Schedule of Events
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January 21, 2012
7:00am Registration Opens/Breakfast/Exhibits
7:00am Committee Meetings
Cancer Liaison Breakfast
Committee on Trauma Breakfast
8:00am Welcome
Joseph Uddo, MD, FACS
LA-ACS President
8:10am Guest Speaker
LERN Update
Robert Coscia, MD, LERN, Medical Director
8:30am Keynote Speaker
ACS Update and Surgical
Reimbursement Issues
J. David Richardson, MD, FACS
9:00am The Contemporary Surgical Management of Carcinoma
of the Pancreas
John Bolton, MD, FACS
9:30am Reduced Port Surgery: Where we've been and where
we are heading
Paul G Curcillo II, MD, FACS
10:00am New Interventions in DVT
Tod Engelhardt, MD, FACS
10:20am Break/Visit Exhibits
10:35am Motor and Sensory Branching of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroid Surgery
Salem Noureldine, Tulane School of Medicine,
New Orleans, LA
10:45am Professionalism
F. Dean Griffen, MD, FACS
11:15am Nipple Sparing Mastectomy
Alan Stolier, MD, FACS
11:45pm Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS):
Minimally Invasive Surgery Minimized
F. Paul "Tripp" Buckley, MD, FACS
12:15pm Lunch & ACS Business Meeting
1:00pm Quick Shots
Converting to High Definition may Improve Operative
Stress But Does Not Improve Outcomes
Ashley Gridley, MD, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA
A Matched Control Study of Survival in
African Americans with Advanced Melanoma
Sergei Kalsow, MD, LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA
Robotic Transaxillary Thyroidectomy:
an Examination of First 100 Cases
Salem Noureldine, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine,
New Orleans, LA
Diluting the Survival Benefit of Hemostatic Resuscitation
Chrissy Guidry, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine
Show Me the Money: Cost Comparison of Virtual Reality versus Immersive Inanimate Procedural Trainer
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Simulation-Based Training
John Paige, LSUHSC New Orleans
1:30pm Latest on Fissures, Fistulas and Hemorrhoids
Andrew Werner, MD, FACS
1:45pm Update on Adjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer
Chris Theodossiou, MD
2:15pm Robot & General Surgery
Bill Norwood, MD, FACS
2:45pm Break/Visit Exhibitors
3:00pm Trauma Paper Winner
Implementation of a Comprehensive
Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and its
Effects on Catheter-Related Infections in a
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Patrick Greiffenstein MD, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA
3:15pm Enterocutaneous Fistulas
Hobart Harris, MD, MPH
3:45pm MRSA Updates from a Surgical Viewpoint
Daniel Frey, MD, FACS
4:00pm Approach to the Difficult Ventral Hernia
Paul G Curcillo II, MD, FACS
4:30pm 4th Annual Resident Jeopardy Game – Round One
5:00pm Adjournment
January 22, 2012
7:00am Registration Opens
7:00am Poster Session
8:00am Past President's Breakfast
Welcome by Gazi Zibari, MD, FACS
History of the Chapter
Recognition of Past Presidents
8:30am Cancer Paper Winner
Peripancreatic Soft Tissue Involvement as a
Novel Independent Predictor of Outcome for
Patients with Resected Pancreatic Malignancy
Alireza Hamidian Jahromi, LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA
8:45am Nissen Fundoplication - A New Era
F. Paul "Tripp" Buckley, MD, FACS
9:15am NOTES
Ziad Awad, MD, FACS
9:45am Break/Visit Exhibits
10:00am Quick Shots
Accuracy and Impact of PET-CT in the Diagnosis and
Management of Pancreatic Lesions
Gazi Zibari, MD, FACS, LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA
The Louisiana Paradigm - Enduring Health Care Reform,
Christopher L. Lee, MD, FACS, LSUHSC Shreveport, LA
Does Race/Ethnicity, Insurance Status Affect Outcome in Gunshot Wound to the Abdomen?
Mark Smith, MD, LSUHSC, Shreveport, LA
Robotic Treatment of Renal and Ureteral Stones
Jan Colli, MD, Tulane School of Medicine New Orleans, LA
Autologous Fat Grafting for Improved Aesthetic Results in Second Stage Breast Reconstruction after DIEP Reconstruction
Sybile Val, MD, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA
10:30am History of Charity Hospital
Gus Colon, MD, FACS
11:00am Case Studies
11:30am 4th Annual Resident Jeopardy Game – Final Round
12:00pm Awards/Adjournment
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