular fellowship programs

in 1976 at Northwestern. This fellowship program was the genesis

for many future leaders of vascular surgery. In 1989, Dr. Bergan left

Northwestern for southern California where he concentrated on

developing clinical and basic research in venous disease. In 2013,

the Division initiated the John J. Bergan Lectureship to acknowl‐

edge the many contributions of Dr. Bergan. The second annual

lecture was held on March 6, 2014, with Dr. William Flinn present‐

ing “I’ve Heard So Much About You”: John Bergan and the North‐

western Vascular Fellowship. Dr. Flinn was one of the many benefi‐

ciaries of Dr. Bergan’s teaching and mentorship.

We congratulate our two graduating fellows, Dr. Ashley Vavra and

Dr. Hari Kumar, who are going on to practice in Denver and Indi‐

anapolis, respectively. Four Vascular Surgery trainees received

awards from the Department of Surgery. Dr. Ashley Vavra received

the Perlman Leadership Award and the Fellow as Teacher Award.

Dr. Hari Kumar and Dr. Tad Tomita received Fellow as Teacher

Awards. Dr. Dustin Yoon received the Resident as Teacher Award.

Research

The Division was awarded renewed funding by the NIH for the

Vascular Surgery Scientist Training Program (T32), which funds

two‐year research positions. The program has been expanded to

include incoming positions for a PhD as well as two surgery resi‐

dents each year. The incoming trainees for July 1, 2014, are Dr.

Kimberly Zamor, who is working with Dr. Andrew Hoel on out‐

comes research; Dr. Molly Wasserman, who will work with Dr.

Melina Kibbe in the vascular basic science laboratory; and Dr.

Jonathan Rink, who will concentrate on nanomaterials research

under the direction of Dr. Shad Thaxton. Drs. Mila Ju and Jill Rich‐

mond Streams completed the training program this past June. Dr.

Ju, who is our first Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency trainee,

has joined the Division in the position of first year fellow. Dr.

Streams has returned to the DOS General Surgery Residency pro‐

gram.

Education

The Division welcomed Dr. Katherine Hekman to the Vascular

Surgery residency program. In addition, Dr. Dustin Yoon contin‐

ues in the residency program progression to assume the position as

first‐year fellow and Dr. Mila Ju returns to the program from a two‐

year research position with the American College of Surgeons

(funded by the Division’s T32 grant).

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The NLFH Department of Surgery has joined two Quality Initiatives: ISQIC/NSQIP and HEN. The Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement

Collaborative is a partnership of nearly 50 Illinois hospitals working together with the American College of Surgeons National Surgical

Quality Improvement Program. It will allow us to gather data regarding performance, identify problem areas, and enact meaningful

improvement. Dr. Tara Breslin is the Surgeon Champion for this project.

The Healthcare Engagement Network (HEN) is a QI project of the Joint Commission and CMS. As a part of this network, NLFH will be

focusing on reducing surgical site infections in colon surgery. The goal in addition to reducing the infection rate is to try to standardize

practices in colon surgery.

Dr. Tara Breslin published two articles the past year: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Opportunities for Improve‐

ment Project. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2014 Feb, and Implementing Distress management Guidelines in Ambulatory Oncology:a Qual‐

ity improvement Project. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2014, Feb. Dr. Andrew Parsa and his team of neurosurgeons are now the only neurosur‐

geons covering the NLFH Emergency department, bring‐

ing their expertise to the patients of Lake County.

Robotic surgery began at NLFH in the fall of 2013 and has

been a great success. Specialists in Gyne‐Oncology, Urol‐

ogy, Gynecology and Uro‐Gynecology are credentialed

and utilizing the robotic system.

Lastly, the final Certificate of Need for construction of the

new hospital was approved by the state in June. Con‐

struction will begin within the next month and was cele‐

brated with a ground‐breaking ceremony on August 22,

2014. The project is scheduled for completion Fall of 2017.

The Northwestern Lake Forest Department of Surgery tragically lost one of its youngest members, Dr. Victor Tsirline, on Novem‐ber 23, 2014. He was killed in an accident that occurred while driving to the hospital to attend to a patient.

Though Dr. Tsirline was with us all too briefly, only 1 ½ years, his engaging personality, ever‐present smile, boundless energy, and warm personal kindness touched the lives of many: patients, hospital staff, and doctors alike.

A memorial service held at NLFH was standing room only as people from every facet of the hospital came to honor the life of Dr. Victor Tsirline. He is thought of and remembered frequently. I often say while in the operating room: “This is what Victor taught me” as I utilize a technique or an idea he shared. He had much more to teach and much more good to bring to the lives of those around him. He is sorely missed.

Department of Surgery—Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital

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Clinical Care

The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) has

awarded the ECMO program at Lurie Children's Hospital its

Award for Excellence. The ELSO Award signifies to patients

and families a commitment to exceptional patient care. It

also demonstrates to the healthcare community an assurance

of high quality standards, specialized equipment and sup‐

plies, defined patient protocols, and advanced education of

all staff members. The ELSO Award for Excellence in Life

Support is valid September 2014 – September 2017.

Education

Carl Backer, MD, Head of Cardiovascular‐Thoracic Surgery,

was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Thoracic Sur‐

gery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) as rep‐

resentative of the Society for Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Backer’s

three‐year term began in January 2014.

Arun Gosain, MD, Head of Plastic Surgery was named Vice

President of Administrative Affairs to the Plastic Surgery

Foundation (PSF), an arm of the American Society of Plastic

Surgery/Plastic Surgery Foundation, the primary national

organization in plastic surgery. The PSF focuses on promo‐

tion of education, research, and scholarship in plastic sur‐

gery, and it serves as the major granting body for plastic sur‐

gery‐initiated research. The appointment initiates Dr. Go‐

sain’s ascendency to President of the PSF over the next four

years.

Bradley Kulat, CCP, LP, Coordinator of Perfusion Services for

Cardiovascular‐Thoracic Surgery, was appointed to the Ex‐

ecutive Committee for the American Board of Cardiovascular

Perfusion (ABCP) as Secretary. The ABCP represents over

4000 cardiac perfusionists nationwide.

Research

The Division of Plastic Surgery continues to greatly advance

and expand its research programs. Led by Division Head

Arun Gosain, MD, and Jolanta Topczewska, PhD, the Gosain

laboratory studies early postnatal development of the skull

and face using a zebrafish model. The laboratory recently

had four research papers accepted for presentation at the

Plastic Surgery Research Council (PSRC) Meeting in 2014.

The lab also received the First Place Basic Science Award at

the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Association of

Plastic Surgeons. The award recipient was Joanna P.

Tomaszewski, Research Associate, for the project, "The im‐

pact of mutated Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (Fgfr1) on

calvarial bone and suture development using transgenesis

and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.”

Photo courtesy of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

In 2014, Ann and Robert H. Lurie

Children’s Hospital was ranked as

the 8th best children's hospital in

the country. Also, they were the

only pediatric hospital in Illinois to

be ranked by U.S. News &

World Report in all 10 special‐

ties. No other Illinois hospital

scored higher in any one specialty

area. Lurie Children's was also in‐

cluded in the US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals

Honor Roll for scoring in the top 10% in at least three special‐

ties. They were one of 10 hospitals in the country to be given

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Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (JBVAMC)

is the only VA healthcare facility in the city

of Chicago and includes a 170‐bed inpatient

facility on Chicago’s Westside adjacent to

Stroger Hospital and University of Illinois at

Chicago campus. JBVAMC accommodates

more than 8,000 inpatient admissions an‐

nually. JBVAMC also includes five outpa‐

tient facilities scattered about Chicago and

northwest Indiana that accommodates

more than 600,000 outpatient visits annu‐

ally. The “VA” is affiliated with both North‐

western University Feinberg School of

Medicine and the University of Illinois at

Chicago College of Medicine.

Surgical Service encompasses ten Surgical

Sections (General including Bariatrics and

Critical Care, Orthopaedics, Optometry,

Opthalmology, Otolaryngology, Plastics,

Podiatry, Thoracic, Urology, and Vascular),

53 providers (including 14 full‐time faculty),

and 8 allied health personnel. Approxi‐

mately 200 residents spend time at the VA

in a given year and approximately 35 are

present at any one time. These staff care for

~21,000 veterans annually and perform

~3,200 operations annually in the Operating

Room theatre at JBVAMC.

Clinical Care

Surgical Service continues to engage ac‐

tively in recruiting activity that has yielded

five new faculty in the past year. Five addi‐

tional faculty will join our staff over the

next several months including two Ortho‐

paedic surgeons, two Otolaryngologists, and

a Plastic/Hand surgeon. There are now 17

Full‐Time faculty providers and all but one

section is led by a Full‐Time faculty. Of the

~20.5 MD FTEs in Surgical Service, thirteen

FTE’s are occupied by Full‐Time Faculty.

This initiative to recruit and maintain more

Full‐time faculty has been a major thrust of

VA Surgical recruitment over the past sev‐

eral years as it enhances both continuity of

patient care and provides stable clinical

leadership.

Surgical Service has enjoyed two very suc‐

cessful, new clinical programs in Bariatric

Surgery and in Robotic Surgery. The Bariat‐

ric program, under

the leadership of

Dr. Joseph Vitello,

is now five years

old and boasts

excellent patient

outcomes in terms

of both safety and

weight loss. The

program is well‐

regarded and Vet‐

eran patients from

all over the Mid‐

west have come to

our Medical Center

for care.

The Robotic Surgery program, under the

leadership of Dr. Joshua Meeks, Department

of Urology, NUFSM, has also received rec‐

ognition for its excellent patient outcomes

since its inception two years ago. Patients

from all over the US and Puerto Rico have

been referred for care at JBVAMC.

Our Chief Residents in General Surgery

have enjoyed operative experience in a vari‐

ety of surgical areas including colorectal,

oncologic, thoracic, breast, bariatrics, mini‐

mally invasive and traditional general sur‐

gery. Dr. David Bentrem provides expertise

in Surgical Oncology, Dr. Joseph Vitello and

Abigail Tarbox provide expertise in General

and Bariatric Surgery, and Dr. Jose Cintron

provides expertise in Colo‐Rectal Surgery

from which our residents and patients

greatly benefit. Drs. Vitello and Tarbox par‐

ticipate with Dr. Stuart Lipnick to maintain

24/7/365 coverage of our SICU and Acute

Care Surgery model for inpatient and emer‐

gency surgical care for the hospital.

This coming year will see the departures of

Dr. Jay Prystowsky as Service Chief and Dr.

Alberto de Hoyos as Thoracic Surgery Sec‐

tion Chief.

For 2014‐2015, we anticipate recruitment of

a permanent Service Chief. Our long‐term

goals include volume expansion to 4,000

cases annually and new clinical programs in

Urologic Reconstruction, Facial Scar Revi‐

sion and Extremity Nerve Reimplantation to

address service‐connected military injuries

sustained by our Veteran patient popula‐

tion.

Education

The VA rotations continue to be a valuable

asset in the residency curriculum. Attending

supervision is available in all venues of clini‐

cal care, yet residents enjoy substantial

autonomy in decision‐making and most

aspects of patient care. Rotation evaluations

by residents and students are highly favor‐

able in this regard and the VA provides a

complementary clinical experience for the

resident staff.

Research

JBVAMC continues to play a valuable role in

the Department of Surgery research mis‐

sion. Dr. Melina Kibbe enjoys VA research

support through the VA Merit Review pro‐

gram. Drs. David Bentrem and Jason

Wertheim are both actively pursuing re‐

search support through the same program.

Dr. Adam Murphy in the Department of

Urology, NUFSM, obtained a VA Career

Development Award that is a 5‐year com‐

mitment by the VA to fund a young investi‐

gator’s research.

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As partners in Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Health Care are endeavoring to create a national epicenter for healthcare, education, research, community service, and advocacy. Together, with our patients, physicians and scientists, students, trainees, alumni, employees, and many friends, we have an unprecedented opportunity to transform health‐care and to stand among the world’s top academic medical centers.

Supporters of We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern Medicine will provide crucial resources that will propel innovation and excellence across our great academic medical center. Ultimately, Northwestern Medicine will impact the health of humankind through the:

talented people we recruit and retain to teach students, conduct research, and serve our patients;

breakthrough research investigations we lead;

world‐class research and care facilities we build to foster our missions; and the

educational and outreach efforts we champion to support and improve the lives of our students, trainees, alumni, faculty and staff, patients, and local and global communities.

Our vision for the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is clear and compelling—to become one of the nation’s preeminent academic surgery departments as measured by the excellence of our faculty and students, the success and innovative nature of our research and educational programs, and the quality of clinical care we provide to patients.

Committed individuals and their philanthropic support are integral to advancing the research and education activities of the Department of Surgery. Generous and caring individuals are helping us achieve our research, education and patient care missions every day.

Gifts of cash or appreciated property have an immediate impact on the daily efforts of our surgeons, residents, fellows, and investigators. Do‐nors can use planned giving vehicles—such as charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, or their estate documents—to provide vital support. Each tax‐deductible gift is essential to improving patient care, advancing research into life‐altering conditions, educating future scien‐tists and surgeons, and ensuring a brighter future for those who live with spinal and musculoskeletal disorders.

To support the Department of Surgery through We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern Medicine, please contact Ian Jipp, Assistant Dean for Development at [email protected] or (312) 503‐3088.

Philanthropy: Northwestern Medicine Launches We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern Medicine

Philanthropic funding priorities of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine:

Named Endowed Professorship—Surgical Education $3 million

Endowed and Named Research or Clinical Fellowship Fund $1 million

Endowed and Named Distinguished Educator $500,000

Endowed and Named Lectureship Fund $100,000

Annual Support for Clinical and Research Fellows $75,000/year

Annual Support for a Distinguished Educator $25,000/year

Information Services: Working Quietly

For the most part, Surgery members see the IT team at their desktops, making sure that every‐one has all the tools they need to get their jobs done. And in fact, this has been a big part of the Department of Surgery IT work over the years. The team has been the largest ‐ and pos‐sibly busiest ‐ departmental IT group at Feinberg School of Medicine. But behind the scenes, away from the day to day demands, the team also supports the longer range research needs of the Department. Tom Kmiecik de‐signs, builds and maintains nearly 20 different

custom applications, including research software and tools, that help Surgery maintain its Morbidity & Mortality process. Bennett Terwil‐liger supports the servers behind these applications, making sure they are up‐to‐date and running properly. In the last five years, Surgery has had only one outage of these applications. It’s an enviable performance record.

The goal of all these design and support efforts is research. For the IT Team, it’s fair to say that “research is one of our key products.” This year, we specifically acknowledge the work of Tom Kmiecik and his participation in Surgery’s published research:

Mohanty MD, Liu Y, Paruch, JL, Kmiecik TE, Cohen ME, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. Risk of Discharge to Post‐Acute Care: a Patient‐Centered Out‐

come for the American College of Surgeons National Quality Surgi‐cal Improvement Program Surgical Risk Calculator. Submitted for publication

Merkow RP, Bentrem DJ, Mulcahy MF, Chung JW, Abbott DE, Kmiecik TE, Stewart AK, Winchester DP, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. Effect of postop‐erative complications on adjuvant chemotherapy use for stage III colon cancer. Ann Surg. 2013 Dec;258(6):847‐53.

Bilimoria KY, Liu Y, Paruch JL, Zhou L, Kmiecik TE, Ko CY, Cohen ME. Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for pa‐tients and surgeons. J Am Coll Surg. 2013 Nov;217(5):833‐42.

Fought AJ, McGathey C, Scholtens DM, Heinz RE, Lowe R, Feeney YB, Lee O, Kmiecik TE, Wolfman JA, Clevenger CV, Gann PH, Gapstur S, Chatterton RT, Khan SA. Hormonal determinants of nipple aspirate fluid yiel among breast cancer cases and screening controls. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Dec;22(12):2277‐84.

Merkow RP, Kmiecik TE, Bentrem DJ, Winchester DP, Stewart AK, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. Effect of including cancer‐specific variables on models examining short‐term outcomes. Cancer. 2013 Apr 1;119(7):1412‐9.

Sanders D, Kmiecik T. Personalized medicine gets practical. Healthc Inform. 2009 May;26(5):50‐1.

Bilimoria KY, Kmiecik TE, DaRosa DA, Halverson A, Eskandari MK, Bell RH Jr, Soper NJ, Wayne JD. Development of an online morbidity, mortality, and near‐miss reporting system to identify patterns of adverse events in surgical patients. Arch Surg. 2009 Apr;144(4):305‐11.

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Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA Presentations Invited Speaker, Interdisciplinary Transplant Con‐ference, Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Biomarker discovery and functional genomics in transplantation: Where are we? Where are we going? How do we get here?” January 13, 2014. Invited Speaker, 13th Middle East Surgery Confer‐ence, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. New Technolo‐gies in Surgery. Minimally Invasive liver donor hepatectomy. Translating an experience with liver resections. January 30, 2014. Invited Speaker, American Association for the Ad‐vancement of Science, Chicago, Illinois. Transplant Organ Shortage: Informing National Policies using Management Sciences. February 14, 2014. Panel Member, The Transplant Society International Workshop for Clinical Tolerance. Boston, Massa‐chusetts. March 14‐15, 2014 Invited Speaker, OptumHealth, Advances in the Management of Oncology, Stem Cell and Solid Or‐gan Transplant Patients: Is there an ethically ac‐ceptable threshold for live donor risk? April 30, 2014. Invited Speaker, Surgical Grand Rounds, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Leslie E. Rudolf Lecture. Innovation and Intrapreneurship: From Institutes to Incorporation. May 7, 2014. Invited Speaker, Northwestern Medicine Campus Fellows Program, Chicago, Illinois. Quality and Breakthroughs – The role of research and education in advancing quality at Northwestern Medicine. July 18, 2014. Invited Speaker, World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, California. Human Immunology: Are Mice Like Men? July 27, 2014. Invited Speaker, World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, California. Liver Donors: Short and Long‐term Risks. Financial Impact of Living Donation. July 28, 2014. Publications Leventhal JR, Mathew JM, Salomon DR, Kurian SM, Suthanthiran M, Tambur A, Friedewald J, Gallon L, Charette J, Levitsky J, Kanwar Y, Abecassis M, Miller J. Genomic biomarkers correlate with HLA‐identical renal transplant tolerance. Brief Commu‐nication. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Sep; 24(9):1376‐85. Epub 2013 Jun 20. PMCID: PMC3752953 Salem R, Gilbertsen M, Butt Z, Memon K, Vouche M, Hickey R, Baker T, Abecassis MM, Atassi R, Riaz A, Cella D, Burns JL, Ganger D, Benson AB 3rd, Mul‐cahy MF, Kulik L, Lewandowski R. Increased Quality of Life Among Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Treated With Radioembolization, Compared With Chemoembolization. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013 doi:pii: S1542‐3565(13)00597‐1.10.1016/j.cgh.2013.04.028. [Epub ahead of print] Kulik L, Vouche M, Koppe S, Lewandowski RJ, Mul‐cahy MF, Ganger D, Habib A, Karp J, Al‐Saden P, Lacouture M, Cotliar J, Abecassis M, Baker T, Salem R. Prospective Randomized Pilot Study of Y90 +/‐ Sorafenib as Bridge to Transplantation in Hepatocel‐lular Carcinoma. Hepatology 2014 Mar 27. pii: S0168‐8278(14)00204‐9. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep. 2014.03.023. [Epub ahead of print]PubMed PMID: 24681342. Gordon EJ, Reddy E, Gil S, Feinglass J, Rodde J, Abe‐cassis MM, Caicedo JC. Culturally competent trans‐plant program improves Hispanics' knowledge and attitudes about live kidney donation and transplant. Prog Transplant. 2014 Mar;24(1):56‐68. doi: 0.7182/pit2014378. PubMed PMID: 24598567. Chang Y, Gallon L, Jay C, Shetty K, Ho B, Levitsky J, Baker T, Ladner D, Friedewald J, Abecassis M, Hazen G, Skaro AI. Comparative Effectiveness of Liver Transplant Strategies for End‐Stage Liver Dis‐ease Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy. Liver Transpl. 2014 Apr 29. doi: 10.1002/lt.23899. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24777647.

Kurian SM, Williams AN, Gelbart T, Campbell D, Mondala TS, Head SR, Horvath S, Gaber L, Thomp‐son R, Whisenant T, Lin W, Langfelder P, Robison EH, Schaffer RL, Fisher JS, Friedewald J, Flechner SM, Chan LK, Wiseman AC, Shidban H, Mendez R, Heilman R, Abecassis MM, Marsh CL, Salomon DR. Molecular classifiers for acute kidney transplant rejection in peripheral blood by whole genome gene expression profiling. Am J Transplant. 2014 May;14(5):1164‐72. doi: 10.1111/ajt.12671. Epub 2014 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 24725967. Skaro AI, Zhao L, Vanwagner LB, Abecassis MM. Access to retransplantation after failed donation after circulatory death liver transplantation: eo ire itum. Am J Transplant. 2014 May;14(5):991‐3. doi: 10.1111/ajt.12701. Epub 2014 Apr 14. PubMed PMID: 24731190. Davis AE, Mehrotra S, McElroy LM, Friedewald JJ, Skaro AI, Lapin B, Kang R, Holl JL, Abecassis MM, Ladner DP. The extent and predictors of waiting time geographic disparity in kidney transplantation in the United States. Transplantation. 2014 May 2 7 ; 9 7 ( 1 0 ) : 1 0 4 9 ‐ 5 7 . doi:10.1097/01.tp.0000438623.89310.dc PubMed PMID: 24374790. Davis AE, Mehrotra S, Kilambi V, Kang J, McElroy L, Lapin B, Holl J, Abecassis M, Friedewald JJ, Ladner DP. The Effect of the Statewide Sharing Variance on Geographic Disparity in Kidney Transplantation in the United States. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Jun 26. pii: CJN.05350513. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24970871. Vouche M, Habib A, Ward TJ, Kim E, Kulik L, Ganger D, Mulcahy M, Baker T, Abecassis M, Sato KT, Caicedo JC, Fryer J, Hickey R, Hohlastos E, Lewandowski RJ, Salem R. Unresectable solitary hepatocellular carcinoma not amenable to adiofre‐quency ablation: Multicenter radiology‐pathology correlation and survival of radiation segmentec‐tomy. Hepatology. 2014 Jul;60(1):192‐201. doi: 10.1002/hep.27057. Epub 2014 May 27. PubMed PMID: 24691943. Travis O. Abicht, MD Publications Abicht TO, Andrei AC, Kruse J, McDonald E, Li Z, McCarthy PM. A Simple Approach to Mitral Valve Repair: Posterior Leaflet Height Adjustment Using a Partial Fold of the Free Edge. JTCVS‐14‐423R1 August, 2014. Sauer AJ, Meehan K, Gordon R, Abicht T, Rich JD, Anderson AS, Yancy C, Mcgee, EC. Echocardio‐graphic Markers of Left Ventricular Unloading Us‐ing a Centrifugal‐Flow Rotary Pump. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014 Apr;33(4):449. Epub 2013 Dec 27. Mohammed Alghoul, MD Publications Moiton LM, Alghoul MS, Kim JY. Aesthet Surg J. 2014 Feb;34(2):317‐23. doi: 10.1177/1090820X13519796. Epub 2014 Jan 15. Adin‐Cristian Andrei, PhD Presentations Invited Speaker. Valves in the Heart of the Big Apple Meeting, Gender differences among bicuspid aortic valve patients undergoing aortic valve replacement: what are the implications?, New York, NY, May 9, 2014. Invited Speaker. Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society Meeting, Pro‐pensity score matching with survival outcomes: critical considerations in the choice of the caliper size, Baltimore, MD, March 17, 2014. Publications Mulla, I., Schmidt, K., Cashy, J., Wallia, A., Andrei, A.‐C., Johnson Oakes, D., Aleppo, G., Grady, K.L., McGee, E., Molitch, M.E. Comparison of Glycemic and Surgical Outcomes after Change in Glycemic Targets in Cardiac Surgery Patients. Diabetes Care, in press. Abicht, T.O., Andrei, A.‐C., Kruse, J., McDonald, E., Li, Z., McCarthy, P.M. A Simple Approach to Mitral

Valve Repair: Posterior Leaflet Height Adjustment Using a Partial Fold of the Free Edge. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, in press. Malaisrie, S.C., McDonald, E., Kruse J., McGee, E.C., Abicht, T., Russell, H., McCarthy, P.M., Andrei, A.‐C. 1 Mortality While Waiting for Aortic Valve Re‐placement. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, in press. Rinewalt, D., McCarthy, P.M. , Malaisrie, S.C., Fedak, P.W.M., Andrei, A.‐C., Puthumana, J.J., Bonow, R.O. Impact of Aortic Aneurysm Replace‐ment on Outcomes After Bicuspid Aortic Valve Surgery: Validation of Contemporary Guidelines. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, in press. Andrei, A.‐C., Grady, K. L. Visualization and Dy‐namics of Multidimensional Health‐Related Quality‐of‐Life‐Adjusted Overall Survival: A New Analytic Approach. Quality of Life Research 2014 Jun; 23(5): 1411‐1419. Han, S., Andrei, A.‐C. and Tsui, K.‐W. A semi‐parametric regression method for interval‐censored data. Communications in Statistics ‐ Simulation and Computation 2014; 43(1): 18‐30. Pang, P. S., Collins, S. P., Sauser, K., Andrei, A.‐C., Storrow, A. B., Hollander, J., Tavares, M., Spinar, J., Macarie, C., Raev, D., Nowak, R., Gheorghiade, M., Mebazaa, A. Assessment of Dyspnea Early in Acute Heart Failure: Patient Characteristics and Response Differences Between Likert and Visual Analog Scales. Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Jun; 21(6): 659‐666. Chacko, S.J., Ansari, A.H., McCarthy, P.M., Malais‐rie, S.C., Lapin, B.L., Andrei, A.‐C., Lee, R., McGee, E., Puthumana, J.J. Response to letter regarding article, "prosthesis‐patient mismatch in bovine peri‐cardial aortic valves: evaluation using 3 different modalities and associated medium‐term outcomes". Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2014, 7(1), 210. Akhter, N., Zhao, Q., Andrei, A.‐C., Kane, B., McCarthy, P.M., Rigolin, V. Identification of Prolapsing Mitral Valve Scallops by a 3‐Dimensional Multiplanar Reconstruction Method. Echocardiogra‐phy Journal, in press. Wallia, A., Gupta, S., Garcia, C., Schmidt, K., John‐son Oakes, D., Aleppo, G., Glossop, V., Andrei, A.‐C., Grady, K., McGee, E., Molitch, M. E. Examination of Implementation of Intravenous and Subcutane‐ous Insulin Protocols and Glycemic Control in Heart Transplant Patients. Endocrine Practice, in press. Chacko, S.J., Ansari, A.H., McCarthy, P.M., Malais‐rie, S.C., Lapin, B.L., Andrei, A.‐C., Lee, R., McGee, E., Puthumana, J.J. Patient‐Prosthesis Mismatch in Bovine Pericardial Aortic Valves Evaluation Using Three Different Modalities and Associated Medium Term Outcomes. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imag‐ing, 2013, 6(5), 776‐783. Han, S., Andrei, A.‐C. and Tsui, K.‐W. A flexible semiparametric modeling approach for doubly‐censored data with an application to prostate can‐cer. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, in press. Han, S, Tsui, K.‐W. and Andrei, A.‐C. Efficient Stratified Testing Procedure for a False Discovery Rate. Communications in Statistics ‐ Simulation and Computation, in press Talia Baker, MD Presentations Invited Speaker. World Transplant Congress, Ad‐vances in Laparoscopic Liver Donation, San Fran‐cisco, CA. July 2014. Invited Speaker. World Transplant Congress, The Imperative for Proactive Response to Policy Shift – Early Anticipation and Reaction to Unintended HCC Disadvantage in Share 35, San Francisco, CA, July 2014. Publications Salem R, Gilbertsen M, Butt Z, Memon K, Vouche M, Hickey R, Baker T, Abecassis MM, Atassi R, Riaz A, Cella D, Burns JL, Ganger D, Benson III AB, Mul‐cahy MF, Kulik L, Lewandowski R. Increased quality of life among hepatocellular carcinoma patients

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treated with radioembolization, compared with chemoembolization. Clin Gastroenterol and Hepa‐tol. 2013 Oct;1542‐3565(13)00597‐1. Vouche M, Kulik L, Rohiatassi, Memon K, Hickey R, Ganger D, Miller FH, Vahidyaghmai, Abecassis M, Baker, T, Mulcahy M, Navar R, Lewandowski RJ, Salem R. Radiological‐pathological analysis of WHO,RECIST,EASL,mRECISTand DWI:Imaging analysis from a prospective randomized trial of Y90 +/‐ sorafenib. Hepatology. 2013 Oct;58(5):1655‐66. Vouche M, Lewandowski RJ, Atassi R, Memon K, Gates VL, Ryu RK, Gaba RC, Mulcahy MF, Baker T, Sato K, Hickey R, Ganger D, Riaz A, Fryer J, Caicedo JC, Abecassis M, Kulik L, Salem R. Radiation lobec‐tomy: time‐dependent analysis of future liver rem‐nant volume in unresectable liver cancer as a bridge to resection. J Hepatol. 2013 Nov;59(5):1029‐36. Baker T, Koller F, Caicedo JC. Minimally invasive living donor hepatectomy. Current Transplantation Reports. Epub 2013 Dec. Memon K, Kulik L, Lewandowski R, Wang E, Wang J, Ryu R, Hickey R, Vouche M, Baker T, Ganger G, Gates V, Habib A, Mulcahy M, Salem R. Compara‐tive study of staging systems for hepatocellular car‐cinoma in 428 patients treated with radioemboliza‐tion. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2014 Jul;S1051‐0443(14):00037‐2. Vouche M, Habib A, Ward TJ, Kim E, Kulik L, Ganger D, Mulcahy M, Baker T, Abecassis M, Sato KT, Caicedo JC, Fryer J, Hickey R, Hohlastos E, Lewandowski RJ, Salem R. Unresectable solitary HCC not amenable to RFA: multicenter radiology‐pathology correlation and survival of radiation seg‐mentectomy. Hepatology. 2014 Jul. Chang Y, Gallon L, Jay C, Shetty K, Ho B, Levitsky J, Baker T, Ladner D, Friedewald J, Abecassis M, Hazen G, Skaro AI. Comparative effectiveness of liver transplant strategies for end‐stage liver disease patients on renal replacement therapy. Liver Transpl. 2014 Apr. Kulik L, Vouche M, Koppe S, Lewandowski RJ, Mul‐cahy MF, Ganger D, Habib A, Karp J, Al‐Saden P, Lacouture M, Cotliar J, Abecassis M, Baker T, Salem R. Prospective randomized pilot study of Y90 +/‐ Sorafenib as bridge to transplantation in hepatocel‐lular carcinoma. J Hepatol. 2014 Aug;168‐8278(14):00204‐9. Katherine Barsness, MD Honors/Awards Named Director of External Relations, Northwestern Simulation, Department of Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medi‐cine, September 2013 Named Vice‐chair, Pediatrics Committee, Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), April 2014 Appointed to the Executive Committee, Interna‐tional Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG), May 2014 Named Chair of Simulation subcommittee of Educa‐tion Committee, American Pediatric Surgical Asso‐ciation (APSA), May 2014 Named Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee, American Pediatric Surgical Association, May 2014 Named Program Co‐chair, 23rd Annual International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG) meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2014 Received 2014 IRCAD (Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer) Award for Outstanding Research, July 2014 Presentations Invited Speaker. Chicago Council for Science and Technology, Matter into Medicine: Biomedical Applications of 3D Printing, Chicago, IL, February 2014.

Invited Speaker. International Pediatric Endosur‐gery Group, Simulation‐based Education for Neona‐tal Surgery, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2014.

Publications Barsness, KA. “Simulation‐based Education and Performance Assessments for Pediatric Surgeons.” Eur J Ped Surg. 2014 Aug 21. (epub ahead of print)

Barsness, KA; Rooney, DM; Davis, LM; Chin, AC. “Validation Measures from a Thoracoscopic Eso‐phageal Atresia/Tracheoesophageal Fistula Repair Simulator.” J Pediatr Surg. 2014 Jan;49(1):29‐33.

Hawkinson, EK; Davis, LM; Barsness, KA. “Design and Development of a Laparoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement Simulator.” Stud Health Technol Inform 2014;196:155‐8.

Hawkinson, EK; Davis, LM; Barsness, KA. “Design and Development of Low‐cost Tissue Replicas for Simulation of Rare Neonatal Congenital Defects.” Stud Health Technol Inform 2014;196:159‐62.

Davis, LM; Hawkinson, EK; Barsness, KA. “The Evo‐lution of Design: A Novel Thoracoscopic Diaphrag‐matic Hernia Repair Simulator.” Stud Health Tech‐nol Inform 2014;196:89‐95.

Naiditch, JA; Barsness, KA; Fitz, C; Hackam, DJ. “Massive Congenital Lymphatic Malformation of the Small Intestine: A Case Report and Review of Litera‐ture.” J Pediatr Surg Case Reports. 2013 Sept;1(9):325‐327.

David Bentrem, MD, MS Honors/Awards Deputy editor, Journal of Surgical Oncology. Oct. 2013 Publications Merkow R, Sherman K, Bilimoria K, McCarter M, Gordon H, Tomlinson JT, and Bentrem DJ. Quality of colorectal cancer care among veterans: analysis of treatment times at 124 VA medical centers. J Onc Prac 2013;9(4):154‐63. Sherman K, Shah AM, Merkow RP, Wang E, Bilimo‐ria K, and Bentrem DJ. Assessment of advanced gastric cancer management in the United States. Ann Surg Onc 2013;20(7):2124‐31. Merkow R, Bilimoria K, Sohn M, Oh E, Sellers M, Paruch J, Chung J and Bentrem DJ. Adherence with postdischarge venous thromboembolism chemopro‐phylaxis recommendations after colorectal cancer surgery among elderly medicare beneficiaries. Ann Surg 2014; 260(1): 103‐8. Merkow R, Bilimoria K, Bentrem DJ, Pitt H, Win‐chester D, Posner M, Ko C, and Pawlik T. National assessment of margin status as a quality indicator after pancreatic cancer surgery. Ann Surg Onc 2014;21(4):1067‐74. Merkow R, Bilimoria KY, Keswani R, Chung J, Sherman KL, Knab M, Posner MC, Bentrem DJ. Treatment trends, risk of lymph node metastasis and outcomes for localized esophageal cancer. JNCI 2014 accepted. Merkow R, Bilimoria K, Tomlinson J, Paruch J, Flem‐ing J, Talamonti M, Ko C, and Bentrem DJ. Postop‐erative complications reduce adjuvant chemother‐apy use in resectable pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg 2014. Ankit Bharat, MD Honors/Awards Awarded 1st Prize at the Senior Cardiothoracic Resi‐dent Research Competition, American Association of Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting, 2013 Received the Richard E. Clark Award: Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2013 Best Paper Award, Thoracic Transplantation, Asso‐ciation of Academic Surgeons, Feb 2014 Best Poster Award, Thoracic Section, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, April 2014 Presentations Co‐Speaker. Plenary session of Association of Aca‐demic surgery annual meeting, issue restricted auto‐

immunity leads to the development of lung allograft rejection, 2014. Co‐Speaker. ISHLT Annual Meeting, Novel Two‐Hit Hypothesis for the Development of De Novo Auto‐immunity Following Lung Transplantation, 2014. Co‐Speaker, American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Intrapleural hypercarbia leads to pro‐longed air leaks by suppressing epithelial migration and alveolar macrophages, 2014 Co‐Speaker, Academic Surgical Congress Plenary Session, , San Diego, CA, Tissue‐restricted autoim‐munity leads to the development of Lung allograft Rejection. Feb 2014. Invited Speaker, Surgery Resident/ Medical Student Symposium. American Association of Thoracic Sur‐gery Annual Meeting, Research, Rotations and Su‐bIs, 2014. Publications Evaluation of the reliability of clinical staging of T2 N0 esophageal cancer: a review of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. Crabtree TD, Kosinski AS, Puri V, Burfeind W, Bharat A, Patterson GA, Hofstetter W, Meyers BF. Perioperative blood transfusion affects hepatitis C virus (HCV)‐specific immune responses and out‐come following liver transplantation in HCV‐infected patients. Subramanian V, Bharat A, Vachharajani N, Crippin J, Shenoy S, Mohanakumar T, Chapman WC. HPB (Oxford). 2014 Mar;16(3):282‐94. doi: 10.1111/hpb.12128. Epub 2013 Jul 22. Bharat A, Meyers BF. Open Colis Gastroplasty. In Master Techniques in Surgery: Esophageal Surgery, Luketich JD editor. Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA. 2014. pp 320‐341. Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS Honors/Awards Top‐Rated Abstract in Measuring Quality and Value, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Balti‐more, MD 2013 Top‐Rated Abstract, ACS NSQIP Annual Confer‐ence, San Diego, CA 2013 Best Paper Award, Society of University Surgeons Academic Surgical Congress 2014 Presentations Speaker. Surgical Outcomes Club and Association for Academic Surgery, Research in Progress, Effect of State Malpractice Environment on Healthcare Quality and Cost, 2013. Speaker. Academy Health 2013 Annual Research Meeting, Effect of Medical Malpractice Environment on Surgical Quality and Cost in the United States, Baltimore, MD, June 23‐25, 2013. Speaker. Academy Health 2013 Annual Research Meeting, Thromboembolism as a Quality Measure, Baltimore, MD, June 23‐25, 2013. Speaker. American Surgical Association Annual Meeting, Are Higher Hospital Venous Thromboem‐bolism (VTE) Rates an Indicator of Better Quality? Evaluating the Validity of the Hospital VTE Quality Measure Using Clinical Data, Boston, MA, April 10‐12, 2014, Invited Lecturer. ACS NSQIP National Conference, Calculating the Art and Science of Surgery: Develop‐ment of a Universal ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calcu‐lator to Help Communicate Operative Risks to Pa‐tients, 2013. Invited Lecturer. Academic Surgical Congress, Building Your Health Services Research Toolbox, San Diego, CA 2014. Invited Lecturer. American Surgical Congress Surgi‐cal Investigators Course, Developing Your Specific Aims Page, 2014. Invited Lecturer. Academic Surgical Congress, Pro/Con Debate: Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Patients and Access to Care, San Diego, CA, 2014.


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Developing a Platform for Quality Improvement Trials. Center for Surgical Trials and Outcomes Research Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2014. Invited Panelist/Discussant. Updates on National Collaborative Procedural/Targeted Quality Improve‐ment Efforts, Moderator, 2013 ACS NSQIP Annual Conference, San Diego, CA 2013. Invited Panelist/Discussant. Measuring Value in Surgical Care, Moderator, Surgical Outcomes Club Annual Meeting 2013, Washington, DC. Invited Panelist/Discussant. Postoperative VTE: The More You Look, The More You Find. NEJM Journal Watch, 2014. Quality and Outcomes II, Moderator, Academic Surgical Congress 2014. Invited Panelist/Discussant. Evidence‐Based Guide‐lines: Improving Quality of Care or Curbing Sur‐geons' Independence? Moderator, American Col‐lege of Surgeons Clinical Congress, 2014 Invited Panelist/Discussant. How to Use ACS NSQIP, TQIP, CQIP, and SSR in Your Institution. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, 2014 Publications Bilimoria KY, Chung J, Ju MH, Haut ER, Bentrem DJ, Ko CY, Baker DW. Evaluation of surveillance bias and the validity of the venous thromboembolism quality measure. JAMA. 2013;310(14):1482‐9. Bilimoria KY, Chung J, Soper NJ. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, intraoperative cholangiograms, and common duct injuries. JAMA. 2013;310(8):801‐2. Bilimoria KY, Liu Y, Paruch JL, Zhou L, Kmiecik TE, Ko CY, Cohen ME. Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for patients and surgeons. J Am Coll Surg. 2013;217(5):833‐42 e1‐3. PMCID: 3805776. Chung JW, Sohn MW, Merkow RP, Oh EH, Minami C, Black BS, Bilimoria KY. Development of a Com‐posite Measure of State‐Level Malpractice Environ‐ment. Health services research. 2013. Cohen ME, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY, Zhou L, Huffman K, Wang X, Liu Y, Kraemer K, Meng X, Merkow R, Chow W, Matel B, Richards K, Hart AJ, Dimick JB, Hall BL. Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. J Am Coll Surg. 2013;217(2):336‐46 e1. Bilimoria KY, Cella D, Butt Z. Current Challenges in Using Patient‐Reported Outcomes for Surgical Care and Performance Measurement: Everybody Wants to Hear From the Patient, but Are We Ready to Listen? JAMA Surg. 2014. Anne Marie Boller, MD Honors/Awards Boller, AM. Mueller,M, Thomas Benson Award 25,000.00 May 2014 Publications Sawkar, H, Kim DY, Thum DJ, Zhao L, Cashy J, Bjur‐lin M, Bhalani V, Boller AM, Kundu S. Frequency of lower urinary tract injury following gastrointestinal surgery in the Nationwide inpatient sample data‐base. Journal of Surgery, 2013. Knab LM, Boller AM, Mahvi DM. Cholecystitus. Surg Clin North Am. 2014 Apr;94(2):455‐470. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2014.01.005. Epub 2014 Feb 18. Review. PMID: 24679431 [PubMed ‐ as supplied by publisher] Juan Carlos Caicedo, MD Honors/Awards “Heroes for Hope” Real‐life Lifesavers award. Gift of Hope. Organ and Tissue Donor Network, Organ procurement Organization (OPO) Aug 9, 2013 At Large Member to the OPTN/UNOS Minority Affairs Committee May 2014

Presentations Invited Speaker, Healthy Transitions Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, New Trends in organ donation and Transplantation, October 2013. Invited Speaker, 24th Annual LMSA Midwest Re‐gional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, Cultural Com‐pentency in Transplantation, January 2014. Publications Salvalaggio PR, Caicedo JC, de Albuquerque LC, Contreras A, Garcia VD, Felga GE, Maurette RJ, Medina‐Pestana JO, Niño‐Murcia A, Pacheco‐Moreira LF, Rocca J, Rodriguez‐Davalos M, Ruf A, Caicedo Rusca LA, Vilatoba M. Liver Transplanta‐tion in Latin America: The State of the Art and Fu‐ture Trends. Transplantation. 2014 [in press]. Susan E. Clare, MD Publications Figueroa JD, Pfeiffer RM, Patel DA, Linville L, Brin‐ton LA, Gierach GL, Yang XR, Papathomas D, Viss‐cher D, Mies C, Degnim AC, Anderson WF, Hewitt S, Khodr ZG, Clare SE, Storniolo AM, Sherman ME. Terminal duct lobular unit involution of the normal breast: Implications for breast cancer etiology. JNCI in press. Sauder CA, Koziel JE, Choi M, Fox MJ, Grimes BR, Badve S, Blosser RJ, Radovich M, Lam CC, Vaughan MB, Herbert BS, Clare SE. Phenotypic plasticity in normal breast derived epithelial cells. BMC Cell Biol. 2014 Jun 10;15:20. Pardo I, Lillemoe HA, Blosser RJ, Choi M, Sauder CA, Doxey DK, Mathieson T, Hancock BA, Baptiste D, Atale R, Hickenbotham M, Zhu J, Glasscock J, Storniolo AM, Zheng F, Doerge RW, Liu Y, Badve S, Radovich M, Clare SE; Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center. Next‐generation transcriptome sequencing of the premenopausal breast epithelium using specimens from a normal human breast tissue bank. Breast Cancer Res. 2014 Mar 17;16(2):R26. Radovich M, Clare SE, Atale R, Pardo I, Hancock BA, Solzak JP, Kassem N, Mathieson T, Storniolo AM, Rufenbarger C, Lillemoe HA, Blosser RJ, Choi MR, Sauder CA, Doxey D, Henry JE, Hilligoss EE, Sakarya O, Hyland FC, Hickenbotham M, Zhu J, Glasscock J, Badve S, Ivan M, Liu Y, Sledge GW, Schneider BP. Characterizing the heterogeneity of triple‐negative breast cancers using microdissected normal ductal epithelium and RNA‐sequencing. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 Jan;143(1):57‐68. Mark Cohen, MD Publications Huffman, K.M., Cohen, M.E, Ko, C.Y., Hall, B.L. A comprehensive evaluation of statistical reliability in ACS NSQIP profiling models. Annals of Surgery, in press. Ju, M. H. Cohen, M. E., Bilimoria, K. Y., Latus, M, S., Scholl, L. M., Schwab, B. J., Byrd, C. M., Ko, C. Y., Dellinger, E. P., Hall, B. L. Effect of wound classifi‐cation on risk‐adjustment in American College of Surgeons NSQIP. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2014, epub ahead of print. Dahike, A. R., Merkow, R. P., Chung, J. W., Kinnier, C. V., Cohen, M. E., Sohn, M‐W., Paruch, J., Bilimo‐ria, K. Y. Comparison of postoperative complication risk prediction approaches based on factors known preoperatively to surgeons vs. Patients. Surgery, 2014, 156,39‐45. Paruch, J. L., Merkow, R. P., Bentram, D. J., Ko, C. Y., Posner, M. C., Cohen, M. E., Bilimoria, K. Y., Weber, S, M. Impact of hepatectomy surgical complexity on outcomes and hospital quality rankings. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2014, epub ahead of print. Stey, A. M., Moss, L., Kraemer, K., Cohen, M. E., Ko, C. Y., Hall, B. L. The importance of extreme weight percentile in postoperative morbidity in Children. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2014, epub ahead of print. Bilimoria, K.Y., Liu, Y.,Paruch, J. L., Zhou, L., Kmiecik, T. E., Ko, C.Y., Cohen, M. E. Development

and Evaluation of the Universal ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator: A Decision Aide and Informed Con‐sent Tool for Patients and Surgeons. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2013, 217, 833‐842. Saito1, J. M., Chen, L. E., Hall, B. L., Kraemer, K., Barnhart, D. C., Byrd, C. Cohen, M. E., Fei, C., Heiss, K. F., Huffman ,K., Ko, C. Y., Latus, M. Meara, J. G., Oldham, K. T., Raval, M. V., Richards, K. E., Shah, R. K., Sutton, L. C., Vinocur, C. D., Moss, R. L.. Risk‐adjusted hospital outcomes for children’s surgery. Pediatrics, 2013, 132, 677‐688. Merkow, R. P., Bentram, D.J., Cohen, M.E., Paruch, J.L., Weber, S.M., Ko, C. Y., Bilimoria, K. Y. Effect of cancer surgery complexity on short‐term outcomes, risk predictions, and hospital comparisons. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2013, 217, 685‐693. Cohen, M. E., Ko, C. Y., Bilimoria, K. Y., Zhou, L., Huffman, K., Wang, X., Liu, Y., Kraemer, K., Meng, X., Merkow, R., Chow, W., Matel, B., Richards, K., Hart, A. J., Dimick, J. B., Hall, B. L. Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: Patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2013, 217, 336‐346. Marie Crandall, MD, MPH Honors/Awards Northwestern University Public Voices Leadership Fellow, 2013 American College of Surgeons/Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Health Policy Scholar‐ship, June 2013 State of Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s Firearms Working Group, 2013 American Board of Surgery Oral Boards Junior Ex‐aminer, April 2013 Presentations Co‐Speaker. Kieltyka J, Kyriacou D, Crandall M. Ecologic factors relating to firearm injuries and gun violence in Chicago Society of Academic Emer‐gency Medicine Dallas, TX March 2014 Invited Speaker. Trauma care in Texas, 1963. (keynote) Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Celebrating 20 Years of Trauma Care Jersey City Medical Center May 2014 Invited Speaker. Using geographic information sys‐tems in trauma research. Rush Surgical Society Presidential Address May 2014 Invited Speaker. Using geographic information sys‐tems to further violence prevention. Illinois Vio‐lence Prevention Task Force (VPTF) Illinois De‐partment of Public Health Chicago, IL March 2014 Invited Speaker. Crandall M, Conyers H, Stone L. A night devoid of stars: the devastating effect of vio‐lence in minority communities Northwestern Uni‐versity School of Law Chicago, IL January 2014 Invited Speaker. Trauma and public health. 49th Annual Year in Internal Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL January 2014 Invited Speaker. Proximity to Trauma Care and Mortality (Trauma Deserts) Illinois State Senator Mattie Hunter open hearing Chicago, IL Novem‐ber 2013 Plenary Panel Moderator: Partners in prevention: how researchers and practitioners are working to‐gether to create safer communities Midwest Injury Prevention Alliance Annual Meeting October 2013 Session Moderator: Scientific Session for original research Association of Women Surgeons Wash‐ington, D.C. October 2013 Session Moderator: Surgical practice: maintaining excellence in economically challenged times Inter‐national Surgical Society Helsinki, Finland August 2013


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Publications Nicolson N, Lank P, Crandall M. Emergency depart‐ment alcohol and drug screening for Illinois pediat‐ric trauma patients, 1999‐2009 (in press for Ameri‐can Journal of Surgery) Crandall M, Agarwal S, Muskat P, Ross S, Savage S, Schuster K, Tominaga G, Shafi S. Measurement of anatomic severity of disease in emergency general surgery (in press for Journal of Trauma) Schuller M, DaRosa D, Crandall M. Core Curricu‐lum: enhancing resident satisfaction, engagement and retention. (in press for Academic Medicine) Hansen L, Shaheen A, Crandall M. Outpatient fol‐low‐up after traumatic injury: challenges and oppor‐tunities. (in press for Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock) Crandall M, Agubuzu O, Anderson B, Idakoji I, Kahlenberg C, Rajasekhar A, Brasel K, Esposito T. Trauma patient satisfaction survey opens discussion about bias in health care (in press for Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice) Zollman F, Lank P, Shaheen A, Crandall M. Patterns and predictors of follow‐up in patients with mild traumatic brain injury Brain Injury 2014;19:1‐6 Periyanayagam U, Crandall M. The cost of injury: hospital charges for pregnant trauma patients, 1999‐2003 American Journal of Surgery 2014;208(1):130‐5 Lank P, Pathak M, Crandall M. Outcomes for Older Trauma Patients with Positive Drug or Alcohol Screens in the Emergency Department American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 2014;40(2):118‐24 Hsia R, Srebotnjak T, Maselli J, Crandall M, McCulloch C, Kellerman A. The association of trauma center closures with increased inpatient mortality for injured patients. Journal of Trauma 2014;76(4):1048‐54 Shafi S, Aboutanos M, Brown C, Ciesla D, Cohen M, Crandall M, Inaba K, Miller P, Mowery N and the AAST Committee on Patient Assessment and Out‐comes. Measuring anatomic severity of disease in emergency general surgery Journal of Trauma 2014;76(3):884‐7 Swaroop M, Siddiqui S, Sagar S, Crandall M. The problem of the pillion rider: India’s helmet law and New Delhi’s exemption. Journal of Surgical Re‐search 2014;188(1):64‐8 Butler B, Agubuzu O, Hansen L, Crandall M. Illi‐nois trauma centers and community violence re‐sources Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock 2014;7(1):14‐19 Crandall M, Zarzaur B, Tinkhoff G. American Asso‐ciation for the Surgery of Trauma Prevention Com‐mittee topical overview: National Trauma Data Bank, geographic information systems, and teaching injury prevention American Journal of Surgery 2013;206(5):709‐13 Cochran A, Elder W, Crandall M, Brasel K, Hauschild T, Neumayer L. Barriers to advancement in academic surgery: views of senior residents and early career faculty American Journal of Surgery 2013;206(5):661‐6 Siddiqui S, Arora S, Sagar S, Crandall M, Swaroop M. Surveying attitudes and influences of female pillion riders in New Delhi, India. Journal of Surgical Re‐search 2013; 184(1):404‐10 Nicolson N, Crandall M Interpersonal Violence Encyclopedia of Trauma Care; Eds. Papadakos P, Gestring M. Springer Publishing, Heidelberg, Ger‐many (in press) Crandall M Review of “Anticoagulant and anti‐platelet medications encountered in emergency surgery patients: a review of reversal strategies. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 2013;75(3):475‐86.” American College of Surgeons Selected Readings in General Surgery [serial online]. (in press) Shaheen A, Crandall, M. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma Common Surgical Diseases—An Algo‐

rithmic Approach to Problem Solving, 3rd edition; Eds. Myers, J., Millikan, K., and Saclarides, T. Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY (in press) Crandall M Two hundred forty‐two Women in Surgery; Ed. John P. AuthorHouse Publishing Bloomington, IN (in press) Crandall M Suicides greatest cause of gun deaths in U.S. Chicago Sun‐Times, May 2014, http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/27707897‐452/suicides‐greatest‐cause‐of‐gun‐deaths‐in‐us.html#.U4YNfSg‐Gd4 Crandall M Homicide rates drop with temperatures, but a word of caution Chicago Tribune Commen‐tary February 2014 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct‐perspec‐homicides‐0228‐20140228,0,2331572.story Shaheen A, Crandall M. A 40‐year‐old female with abdominal pain. Resident Readiness: General Sur‐gery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Shaheen A, Crandall M. A 52‐year‐old female who is dehydrated postoperative day #1. Resident Readi‐ness: General Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Shaheen A, Crandall M. A 65‐year‐old female in severe abdominal pain. Resident Readiness: Gen‐eral Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Siddiqi S, Crandall M. 55‐year‐old male with post‐operative urinary retention. Resident Readiness: General Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Peetz A, Crandall M. A 68‐year‐old man with post‐operative hypotension. Resident Readiness: General Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Hardy A, Crandall M. A 65‐year‐old female who is 4 days postoperative with nausea, vomiting, and a distended abdomen. Resident Readiness: General Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Hardy A, Crandall M. A 56‐year‐old‐female status post motor vehicle accident. Resident Readiness: General Surgery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Hardy A, Butler B, Crandall M. Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen Resident Readiness: General Sur‐gery Eds. Klamen DL, George BC, Harken AH, DaRosa D. McGraw‐Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY 2014 Crandall M Surgeon preference and music in the operating room: a randomized, controlled trial ONSurg Homepage for General Surgeons Septem‐ber 2013 http://onsurg.com/voice/blog‐news/surgeon‐preference‐and‐music‐in‐the‐or Crandall M Surgeon preference and music in the operating room: a randomized, controlled trial Association of Women Surgeons Blog August 2013 http://womensurgeons.blogspot.com/2013/08/surgeon‐preference‐and‐music‐in.html?m=1 Malcolm DeCamp , MD Presentations 2013 Invited Speaker, Oregon Thoracic Society Sun River, OR, Detection, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer: An Evidence‐based Approach LVRS and endobronchial therapy for Emphysema: What is the Evidence? 2013 Invited Speaker, AATS 2013 Minneapolis, MN Thoracic Controversies Pro/Con Debate: Thoracic surgeons should follow their patients forever 2013

Visiting Professor and Post‐graduate Course Speaker, MGH Boston, MA, Lung Cancer Screening with Low dose CT High risk lung cancer: SBRT vs VATS wedge Stage IIIA N2 Lung Cancer Application of LVRS in Lung Cancer Resection Early Esophageal Cancer: EMR vs Esophagectomy 2013 Invited Speaker, Tri‐State Thoracic Society Egg Harbor, WI, Interventions for Emphysema: Beyond Best Medical Care 2013 Invited Speaker, American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Washington, DC Minimally Inva‐sive Surgery for Lung Cancer 2013 Session Chair, CHEST 2013 Chicago, IL Diagnosis and Management of Tracheal Stenosis 2013 Invited Speaker, CHEST 2013 Chicago, IL Nodal Boundaries as Defined by Mediastinoscopy Sub‐lobar Resection in the Management of the Pulmo‐nary Nodule Multimodality Therapy for Meso‐thelioma: Thoracic Surgery Tracheal Stenosis: Surgi‐cal Therapy 2014 Visiting Professor, Nebraska Oncology Society Omaha, NE, Surgical Outcomes in Lung Cancer: Less is More Publications Jaklitsch MT, Gu L, Demmy T, Harpole DH, D'Amico TA, McKenna RJ, Krasna MJ, Kohman LJ, Swanson SJ, DeCamp MM, Wang X, Barry S, Sugar‐baker DJ; CALGB Thoracic Surgeons. Prospective phase II trial of preresection thoracoscopic mediasti‐nal restaging after neoadjuvant therapy for IIIA (N2) non‐small cell lung cancer: results of CALGB Proto‐col 39803. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Jul;146(1):9‐16. Odell DD, Peleg K, Givon A, Radomislensky I, Makey I, DeCamp MM, Whyte R, Gangadharan SP, Berger RL and the Israeli Trauma Group. Sternal fracture: Isolated lesion versus polytrauma from associated extrasternal injuries‐Analysis of 1,867 cases. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;75: 448‐452. Minai OA, Fessler H, Stoller JK, Criner GJ, Scharf SM, Meli Y, Nutter B, DeCamp MM; NETT Research Group. Clinical characteristics and prediction of pulmonary hypertension in severe emphysema. Respir Med. 2014 Mar;108(3):482‐90. Varlotto J, DeCamp MM, Flickinger J, Lake J, Recht A, Belani C, Reed M, Toth J, Mackley H, Sciamanna C, Lipton A, Ali S, Mahraj R, Gilbert C, Yao N. Would screening for lung cancer benefit 75‐ to 84‐year‐old residents of the United States? Front. On‐col. 2014; 4:37. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00037. Villa C, Cagle PT, Johnson M, Patel JD, Yeldandi AV, Raj R, DeCamp MM, Raparia K. Correlation of EGFR Mutation Status With Predominant Histologic Sub‐type of Adenocarcinoma According to the New Lung Adenocarcinoma Classification of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Feb 26. [Epub ahead of print] de Hoyos A, DeCamp M. Open Resection of Eso‐phageal Leiomyoma and GIST. In Master Tech‐niques in Surgery: Esophageal Surgery, Luketich JD editor. Wolters Kluwer: Philadelphia, PA. 2014. pp 329‐341. Alberto de Hoyos, MD Honors/Awards Appointed as Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Jesse Brown VA Hospital, Chicago, 2013‐2014 Served on American Lung Association Board of Director, 2013‐2014 Served on American Lung Association Healthy Lung Expo Planning Committee, 2013‐2014 Presentations Invited speaker. Video Assisted Lobectomy for Stage I and Stage II Lung Cancer, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sep‐tember, 2013 Invited speaker. Surgery for Stage IIIa Lung Cancer, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2013


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Invited speaker. Segmentectomy for Stage I Lung Cancer, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2013 Invited speaker. Smoking Cessation: What is Most Effective for the Surgical Patient? American College of Surgeons 2013 Annual Clinical Congress, Wash‐ington, DC, October, 2013 Publications Cohen, E, Wood K, Salud L, Feins R, de Hoyos A, Pugh, C. Computer Analysis of Soft Tissue Damage by Fellows during Rigid Bronchoscopy, 2013, Tho‐racic Sur J. de Hoyos A, DeCamp M. Open Resection of Eso‐phageal Leiomyoma and GIST. In Master Tech‐niques in Surgery : Esophageal Surgery, Luketich JD editor. Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA. 2014. pp 320‐341. Mark K. Eskandari, MD Honors/Awards US News & World Report “Best Doctors”, 2013 Consultant Staff, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Department of Surgery, Chi‐cago, IL, 2013‐Present Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medi‐cine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery, Senior Colon and Rectal Surgeon Search Committee, 2014 Senior Examiner, Vascular Surgery Certifying Exami‐nation, Dallas, TX, 5/19‐20/2014 Society for Vascular Surgery Public and Professional Outreach Committee, 2012‐2014 Society for Vascular Surgery Document Oversight Committee, 2014‐Present Course Director, 38th Annual Northwestern Vascu‐lar Symposium, Chicago, IL, December 12‐14, 2013 Presentations Lecturer, “Controversies Regarding the Timing of Carotid Artery Intervention after an Acute Stroke”. ACS Clinical Congress, Washington, DC, October 7‐10, 2013. Judge, “Face‐Off Competition”. VIVA 13, Las Vegas, NV, October 8‐11, 2013. Panelist, “General Session Computer QA”. VIVA 13, Las Vegas, NV, October 8‐11, 2013. Panelist, “Thoracic Aorta—Strategies on the Front‐line: Strategies Panel”. VIVA 13, Las Vegas, NV, October 8‐11, 2013. Lecturer, “Intervention Complications – Perforation, Compartment Syndrome, Thrombosis – Diagnosis and Management”. VIVA 13, Las Vegas, NV, October 8‐11, 2013. Panelist, “Live Case Demonstrations”. VIVA 13, Las Vegas, NV, October 8‐11, 2013. Lecturer, “Treatment of Iatrogenic Catheter Related Brachiocephalic Arterial Injuries”. West Virginia Vascular Symposium, White Sulphur Springs, VA, October 18‐20, 2013. Lecturer, “Management of Late EVAR Failures”. West Virginia Vascular Symposium, White Sulphur Springs, VA, October 18‐20, 2013. Lecturer, “Optimal Timing for Carotid Interventions after Stroke”. 10th Annual Endovascular Therapies Conference, Pinehurst, NC, October 25‐27, 2013. Lecturer, “Role of Drug Eluting Stents in Lower Extremity Revascularization”. 10th Annual Endovas‐cular Therapies Conference, Pinehurst, NC, October 25‐27, 2013. Lecturer, “Volumetric Assessment of Aortic Dissec‐tions: Can We Predict which patients Will Have False Lumen Thrombosis?” 3rd Brazilian Vascular Summit, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 30‐November 2, 2013. Lecturer, “Durability and Outcomes of Left Sub‐clavian Artery Bypass or Transposition to Facilitate TEVAR”. 3rd Brazilian Vascular Summit, Rio De

Janeiro, Brazil, October 30‐November 2, 2013. Lecturer, “An Endovascular Option for Acute and Chronic Type B Dissections”. W. L. Gore & Associ‐ates Evening of Clinical Discussion & Case Review. Oakbrook, IL, November 14, 2013. Lecturer, “My Worst Vascular Complication”. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, 2013, Dallas, TX, November 16‐20, 2013. Lecturer, “LSA Transposition and Bypass in Associa‐tion with TEVAR Are Not Benign Procedures Al‐though They Have Durable Patency”. VEITH Sym‐posium, New York, NY, November 19‐23, 2013. Moderator, “Cerebrovascular and Supra‐Aortic Trunk Disease”. 38th Annual Northwestern Vascu‐lar Symposium, Chicago, IL, December 12‐14, 2013. Moderator, “Thoracic/Thoracoabdominal Diseases”. 38th Annual Northwestern Vascular Symposium, Chicago, IL, December 12‐14, 2013. Lecturer, “Carotid‐Subclavian Bypass vs. Transposi‐tion After TEVAR”. Houston Aortic Symposium; Frontiers in Cardiovascular Diseases, Houston, TX, March 6‐8, 2014. Moderator, “Changing Paradigms in Asymptomatic Carotid Disease”. 2014 Vascular Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 5‐7, 2014. Publications Lee K, Zhu J, Shum J, Zhang Y, Muluk SC, Chandra A, Eskandari MK, Finol EA. Surface curvature as a classifier of abdominal aortic aneurysms: A com‐parative analysis. Ann Biomed Eng 2013:41:562‐76. PMID 23180028 Lee CJ, Rodriguez HE, Kibbe MR, Malaisrie SC, Eskandari MK. Secondary interventions after elec‐tive thoracic endovascular aortic repair for degen‐erative aneurysms. J Vasc Surg 2013;57:1269‐74. PMID 23352360 Rambachan A, Smith TR, Saha S, Eskandari MK, Bendok B, Kim JY. Reasons for readmission after carotid endarterectomy. World Neurosurg 2013 Aug 20. pii: S1878‐8750(13)01006‐1. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.08.020. [Epub ahead of print] Mehta M, Valdés FE, Nolte T, Mishkel GJ, Jordan WD, Gray B, Eskandari M, Botti C, “A Pivotal Clini‐cal Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Ovation Abdominal Stent Graft System” Investi‐gators. One‐year outcomes from an international study of the Ovation Abdominal Stent Graft System for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair. J Vasc Surg 2014;59:65‐73 (featured on cover). Yao JST, Gregory RT, Eskandari MK, on behalf of the History Project Work Group of the Society for Vas‐cular Surgery. Remembrances of 5 leaders and con‐tributors in vascular surgery. Ann Vasc Surg 2014;28:529‐534. Lee CJ, Kibbe MR, Eskandari MK, Morasch MD, Pearce WH, Rodriguez HE. Surgical management of aortitis with early aneurysmal dilation. Ann Vasc Surg 2014;28:568‐574. Eskandari MK, Daly CM. Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) for Thoracic Aortic Aneu‐rysm Requiring Debranching: Hybrid Procedure. In Endovascular Interventions: A Case‐Based Ap‐proach, Dieter RS, Dieter RA Jr, Dieter RA III, eds. Springer Science + Business Media, New York, 2013 (© 2014). Naughton PA, Garcia‐Toca M, Eskandari MK. En‐dovascular Treatment of Aortic Arch Vessels, Sub‐clavian, and Axillary Artery. In Atlas of Vascular Surgery: Anatomy and Technique, Chaikof EL, Cambria RP eds, Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Eskandari MK, Kumar HR. Occupational Vascular Problems. In Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery, 8th edition, Cronenwett JL, Johnston KW, eds. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Eskandari MI. Conventional Surgical and Endovas‐cular Treatment of Innominate Artery Atherosclero‐sis. In Current Therapy in Vascular and Endovascu‐

lar Surgery, 5th edition, Stanley JC, Veith FJ, Wake‐field TW, eds. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Current Vascular Surgery 2013. Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JST, eds. People’s Medical Publish‐ing House‐USA, Shelton CT, 2014. Jonathan Fryer, MD Presentations Invited Speaker. Invited Speaker. American Board of Surgery Qualifying Exam Mtg., Philadelphia, PA, Oct 1‐3, 2013 Invited Speaker. Surgical Education Week, Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, IL, April 8‐12, 2014 Invited Speaker. MedBiquitous Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 18‐19, 2014 Invited Speaker. ASTS Program Directors Mtg, Chi‐cago Hilton O’Hare, June 23‐24, 2014 Invited Speaker. ASTS Development Group Meeting, Arlington, VA, June 26‐27, 2014 Publications Sellers MM, Hanson K, Schuller M, Sherman K, Kelz RR, Fryer, JP, DaRosa D, Bilimoria KY. Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents. J Am Coll Surg. 2013 June 1207‐13. DaRosa DA, Zwischenberger JB, Meyerson SL, George BC, Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Fryer JP. A Theory‐Based Model for Teaching and Assessing Residents in the Operating Room. J Surg Educ. 2013 70(1):24‐30. Vouche M, Lewandowski RJ, Atassi R, Memon K, Gates VL, Ryu RK, Gaba RC, Mulcahy MF, Baker T, Sato K, Hickey R, Ganger D, Riaz A, Fryer, JP, Caicedo, JC, Abecassis M, Kulik, L, Salem R. Radia‐tion lobectomy: time‐dependent analysis of future remnant volume in unresectable liver cancer as a bridge to resection. J Hepatol. 2013 Nov 59(5):1029‐36. George BC, Teitelbaum EN, DaRosa DA, Hungness ES, Meyerson SL, Fryer JP, Schuller M, Zwischenber‐ger JB. Duration of faculty training needed to ensure reliable OR performance ratings. J Surg Educ. 2013 Nov‐Dec 70(6):703‐8. Schindler N, Corcoran J, Miller M, Wang C, Roggin K, Posner M, Fryer JP, DaRosa DA. Implementing an Excellence in Teaching Recognition System: Needs Analysis and Recommendations. J Surg Educ. No‐vember 2013, 70(6); 731‐738. Evenson A, Seshadri R, Fryer JP Transplantation for the General Surgeon. ACS, Principles and Practice, 2014. Evenson A, Seshadri R, Fryer JP General Surgery in Patients with End‐Stage Organ Disease. ACS, Princi‐ples and Practice, 2014. Kathleen L. Grady, PhD Presentations Invited speaker: What to do for the Advanced Heart Failure Patient Without Surgical Options. Nineth Annual Heart Failure Holiday Symposium. The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Center for Heart Failure and Feinberg School of Medicine, North‐western University, Chicago, IL, December, 2013. Invited speaker: Quality of Life – MCS Patients and Tool Update. Mid‐Atlantic VAD Coordinator Sym‐posium. Virginia Commonwealth University, Rich‐mond, VA, November 15, 2013. Invited speaker: Important Triggers for Having Con‐versations in Advanced Disease. American Heart Association. 2013 Scientific Sessions. Dallas, TX, November, 2013. Invited speaker: Destination Therapy: Should Cognition Influence Selection? American Heart Association. 2013 Scientific Sessions. Dallas, TX, November, 2013. Invited speaker: Quality of Life after Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support. INTERLINK


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March, 2014 Medical Round Table. Webinar, March 27, 2014. Invited speaker: Palliative Care and Hospice are treatment options for patients with advanced car‐diac disease. 50th Annual Robert M. Jeresaty, MD Cardiovascular Symposium. Hartford, CT., May 7, 2014. Invited speaker: Quality of Life after Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support. International Soci‐ety for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2014 Meet‐ing and Scientific Sessions. San Diego, CA, April, 2014. Invited speaker: Case Study: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2014 Meeting and Scientific Sessions. San Diego, CA, April, 2014. Publications Wallia A, Gupta S, Garcia C, Schmidt K, Oakes D, Aleppo G, Glossop V, Andrei AC, Grady K, McGee E, Molitch M. Examination of implementa‐tion of intravenous and subcutaneous insulin protocols and glycemic control in heart transplant patients. Endocrine Practice. 2013;10:1‐27 epub ahead of print. Grady KL, Naftel D, Stevenson L, Dew MA, Weidner G, Pagani F, Kirklin F, Myers S, Baldwin T, and Young J. Overall Quality of Life Improves to Similar Levels after Mechanical Circulatory Support Regardless of Severity of Heart Failure Be‐fore Implantation. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2014;33:412‐421. Andrei A, Grady KL. Visualization and dynamics of multidimensional health‐related quality of life‐adjusted overall survival: A new analytic ap‐proach. Quality of Life Research 2014; Jan 7 epub ahead of print. Cotts W, McGee E, Myers S, Naftel D, Young J, Kirk‐lin J, Grady KL. Predictors of hospital length of stay following implantation of a left ventricular assist device: An analysis of the INTERMACS Registry. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. March 1, 2014 [e‐pub ahead of print]. Nora Hansen, MD Honors/Awards Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching ECM course to medical students. University of Illinois College of Medicine, December 2013 Presentations Invited Speaker/Panelist, 15th Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium, Challenging Clinical Case Studies, surgical options., Chicago, Illinois, September 26, 2013. Invited Speaker/Panelist, 15th Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium, Multidisciplinary Tumor Board: Case Review and Audience Participation, Chicago, Illinois, September 28, 2013. Invited Speaker, NCCN Quality Improvement in Breast Cancer Program. Meeting Opportunities for Improvement, , Ann Arbor Michigan, October 2, 2013. Invited Speaker, Google Incorporated, Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention, Google Breast Cancer Awareness Event, , Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 2013. Invited Discussant, Western Surgical Association Annual Meeting, Changing Surgical Trends in Young Patients With Early Stage Breast Cancer, 2003‐2010: A Report from The National Cancer Data Base, Insti‐tution, Salt Lake City, Utah November 3, 2013. Publications Seth AK1, Hirsch EM, Kim JY, Bethke KP, Hansen N, Fine NA. Two surgeons, one patient: the impact of surgeon‐surgeon familiarity on patient outcomes following mastectomy with immediate reconstruc‐tion. Breast. 2013 Oct;22(5):914‐8. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2013.04.013. Epub 2013 May 11. PMID:23673077 Khavanin N1, Fine NA, Bethke KP, Mlodinow AS, Khan SA, Jeruss JS, Hansen N, Kim JY. Tumescent

Technique Does Not Increase the Risk of Complica‐tion Following Mastectomy with Immediate Recon‐struction. Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 Oct 12. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24121881 De Oliveira GS Jr1, Fitzgerald PC, Hansen N, Ahmad S, McCarthy RJ. The effect of ketamine on hypoven‐tilation during deep sedation with midazolam and propofol: A randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2013 Nov 14. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24247410 Saha D, Davila AA, Ver Halen JP, Jain UK, Hansen N, Bethke K, Khan SA, Jeruss J, Fine N, Kim JY. Breast. Post‐mastectomy reconstruction: a risk‐stratified comparative analysis of outcomes. 2013 Dec;22(6):1072‐80. PMID: 24354013 De Oliveira GS Jr1, Chang R, Khan SA, Hansen N, Khan JH, McCarthy RJ, Apkarian AV. Factors associ‐ated with the development of chronic pain after surgery for breast cancer: a prospective cohort from a tertiary center in the United States. Breast J. 2014 Jan‐Feb;20(1):9‐14. doi: 10.1111/tbj.12207. Epub 2013 Nov 13. PMID:24224885 Hansen N, Scherer SA, Khan S. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. Quality improvement project: opportunities for improvement. 2014 Feb 1;12 Suppl 1:S10‐2. PMID:24614043 Weisman PS, Sutton BJ, Siziopikou KP, Hansen N, Khan SA, Neuschler EI, Rohan SM, Franz JM, Sulli‐van ME. Non‐mass‐associated intraductal papillo‐mas: is excision necessary? Hum Pathol. 2014 Mar;45(3):583‐8. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2013.10.027. Epub 2013 Nov 6. PMID:24444467 Gordon AJ, Hansen, NM, The Role of Stereotactic Breast Biopsy in the Management of Breast Disease, JL Cameron, AM Cameron (eds) in Current Surgical Therapy 11th Ed. W B Saunders Company / Elsevier Inc, 571‐579, 2013 Hansen, NM, Paget’s Disease. Harris JR, Lippman ME, Morrow, M, Osborne CK, (eds.) in Diseases of the Breast 5th Ed. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, New York, 838‐846, 2014. Hansen, NM, (ed.) Management of the Patient at High Risk for Breast Cancer, Springer‐Verlag New York. 2013. Dr. Wilson Hartz III MD Honors/Awards Awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award, Northwestern Memorial Hospital 2013 Karen J. Ho , MD Presentations Ho KJ (presenter), Devlin PM, Madenci AL, Semel ME, Nguyen LL, Gravereaux EC, Belkin M, Menard MT. High dose rate brachytherapy for lower‐extremity in stent restenosis. New England Society for Vascular Surgery Meeting, Stowe, VT, September 27‐29, 2013. Andrew Hoel, MD Honors/Awards Inducted into Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Presentations Invited speaker. 27th Nursing Conference on Se‐lected Topics in Vascular Disease, Branched Endo‐grafts, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, No‐vember 1, 2013. Invited speaker. 38th Annual Northwestern Vascular Symposium, Tech Details for Retrograde Mesenteric Stenting, Chicago, IL, December 13, 2013. Invited speaker. The Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Vascular Medicine Symposium, Aortic Aneurysms – When is it Too Early or Too Late to Intervene?, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, March 7, 2014 Invited speaker. Saint Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center Grand Rounds, Abdominal Aortic Aneu‐rysms: When Is It Too Early or Too Late To Inter‐vene, Chicago, IL, June 10, 2014.

Publications Hoel AW. Aneurysmal disease: thoracic aorta. The Surgical Clinics of North America. 2013 Aug;93(4):893‐910. Mansukhani NA, Hoel AW. Technical aspects of retrograde open mesenteric stenting. In: Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JT, editors. Current vascular surgery 2013. PMPH‐USA. 2013 Seok Jong Hong , MD Presentations Invited presenter. Epidermal regulation of scarring. The 13th Annual symposium of Wound healing: Science + Industry. June 27‐30, 2014, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Publications Chavez‐Munoz C, Nyugen K, Xu W, Hong S.J, Mus‐toe T.A, Galiano R.D Transdifferentiation of adipose‐derived stem cells into keratinocyte‐like cells: engi‐neering a stratified epidermis. PLOS One 2013: 8:e80587 Wei Xu, Shengxian Jia, Ping Xie, Aimei Zhong, Robert D. Galiano, Thomas A. Mustoe, and Seok Jong Hong. (2014) The expression of Proinflamma‐tory Genes in Epidermal Keratinocytes is Regulated by Hydration Status. J Invest Dermatol. 134(4):1044‐55 Jordan Steinberg, Anandev N. Gurjala, Shengxian Jia, Seok Hong, Robert Galiano, Thomas Mustoe (2014) Evaluating the Effects of Subclinical, Cyclic Ischemia‐Reperfusion Injury on Wound Healing Using a Novel Device in the Rabbit Ear. Ann Plast Surg 72(6):698‐705 Matthias D. Hofer, Earl Y. Cheng, Matthey I. Bury, Eugene Park, Wei Xu, Seok Jong Hong, William E. Kaplan, and Arun K. Sharma. (2014) Analysis of Primary Urethral Wound Healing in the Rat, Urol‐ogy. 84(1):246.e1‐7 Kai P Leung, Peter D'Arpa, Akhil K Seth, Matthew R Geringer, Marti Jett, Wei Xu, Seok J Hong, Robert D Galiano, Tsute Chen and Thomas A Mustoe. (2014) Dermal Wound Transcriptomic Responses to Infec‐tion with Pseudomonas aeruginosa versus Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Rabbit Ear Wound Model. BMC Clin Pathol. 14:20 Christina Rettinger, Andrea Fourcaudot, Seok Hong, Thomas Mustoe, Robert Hale, Kai Leung. In Vitro Characterization of Scaffold‐Free Three‐Dimensional Mesenchymal Stem Cell Aggregates. Cell Tissue Res. in press. Seok Jong Hong*, Eugene Park, Wei Xu, Shengxian Jia, Robert D. Galiano, and Thomas A. Mustoe. Re‐sponse of human mature adipocytes to hypoxia‐reoxygenation. Cytotherapy. * Co‐corresponding author. Accepted Eric Hungness, MD Honors/Awards Course Director, Common Bile Duct Hands‐on Course, SAGES 2014 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, April 4, 2014. Presentations Invited Speaker. Video Session Panelist, American College of Surgeons Rural Surgeons Program, Wash‐ington DC, October 8, 2013. Invited Speaker. Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Hands‐on Course, Course Director, American Col‐lege of Surgeons Rural Surgeons Program, Washing‐ton DC, October 9, 2013. Invited Speaker. Panel Session: Session Moderator, Central Surgical Association, Oh No! There’s a Bari‐atric Patient in the ER., Indianapolis, IN, March 5, 2014. Oral presentation. Central Surgical Association – Annual Meeting, A Simulator‐Based Resident Cur‐riculum for Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Explo‐ration, Indianapolis, IN, March 7th, 2014. Plenary Session. Society of American Gastrointesti‐nal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) – Surgical Spring Week, Symptomatic and Physiologic Out‐


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comes and One‐Year After Peroral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM), Salt Lake City, UT. April 4th, 2014. Oral presentation. Society of American Gastrointes‐tinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) – Surgical Spring Week, The Effect of Differential Proximal Myotomy Length on Esophagogastric Junction Dis‐tensibility During Heller Myotomy and POEM, Salt Lake City, UT. April 5th, 2014. Oral presentation. Society for Surgery of the Ali‐mentary Tract (SSAT) – Digestive Disease Week, Comparison of hospital charges between laparo‐scopic Heller myotomy and POEM. Chicago, IL. May 4th, 2014. Oral presentation. European Association for Endo‐scopic Surgery (EAES) – 14th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Evaluation of the need for rou‐tine esophagram after peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), Paris, France. June 26th, 2014. Publications Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Arafat FO, Santos BF, Kahrilas PJ, Pandolfino JE and Hungness ES. Analy‐sis of a Learning Curve and Predictors of Intraopera‐tive Difficulty for Peroral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM) . J Gastrointest Surgery. 2013 Sept 4. Teitelbaum EN, Rajeswaran S, Zhang R, Sieberg RT, Miller FH, Soper NJ and Hungness ES. Peroral eso‐phageal myotomy (POEM) and laparoscopic Heller myotomy produce a similar short‐term anatomic and functional effect. Surgery 2013 Oct;154(4):885‐892. George BC, Teitelbaum EN, DaRosa DA, Hungness ES, Meyerson SL, Fryer JP, Schuller M, Zwischenber‐ger JB. Duration of Faculty Training Needed to En‐sure Reliable OR Performance Ratings. J Surg Educ. 2013 Nov‐Dec;70(6):703‐8. Teitelbaum EN, Boris L, Arafat FO, Nicodème F, Lin Z, Kahrilas PJ, Pandolfino JE, Soper NJ and Hung‐ness ES. Comparison of esophagogastric junction distensibility changes during POEM and Heller myotomy using intraoperative FLIP. Surg En‐dosc. 2013 Dec;27(12):4547‐55. Kindel T, Martin E, Hungness ES and Nagle AP. High failure rate of the laparoscopic‐adjustable gastric band as a primary bariatric procedure. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2013 Dec 6 [epub} Harmath C, Horowitz J, Berggruen S, Hamond N, Nikolaidis P, Miller F, Goodhartz L, Teitlebaum E, Hungness E, Yaghmai V. Fluoroscopic findings post‐peroral esophageal myotomy. Abdom Imaging. 2014 Aug 17. Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Pandolfino JE, Kahrilas PJ, Hirano I, Boris L, Nicodeme F, Lin Z, Hungness ES. Esophagogastric junction distensibility measure‐ments during Heller myotomy and POEM for achalasia predict postoperative symptomatic out‐comes. Surg Endosc. 2014 Jul 24. Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Santos BF, Arafat FO, Pandolfino JE, Kahrilas PJ, Hirano I,Hungness ES. Symptomatic and physiologic outcomes one year after peroral esophageal myotomy (POEM) for treat‐ment of achalasia. Surg Endosc. 2014 Jun 18. Teitelbaum EN, Soper JN, Pandolfino JE, Kahrilas PJ, Boris L, Nicodeme F, Lin Z, Hungness ES. An ex‐tended proximal esophageal myotomy is necessary to normalize EGJ distensibility during Heller myotomy for achalasia, but not POEM. Surg Endosc. 2014 May 23. Cho YK, Lipowska AM, Nicodeme F, Teitelbaum EN, Hungness ES, Johnston ER, GawronA, Kahrilas PJ, Pandolfino JE. Assessing bolus retention in achalasia using high‐resolution manometry with impedance: a comparator study with timed barium esophagram. Am J Gastroenterol. 2014 Jun;109(6):829‐35. Hungness ES. Ligation Bleeding Ulcer, Vagotomy, Pyloroplasty. In Nussbaum MS (ed): Gastric Surgery, 1st edition. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2013, 123‐131. Teitelbaum EN, Hungness ES. Gastrointestinal Bleeding. In: Ashley SW, ed. ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice. Hamilton, ON: Decker Intellectual

Properties; 2013. Hungness ES and Kahrilas PJ. Endoscopic Manage‐ment of Achalasia. In Fisichella PM, Soper NJ, Pelle‐grini CA and Patti MG (eds): Surgical Management of Benign Esophageal Disorders, 1st edition. London, Springer‐Verlag, 2014, 141‐154. Teitelbaum EN, Hungness ES. Laparoscopic Com‐mon Bile Duct Exploration. In: Halverson AL, Bergstrom BC, eds. Advanced Surgical Techniques for Rural Surgeons. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. Nabil Issa, MD Honors/Awards Promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery June, 2014 Elected Vice Chair for the Curriculum Committee at the Association for Surgical Education (ASE)‐ April, 2014 Named Second Vice Chair for the Chicago Commit‐tee on Trauma (CCOT)‐ December 2013 Presentations Invited Speaker at the Surgical Education Week – ‘Association for Surgical Education’ annual meeting, Chicago, IL, April 22, 2014 Title of the Talk: “Surgical Subinternship‐ Towards An Evidence‐Based Structure and Curriculum?” Presentations Issa N, Swaroop M, Fryer J, McCarthy D, Wayne J, Meyerson S, DaRosa D. Surgery Boot Camp. MedEd‐Portal, June, 2014: www.mededportal.org/publication/9820 Callese TE, Richards CT, Shaw P, Schuetz SJ, Issa N, Paladino L, Swaroop S. Layperson Trauma Educa‐tion in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Re‐view. J Surg Res. 2014 Jul;190(1):104‐10. Knab ML, Abuzeid A, Rodriguez H, Issa N. Thigh Compartment Syndrome in Urban Trauma Patients: Penetrating Injury, Not Fractures and Bruises. J Surg Res. 2013 Dec;185(2):748‐52. Seema Khan, MD Presentations San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2013 . Dis‐cussion of Abstracts S‐02 and S‐03: Does primary tumor resection improve survival for patients with Stage IV breast cancer? Frontiers in Cancer Prevention, AACR. October 2013 Washington DC. Breast cancer risk reduction with local tansdermal therapy, Society of Surgical Oncology, 66th Annual Cancer Symposium 2013, Session on Clinical Trials. Does resection of the primary tumor improve outcomes in women with Stage IV breast cancer? Society of Surgical Oncology, 66th Annual Cancer Symposium 2013 organized and moderated a sympo‐sium on “The DIN around DCIS: cancer or not?” Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium September 2013: “Dense Breasts: seeing through the fog” University of Iowa, Visiting Professor October 2013. “Local transdermal therapy for breast cancer risk reduction” (Cancer Center Seminar) and “Current controversies in breast cancer surgery” (Surgical Grand Rounds). American College of Surgeons Post‐graduate course October 2013: “The management of women with dense breasts. Publications AKhan S, Lee O, Page K, Ivancic D, Helenowski I, Parimi V, Sullivan M, Margenthaler J, Chatterton R, Jovanovic B, Dunn B, Heckman‐Stoddard B, Foster K, Muzzio M, Shklovskaya J, Skripkauskas S, Kulesza P, Green D, Hansen N, Bethke K, Jeruss J, Allred D, and Bergan R. A Randomized Phase II Presurgical Trial of Transdermal 4‐Hydroxytamoxifen Gel versus Oral Tamoxifen in Women with Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast. Clin Cancer Res July 15, 2014 20:3672‐3682

Jiang X, Xue D, Brufsky A, Khan SA, Neapolitan R. A new method for predicting patient survivorship using efficient bayesian network learning. Cancer Informatics, 2014 Feb 13;13:47‐57. PMID: 24558297 Moran MS, Schnitt SJ, Giuliano AE, Harris JR, Khan SA, Horton J, Klimberg S, Chavez‐Macgregor M, Freedman G, Houssami N, Johnson PL, Morrow M. Society of Surgical Oncology‐American Society for Radiation Oncology Consensus Guideline on Mar‐gins for Breast‐Conserving Surgery With Whole‐Breast Irradiation in Stages I and II Invasive Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2014 Feb 10. PMID: 24516019 Moran MS, Schnitt SJ, Giuliano AE, Harris JR, Khan SA, Horton J, Klimberg S, Chavez‐Macgregor M, Freedman G, Houssami N, Johnson PL, Morrow M. Society of Surgical Oncology‐American Society for Radiation Oncology Consensus Guideline on Mar‐gins for Breast‐Conserving Surgery With Whole‐Breast Irradiation in Stages I and II Invasive Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Feb 10. 24515565 Moran MS, Schnitt SJ, Giuliano AE, Harris JR, Khan SA, Horton J, Klimberg S, Chavez‐Macgregor M, Freedman G, Houssami N, Johnson PL, Morrow M. Society of Surgical Oncology‐American Society for Radiation Oncology Consensus Guideline on Mar‐gins for Breast‐Conserving Surgery With Whole‐Breast Irradiation in Stages I and II Invasive Breast Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014 Mar 1;88(3):553‐64. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.11.012. PMID: 24521674 Wang J, Gupta A, Hu H, Chatterton RT, Clevenger CV, Khan SA. Comment on Progesterone/RANKL Is a Major Regulatory Axis in the Human Breast". Sci Transl Med. 2013 Dec 11;5(215):215le4. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006883. PMID: 24337478. Weisman PS, Sutton BJ, Siziopikou KP, Hansen N, Khan SA, Neuschler EI, Rohan SM, Franz JM, Sulli‐van ME. Non‐mass‐associated intraductal papillo‐mas: is excision necessary? Hum Pathol. 2013 Nov 6. pii: S0046‐8177(13)00458‐9. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2013.10.027. PMID: 24444467 Fought AJ, McGathey C, Scholtens DM, Heinz RE, Lowe R, Feeney YB, Lee O, Kmiecik TE, Wolfman JA, Clevenger CV, Gann PH, Gapstur S, Chatterton RT, Khan SA. Hormonal Determinants of Nipple Aspi‐rate Fluid Yield among Breast Cancer Cases and Screening Controls. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Nov 12. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24049126 Moy I, Lin Z, Rademaker AW, Reierstad S, Khan SA, Bulun SE. Expression of estrogen‐related gene mark‐ers in breast cancer tissue predicts aromatase inhibi‐tor responsiveness. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 6;8(11):e77543. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077543. PMID:24223121 Saha D, Davila AA, Ver Halen JP, Jain UK, Hansen N, Bethke K, Khan SA, Jeruss J, Fine N, Kim jY. Post‐mastectomy reconstruction: a risk‐stratified com‐parative analysis of outcomes. Breast. 2013 Dec;22(6):1072‐80. PMID: 24354013 run K. Gosain, MD Melina Kibbe, MD Honors/Awards American Surgical Association, 2013 Chairman, Ad‐hoc Committee for Appointment Promotion & Tenure Committee, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 10/13 – present Member, Clinical Competency Committee, Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship, Northwestern University, 9/13 – present Annals of Surgery, Editorial Board, 2013‐present NIH Study Section, Bioengineering Research Part‐nership Special Emphasis Panel, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Reviewer, 2013 NIH Study Section, BTSS, National Institutes of Health, Ad‐hoc Reviewer 2013‐2014, Permanent Member 2014‐present Presentations Lecturer. Update on Stem Cell Trials, Drug Eluting Balloons, stents, etc. New Horizons in Vascular


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Surgery, Chicago, IL, September 6, 2013. Lecturer. Update on Stem Cell Trials, Drug‐eluting Balloons, and Stents, New Horizons Program, 37th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Vascular Surgi‐cal Society, Chicago, IL, September 6, 2013. Lecturer. Early Funding Resources on Campus and Elsewhere, SOQIC & NICER‐Oncology Outcomes Research Course, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, September 19, 2013. Lecturer. Transition from Lab to Industry (Benchtop to Countertop), Association for Academic Surgery Fall Courses, Washington, DC, October 4, 2013. Kibbe, MR. Surgeons as Leaders: It Is Never Too Late to Start, Association for Academic Surgery Fall Courses, Washington, DC, October 5, 2013. Lecturer. The Ups and Downs of Translational Re‐search: One Surgeon’s Journey, Surgery Grand Rounds, University of Connecticut School of Medi‐cine, Farmington, CT, November 8, 2013. Lecturer. The Ups and Downs of Translational Re‐search: One Surgeon’s Journey. Surgery Grand Rounds, University of California Los Angeles Medi‐cal School, Los Angeles, CA, December 4, 2013. Lecturer. Anatomic Risk Factors for Carotid Stent‐ing, 38th Annual Northwestern Vascular Sympo‐sium, Chicago, IL, December 12, 2013. Lecturer. The Ups and Downs of Translational Re‐search. CTI Seminar Series. Northwestern Univer‐sity, Chicago, IL, December 19, 2013. Lecturer. Why Be an Academic Surgeon. Surgery Grand Rounds, Northwestern University Depart‐ment of Surgery, Chicago, IL, January 16, 2014. Lecturer. Strategies for Success in the NIH System. AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course: The Grant Writing Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 2, 2014. Kibbe, MR. Mentor Statement. AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course: The Grant Writing Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 3, 2014. Lecturer. Innovation in Surgery, AAS Presidential Session. 9th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, San Diego, CA, February 5, 2014. Lecturer. A Paradigm‐Shifting Stent Technology: Liquid Cast Stents. Feinberg Cardiovascular Re‐search Institute Lecture Series, Chicago, IL, March 13, 2014. Lecturer. Keynote Address. “The Ups and Downs of Translational Research: One Surgeon’s Journey,” University of Michigan 26th Annual Moses Gunn Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April 23, 2014. Lecturer. Keynote Address. “The Ups and Downs of Translational Research: One Surgeon’s Journey,” Hofstra Northshore‐LIJ School of Medicine, 4th Annual Surgical Research Day, New York, NY, May 19, 2014. Lecturer. Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds, VTE Management and CHEST Guidelines, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, May 21, 2014. Kibbe, MR. “Getting Grants and Doing Research at the VA,” Vascular Surgery in the VA: Issues for VA surgeons, and what can we all learn? Session at Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting, Bos‐ton, MA, June 4, 2014. Lecturer. Why Every Surgeon Can and Should be an Academic Surgeon, Italian Surgical Society/Association for Academic Surgery Career Advance‐ment Course, Turin, Italy, October 13, 2013. Lecturer. How to Write and Revise a Manuscript, Italian Surgical Society/Association for Academic Surgery Career Advancement Course, Turin, Italy, October 13, 2013. Lecturer. Grant Writing: Art and Science, Italian Surgical Society/Association for Academic Surgery Career Advancement Course, Turin, Italy, October 13, 2013. Moderator, Session II, 37th Annual Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society, Chicago, IL Saturday, September 7, 2013.

Moderator, Session II, Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society, 37th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Septem‐ber 7, 2013. Discussant, Local Delivery of Halofuginone Amelio‐rates Restenosis by Inducing Adaptive Remodeling, Reducing Intimal Hyperplasia, and Preserving Re‐endothelialization, Vascular I, American College of Surgeons Scientific Session, Washington, DC, Octo‐ber 7, 2013. Discussant, A Nanostructured Lidocaine Delivery System Decreases Postsurgical Pain in Lewis Rats, Surgical Forum SF06, American College of Surgeons Scientific Session, Washington, DC, October 7, 2013. Introduction, Italian Surgical Society/Association for Academic Surgery Career Advancement Course, Turin, Italy, October 13, 2013. Remarks and Closing, Italian Surgical Society/Association for Academic Surgery Career Advance‐ment Course, Turin, Italy, October 13, 2013. Moderator, Critical Limb Ischemia as a Public Health Priority, American Heart Association, 2013 Scientific Sessions, Dallas, TX, November 17, 2013. Co‐Presenter, Introduction, The Grant Writing Workshop, AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course, San Diego, CA, February 2, 2014. Moderator, Essential Elements of a Successful Re‐search Proposal – Basic/Translational Research, The Grant Writing Workshop, AAS/SUS Surgical Investi‐gators’ Course, San Diego, CA, February 2, 2014. Moderator, Career Development Awards – Basic/Translational Research, The Grant Writing Work‐shop, AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course, San Diego, CA, February 3, 2014. Co‐Presenter, Conclusion, The Grant Writing Work‐shop, AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course, San Diego, CA, February 3, 2014. Group Leader, Grantsmanship Workshop Breakout Group, The Grant Writing Workshop, AAS/SUS Surgical Investigators’ Course, San Diego, CA, Feb‐ruary 3, 2014. Moderator, Quickshot Session A, Association for VA Surgeons 38th Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, April 6, 2014. Panelist, Session on Publishing, Association for VA Surgeons 38th Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, April 6, 2014. Moderator, Poster Session II, Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 6, 2014. Co‐Moderator, Poster Runoff Session, Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 7, 2014. 60 Minutes. Interview with Leslie Stahl for “Sex matters: drugs can affect sexes differently”, “Sex differences in medical research,” and “Routine lunch sparks an epiphany,” Feb 09, 2014 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex‐matters‐drugs‐can‐affect‐sexes‐differently/ Colbert Report. “Co‐Ed Lab Rats.” Clips of 60 Min‐utes interview shown, May 19, 2014 http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/el90zp/co‐ed‐lab‐rats Chicago Tonight. Interview with Eddie Arruza, “Ending the Gender Bias in Research” http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2014/05/29/ending‐gender‐bias‐research, May 29, 2014 Publications McDermott MM, Liu K, Ferrucci L, Tian L, Guralnik J, Kopp P, Tao H, Horn LV, Liao Y, Green D, Kibbe MR, Criqui M. Vitamin D status and functional per‐formance in peripheral artery disease. Vasc Med. 2012 Oct;17(5):294‐302. PMID: 2281499 Boitano LT, Wang EC, Kibbe MR. Differential effect of nutritional status on vascular surgery outcomes in a Veterans Affairs versus private hospital setting. Am J Surg. 2012 Nov;204(5):e27‐37. PMID: 23017254 Stroupe KT, Lederle FA, Matsumura JS, Kyriakides TC, Jonk YC, Ge L, Freischlag JA; Open Versus En‐

dovascular Repair (OVER) Veterans Affairs Coopera‐tive Study Group. Cost‐effectiveness of open vs en‐dovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm: Results of a multicenter randomized trial. J Vasc Surg. 2012 56 (4):901‐10. PMID: 22640466. Lederle FA, Freischlag JA, Kyriakides TC, Matsu‐mura JS, Padberg FT Jr, Kohler TR, Kougias P, Jean‐Claude JM, Cikrit DF, Swanson KM; OVER Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group. Long‐term com‐parison of endovascular and open repair of abdomi‐nal aortic aneurysm. N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 22;367(21):1988‐97. PMID: 23171095 McDermott MM, Domanchuk K, Liu K, Guralnik JM, Tian L, Criqui MH, Ferrucci L, Kibbe M, Jones DL, Pearce WH, Zhao L, Spring B, Rejeski WJ. The Group Oriented Arterial Leg Study (GOALS) to improve walking performance in patients with pe‐ripheral arterial disease. Contemp Clin Trials. 2012 Nov;33(6):1311‐20. PMID: 2315811 Losordo DW, Kibbe MR, Mendelsohn F, Marston W, Driver VR, Sharafuddin M, Teodorescu V, Wiech‐mann BN, Thompson C, Kraiss L, Carman T, Dohad S, Huang P, Junge CE, Story K, Weistroffer T, Thorne TM, Millay M, Runyon JP, Schainfeld R; for the Autologous CD34+ Cell Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia Investigators. A randomized, con‐trolled pilot study of autologous CD34+ cell therapy for critical limb ischemia. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Dec;5(6):821‐30. PMID: 23192920 Tsihlis ND, Kapadia MR, Vavra AK, Flannery WD, Oustwani CS, Jiang Q, Kibbe MR. Nitric oxide may inhibit neointimal hyperplasia by decreasing isopep‐tidase T levels and activity in the vasculature. J Vasc Surg. 2013 2013 Jul;58(1):179‐86 PMID: 23375434 Kraiss LW, Conte MS, Geary RL, Kibbe MR, Ozaki CK. Setting high impact clinical research priorities for the Society for Vascular Surgery. J Vasc Surg. 2013 Feb;57(2):493‐500. PMID: 23337859. Lee CJ, Rodriguez HE, Kibbe MR, Malaisrie SC, Eskandari MK. Secondary interventions following elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for degenerative aneurysms. J Vasc Surg. 2013 May;57(5):1269‐74. PMID: 23352360. McDermott MM, Carroll TJ, Kibbe M, Kramer CM, Liu K, Guralnik JM, Keeling AN, Criqui MH, Ferrucci L, Yuan C, Tian L, Liao Y, Berry J, Zhao L, Carr J. Proximal superficial femoral artery occlusion, collat‐eral vessels, and walking performance in peripheral artery disease. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2013 Jun;6(6):687‐94. PMID: 23647796 Havelka GE, Moreira ES, Rodriguez MP, Tsihlis ND, Wang Z, Martinez J, Hrabie J, Keefer L, Kibbe MR. Nitric oxide delivery via a permeable balloon cathe‐ter inhibits neointimal growth after arterial injury. J Surg Res. 2013 Mar;180(1):35‐42. PMC3578007 McDermott MM, Kibbe MR, Guralnik JM, Pearce WH, Tian L, Liao Y, Zhao L, Criqui MH. Compara‐tive effectiveness study of self‐directed walking exercise, lower extremity revascularization, and functional decline in peripheral artery disease. J Vasc Surg. 2013 Apr;57(4):990‐996. PMID: 23352363 Dageforde LA, Kibbe M, Jackson GP. Recruiting women to vascular surgery and other surgical spe‐cialties. J Vasc Surg. 2013 Jan;57(1):262‐7. PMID:23141685 Rodriguez MP, Emond ZM, Varu VN, Ahanchi SS, Martinez J, Kibbe MR. Nitric Oxide Differentially Effects ERK and Akt in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetic Rats, J Surg Res, 2013 Aug;183(2):944‐51. PMID: 23608617. McDermott MM, Liu K, Guralnik JM, Criqui MH, Spring B, Tian L, Domanchuk K, Ferrucci L, Lloyd‐Jones D, Kibbe M, Tao H, Zhao L, Liao Y, Rejeski WJ Home‐based walking exercise intervention in pe‐ripheral artery disease: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2013 Jul 3;310(1):57‐65. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.7231. PMID: 23821089. Wang Y, Kibbe MR, Ameer GA. Photo‐crosslinked biodegradable elastomers for controlled nitric oxide delivery. Biomater. Sci.2013 June 1(6): 625‐632 DOI: 10.1039/C3BM00169E (PMC in process)


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Kibbe MR, Sarr MG, Livingston EH, Freischlag JA, Lillemoe KD, McFadden DW. The Art and Science of Publishing: Reflections from Editors of Surgery Journals. J Surg Res 2014 Jan;186(1):7‐15 PMID: 24035228 Domanchuk K, Ferrucci L, Guralnik JM, Criqui MH, Tian L, Liu K, Losordo D, Stein J, Green D, Kibbe M, Zhao L, Annex B, Perlman H, Lloyd‐Jones D, Pearce W, Taylor D, McDermott MM. Progenitor cell re‐lease plus exercise to improve functional perform‐ance in peripheral artery disease: The PROPEL Study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2013 Sep 27;36(2):502‐509. PMID: 24080099. Tsihlis ND, Vavra AK, Martinez J, Lee VR, Kibbe MR. Nitric Oxide is Less Effective at Inhibiting Neointimal Hyperplasia in Spontaneously Hyperten‐sive Rats. Nitric Oxide. 2013 Oct 19. doi:pii: S1089‐8603(13)00324‐8. 10.1016/j.niox.2013.10.005. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24149190 Lee CJ, Kibbe MR, Eskandari MK, Morasch MD, Pearce WH, Rodriguez HE. Surgical Management of Aortitis with Early Aneurysmal Detection. Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2014 Apr;28(3):568‐74. PMID: 24200141 Rodriguez MP, Emond ZM, Wang Z, Martinez J, Jiang Q, Kibbe MR. Role of metabolic environment on nitric oxide mediated inhibition of neointimal hyperplasia in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Nitric Oxide. 2013 Dec 12. pii: S1089‐8603(13)00344‐3. doi: 10.1016/j.niox.2013.12.005. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24333562 Wang Y, Kibbe MR, Ameer GA. Photo‐crosslinked Biodegradable Elastomers for Controlled Nitric Oxide Delivery. Biomater Sci. 2013 Jun;1(6):625‐632. McDermott MM, Guralnik JM, Criqui MH, Ferrucci L, Zhao L, Liu K, Domanchuk K, Spring B, Tian L, Kibbe M, Liao Y, Lloyd Jones D, Rejeski WJ. Home‐Based Walking Exercise in Peripheral Artery Dis‐ease: 12‐Month Follow‐up of the Goals Randomized Trial. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 May 21;3(3). PMID: 24850615. McDermott MM, Greenland P, Liu K, Tian L, Green D, Shah SJ, Huffman M, Wilkins J, Kibbe M, Liao Y, Huang CC, Skelly C, Jacobs C, McCarthy W, Auer‐bach A, Lloyd‐Jones D. Vulnerable blood in high risk vascular patients: Study design and methods. Con‐temp Clin Trials. 2014 May;38(1):121‐9. PMID: 24721480 McDermott MM, Liu K, Ferrucci L, Tian L, Guralnik J, Kopp P, Van Horn L, Liao Y, Green D, Kibbe M, Sufit R, Zhao L, Criqui MH. Vitamin D status, func‐tional decline, and mortality in peripheral artery disease. Vasc Med. 2014 Feb;19(1):18‐26. PMID: 24442622 Ju MH, Kibbe MR. Regarding "Race as a predictor of morbidity, mortality, and neurologic events after carotid endarterectomy". J Vasc Surg. 2013 Nov;58(5):1444. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2013.06.096. PMID: 24160317 Woodruff TK1, Kibbe MR, Paller AS, Turek FW, Woolley CS. Commentary: "Leaning in" to support sex differences in basic science and clinical research. Endocrinology. 2014 Apr;155(4):1181‐3. doi: 10.1210/en.2014‐1068. Epub 2014 Feb 7. Kibbe MR, Kohler TR, Moore WS. Neointimal Hy‐perplasia. In: Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: A Comprehensive Review. 8th Ed. Moore WS, Ed. Philadelphia, Elsevier, 2013 pp 890‐905. Lee M, Kibbe MR. Endovascular Treatment of Restenotic Lesions. In: Endovascular Interventions: A Case‐Based Approach. Dieter RS, Kieter RA Jr, Dieter RA III, Eds. New York, Springer, 2014 pp 139‐154. Annabhotla S, Kibbe MR. Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: EVAR. In: Endovascular Interven‐tions: A Case‐Based Approach. Dieter RS, Kieter RA Jr, Dieter RA III, Eds. New York, Springer, 2013 pp 355‐366. Daley CM, Kibbe MR. Anatomic Risk Factors. In Current Vascular Surgery:2013. Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JST, Eds. Shelton, CT, People’s

Medical Publishing House‐ USA, 2013 pp 23‐30: Moreira ES, Kibbe MR. Nitric Oxide and Vascular Disease. In Therapy in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Stanley JC, Veith FJ, Wakefield TW, Eds. Philadelphia PA, Elsevier‐Saunders, 2014 pp 511‐513. John Kim, MD Honors/Awards American Society of Breast Surgeons “Best Papers of 2013” Distinction Best Paper, Practice Management, American Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Conference Presentations Co‐Speaker. Inpatient Status and Ethnicity: Risk Factors for Surgical Complications Following Open Reduction Internal Fixation of Distal Radius Frac‐tures. American Society for Surgery of the Hand 68th Annual Meeting. October 3‐5, 2013. San Fran‐cisco, CA. Co‐Speaker. Diabetes and Inpatient Status Increase Risk for Re‐admission after Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures. Ameri‐can Society for Surgery of the Hand 68th Annual Meeting. October 3‐5, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Co‐Speaker. Development of a Breast Reconstruc‐tion Risk Assessment (BRA) Score: An Individual‐ized Risk Calculator for Complications Using the NSQIP and TOPS Databases. American Association of Plastic Surgeons 93rd Annual Meeting. April 5‐8, 2014. Miami Beach, FL. Co‐Speaker. Spine Surgeon Specialty is Not a Risk Factor for Complications in Single‐Level Lumbar Fusion: A Propensity Score Matched Study of 2,528 Patients. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 9th Annual All School Research Consor‐tium. March 19, 2014. North Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Single‐Stage Augmentation‐Mastopexy. American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Residents & Fellows Forum. April 25, 2014. San Francisco, CA. Co‐Speaker. Increased Anesthesia Duration In‐creases Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Plastic Surgery: A Six‐Year Analysis of Over 19,000 Cases. Plastic Surgery Research Council. March 7‐9, 2014. New York, NY. Co‐Speaker. The BRA Score: Creating A General Risk Calculator For Breast Reconstructive Outcomes. Plastic Surgery Research Council. March 7‐9, 2014. New York, NY. Co‐Speaker. Can ACS‐NSQIP Be Used to Model Outcomes In Head And Neck Surgery? Comparison Of 30‐Day Adverse Events Between The 2005‐2011 ACS‐NSQIP Datasets And Published Literature. IFHNOS 5th World Congress and AHNS Annual Meeting. July 26‐30, 2014. New York, NY. Co‐Speaker. Inadequacies of NSQIP in Predicting Adverse Outcomes Following Laryngectomy: A Re‐view of 2005‐2011 NSQIP Datasets. IFHNOS 5th World Congress and AHNS Annual Meeting. July 26‐30, 2014. New York, NY. Co‐Speaker. Spine Surgeon Specialty is Not a Risk Factor for Complications in Single‐Level Lumbar Fusion: A Propensity Score Matched Study of 2,528 patients. ACS‐NSQIP National Conference 2014. July 26‐29, 2014. New York, NY. Co‐Speaker. Insurance Status Does Not Impact Breast Reconstruction Outcomes: An Analysis of Propensity‐Matched TOPS Data. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. Meshed Acellular Dermal Matrix in Primary Breast Reconstruction. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. Is there a relationship between in‐creased surgical duration and urinary tract infec‐tions: an analysis of NSQIP data from 2005‐2012. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. Impact of Postoperative Antibiotic

Prophylaxis Duration on Surgical Site Infections in Autologous Breast Reconstruction. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chi‐cago, IL. Co‐Speaker. ASA Class is a Reliable Independent Predictor of Medical Complications and Mortality Following Surgery. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. BMI as a predictor of complications in open partial nephrectomy vs. minimally invasive partial nephrectomy: an analysis of NSQIP data from 2006‐2012. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Re‐search Day. April 3, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. The impact of advancing age on postop‐erative outcomes in plastic surgery. 10th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day. April 3, 2014. Chi‐cago, IL. Co‐Speaker. Development of a Breast Reconstruc‐tion Risk Assessment (BRA) Score: An Individual‐ized Risk Calculator for Complications Using the NSQIP and TOPS Databases. American Association of Plastic Surgeons 93rd Annual Meeting. April 5‐8, 2014. Miami Beach, FL. Co‐Speaker. Predictors of Readmission Following Outpatient Urological Surgery. American Urological Association Annual Meeting. May 17, 2014. Orlando, FL. Co‐Speaker. Individualized Risk of Surgical Compli‐cations: An Application of the Breast Reconstruction Risk Assessment (BRA) Score. Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2014. October 10‐14, 2014. Chicago, IL. Co‐Speaker. Outcomes following elevation of serra‐tus anterior fascia during prosthetic breast recon‐struction. American Society of Breast Surgeons An‐nual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. May 2, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Risk Factors for Perioperative Compli‐cations After Urogynecologic Surgery. International Continence Society Meeting 2014. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October 20‐24, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Preoperative anemia does not predict complications after single‐level lumbar fusion: A propensity score‐matched multi‐center study. American College of Surgeons 2014 Clinical Con‐gress. San Francisco, CA. October 26‐30, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Development of a Breast Reconstruc‐tion Risk Assessment (BRA) Score: An Individual‐ized Risk Calculator for Complications Using the NSQIP and TOPS Databases. The European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery (ESPRAS) 2014. Edinburgh, Scotland. July 6‐11, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Open Versus Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy: Assessing the Impact of BMI on Peri‐Operative outcomes in 3,686 Cases from a Nation‐wide Database (NSQIP). World Congress of En‐dourology 2014. Taipei, Taiwan. September 3‐7, 2014. Publications Mlodinow AS, Ver Halen JP, Rambachan A, Gaido J, Kim JYS. Anemia is not a predictor of free flap fail‐ure: A review of NSQIP Data. Microsurgery. 2013.33(6):432‐8. Mioton LM, Jordan SW, Hanwright PJ, Bilimoria K, Kim JYS. The Relationship between Pre‐Operative Wound Classification and Post‐Operative Infection: A Multi‐institutional Analysis of 15,289 Patients. Arch Plast Surg. 2013;40(5):522‐9. Mioton LM, Smetona JT, Hanwright PJ, Seth AK, Wang E, Bilimoria KY, Gaido J, Fine NA, Kim JYS. A Retrospective Study Comparing Thirty‐Day Morbid‐ity Outcomes in Prosthetic and Autologous Tissue Breast Reconstruction: A Multivariate Analysis of 13,082 Patients. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2013;66(7):917‐925. Mioton LM, Gaido J, Small W, Fine NA, Kim JYS. Differences in Breast Aesthetic Outcomes due to Radiation: A Validated, Quantitative Analysis of Expander‐Implant Reconstruction. Can J Plast Surg. 2013;21(2):73‐7. Rambachan A, Mioton LM, Saha S, Fine NA, Kim JYS. The Impact of Surgical Duration on Plastic


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Surgery Outcomes. Eur J Plast Surg. 2013. Epub Ahead of Print. Mioton LM, Buck DW, Rambachan A, Ver Halen J, Dumanian GA, Kim JYS. Predictors of readmission after outpatient plastic surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014;133(1):173‐80. Khavanin N, Mlodinow A, Milad MP, Bilimoria KY, Kim JYS. Comparison of Perioperative Outcomes in Outpatient and Inpatient Laparoscopic Hysterec‐tomy. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2013;(20)5:604‐10. Mlodinow AS, Ver Halen JP, Lim S, Nguyen KT, Gaido JA, Kim JYS. Predictors of readmission follow‐ing breast reconstruction—a multi‐institutional analysis of 5,012 patients. Ann Plast Surg. 2013;71(4):335‐41. Mioton LM, Alghoul M, Kim JYS. A Comparative Analysis of Readmission Rates after Outpatient Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. Aesthet Surg J. 2014;34(2):317‐23. Lim S, Edelstein A, Jain U, Purit L, Kim JYS. Impact of preoperative myocardial infarction on postopera‐tive complications and length of stay in patients undergoing inpatient orthopaedic surgery. Int Or‐thop. 2013;(37)12:2483‐9. Khavanin N, Bethke K, Lovecchio F, Jeruss J, Hansen N, Kim JYS. Risk factors for unplanned readmissions following excisional breast surgery. Breast J. 2014;20(3):288‐94. Kim B, Ver Halen J, Mlodinow A, Kim JYS. Intraop‐erative Transfusion of Packed Red Blood Cells in Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer Patients: Assess‐ment of 30‐day Morbidity using the NSQIP Dataset. J Reconstr Microsurg. 2014;30(2):103‐14. Khavanin N, Gust M, Grant D, Nguyen K, Kim JYS. Tabbed Tissue Expanders Improve Breast Symmetry Scores in Breast Reconstruction. Arch Plast Surg. 2014;41(1):57‐62. Khavanin N, Gart MS, Berry T, Thornton B, Saha S, Kim JYS. Sentinel lymph node biopsy vs. axillary lymphadenectomy in patients treated with lumpec‐tomy: an analysis of short‐term outcomes. Ann Surg Onc. 2014;21(1):74‐80. Rambachan A, Smith T, Saha S, Eskandari M, Ben‐dok B, Kim JYS. Reasons for readmission after ca‐rotid endarterectomy. World Neurosurg. 2013. Epub ahead of Print. Kim B, Ver Halen J, Grant D, Kim JYS. Anesthesia Duration as an Independent Risk Factor for Postop‐erative Complications in Free Flap Surgery: A Re‐view of 1,305 Surgical Cases. Journ Recon Microsurg. 2013. Epub Ahead of Print. Jain U, Salgado C, Mioton L, Rambachan A, Kim JYS. Predictors of readmission after inpatient plastic surgery. Arch Plast Surg. 2014;41(2):116‐21. Saha S, Davila A, Ver Halen J, Jain U, Hansen N, Bethke K, Khan S, Fine N, Kim JYS. Post mastectomy reconstruction: a risk‐stratified comparative analysis of outcomes. Breast. 2013;22(6):1072‐80. Khavanin N, Fine N, Bethke K, Mlodinow A, Hansen N, Khan S, Jeruss J, Kim JYS. Tumescent Technique does not Increase the Risk of Complication Follow‐ing Mastectomy with Immediate Reconstruction. Ann Surg Onc. 2014;21(2):384‐8. De Oliveira GS Jr, Bialek J, Fitzgerald P, Kim JYS, McCarthy R. Systemic Magnesium to Improve Qual‐ity of Post‐Surgical Recovery in Outpatient Segmen‐tal Mastectomy: A Randomized, Double Blind, Pla‐cebo‐Controlled Trial. Magnes Res. 2013;26(4):156‐64. Lovecchio F, Hsu W, Smith T, Cybulski G, Kim B, Kim JYS. Predictors of thirty‐day readmission after anterior cervical fusion. Spine. 2014;39(2):127‐33. Kim B, Smith T, Lim S, Cybulski G, Kim JYS. Predic‐tors of Unplanned Readmission in Patients Under‐going Lumbar Decompression: Multi‐institutional Analysis of 7,016 Patients. J Neuro Spine. 2014. Epub ahead of print.

Khavanin N, Jordan SW, Lovecchio F, Fine NA, Kim JYS. Synergistic interactions with a high intraopera‐tive expander fill volume increase the risk for mas‐tectomy flap necrosis. J Breast Cancer. 2013;16(4):426‐31. Pilecki M, McGuire B, Jain U, Kim JYS, Nadler R. National multi‐institutional comparison of 30‐day post‐operative complication and re‐admission rates between open retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) and robot‐assisted laparoscopic prostatec‐tomy (RALRP). J Endourol. 2014;28(4):430‐6. Jain U, Chandra R, Smith S, Pilecki M, Kim JYS. Predictors of readmission after outpatient otolaryn‐gologic surgery. Laryngoscope. 2013. Epub ahead of print. Lovecchio F, Jordan S, Lim S, Fine NA, Kim JYS. Risk factors for complications differ between stages of breast reconstruction. Ann Plast Surg. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Lim S, Jordan S, Jain U, Kim JYS. Predictors and Causes of Unplanned Reoperations in Outpatient Plastic Surgery: A multi‐institutional analysis of 6,749 patients using the 2011 NSQIP database. J Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Kim B, Hsu W, De Oliveira GS Jr, Saha S, Kim JYS. Operative Duration as an Independent Risk Factor for Postoperative Complications in Single‐Level Lumbar Fusion: An Analysis of 4,588 Surgical Cases. Spine. 2014;39(6):510‐20. Rambachan A, Matulewicz R, Pilecki M, Kim JYS, Kundu S. Predictors of Readmission Following Out‐patient Urological Surgery. J Urol. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Lovecchio F, Farmer R, Souza J, Khavanin N, Duma‐nian G, Kim JYS. Predictors of thirty‐day readmis‐sion after ventral hernia repair. Surgery. 2014;155(4):702‐10. Mlodinow A, Fine NA, Khavanin N, Kim JYS. Risk Factors for Mastectomy Flap Necrosis Following Immediate Tissue Expander Breast Reconstruction. J Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2013. Epub ahead of print. Kim B, Ver Halen J, Lim S, Kim JYS. Predictors of Unplanned Readmission in Microvascular Free Tis‐sue Transfer Patients: Multi‐institutional Analysis of 774 Patients. Microsurgery. 2013. Epub ahead of print. De Oliveira GS Jr, Bialek JM, Nicosia L, McCarthy RJ, Chang R, Fitzgerald P, Kim JYS. Lack of Association between Breast Reconstructive Surgery and the Development of Chronic Pain after Mastectomy: A Propensity Matched Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Breast. 2014. Epub ahead of Print. Rambachan A, Matulewicz R, Pilecki M, Kim JYS, Kundu SD. Predictors of Readmission Following Outpatient Urological Surgery. J Urology. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Khavanin N, Mlodinow AS, Kim JYS, Ver Halen JP, Samant S. Predictors of 30‐Day Readmission after Outpatient Thyroidectomy: An Analysis of the 2011 NSQIP Dataset. Am J Otolaryngol. 2014. Epub Ahead of Print. Catanzarite T, Rambachan A, Mueller M, Pilecki M, Kim JYS, Kenton K. Risk Factors for 30‐day Pe‐rioperative Complications After Le Fort Colpocleisis. J Urol. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Matulewicz RS, Pilecki M, Rambachan A, , Kundu SD. The Impact of Resident Involvement on Urological Surgery Outcomes: an Analysis of 40,000 Patients from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Urol. 2014. Epub ahead of print. Qin C, Vaca E, Lovecchio F, Ver Halen JP, Hansen N, Kim JYS. Differential Impact of Non‐Insulin De‐pendent Diabetes Mellitus and Insulin‐Dependent Diabetes Mellitus on Breast Reconstruction Out‐comes. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014. Epub Ahead of Print. Jordan SW, Khavanin N, Fine NA, Kim JYS. An Algo‐rithmic approach for selective ADM use in immedi‐

ate two‐stage breast reconstruction: Indications and outcomes. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014;134(2):178‐88. Kim BD, Lim S, Wood J, Samant S, Ver Halen JP, Kim JYS. Predictors of Adverse Events After Pa‐rotidectomy: A Review of 2,919 Cases. Ann Oto Rhin Laryng. 2014. Epub Ahead of Print. Edelstein A, Lovecchio F, Saha S, Hsu W, Kim JYS. Impact of Resident Involvement on Orthopaedic Surgery Outcomes: An analysis of 30,628 Patients from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2013. Epub Ahead of Print. Minhas SV, Chow I, Patel AA, Kim JYS. Surgeon Specialty Differences in Single‐Level Anterior Cervi‐cal Discectomy and Fusion. Spine. 2014. Epub Ahead of Print. Mioton LM, Seth AK, Gaido JA, Fine NA, Kim JYS. Tracking the Aesthetic Outcomes of Prosthetic Breast Reconstructions that have Complications. Can J Plast Surg. 2014;22(2):70‐4. Kim JYS, Khavanin N, Jordan SW, Ver Halen, Mlodi‐now AS, Bethke KP, Khan SA, Hansen N, Losken A, Fine NA. Individual Risk of Surgical Site Infection: Application of the Breast Reconstruction Risk As‐sessment (BRA) Score. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014. Epub Ahead of Print. Khavanin N, Jordan SW, Rambachan A, Kim JYS. A systematic review and meta‐analysis of single‐stage augmentation‐mastopexy. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014. In Press. Kim B, Edelstein A, Hsu W, Lim S, Kim JYS. Spine Surgeon Specialty is Not a Risk Factor for Complica‐tions in Single‐Level Lumbar Fusion: A Propensity Score Matched Study of 2,528 Patients. Spine. 2014. In Press. Kim JYS, Khavanin N, Rambachan A, McCarthy RJ, Mlodinow AS, De Oliveira Jr. GS, Stock MC, Gust MJ, Bilimoria KY, Mahvi DM. Surgical Duration and Risk of Venous Thromboembolism. JAMA Surg. 2014. In Press. Jain U, Somerville J, Saha S, Antony A, Samant S, Kim JYS, Ver Halen JP. Predictors of Adverse Events After Neck Dissection: An Analysis of the 2006‐2011 NSQIP Datasets. Ear Nose Throat J. 2014. In Press. Kim B, Edelstein A, Patel A, Lovecchio F, Kim JYS. Preoperative anemia does not predict complications after single‐level lumbar fusion: A propensity score‐matched multi‐center study. Spine 2014. In Press. Qin C, Luo B, Aggarwal A, De Oliveira G, Kim JYS. Advanced age as an independent predictor of pe‐rioperative risk after laparoscopic sleeve gastrec‐tomy. Obes Surg. 2014. In Press. Lim S, Parsa A, Rosenow J, Kim B, Kim JYS. Impact of resident involvement in neurosurgery: An analysis of 8,748 patients from the 2011 American College of Surgeons national surgical quality improvement program database. J Neurosurg. 2014. In Press. Vieira BL, Lanier ST, Mlodinow AS, Hume KM, Gutowski KA, Murphy RX, Fine NA, Kim JYS. Insur‐ance Status is Not a Predictor of Morbidity Follow‐ing Breast Reconstruction: A Multi‐institutional Analysis of TOPS Data. Plast Reconstr Surg GO. 2014. In Press. Jain U, Khavanin N, Cheesborough J, Kim JYS. Catas‐trophic outcomes after outpatient plastic surgery: A multicenter analysis. Eur J Plast Surg. 2013. In Press. Mioton LM, Seth AK, Smetona J, Fine NA, Kim JYS. A Comparative Analysis of Acellular Dermal Matrix Breast Reconstruction in High‐Risk Patients. J Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2013. In Press. De Oliveira G, Fitzgerald P, Ahmad S, Kim JYS, Ra‐hangdale R, McCarthy R. The Effect of The Trans‐versus Abdominis Plane Block on Postoperative Quality of Recovery in Morbid Obese Patients un‐dergoing Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: A Random‐ized, Double Blinded, Placebo Controlled, Pilot Study. J Crit Care. 2013. In Press.


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Lim S, Kim B, Kim JYS, Ver Halen J. Preoperative Albumin Alone is Not a Predictor of 30‐Day Out‐comes in Pressure Ulcer Patients. A Matched Pro‐pensity‐Score Analysis of the 2006 ‐ 2011 NSQIP Datasets. Ann Plast Surg. 2013. In Press. Seth AK, Silver HR, Hirsch EM, Kim JYS, Fine NA. Comparison of delayed and immediate tissue ex‐pander breast reconstruction in the setting of post‐mastectomy radiation therapy. Ann Plast Surg. 2013. In Press. Daniela Ladner, MD, MPH Honors/Awards Top Poster Award (senior author): Examining the Influence of Biopsy on Organ Utilization in a Single OPO; ASTS Winter Symposium, 2013 Poster of Distinction Award (top 10%) (senior au‐thor): Safety Risks in Living Donor Liver Transplan‐tation; American Transplant Congress, 2013 Poster of Distinction Award (top 10%) (senior au‐thor): The extent and drivers of geographic inequity in kidney transplantation in the US; American Transplant Congress, 2013 Poster of Distinction Award (top 10%) (senior au‐thor): Longer Cold Ischemic Time in Nighttime Procurements Results in Worse Outcomes for Liver Transplant Recipients, 2014 Presentations Medication Tradeoffs, Non‐Adherence, and Clinical Outcomes among Liver Transplant Recipients Marina Serper, Kamila Przytula Rachel E. Patzer, Danie la Ladner , Michael S. Wolf AASLD, November, 2013 – Washington DC Pain Management in Living Liver Donors Ladner D, Fisher RA, Pomfret E, Simpson MA, Brown RS, Daud A, Waitzman K, Joseph JR, Woods D, AASLD, November, 2013 – Washington DC Detection of Medical Errors in Kidney Transplanta‐tion: A Pilot Study Comparing Proactive Clinician Debriefings to a Hospital‐Wide Incident Reporting System, McElroy LM, Daud, A, Lapin B, Woods DM, Holl JL, Ladner DP, Academy Health, June 2014, San Diego A Failure mode and effects analysis from operating room setup to incision in living liver donors Khorzad R, Woods D, Fischer R, Guarrera J, Pomfret L, Simpson MA, Sherwani S, Skaro A, Baker T, Ziomek R, Daud A, Reyes E, Wymore E, Ladner DP WTC, July 2014 – San Francisco American Society for Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Winter Symposium, Miami; January, 2014 Career Development Seminar – Finding your Niche Invitation for Talk and consecutive podium discus‐sion about career development in front of national audience International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS); London, June 2014, Improving Liver Donor Safety Invitation for Talk on Living Liver Donor Safety in front of international audience World Transplant Congress (WTC), San Francisco, July, 2014 Living Donor Outcomes and Concerns Invitation to give talk on Living Donor Outcomes and Safety in front of international audience Publications What Patients Think Doctors Know: Beliefs about Provider Knowledge as Barriers to Safe Medication Use. Marina Serper, Danielle M McCarthy, Rachel E Patzer, Jennifer P King, Stacy C Bailey, Samuel G Smith; Ruth M Parker, Terry C Davis, Daniela P Ladner, Michael S Wolf, Patient Education and Counseling, 2013 Nov;93(2):306‐11; PMID: 23890725 Characteristics of a Simulation Model of the Na‐tional Kidney Transplantation System Davis A, Mehrotra S, Friedewald J, Ladner D. Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Confer‐ence, edited by R. Pasupathy, S.‐H. Kim, A. Tolk, R. Hill, and M.E. Kuhl. Piscataway, New Jersey: Insti‐tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Extent and Predictors of Waiting Time Geographic Disparity in Kidney Transplantation in the United

States, Davis A, Mehrotra S, McElroy L, Friedewald J, Skaro I, Lapin B, Kang R, Holl J, Abecassis MM, Ladner DP, Transplantation, 2014 May 27;97(10);1049‐57; PMID: 24374790 Comparative Effectiveness of Liver Transplant Strategies for End‐Stage Liver Disease Patient on Renal Replacement Therapy, Chang Y, Gallon L, Jay C, Shetty K, Ho B, Levitsky J, Baker T, Ladner D, Friedewald J, Abecassis M, Hazen G, Skaro A Liver Transplantation, 2014 Apr 29; PMID: 24777647 Hepatitis C disease severity in living versus deceased donor liver transplant recipients: an extended obser‐vation study. Terrault NA, Stravitz RT, Lok AS, Ever‐son GT, Brown RS Jr, Kulik LM, Olthoff KM, Saab S, Adeyi O, Argo CK, Everhart JE, Rodrigo del R; A2ALL Study Group, Hepatology. 2014 Apr;59(4):1311‐9; PMID: 24677192 Predictors of Donor Follow‐up after Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Brown RS Jr, Smith A, Dew MA, Gillespie, Hill‐Callahan MM, Ladner DP; A2ALL Cohort Study, Liver Transplantation, 2014 May 13; PMID: 24824858 Implications of the Statewide Sharing Variance on Kidney Transplantation Geographic Inequity and Allocation Efficiency. Davis AE, Mehrotra S, McElroy L, Friedewald J, Kang J, Holl J, Abecassis M, Ladner DP, C‐JASN, 2014 Jun 26; PMID: 24970871 Detection of Medical Errors in Kidney Transplanta‐tion: A Pilot Study Comparing Proactive Clinician Debriefings to a Hospital‐Wide Incident Reporting System, McElroy LM, Daud A, Lapin B, Ross O, Woods DM, Skaro A, Holl J, Ladner DP Surgery – in print Improving Syphilis Screening in Deceased Organ Donors Theodoropoulos N, Jaramillo A, Penugonda S, Brooks K, Ladner DP, Jendrisak M, Ison MG Transplantation – in print A Meta‐Analysis of Complications following De‐c e a s e d D o n o r L i v e r T r a n s p l a n t McElroy LM, Daud A, Davis A, Lapin B, Baker T, Abecassis MM, Levitsky J, Holl J, Ladner DP American Journal of Surgery (AJS) – in print Joseph Leventhal, MD, PhD Presentations Invited Speaker. Frontiers In Transplantation, Lon‐don, England, Sept 3‐6, 2013 Invited Speaker. Transforming Transplantation: Expert Summit 2013, Madrid Spain, Nov 20‐23, 2013 Invited Speaker. AST Cutting Edge of Transplanta‐tion, Chandler, AZ, Feb 14‐15, 2014 Invited Speaker. Canadian Transplantation Society, Montreal, Canada, Feb 27‐March 2, 2014 Invited Speaker. The Transplantation Society (Tolerance Workshop), Boston, MA, March 13‐15, 2014 Invited Speaker. Grand Rounds ‐ Wayne State Uni‐versity, Detroit, MI, May 6‐7, 2014 Invited Speaker. ASTS Program Directors Mtg, Hil‐ton Chicago O’Hare Airport, June 23, 2014 Publications Theodoropoulos N, Wang E, Penugonda S, Ladner DP, Stosor V, Leventhal J,Friedewald J, Angarone MP, Ison MG. BK virus replication and nephropathy after alemtuzumab‐induced kidney transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2013;(1):197‐206. Leventhal J, Miller J, Abecassis M, Tollerud DJ, Ild‐stad ST. Evolving approaches of hematopoietic stem cell‐based therapies to induce tolerance to organ transplants: the long road to tolerance. Clin Phar‐macol Ther. 2013; 93(1)36‐45. Leventhal J, Abecassis M, Miller J, Gallon L, Tollerud D, Elliott MJ, Bozulic LD, Houston C, Sustento‐Reodica N, Ildstad ST. Tolerance induction in HLAdisparate living donor kidney transplantation by donor stem cell infusion: durable chimerism predicts outcome. Transplantation. 2013;15;95(1):169‐76.

Tambur AR, Leventhal JR, Zitzner JR, Walsh RC, Friedewald JJ. The DQ Barrier: Improving Organ Allocation Equity Using HLA‐DQ Information. Transplantation. 2013; 27;95(4):635‐640. Tambur AR, Rosati J, Roitberg S, Glotz D, Friede‐wald JJ, Leventhal JR. Epitope Analysis of HLA‐DQ Antigens: What Does the Antibody See? Transplan‐tation. 2014 Jul 27;98(2):157‐66. Kawai T, Leventhal J, Madsen JC, Strober S, Turka LA, Wood KJ. Tolerance: one transplant for life. Transplantation. 2014 Jul 27;98(2):117‐21. David Mahvi, MD Awards/ Honors Farley Fellow‐ McCormick School of Engineering, 2013‐ present Appointed American Board of Surgery Chair 2014‐2015 Publications Sherman KL , Gordon EJ, Mahvi DM, Chung J, Ben‐trem D J, Holl JL Bilimoria KY. Surgeons’ Percep‐tions of Public Reporting of Hospital and Individual Surgeon Quality. 2013 Dec;51(12):1069‐75. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000013. PMID: 24226305 [PubMed ‐ indexed for MEDLINE] Kindel T, Mahvi DM, Keswani, R Endoscopic closure of a post operative duodenal fistula. JSLS in press 2014 Ju MH, Chung JW, Kinnier CV, Bentrem DJ, Mahvi DM, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. Association between hos‐pital imaging use and venous thromboembolism events rates based on clinical data. Ann Surg. 2014 S e p ; 2 6 0 ( 3 ) : 5 5 8 ‐ 6 6 . d o i : 1 0 . 1 0 9 7 /SLA.0000000000000897. PMID: 25115432 [PubMed ‐ in process] Knab LM, Boller AM, Mahvi DM. Cholecystitis. Surg Clin North Am. 2014 Apr;94(2):455‐70. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2014.01.005. Epub 2014 Feb 18. Review. PMID: 24679431 [PubMed ‐ indexed for MEDLINE] S. Chris Malaisrie, MD Honors/Awards Promoted to Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medi‐cine, 2013 Inducted into the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, June 2014 Presentations Invited Speaker. 2014 TPAA Annual Convention, Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: Transcatheter Heart Valve, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2014. Invited Speaker. 57th Annual Meeting of Kansai Thoracic Surgical Association, Minimally‐Invasive Valve Replacement: Current Status and Techniques, Osaka, Japan, June 2014. Invited Speaker. The Cardiac Team Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Conference, Future TAVR and Sutureless AVR Options, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2014. Invited Course Instructor. STS 50th Annual Meeting, TAVR/TEVAR, Guidewires and Sheaths, Orlando, Florida, January 2014. Invited Speaker, STS 50th Annual Meeting, Mortal‐ity risk while waiting for aortic valve surgery, Or‐lando, Florida, January 2014. CME Lecturer. CME Lecture at Kishwaukee Com‐munity Hospital, Surgical management of aortic root disease, Dekalb, Illinois, December 2013. Invited Speaker. The Ninth Annual Heart Failure Holiday Symposium, Transcatheter therapies for aortic and mitral valve disease, Chicago, Illinois, December 2013. Invited Speaker. The ABCs of BAV, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Adult Interventions for BAV, Chicago, Illinois, November 2013.


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Invited Speaker. Advanced Percutaneous Hemody‐namic Support Symposium, A case based discussion of hemodynamic support for high risk PCI and re‐fractory cardiogenic shock, Rockford, Illinois, Sep‐tember 2013. Publications Malaisrie SC, McDonald E, Kruse J, Li Zhi, McGee EC Jr, Abicht TO, Russell H, McCarthy PM, Andrei AC. Mortality while waiting for aortic valve replace‐ment. Ann Thorac Surg. May 2014, In Press. Kent WD, Manjunath A, Malaisrie SC. Frozen Ele‐phant Trunk Repair for Descending Thoracic Aortic Dissections in Patients with a Hostile Pleural Space. Tex Heart Inst J 2014; 41(3):341‐343. Mahadevia R, Barker AJ, Schnell S, Entezari P, Kansal P, Fedak PWM, Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM, Collins J, Carr J, Markl M. Bicuspid Aortic Cusp Fusion Morphology Alters Aortic 3D Outflow Pat‐terns, Wall Shear Stress and Expression of Aortopa‐thy. Circ 2014;129:673‐682. Malaisrie SC, Barnhart GR, Farivar RS, Mehall J, Hummel B, Rodriguez E, Anderson M, Lewis C, Hargrove C, Ailawadi G, Goldman S, Khan J, Moront M, Grossi E, Roselli EE, Agnihotri A, Mack MJ, Smith M, Thourani VH, Duhay FG, Kocis MT, Ryan WH. Current era minimally invasive aortic valve replace‐ment: Techniques and practice. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014; 147 (1):6‐14. Allen BD, Barker AJ, Kansal P, Collins JD, Carr JC, Malaisrie SC, Markl M. Impact of aneurysm repair on thoracic aorta hemodynamics. Circ 2013;128: e341‐e343. Collins J, Semaan E, Markl M, Malaisrie SC, Barker A, Allen B, McCarthy PM, Carr J. Hemodynamic outcome at 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging following valve sparing aortic root replacement with tricuspid and bicuspid valve morphology. Eur J Car‐diothorac Surg. 2014 May; 45(5): 818‐25. Barker AJ, Van Ooij P, Bandi K, Flores J, Albaghdadi M, McCarthy PM, Bonow RO, Carr JC, Collins J, Malaisrie SC, Markl M. Viscous energy loss in the presence of abnormal aortic flow. Magn Reson Med 2013; doi: 10.1002/mrm.24962. [Epub ahead of print] Merritt B, Carr J, Markl M, Turin A, McCarthy PM, Malaisrie SC. Association between leaflet fusion pattern and thoracic aorta morphology in patients with bicuspid aortic valve. J Magn Reson Imaging 2014 Aug; 40(2):294‐300. Chacko SJ, Ansari AH, McCarthy PM, Malaisrie SC, Andrei AC, Lee R, McGee EC Jr, Bonow RO, Puthu‐mana JJ. Prosthesis‐patient mismatch in bovine pericardial aortic valves: Evaluation using three different modalities and associated medium‐term outcomes. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013;6(5):776‐83. McCarthy PM, Manjunath A, Kruse J, Andrei A, Li Z, McGee EC Jr, Malaisrie SC, Lee R. Should paroxys‐mal atrial fibrillation be treated during cardiac sur‐gery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013;146(4):810‐23. Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM. Surgical Approach to Diseases of the Aortic Valve and Aortic Root. In: Otto CM, Bonow RO, eds. Valvular heart disease: a companion to Braunwald's heart disease. 4th edi‐tion. Saunders/Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA: March 2014: 199‐218. Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM. Aortic valve replace‐ment for severe aortic stenosis/aortic insufficiency with advanced left ventricular dysfunction. In: Mor‐gan JA, Yoshifumi N, eds. Atlas of surgical treat‐ment of advanced heart failure. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, June 2013:49‐61. James M. Mathew, PhD Honors/Awards Member: Finance Committee American Society for Histocompatibility & Immuno‐genetics (ASHI) Aug 2013 Editorial Board Member “Transplantation & Stem Cell Biology”Aug 2013 Editor‐in‐Chief (Designate), American Society for

Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ASHI) Quar‐terly July 2014 Presentations Konieczna IM, Mathew JM, Ildstad ST, Miller J and Leventhal JR. TCR Repertoire as a Biomarker for Chimeric Kidney Recipients Benefiting from Facili‐tating Cell‐Enriched Stem Transplantation. Human Immunology. 74 (S1):127; 2013. Konieczna IM, He J, Mathew JM, Miller WM and Leventhal JR. Facilitating Cells Derived from De‐ceased Donor Bone Marrow and Mobilized Periph‐eral Blood have Similar Phenotypic and Functional Properties. Human Immunology. 74 (S1):27; 2013 . Mathew JM, Leventhal JR, Huang X, Chen L, Tam‐bur AR, Friedewald JJ, Abecassis MM and Miller J. Regulatory T and B Cell Circuits in Tolerant HLA‐Identical Kidney Transplant Recipients and Normal Volunteers. Human Immunology. 74 (S1):128; 2013 . Leventhal JR Bozulic L, Badder MD, Elliott MJ, Ison M, Mathew JM, Konieczna IM and Ildstad ST. Evaluation of Immunocompetence in Tolerant Chi‐meric Recipients of Hematopoietic Stem Cell/Renal Transplants. Blood. 122 (21): 4483; 2013 Veerappan A, VanWagner LB, Mathew JM, Huang X, Miller J, Lapin B and Levitsky J. Hepatitis B virus is associated with low rejection rates following liver transplantation independent of Hepatitis B Immu‐noglobulin (HBIG) use. WTC. San Francisco, July 26 – 31, 2014 Konieczna IM, Mathew JM, Miller J, Ildstad ST and Leventhal JR. Chimerism Correlates with Shifts in TCR Repertoire in Recipients of Facilitating Cell‐Enriched Hematopoietic Stem Cell/Renal Trans‐plants. WTC. San Francisco, July 26 – 31, 2014 Leventhal JR, Mathew JM, Salomon DR, Kurian SM, Friedewald J, Gallon L, Tambur AR, Levitsky J, Kan‐war Y, Abecassis MM and Miller J. HLA Identical Renal Transplant Tolerance Using Donor Hemato‐poietic Stems Cells and Immunoregulation. WTC. San Francisco, July 26 – 31, 2014. McEwen ST, Chakraborty A, Kornbluth RS, Miller J, Mathew JM, Leventhal JR. Expansion of Functionally Active Alloantigen‐Specific Regulatory T Cells Using Activated B Cells. WTC. San Francisco, July 26 – 31, 2014 Gallon L, Mas V, Mathew JM, Dalal P, Nadimpalli L, Miller J, Abecassis MM, Ildstad ST and Leventhal JR, Reduced Inflammatory but Normal Cell Mainte‐nance Transcripts in Tolerant Kidney Transplant Biopsies. WTC. San Francisco, July 26 – 31, 2014 Mathew JM, Leventhal JR, Konieczna IM, Huang X, Chen L, Salomon DR, Kurian SM, Friedewald JJ, Gallon L, Tambur AR, Abecassis MM and Miller J. Publications Emerson RO*, Mathew JM*, Konieczna IM, Robins HS and Leventhal JR. Defining the alloreactive T cell repertoire using high‐throughput sequencing of mixed lymphocyte culture. PlosOne (In Press). (*Co‐first authors). Leventhal JR*, Mathew JM*, Ildstad S, Salomon DR, Kurian SM, Suthanthiran M, Tambur AR, Friedewald J, Gallon L, Charette j, Levitsky J, Kanwar Y, Abecas‐sis MM and Miller J. HLA Identical Non‐Chimeric and HLA Disparate Chimeric Renal Transplant Tolerance. (*Co‐first authors): Book Chapter in “Transplant 2014” (Ed Teresaki, P) (In Press). Mathew JM, Tryphonopoulos P, DeFaria W, Ruiz P, Miller J Barrett TA, Tzakis AG and Kato T. Role of Innate and acquired immune mechanisms in clinical intestinal transplant Rejection. Transplantation (In Press). Patrick M. McCarthy, MD Honors/Awards Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, 2013 Courtesy Professor Appointment, Biomedical Engi‐neering at Robert R. McCormick School of Engineer‐

ing and Applied Science, Northwestern University, January 2013 Presentations Grand Rounds Lecturer. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery 2013: What Cardiology Fellows Must Know, Chicago, IL, August 2013. Invited Speaker. STS Symposium: Mechanical Cir‐culatory Support for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Disease, Innovation in Heart Failure Therapies: The Role of the Cardiac Surgeon, Rosemont, IL, Septem‐ber 2013. Invited Speaker. AATS/ACCF 2013 Heart Valve Summit, When to Operate on the Tricuspid Valve, Chicago, IL, September 2013. Moderator. AATS/ACCF 2013 Heart Valve Summit, Session X: Failed Mitral Valve Surgery, Chicago, IL, September 2013. Invited Speaker. AATS/ACCF 2013 Heart Valve Summit, Expanding the Indications for Atrial Fibril‐lation Surgery, Chicago, IL, September 2013. Invited Speaker. Echo Northwestern 2013: 35th Annual Program: Echo Innovations to Meet Today’s Clinical Challenges, Surgeon’s View of the Mitral Valve., Chicago, IL, September 2013. Invited Speaker. The Heart Institutes of Northwest‐ern Medicine, Innovation Across Disciplines, Chi‐cago, IL, October 2013. Invited Speaker. 25th Annual Scientific Symposium of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT 2013), Surgical Approaches to the Spectrum of Mitral Valve Regurgitant Pathologies: Which Techniques Work? San Francisco, CA, October 2013. Invited Speaker. 25th Annual Scientific Symposium of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT 2013), Patient Selection Overview: Understanding the STS Risk Score, Patient Risks, and Individual High‐Risk Characteristics for Surgery, San Francisco, CA, October 2013. Invited Speaker. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons: 50th Annual Meeting, Complex Adult Tricuspid Surgery, Acquired and Congenital Heart Surgery Symposium: Where the Roads Cross, Orlando, FL, January 2014. Moderator. The Society for Thoracic Surgeons: 50th Annual Meeting, Adult Cardiac Session: Mitral Valve, Orlando, FL, January 2014. Invited Speaker. 27th Annual State‐of‐the‐Art Echo‐cardiography, Functional and Ischemic Mitral Re‐gurgitation: What is it and Why is it So Challenging to Treat? Scottsdale, AZ, February 2014. Invited Speaker. 27th Annual State‐of‐the‐Art Echo‐cardiography, Tricuspid Valve Disease: When to Fix the Tricuspid Valve in Patients with and Without MV Disease, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2014. Invited Speaker. 27th Annual State‐of‐the‐Art Echo‐cardiography, Aortic Valve Disease: New Surgical Innovations in the Treatment of Aortic Valve Disor‐ders, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2014. Panelist. American College of Cardiology 63rd An‐nual Scientific Session, Case Based Learning: Diag‐nostic and Management Dilemmas in Patients Fol‐lowing Valve Surgery, Washington, DC, March 2014. Invited Speaker. American Association for Thoracic Surgery 94th Annual Meeting, Expert Approaches in Valve Surgery I: Why and How: Sternal Approaches in Mitral Valve Disease? Toronto, ON, Canada, April 2014. Invited Debater. Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS‐AICS), Transcatheter Therapy for Symptomatic Functional Mitral Regurgitation and Atrial Fibrillation Should be an Alternative to Surgery, Chicago, IL, June 2014. Moderator. Pediatric and Adult Interventional Car‐diac Symposium (PICS‐AICS), Mitral Valve Inter‐ventions, Chicago, IL, June 2014.


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Invited Co‐Chair and Panelist. Session IIA and IIB: Valvular Heart Disease; Rapidly Evolving Treatment Paradigms in 2014. Third Annual Chicago Cardio‐vascular Update. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Chicago, IL, July 2014. Invited Speaker. Mitral Regurgitation; Tricuspid Regurgitation; Atrial Fibrillation. Third Annual Chicago Cardiovascular Update. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Chicago, IL, July 2014. Publications Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM. Surgical approach to diseases of the aortic valve and the aortic root. In: Otto CM, Bonow RO, eds. Valvular heart disease: a companion to Braunwald's heart disease. 4th edi‐tion. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier, 2013:199‐218. McGee EC Jr., McCarthy PM. Left ventricular re‐modeling. In: Acker MA, Spray TL, eds. Operative cardiac surgery. 6th edition. London: Edward Ar‐nold Publishing, July 2014: (In Press). McCarthy PM, Malaisrie SC. Aortic valve replace‐ment for severe aortic stenosis/aortic insufficiency with advanced left ventricular dysfunction. In: Mor‐gan JA, Yoshifumi N, eds. Atlas of surgical treat‐ment of advanced heart failure. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2013:49‐61. Lee R, Jivan A, Kruse J, McGee EC Jr, Malaisrie SC, Bernstein R, Lapin B, Passman R, Knight BP, McCarthy PM. Late neurologic events after surgery for atrial fibrillation: rare but relevant. Ann Thorac Surg 2013;95(1):126‐32. Farmer SA, Grady KL, Wang E, McGee EC Jr, Cotts WG, McCarthy PM. Demographic, psychosocial and behavioral factors associated with survival after heart transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 2013;95(3):876‐83. Abicht T, Gordon R, Meehan K, Stosor V, McCarthy PM, McGee EC Jr. Complex HeartMate II infection treated with pump exchange to HeartWare HVAD. ASAIO J 2013;59(2):188‐92. Lou X, Enter D, Sheen L, Adams K, Reed CE, McCarthy PM, Calhoon JH, Verrier ED, Lee R. Sus‐tained supervised practice on a coronary anastomo‐sis simulator increases medical student interest in surgery: unsupervised practice does not. Ann Tho‐rac Surg 2013;95(6):2057‐63. McCarthy PM. Three‐dimensional echocardiogra‐phy is not essential for intraoperative assessment of mitral regurgitation. Circulation 2013;128(6):653‐8. McCarthy PM, Manjunath A, Kruse J, Andrei AC, Li Z, McGee EC Jr, Malaisrie SC, Lee R. Should parox‐ysmal atrial fibrillation be treated during cardiac surgery? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013;146(4):810‐23. Chacko SJ, Ansari AH, McCarthy PM, Malaisrie SC, Andrei AC, Li Z, Lee R, McGee EC Jr, Bonow RO, Puthumana JJ. Prosthesis‐patient mismatch in bo‐vine pericardial aortic valves: Evaluation using three different modalities and associated medium‐term outcomes. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2013;6(5):776‐83. Barker AJ, van Ooij P, Bandi K, Garcia J, Albaghdadi M, McCarthy PM, Bonow RO, Carr JC, Collins J, Malaisrie SC, Markl M. Viscous energy loss in the presence of abnormal aortic flow. Magn Reson Med 2013 October, In Press. Entezari P, Schnell S, Mahadevia R, Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM, Mendelson M, Collins J, Carr JC, Markl M, Barker AJ. From unicuspid to quadricus‐pid: influence of aortic valve morphology on aortic three‐dimensional hemodynamics. J Magn Reson Imaging 2013 November, In Press. Semaan E, Markl M, Malaisrie SC, Barker A, Bradley A, McCarthy PM, Carr JC, Collins JD. Hemodynamic outcome at four‐dimensional flow magnetic reso‐nance imaging following valve‐sparing aortic root replacement with tricuspid and bicuspid valve mor‐phology. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2014;45(5):818‐25. Ikegami H, McCarthy PM. Internal repair of left

ventricular pseudoaneurysm late after mitral valve replacement. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2014; 18(1):128‐9. Mahadevia R, Barker AJ, Schnell S, Entezari P, Kansal P, Fedak PWM, Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM, Collins J, Carr J, Markl M. Bicuspid aortic cusp fu‐sion morphology alters aortic three‐dimensional outflow patterns, wall shear stress, and expression of aortopathy. Circulation 2014;129(6):673‐82. Rinewalt D, McCarthy PM, Malaisrie SC, Fedak PWM, Andrei AC, Puthumana JJ, Bonow RO. Effect of aortic aneurysm replacement on outcomes after bicuspid aortic valve surgery: Validation of contem‐porary guidelines. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 March, In Press. Akhter N, Zhao Q, Andrei AC, Kane B, McCarthy PM, Rigolin VH. Identification of prolapsing mitral valve scallops by a three‐dimensional multiplanar reconstruction method. Echocardiography 2014 April, In Press. Glower DD, Kar S, Trento A, Lim DS, Bajwa T, Que‐sada R, Whitlow PL, Rinaldi MJ, Grayburn P, Mack MJ, Mauri L, McCarthy PM, Feldman T. Percutane‐ous mitral valve repair for mitral regurgitation in high risk patients: Results of the EVEREST II Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2014;64(2):172‐81. Malaisrie SC, McDonald E, Kruse J, Li Zhi, McGee EC Jr, Abicht TO, Russell H, McCarthy PM, Andrei AC. Mortality while waiting for aortic valve replace‐ment. Ann Thorac Surg. July 2014, In Press. Lebastchi AH, Tackett JJ, Argenziano M, Calhoon JH, Gasparri MG, Halkos ME, Hicks GL Jr, Iannet‐toni MD, Ikonomidis JS, McCarthy PM, Starnes SL, Tong BC, Yuh DD. First nationwide survey of U.S. integrated six‐year cardiothoracic surgical residency program directors. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014;148(2):408‐15. Merritt BA, Turin A, Markl M, Malaisrie SC, McCarthy PM, Carr JC. Association between leaflet fusion pattern and thoracic aorta morphology in patients with bicuspid aortic valve. J Magn Reson Imaging 2014;40(2):294‐300. Edwin C. McGee, Jr., MD Honors/Awards Appointed ASAIO Board of Trustees, June 2013‐ 2014 ASAIO Editorial Board, August 2013‐2014, Heart‐Ware Inc., North America User meeting, Co‐Chair 2013 Presentations Invited Speaker at the STS Symposium Session II: Durable MCS; Durable MCS Devices for the Chronic Heart Failure Patient: Current New Technologies "Centrifugal Flow Technology" is best. Chicago, IL, September 2013 Invited Speaker, ECHO NU 35th Annual Program: “Heart Transplant Update.” Chicago, IL September 2013 Invited Speaker, ISHLT 2014 Annual meeting. “Late Onset Right Heart Failure…Now What?” San Diego, CA, April 2014 Invited speaker, 63rd ESCVS International Congress. “LVAD acquired aortic insufficiency: to treat or not to treat? No” Nice, France, April 2014 Invited Co‐chair, Cardiac Session 4: Controversies in Mechanical Circulatory Support. ASAIO 60th An‐nual Conference in Washington, DC June 2014 Publications McGee EC, McCarthy PM. Left Ventricular Remod‐eling. Operative Cardiac Surgery 6th Edition. Spray and Acker, Arnold (In Press) Manuscripts Andrew J. Sauer, CharlesJ. Davidson, and Edwin C. McGee Jr. Case Report. “Percutaneous Closure of the Aortic Valve as a Bridge to Heart Transplantaion to Treat Severe Aortic Insufficiency after Ventricular Assist Device.” Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Jun 27.

Michael McGee, MD Honors/Awards 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Appointed to Public Relations Committee, American Society for Colon and Rectal Surgeons Appointed as ASCRS Representative to SAGES Fun‐damentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) Program Publications Sherman KL , Gordon EJ, Mahvi DM, Chung J, Ben‐trem D J, Holl JL Bilimoria KY. Surgeons’ Percep‐tions of Public Reporting of Hospital and Individual Surgeon Quality. 2013 Dec;51(12):1069‐75. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000013. PMID: 24226305 [PubMed ‐ indexed for MEDLINE] Kindel T, Mahvi DM, Keswani, R Endoscopic closure of a post operative duodenal fistula. JSLS in press 2014. Ju MH, Chung JW, Kinnier CV, Bentrem DJ, Mahvi DM, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. Association between hos‐pital imaging use and venous thromboembolism events rates based on clinical data. Ann Surg. 2014 S e p ; 2 6 0 ( 3 ) : 5 5 8 ‐ 6 6 . d o i : 1 0 . 1 0 9 7 /SLA.0000000000000897. PMID: 25115432 [PubMed ‐ in process] Knab LM, Boller AM, Mahvi DM. Cholecystitis. Surg Clin North Am. 2014 Apr;94(2):455‐70. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2014.01.005. Epub 2014 Feb 18. Review. PMID: 24679431 [PubMed ‐ indexed for MEDLINE] Shari L. Meyerson, MD Honors/Awards Excellence in Teaching Award, Northwestern Uni‐versity Department of Surgery, September 26, 2013 Association for Surgical Education Award for Inno‐vation in Surgical Education, April 11, 2014 Presentations Co‐Speaker. Defining the autonomy gap: When expectations do not meet reality in the operating room. Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Chicago IL, April 8, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Reliability, validity and feasibility of the Zwisch supervision scale for the assessment of resi‐dent operative autonomy. Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Chicago IL, April 8, 2014. Co‐Speaker. Validity of assessment metrics for tech‐nical skills: An empirical study of metrics reported in the literature. Association for Surgical Education, Chicago IL, April 11, 2014. Co‐Speaker. A multi‐modal laparoscopic cholecys‐tectomy curriculum for surgical interns. Association for Surgical Education, Chicago IL, April 11, 2014. Invited Speaker. Standing out in a crowd. Member for a day: Resident and medical student forum. Soci‐ety of Thoracic Surgeons 51st Annual Meeting, To‐ronto, Canada, April 26, 2014. Invited Speaker. Strategies for evaluating thoracic surgery milestones. Joint Council for Thoracic Sur‐gery Education Session at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons 51st Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 27, 2014. Invited Speaker. Curriculum planning. ACS Sur‐geons as Educators, Atlanta, GA Faculty, September 7‐10, 2013 Invited Speaker. Needs assessment. ACS Surgeons as Educators, Atlanta, GA Faculty, September 7‐10, 2013 Meyerson SL . Goals and objectives. ACS Surgeons as Educators, Atlanta, GA Faculty, September 7‐10, 2013 Invited Speaker. Program and faculty evaluation. ACS Surgeons as Educators, Atlanta, GA Faculty, September 7‐10, 2013 Invited Speaker. Resident selection and interview‐ing. ACS Surgeons as Educators, Atlanta, GA Fac‐ulty, September 7‐10, 2013 Invited Speaker. Components of a VATS lobectomy.


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APACVS Thoracoscopic First Assist Course, APACVS 33nd annual Winter Educational Meeting, Orlando, FL, Course Director, January 24, 2014 Publications George BC, Teitelbaum EN, DaRosa DA, Hungness ES, Meyerson SL, Fryer JP, Schuller M, Zwischenber‐ger JB. Duration of faculty training needed to ensure reliable OR performance ratings. Journal of Surgical Education, 2013; 70(6):703‐708 Schmitz CC, DaRosa D, Sullivan ME, Meyerson S, Yoshida K, Korndorffer JR Jr. Development and verification of a taxonomy of assessment metrics for surgical technical skills. Acad Med, 2014 Jan; 89(1):153‐61. Mehta CK, Meyerson SL. Managing complications II: Conduit failure and conduit airway fistulas. Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2014 Mar 25; doi : 10.3978 / j.issn.2072‐1439.2014.03.32. William H. Pearce, MD Honors/Awards Chicago Magazine’s Chicago’s 2014 Top Doctors Course Director, 38th Annual Northwestern Vascu‐lar Symposium 2013 Presentations Invited Speaker. Clinical Update on Vascular Dis‐ease and Surgery, Chicago, IL, March 22, 2013. “Vena Cava Anomalies and Treatment Options”, 38th An‐nual Northwestern Vascular Symposium, Chicago, IL, December 12‐14, 2013. Moderator, “Complex Arterial and Venous Dis‐eases”, 38th Annual Northwestern Vascular Sympo‐sium, Chicago, IL, December 12‐14, 2013. Publications Skamara C, Romero‐Diaz J, Sandhu A, Huang Q, Lee J, Pearce W, McPherson DD, Sutton‐Tyrrell K, Pope R, Ramsey‐Goldman R. Telomere Length in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Its Associa‐tions with Carotid Plaque. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2013;52:1101‐8. PMID 23382361 McDermott MM, Kibbe M, Guralnik JM, Pearce WH, Tian L, Liao Y, Zhao L, Criqui MH. Comparative effectiveness study of self‐directed walking exercise, lower extremity revascularization, and functional decline in peripheral artery disease. J Vasc Surg 2013;57:990‐6. PMID 23352363 Domanchuk K, Ferrucci L, Guralnik JM, Criqui MH, Tian L, Liu K, Losordo D, Stein J, Green D, Kibbe M, Zhao L, Annex B, Perlman H, Lloyd‐Jones D, Pearce W, Taylor D, McDermott MM. Progenitor cell re‐lease plus exercise to improve functional perform‐ance in peripheral artery disease: The PROPEL study. Contemp Clin Trials 2013;36:502‐9 Sohn MW, Meadoes JL, Oh EH, Budiman‐Mak E, Lee TA, Stone NJ, Pearce WH. Statin use and lower extremity amputation risk in nonelderly diabetic patients. J Vasc Surg 2013;58:1578‐85. Lee CJ, Kibbe MR, Eskandari MK, Morasch MD, Pearce WH, Rodriguez HE. Surgical management of aortitis with early aneurysmal dilation. Ann Vasc Surg 2014;28:568‐74. PMID 24200141 Pearce WH, Lee M, Annambhotla S. Pectoralis mi‐nor muscle syndrome. In Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JST, eds. Current Vascular Surgery 2012. People’s Medical Publishing House‐USA, Shelton CT, 2013. Ju MH, Vavra AK, Kumar HR, Pearce WH. Congeni‐tal malformations of the inferior vena cava. In Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JST, eds. Current Vascular Surgery 2013. People’s Medical Publishing House‐USA, Shelton CT, 2014. Lee CJ, Pearce WH. Upper extremity revasculariza‐tion. In Stanley JC, Veith FJ, Wakefield TW, eds. Current Therapy in Vascular and Endovascular Sur‐gery, 5th ed. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Pearce WH, Eiden T. Conservative treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome. In Stanley JC, Veith FJ, Wakefield TW, eds. Current Therapy in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 5th ed. Elsevier Saun‐

ders, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Rodriguez HE, Pearce W. Venous aneurysms. In Stanley JC, Veith FJ, Wakefield TW, eds. Current Therapy in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 5th ed. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JST, eds. Current Vascular Surgery 2013. People’s Medical Publishing House‐USA, Shelton CT, 2014. Anat Roitberg‐Tambur, MD Presentations Invited Speaker. Evaluation of Technology and Stan‐dardization for HLA Antibody Detection and Quan‐titation. International Pediatric Transplant Con‐gress. Warsaw, Poland, July 2013 Invited Speaker. HLA‐DQ epitopes. Georgetown Teleconference October 2013 Invited Speaker. Women in Transplantation – ASHI November 2013 Invited Speaker. Combating B cell memory to enable successful transplantation in the clinic – FOCIS June 2014 Invited Speaker. What is a Virtual Crossmatch and how to use it to facilitate transplantation – WTC July 2014 Publications Tambur AR, Leventhal JR, Walsh RC, Zitzner JR, Friedewald JJ. The HLA‐DQ Barrier: Effects on cPRA calculations. Transplantation 2013 [Epub ahead of print] Reed EF, Rao P, Zhang Z, Gebel H, Bray RA, Guleria I, Lunz J, Mohanakumar T, Nickerson P, Tambur AR, Zeevi A, Heeger PS, Gjertson D. Comprehensive Assessment and Standardization of Solid Phase Multiplex‐Bead Arrays for the Detection of Antibod‐ies to HLA‐Drilling Down on Key Sources of Varia‐tion. Am J Transplant. 2013 Sep 18. [Epub ahead of print] Tambur AR, Rosati J, Roitberg S, Glotz D, Friede‐wald JJ, Leventhal JR. Epitope analysis of HLA‐DQ antigens: what does the antibody see? Transplanta‐tion, In Press Haarberg KMM and Tambur AR. Detection of donor specific antibodies in kidney transplantation. British Medical Bulletin, In Press Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Tambur AR, Mulder A, da Mata Sousa LC; da Silva AS, do Monte SJ. First Report on the Antibody Verification of HLA‐DR, HLA‐DQ and HLA‐DP Epitopes Recorded in the HLA Epitope Registry. Human Immunology, In Press Chepla KJ, Gosain AK. Giant nevus sebaceous: defi‐nition, surgical techniques and rationale for treat‐ment. Plast Reconstr Surg 2012 Aug 130(2): 296e‐304e. Okada H, Gosain AK. Current Approaches to Man‐agement of Non‐Syndromic Craniosynostosis. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2012 Aug 20(4): 310‐317. Chepla KJ, Gosain AK. Interstitial pneumonitis after betadine aspiration. J Craniofac Surg 2012 Nov 23(6):1787‐9. Gosain AK, Haller HS, Lee M, Cullison TM, Noone RB, Directors of the American Board of Plastic Sur‐gery. A nine‐year comparison of practice profiles of candidates for primary and recertification examina‐tions of the American Board of Plastic Surgery rela‐tive to economic indicators. Plast Reconstr Surg 2013 Mar 131(3): 425e‐34e. Amirlak B, Tang CJ, Becker D, Palomo JM, Gosain AK. Volumetric Analysis of Simulated Alveolar Cleft Defects and Bone Grafts using Cone Beam Com‐puted Tomography (CBCT). Plast Reconstr Surg R. L,

Heron Rodriguez, MD Honors/Awards Course Director. GORE Foundational Skills ‐Practical TEVAR Workshop, Dallas TX, June 26‐27, 2014. Presentations Invited Speaker. Management of Aorto‐Iliac An‐eurysms: Surgery Remains the Gold Standard, Chicago Endovascular Conference, Chicago, IL, July 12, 2013. Invited Speaker. Management of Venous Trauma, Chicago Endovascular Conference, Chicago, IL, July 12, 2013. Invited Speaker. Managing Paget‐Schroetter of Effort Thrombosis, Chicago Endovascular Con‐ference, Chicago, IL, July 12, 2013. Invited Speaker. Temporary IVC Filters: Are They Really Temporary?, XIV Meeting Cirujanos Vas‐culares de Habla Hispana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 12, 2013. Invited Speaker. Diseases affecting the popliteal artery. Michiana Vascular Case Collaboration Conference, Granger, IN, Feb 5th, 2014. Granger IN. Invited Speaker. EVAR outside the IFU: a good idea? Ovation Trivascular Information Meeting, Rosemont, IL, Feb 27, 2014. Invited Speaker. Conferencia Magistral: Avances en el Manejo de Patología Aortica Torácica (Advances in the Management of Thoracic Aortic Pathology). XXIII Congreso Anual de Sociedad Mexicana de Cirugía Cardiaca, Mérida, Yucatán, México. April 25, 2014. Invited Speaker. Acute Aortic Dissection. St. Joseph Hospital Grand Rounds. May 28, 2014. Invited Speaker. Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: New Devices. Grand Rounds, West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park, IL, June 25, 2014. Publications Turner J, Kim K, Mehrotra S, DaRosa DA, Daskin MS, Rodriguez HE. Using Optimization Models to Demonstrate the Need for Structural Changes in the Training Programs for Surgical Medical Residents. 2013;10.1007/s10729‐0013‐9230‐6. Ju MH, Keldahl ML, Rodriguez HE. Chronic com‐mon femoral vein occlusion secondary to endo‐metriosis. J Vasc Surg: Venous and Lym Dis 2014; 2:197‐9. Knab LM, Abuzeid A, Rodriguez H, Issa N. Thigh compartment syndrome in urban trauma: bullets to blame, not collisions. The Journal of Surgical Research . Dec 20 13 ; 185 (2 ) : 748 ‐52 . PMID:23932352. Lee CJ, Kibbe MR, Eskandari MK, Morasch MD, Pearce WH, Rodriguez HE. Surgical manage‐ment of aortitis with early aneurysmal dilation. Ann Vasc Surg. 2014 Apr;28(3):568‐74. PMID:24200141. Daly C, Rodriguez HE. Carotid artery occlusive disease. Surg Clin North Am. 2013 Aug;93(4):813‐PMID:23885933 Rodriguez HE. Venous Aneurysms. In: Eskandari MK, Pearce WH, Yao JT, editors. Current vascu‐lar surgery 2013. PMPH‐USA. 2013 Hyde M Russell, MD Presentations Invited speaker. Midwest Valve Symposium, TAVR, Chicago, IL, June 2014 Publications Backer CL, Popescu AR, Rastatter JC, Russell HM. Vascular rings and slings. In: daCruz, E, Ivy DD,


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Jaggers J: Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Car‐diac Surgery and Intensive Care, London, Springer‐Verlag, 2014, vol. 4, pp. 2219‐38. Russell HM, Backer CL. Palliative operations for congenital heart disease. In Mastery of Cardiotho‐racic Surgery, 3rd ed. In press. Russell HM, Johnson SL, Wurlitzer KC, Backer CL. Outcomes of surgical therapy for infective endocar‐ditis in a pediatric population – a 21‐year review. Ann Thorac Surg 2013; 96:171‐5. Backer CL, Russell HM, Pahl E, Gambetta K, Kindel SJ, Gossett JG, Hardy C, Deal BJ. Heart transplanta‐tion for the failing Fontan. Ann Thorac Surg 2013;96:1413‐9. Steven Schwulst, MD Honors/Awards Shock Society Research Fellowship for Early Career Investigators, June 2014 Presentations Invited speaker. Shock Society. The Role of Innate Immunity in the Evolution and Etiology of Trau‐matic Brain Injury and the Traumatic Brain Injury‐Induced Immune Suppression Syndrome. Charlotte, NC. June 10, 2014. Invited speaker. American Association for the Sur‐gery of Trauma. The Role of Innate Immunity in Traumatic Brain Injury‐Induced Immune Suppres‐sion. San Francisco, CA. September 19, 2013. Publications Schwulst S, Trahanas D, Saber R, Perlman H. Trau‐matic Brain Injury‐Induced Alterations in Peripheral Immunity. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Sur‐gery. 2013 Oct; 75(5):780‐8. Trahanas D, Cuda C, Perlman H, Schwulst S. A Novel Method to Distinguish Microglia from Infil‐trating Leukocytes After Traumatic Brain In‐jury. Shock. 41(S2): 74, 2014. Schwulst S, Trahanas D, Perlman H. Traumatic Brain Injury Polarizes Peritoneal Macrophages To‐wards an Anti‐Inflammatory Phenotype. Crit Care Med. 41(S12): 781, 2013. Anton Skaro, MD Presentations Invited Speaker, 38th Annual Northwestern Vascu‐lar Symposium, Chicago, Illinois. Vascular Access – “Nuts and Bolts” of Basilic Vein Transposition, De‐cember 12, 2013. Invited Speaker, American Society of Transplant Surgeons Winter Symposium, Miami, Florida. Young Innovators – Donation after Cardiac Death, January 26, 2014. Invited Speaker, Organ Donation & Transplantation Alliance, Webinar. Hypernatremia ‐ When is Salty Too Salty? Treatment and Impact on Organ Out‐comes, April 8, 2014. Publications Chhabra D, Alvarado A, Dalal P, Leventhal J, Wang C, Sustento‐Reodica N, Najafian N, Skaro A, Levitsky J, Mas V, Gallon L. Impact of Calcineurin‐Inhibitor Conversion to mTOR Inhibitor on Renal Allograft Function in a Prednisone‐Free Regimen. Am J Transplant. 2013 Nov;13(11):2902‐11. Davis AE, Mehrotra S, McElroy LM, Friedewald JJ, Skaro AI, Lapin B, Kang R, Holl JL, Abecassis MM, Ladner DP. The Extent and Predictors of Waiting Time Geographic Disparity in Kidney Transplanta‐tion in the United States. Transplantation. 2013 Dec 27. Chang Y, Gallon L, Jay C, Ho B, Shetty K, Levitsky J, Baker T, Ladner D, Friedewald J, Abecassis M, Hazen G, Skaro AI*. Comparative Effectiveness of Liver Transplant Strategies for End‐Stage Liver Dis‐ease Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy. Liver Transpl. 2014 Apr 29. (*Senior Author) Mohammad S, Li Z, Englesbe M, Skaro A, Alonso E. Withdrawal of Immunosuppression Following Pedi‐atric Liver Transplantation: A Markov Analysis. J

Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2014 May 7. VanWagner LB, Lapin B, Levitsky J, Wilkins JT, Abecassis MM, Skaro AI, Lloyd‐Jones DM. High early cardiovascular mortality following liver trans‐plantation. Liver Transpl. 2014 Jul 5. Skaro AI*, Ladner D, Jay CL, Lyuksemburg V, Wang E, Chang Y, Gallon L, DeWolfe A, Holl JL, Gheor‐ghiade M, Abecassis MM. The Impact of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease on Outcomes after Liver Transplantation. J Cardiovasc Med. 2014. (Under Revision) (*Corresponding Author) Nathaniel J. Soper, MD Presentations Invited Educator. ISDS, Writer’s Workshop, Session One: So you have an idea. What’s next?, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 2013 Invited Lecturer. ISDS, Treatment of paraesophageal hernia?, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 2013 Invited Educator. ISDS, Writer’s Workshop, Session Two: Constructing the manuscript and writing a review, Helsinki, Finland, August 28, 2013 Invited Educator. ISDS, Writer’s Workshop, Session Three: The “rules” of publication, Helsinki, Finland, August 29, 2013 Invited Moderator: NOTES & RPS, ISDS, Helsinki, Finland, August 29, 2013 Invited Speaker. ISDS, Update on NOTES cholecys‐tectomy, Helsinki, Finland, August 29, 2013 Invited Educator. American College of Surgeons 99th Clinical Congress,, Meet the Expert Luncheon‐ME208, The Difficult Gallbladder: Tricks of the Trade, Washington, DC, October 8, 2013 Invited Coordinator and Presiding Officer. American College of Surgeons 99th Clinical Congress, Special video session‐VE11, Controversial Cases in General Surgery, Washington, DC, October 8, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Update on NOTES, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 4, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Buenos Aires, Strategies to Prevent CBD injury during Lap Chole, Argentina, November 4, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Value of Robots in Minimally Invasive GI Surgery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 5, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Chole‐cystectomy in 2013: Laparoscopic, Single Incision, Transgastric, Transvaginal?, Buenos Aires, Argen‐tina, November 5, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Treat‐ment of Achalasia 2013: A new paradigm?, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 6, 2013 Invited Speaker. 84th Argentine Congress of Sur‐gery / XX Latin America FELAC Congress, Repair of Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernias, Buenos Aires, Ar‐gentina, November 7, 2013 Invited Debater. Academic Surgical Congress, Ro‐botic Surgery in General Surgery: Pro or con, San Diego, CA, February 4, 2014 Moderator. Scientific Sessions, Central Surgical Association, Indianapolis, IN, March 6‐7, 2014 Presidential Address. Central Surgical Association, Engendering Operative Autonomy in Surgical Train‐ing, Indianapolis, IN, March 7, 2014 Moderator: SSAT Maintenance of Certification Course, The General Surgeon Performing GI Sur‐gery: Current Management of Benign and Malignant Foregut Diseases, Digestive Disease Week, Saturday, Chicago, IL, May 3, 2014

Invited Speaker. Digestive Disease Week, Breakfast with the Expert‐ “Paraesophageal Hernia: where we have been, what we are doing now?”, Chicago, IL, Sunday, May 4, 2014 Invited Speaker. Digestive Disease Week, Breakfast with the Expert‐"Presentation Title: Tricks, tips and timing for the difficult cholecystectomy", Chicago, IL, Monday, May 5, 2014 Invited Speaker. University of California at San Diego, Engendering Operative Autonomy in Surgi‐cal Training, La Jolla, Ca., Wednesday, July 9, 2014 Publications Marks JM, Phillips MS, Tacchino R, Roberts K, Onders R, DeNoto G, Gecelter G, Rubach E, Rivas H, Islam A, Soper NJ, Paraskeva P, Rosemurgy A, Ross S, Shah S. “Single‐Incision Laparoscopic Cholecys‐tectomy Is Associated with Improved Cosmesis Scoring at the Cost of Significantly Higher Hernia Rates: 1‐Year Results of a Prospective Randomized, Multicenter, Single‐Blinded Trial of Traditional Multiport Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy vs Single‐Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy”, J of Am Coll of Surg. 2013, 216(6):1037‐47 Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ. Laparoscopic Parae‐sophageal Hernia Repair: Current Controversies. Surg Lap Endosc Percut Tech. 2013 Oct; 23(5):442‐445 Veerappan A, Gawron AJ, Soper NJ, Keswani RN Delaying Cholecystectomy for Complicated Gall‐stone Disease in Pregnancy is Associated with Re‐current Postpartum Symptoms. J Gastrointest Surg. (2013) Nov, 17:1953‐1959 Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Arafat FO, Santos BF, Kahrilas PJ, Pandolfino JE, Hungness ES. Analysis of a Learning Curve and Predictors of Intraoperative Difficulty for Peroral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM). J Gastrointest Surg. 201) Jan;18(1):92‐8 Teitelbaum EN, Boris L, Arafat FO, Nicodème F, Lin Z, Kahrilas PJ, Pandolfino JE, Soper NJ, Hungness ES. Comparison of esophagogastric junction disten‐sibility changes during POEM and Heller myotomy using intraoperative FLIP. Surg Endosc. 2013 Dec;27(12):4547‐55 Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ "S016 ‐ An extended proxi‐mal esophageal myotomy is necessary to normalize EGJ distensibility during Heller myotomy for achalasia, but not POEM" Surg Endosc. 2014 May 23 (E pub ahead of print) Soper NJ, DaRosa D "Presidential Address: Engen‐dering Operative Autonomy in Surgical Training", Surgery. 2014 In press Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ, Santos BF, Fahd A, Pan‐dolfino J, Kahrilas P, Hirano I, Hungness E. “Symptomatic and physiologic outcomes one year after peroral esophageal myotomy (POEM) for treat‐ment of achalasia”, Surgical Endosc, 2014 Jun 18. [Epub ahead of print] Editorial Bilimoria KY, Chung J, Soper NJ. Editorial: Laparo‐scopic Cholecystectomy, Intraoperative Cholan‐giograms, and Common Duct Injuries. JAMA, 2013, 310(8): 801‐802 Books Swanström LL, Soper NJ, eds. Mastery of Endo‐scopic and Laparoscopic Surgery, 4th Ed., Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, New York. 2013 Fisichella PM, Soper NJ, Pellegrini CA, Patti MG, eds. Surgical Management of Benign Esophageal Disorders, The “Chicago Approach”, Springer, New York. 2013 Book Chapters Nagle AP, Soper NJ “Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair” In: Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery, Khatri, VP, Ed., Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2013, 620‐626 Nagle AP, Soper NJ “Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal repair of Inguinofemoral hernia” In: Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery, Khatri, VP,


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Ed., Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2013, 634‐641 Auyang ED, Soper NJ “Cholecystitis and Cholelithi‐asis”, In: Maingot’s Abdominal Operations, 12th edition, Zinner MJ, Ashley SW, Eds., The McGraw‐Hill Companies, Inc., 2013, 995‐1008 Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ. Intraoperative Ultrasound During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. In: Abdomi‐nal Ultrasound for Surgeons, Hagopian E, Machi J, eds., 2014; pp 177‐185 Soper NJ, Hungness ES. Operationstechnik und schwierige Situationen von Nathaniel J. Soper, MD (Thoraxmagen). In Gastrointestinale Operationen und technische Varianten, Korenkov, Germer, Land Eds. Springer‐Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 2013; pg 61‐64 Teitelbaum EN, Soper NJ. Paraesophageal Hernias: Indications and Surgical Treatment, in Surgical Management of Benign Esophageal Disorders, “The Chicago Approach”, Springer, New York, 2013; 165‐179 Steven Stryker, MD Presentations Invited Speaker. Northwestern Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds. Steps to Decrease the Risks of Colo‐rectal Cancer. Chicago, IL. February 19, 2014. Invited Speaker. 2nd Annual Chicago Colon and Rectal Surgery Resident Symposium. Salvaging the Complicated J‐Pouch. Evanston, IL. February 22, 2014. Invited Speaker. Department of Colorectal Surgery, VGH‐TP Medical Center. Preventing Adhesions in Colorectal Surgery. Taipei, Taiwan. July 14, 2014. Invited Speaker. 7th Biennial Congress of ASEAN Society of Colorectal Surgeons. The Use of Seprafilm Adhesion Barrier in Abdominal Surgery, Singapore. Cord Sturgeon, MD, MS Honors/Awards Recorder of American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, April 2013‐April 2016 Endocrine Society Ambassador to Russia, April 2013 Presentations ACS Postgraduate Course on Endocrine Surgery. Guidelines for Surgery in Asymptomatic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Are they too strict? 10/5/2013. Washington, DC. Surgical Oncology Network Fall Update. Thyroid Cancer: Resection, Dissection, Surveillance and Recurrence. 11/2/2013. Vancouver, BC. Surgical Oncology Network Fall Update. Indications for Surgery in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Do guidelines make a difference? 11/2/2013. Vancouver, BC. Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium. Isolated Cervical Metastases from Papillary Thyroid Cancer Should be Resected. 3/14/2014. Phoenix, AZ. Latin American Masters Course in Thyroid Surgery. Ultrasound Anatomy of the Neck (Anatomía del cuello por ecografía). 3/19/2014. Mexico City, DF. Latin American Masters Course in Thyroid Surgery. Ultrasound Guided Thyroid Biopsy (Biopsia de la tiroides guiada por ultrasonido). 3/19/2014. Mexico City, DF. Latin American Masters Course in Thyroid Surgery. Management of Recurrent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (Tratamiento del cáncer de tiroides recur‐rente). 3/20/2014. Mexico City, DF. Latin American Masters of Endocrine Surgery. Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Practicum. 3/19/2014. Mexico City, DF. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Patient and Family Seminar. Medullary Cancer in MEN‐2. March 22, 2014. Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Chicago, IL. Moscow Endocrinologists Meeting. The diagnosis

and management of papillary thyroid cancer in the United States. 4/9/2014. Moscow, Russia. Endocrine Research Center Conference. The role of radioiodine and surgery in the management of re‐current thyroid cancer in the United States. 4/15/2014. Moscow, Russia . First Medical University of Moscow Teaching Con‐ference. Differential diagnosis and treatment mo‐dalities for primary hyperparathyroidism in the United States. 4/16/2014. Moscow, Russia. American Association of Endocrine Surgeons An‐nual Meeting. The Economic Impact of Routine Laryngoscopy for Thyroid Surgery: Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis of Routine Fiberoptic Laryn‐goscopy. 4/27/2014. Boston, MA. American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. La‐ryngeal Ultrasound Practicum. 4/27/2014. Boston, MA Mamta Swaroop, MD Honors/Awards Fellow, International College of Surgeons 2013 Academic Section Leader, Clinical Emergency and Trauma Systems, Principles, Practices and Patients, 9th Annual INDU‐EM Summit. Thrissur, India 2013 Appointed to Board of Directors, OPUS 12 Founda‐tion 2013 Served as Co‐Chair, OPUS 12 Foundation Interna‐tional Medicine Expert Group 2013 Served on Research and Publication Committee, WHO Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgery 2013 Served on Obstetric, Trauma and Anesthesia Trauma Planning Committee, World Congress of Surgery, International College of Surgeons/WCSOTA 2013 Bolivian Trauma Society International Visiting Pro‐fessor 2014 AAS/Colombian Surgical Association International Visiting Professorship Award 2014 Served on INDO‐US Advisory Council, Money, Man‐agement and Manpower, Clinical Emergency and Trauma Systems, 10th Annual INDU‐EM Summit. Lucknow, India 2014 Presentations Cherukupalli S, Singh A, Agarwal S, Loharikar A, Swaroop M: Iron‐Deficiency Anemia in Charnia, Haryana: Analysis of Prevalence and Effective Strate‐gies for Intervention. By Cherukupalli S. Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium April 5th, 2014. Academic Surgical Congress Moderator and Co‐Coordinator: Global Surgery Hot Topics Session and Trauma and Critical Care Quick Shot Session, San Diego, CA 2014 Callese, CT Richards, PL Shaw, SJ Schuetz, N Issa, M Swaroop: Trauma Education Initiatives for Emer‐gency Medical Service Providers in Low‐ and Mid‐dles‐ Income Countries: A Systematic Re‐view. Quick Shot Oral Presentation by Tyler Callese. Academic Surgical Congress. San Diego, CA. February 2014. TE Callese, CT Richards, PL Shaw, SJ Schuetz, N Issa, M Swaroop: Development and Implementation of Layperson First Responder Trauma Education Programs in Low‐ and Middle‐ Income Countries: A Systemic Review. Quick Shot Oral Presentation by Tyler Callese. Academic Surgical Congress. San Diego, CA. February 2014. M Saeed, SM Siddiqui, U Khan, M Swaroop: Percep‐tions Regarding Media Influence on Helmet Usage: A Cross‐Sectional Survey on Female Pillions in Kara‐chi, Pakistan. Quick Shot Oral Presentation by Maryam Saeed. Academic Surgical Congress. San Diego, CA. February 2014. World Congress of Surgery, Obstetrics, Anesthesia,

and Trauma Educational Session/Workshop, Co‐Presenter: Using Technology to Connect Educa‐tional Initiatives across the World, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2014 World Congress of Surgery, Obstetrics, Anesthesia, and Trauma Moderator: Trauma Oral Abstract Pres‐entation, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 10/2013. T Callese, C Richards, P Shaw, S Schuetz, Swaroop M: Implementation of Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems of Care in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review. Oral Presentation by T Callese, World Con‐gress of Surgery, Obstetrics, Trauma and Anesthesia. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 17, 2013. Schuetz SJ, Callese T, Miller C, Issa N, Shapiro M, Swaroop M: Trauma System Strengthening through Educational Initiatives in Bolivia. Oral Presentation by SJ Schuetz, World Congress of Surgery, Obstet‐rics, Trauma and Anesthesia. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. October 17, 2013 INDUS‐EM Course Director: Fundamentals of Re‐suscitation in Trauma (FORT), Thrissur, India 2013 INDUS‐EM Co‐Course Director: Opus 12 Trauma and Critical Care Course, Thrissur, India10/2013 Nuts and Bolts of Research: Patient Confidentiality, Pre‐Summit Research Workshop, INDUS‐EM, Thris‐sur, India, 10/2013 Academic Leadership in Research, Pre‐Summit Re‐search Workshop, INDUS‐EM, Thrissur, India, 10/2013 Damage Control Laparotomy, Traumatic Brain In‐jury, Massive Transfusion Protocol, Bolivian Trauma Society Second Annual meeting. Potosi, Bolivia, 03/2014 Schuetz SJ, Issa N, Laguna M, Gallardo B JL, Castro CPC, Shapiro MB, Sotopena T JA, Swaroop M: Evaluation of Pre‐Hospital Care: Does Bolivia Need a Trauma First Responders Course? Bethune Round Table Conference Ontario, CA. 06/2014 Traumatic Brain Injury, Career Development Course Lecturer with AAS, 40th Annual Congress, Colum‐bian Surgical Society. Cartagena City, Colombia, 07/2014 Publications Siddiqui S, Arora S, Sagar S, Crandall M, Swaroop M: Surveying Attitudes and Influences of Female Pillion Riders in New Delhi, India. Journal of Surgical Re‐search. Vol 184:1, 404‐10, Sept 2013. Swaroop M, Pugh C. Prevention of Postoperative Infection. ACS Surgery. EPub October 2013. M Kwiatt, A Tarbox, M Seamon, M Swaroop, J Cipolla, C Allen, S Hallenbeck, HT Davido, DE Lindsey, VA Doraiswamy, S Galwankar, D Tulman, N Latchana, T Papadimos, CH Cook, SPA Stawicki: Thoracostomy Tubes: A Comprehensive Review of Complications and Related Topics. International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science. Vol 4:2, 143‐156, April‐June 2014. Stawicki SP, Swaroop M, Galwankar SC, Papadimos TJ. What’s new in critical illness and injury science? State of the art in management of ARDS. Interna‐tional Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science. Vol 4:2, 95‐98, April‐June 2014. Tarbox A, Swaroop M. Labs 101. In: Klamen D, George B, Harken A, DaRosa D, (eds): Resident Readiness: Surgery. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2014. Tarbox A, Swaroop M. Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. In: Klamen D, George B, Harken A, DaRosa D, (eds): Resident Readiness: Surgery. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2014. Wandling M, Swaroop M. Postoperative Wound Complications. In: Klamen D, George B, Harken A, DaRosa D, (eds): Resident Readiness: Surgery. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2014.


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Wandling M, Swaroop M. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection. In: Klamen D, George B, Harken A, DaRosa D, (eds): Resident Readiness: Surgery. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2014. Wasserman M, Swaroop M. Electrolyte Abnormali‐ties. In: Klamen D, George B, Harken A, DaRosa D, (eds): Resident Readiness: Surgery. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2014. Swaroop M, Siddiqui M, Sagar S, Crandall M: The Problem of the Pillion Rider: India's Helmet Law and New Delhi's Exemption. Journal of Surgical Research. Vol 188:1, 64‐68. May 2014. Swaroop M, Galwankar S, Stawicki, S, Balakrishnan JM, Worlton T, Tripathi RS, Bahner DP, Bhoi S, Papadimos TJ: The 9th annual INDUS‐EM 2013 Emergency Medicine Summit, “Principles, Practices, and Patients,” a Level One International Meeting, Kerala University of Health Sciences and Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India, October 23‐27, 2013. Philoso‐phy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, Vol 9:8, May 2014. Pal R, Agarwal A, Galwanker S, Swaroop M, Stawicki SP, Rajaram L, Paladino L, Aggarwal P, Bhoi S, Dwivedi S, Menon G, Misra MC, Kalra OP, Singh A, Radjou AN, Joshi A. The 2014 Academic College of Emergency Experts in India’s INDO‐US Joint Work‐ing Group (JWG) White Paper on “Developing Trauma Science and Injury Care in India. Interna‐tional Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science. Vol 4:2, 114‐131, April‐June 2014. Schuetz SJ, Issa N, Laguna M, Gallardo B JL, Castro CPC, Shapiro MB, Sotopena T JA, Swaroop M: Evaluation of Pre‐Hospital Care: Does Bolivia Need a Trauma First Responders Course? ABSTRACT. Canadian Journal of Surgery Vol 57:3:1, s5. June 2014 . TE Callese, CT Richards, PL Shaw, SJ Schuetz, N Issa, M Swaroop: Development and Implementation of Layperson First Responder Trauma Education Programs in Low‐ and Middle‐ Income Countries: A Systemic Review. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol 190:1, 104‐110. July 2014 Issa N, Swaroop M, Fryer J, Schuller M, DaRosa D. Boot Camp for Surgery Interns. InPress to MedEd‐Portal, May 2014. Nick Tsihlis, MD Presentation Invited speaker. Academic Surgical Congress, San Diego, CA. February 6, 2014. Publications Tsihlis, N.D., Vavra, A.K., Martinez, J., Lee, V.R., and Kibbe, M.R. Nitric oxide is less effective at inhibit‐ing neointimal hyperplasia in spontaneously hyper‐tensive rats. Nitric Oxide. 35, 165‐74 (2013). PMID: 24149190.

Moreira, E.S. and Tsihlis, N.D. Chapter 6: How to Conduct Cell Culture. Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science, pp. 65‐82. Springer‐Verlag, London 2014). Robert Vanecko, MD Honors/Awards Professional and Technical Advisory Committee of the Joint Commission representing the American College of Surgeons, October 2013‐2015 Jeffrey Wayne, MD Honors/Awards Named Recorder, Chicago Surgical Society, May 2014 Named Secretary‐Treasurer, Illinois Surgical Society, May 2014 Publications Kester BS, Wayne JD, Ross MI, Bentrem DJ, Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY. An Opportunity to Ensure High‐Quality Melanoma Care Through the Use of a Pre‐operative Treatment Algorithm. Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 Nov; 20(12):3976‐83. Gaber R, Hultgren B, Stapleton J, Mallett KA, Turrisi R, Hernandez C, Bilmoria K, Wayne J D, Martini MC, Robinson JK. The Influence of Disease Percep‐tions on the Participation of Melanoma Patients and Their Partners in Skin Self‐ Examination Education. Journal of Community Medicine and Health Educa‐tion. 2013; 3(6): 242‐5. Cooper C, Wayne JD, Martini M, Damstetter EM, Gordon J, Giutart J, West DP, Nardone B, Rade‐maker A, and Gerami P. A ten‐year, single institu‐tional analysis of clinicopathologic features and sentinel lymph node biopsy in thin melanomas. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2013 Nov; 69(5): 693‐9. Robinson JK, Gaber R, Hultgren B, Eilers S, Blatt H, Stapleton JL, Mallett KA, Turrisi R, Duffecy J, Begale M, Martini MC, Bilmoria K, Wayne JD. Skin self‐examination education for early detection of mela‐noma: A randomized controlled trial of Internet, workbook and in‐person interventions. J Med Inter‐net Res 2013 16(1): e7. Sherman KL, Wayne JD, Bentrem DJ, MS, Bilimoria KY. Assessment of multimodality therapy use for extremity sarcoma in the United States. J Surg On‐col. 2014 Apr;109(5):395‐404. von Mehren Randall RL, M, Benjamin RS, Boles S, Bui MM, Casper ES, Conrad EU, DeLaney TF, Gan‐joo KN, George S, Gonzalez R, Heslin MJ, Kane JM, Mayerson J, McGarry SV, Meyer C, O'Donnell RJ, Pappo AS, Paz IB, Pfeifer JD, Riedel RF, Schuetze S, Schupak KD, Schwartz HS, Van Tine B, Wayne J, Bergman MA, Sundar H. Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Ver‐sion 2.2014. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2014;12(4):473‐83.

von Mehren Randall RL, M, Benjamin RS, Boles S, Bui MM, Casper ES, Conrad EU, DeLaney TF, Gan‐joo KN, George S, Gonzalez R, Heslin MJ, Kane JM, Mayerson J, McGarry SV, Meyer C, O'Donnell RJ, Pappo AS, Paz IB, Pfeifer JD, Riedel RF, Schuetze S, Schupak KD, Schwartz HS, Van Tine B, Wayne J, Bergman MA, Sundar H. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, Version 2.2014. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2014;12(6):853‐62. Sherman KL, Kinnier CV, Farina DA, Wayne JD, Laskin WB, Agulnik M, Attar S, Hayes JP, Peabody T, Bilimoria KY. Examination of national lymph node evaluation practices for adult soft tissue ex‐tremity sarcoma. J Surg Oncol. 2014 Jun 7[epub ahead of print]. Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD Honors/Awards NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08) Named Co‐Chair, Cell Transplant Commit‐tee, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, July 2014 Named Vice‐chair Respiratory Urologic and Gastro‐intestinal Thematic Interest Working Group, Tissue Engineering& Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), November 2013 Presentations Invited speaker. Enhanced Endothelialization in Liver Tissue Engineering. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS)—Asia Pacific Annual Conference. Shanghai‐Wuzhen, China (October 2013). Invited speaker. Bringing the Luster Back to Transplantation: Developing organs & tissues for patients in need. 17th Annual Transplantation Research Day, Transplant Research Foundation of British Columbia, Canada (December 2013). Invited speaker. Tissue Engineering Prêt‐à‐Porter American Society of Transplant Surgeons 14th Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium, Mi‐ami, FL (January 2014). Invited speaker. Tissue Engineering. American Society of Transplant Surgeons 14th Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium, Miami, FL (January 2014). Invited speaker. Tissue Engineering and the De‐velopment of Bioartificial Organs for Transplan‐tation Illinois Surgical Society 2014 Spring Meet‐ing, Chicago, IL (May 2014). Invited speaker. Developing Replacement Ab‐dominal Organs World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, CA (July 2014)


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UPCOMING EVENTS

Surgical Grand Rounds 2014-2015 Thursday 7:00 A.M. — 8:00 A.M.

9/11/2014

Faculty Meeting

6th floor, VC Room—Arkes Building

10/9/2014

Gerald Ujiki Education Grand Rounds &

Teaching Awards

Michael Ujiki, MD; Nikolaos Dallas, MD;

Marybeth Brown, MD, MS


10/23/2014

Research Presentations

TBD


11/13/2014

Harold Method Lectureship

Wiley W. Souba , Jr MD


11/20/2014

3D Printing

Kathy Barsness, MD


12/4/2014

Outcomes and Quality Improvement

Lectureship

David Flum, MD


1/15/2015

State of the Department

Nathaniel J. Soper, MD


1/22/2015

The Role of Healthcare Quality and

Safety in Surgical Patients

Anthony Yang, MD


2/5/2015

Lung Transplantation

Ankit Bharat, MD


2/19/2015

Research Presentations

TBD


2/26/2015

Microbiome

Karen Ho, MD


3/5/2015

Bergan Lectureship

Ali F. AbuRahma, MD


3/19/2015

Loyal Davis Lectureship

Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS


4/2/2015

Quality Improvement Presentations

Christina Minami, MD; Michael

Wandling, MD; Molly Wasserman, MD;

Joel Sternbach, MD


4/9/2015

Mayo Lectureship

Heidi Nelson, MD


4/23/2015

Faculty Meeting


4/30/2015

Chief Presentations

Karen Sherman, MD; Brian Keyashian, MD


5/14/2015

Chief Presentations

Daniel McCarthy, MD; Kyle Zanocco, MD;

Bill Luo, MD


5/21/2015

Shields Lectureship

Shaf Keshavjee, MD


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Edelstone‐Bendix Resident Research Day and Faculty Retreat

will be held on June 12,2015

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