By invitation only. The 22 participating presentations are indicated throughout this program by the icon to the left.

Moderators:

Mukta K. Krane, Seattle, WA Jeffrey A. Norton, Stanford, CA

3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion

INFLUENCE OF EARLY CHOLECYSTECTOMY TIMING FOR ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS ON SHORT TERM SURGICAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY: A NSQIP DATABASE ANALYSIS
Fady Daniel^*1, Maher Malaeb¹, Mohammad N. Hosni¹, Hani Tamim³, Aurelie Mailhac³, Mohammad khalife², Walid N. Faraj², Faek Jamali^2
1Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology division, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon; ²Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon; ³Biostatistics Support Unit, Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

ENDOSCOPIC CLOSURE VERSUS SURGICAL REVISION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GASTROGASTRIC FISTULA FOLLOWING ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS
Ethan D. Maahs^*, Pichamol Jirapinyo, Christopher C. Thompson
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

SELECTIVE TYPE & SCREEN FOR ELECTIVE COLECTOMY BASED ON A TRANSFUSION RISK SCORE MAY GENERATE SUBSTANTIAL COST SAVINGS
Thomas Curran^*1, Vlad V. Simianu², Christine C. Jensen³, Shelby Allen¹, Marc L. Schermerhorn⁴, Virgilio V. George^1
1Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ²Surgery, Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA; ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ⁴Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

PREDICTING THE NEED FOR INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH ASYMPTOMATIC GALLSTONES: CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF A RISK STRATIFICATION TOOL
Gareth Morris-Stiff^*, Shashank Sarvepalli, Ari Garber, Carol A. Burke, Niyati M. Gupta, Pooja Lal, Mounir Ibrahim, John McMichael, Michael Rothberg, Amit Bhatt, John J. Vargo, Maged Rizk
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

DOES FUNDOPLICATION IMPROVE THE LONG-TERM RESULTS OF LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY
Christina L. Costantino^*1, Abraham D. Geller^1,2, Micheal R. Visenio^3,1, Christopher R. Morse¹, David W. Rattner^1
1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ³Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

OUTCOMES AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF A SURGICAL CARE BUNDLE FOR COLECTOMY FOLLOWED BY ENHANCED RECOVERY PROTOCOL FOR PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE UNDERGOING COLORECTAL RESECTION
Anthony D'Andrea^*, Prerna Khetan, Reba Miller, Patricia Sylla, Celia M. Divino
General Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

CLINIC-BASED SCREENING AND DETECTION OF PHYSICAL FRAILTY AND NEUROCOGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ONCOLOGIC LIVER RESECTION
Heather A. Lillemoe^*, Rebecca K. Marcus, Bradford J. Kim, Nisha Narula, Catherine H. Davis, Thomas Aloia
Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

PROTEIN PUMP INHIBITOR METABOLISM IS ALTERED IN A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF BARIATRIC CANDIDATES AND MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY MARGINAL ULCERATION AFTER GASTRIC BYPASS
Anahita D. Jalilvand^*, Omar Zaki, Jane Dewire, Bradley J. Needleman, Sabrena Noria
General Surgery, Ohio State Medical Center, Hilliard, OH

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS OF CULTURALLY COMPETENT PROVIDERS AND PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES
Miquell Miller^*1, Monica Liu², Cindy Kin¹, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell², Arden Morris^1
1General Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ²School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

LESS IS MORE WHEN IT COMES TO HEPATOBILIARY SCINTIGRAPHY FOR GALLBLADDER DYSKINESIA: MILKSHAKES SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS.
Katelyn Flick^*1, Mazhar Soufi¹, Christopher A. Sinsabaugh², Mark Tann², Cameron Colgate³, Michael G. House^1
1General Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ²Radiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ³Statistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES AND OUTCOMES AFTER DUODENAL SWITCH WITH A MODERATE COMMON CHANNEL LENGTH AND STANDARD ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS: DOES ONE POSE MORE RISK?
Alaa Sada^*1, Rolando D. Calderon-Rojas¹, Thomas Szabo Yamashita¹, Wendy S. Reidt¹, Amy E. Glasgow², Michael L. Kendrick¹, Elizabeth B. Habermann², Travis J. McKenzie¹, Todd A. Kellogg^1
1Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Surgical Outcomes Program, Robert D And Patricia E Kern Center For The Science Of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

EARLY POST-OPERATIVE PAIN AND FATIGUE ARE PREDICTIVE OF MAJOR COMPLICATIONS IN THE FIRST 30 DAYS AFTER SURGERY
Hind Al-Lami¹, Cornelius A. Thiels¹, Pamela E. Skaran¹, Kristine Hanson^*2, Juliane Bingener^1
1Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

TREATMENT OF ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS: DO MEDICAID AND NON-MEDICAID ENROLLED PATIENTS RECEIVE THE SAME CARE?
Amanda Fazzalari^*3,1, Natalie Pozzi¹, David Alfego², Nathaniel Erskine², Gary Tourony², Jomol Mathew², Mitchell A. Cahan³, Demetrius Litwin^3
1Surgery, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT; ²University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; ³Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

IS BARIATRIC SURGERY SAFE AND EFFECTIVE IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE? A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nicholas P. McKenna, Elizabeth B. Habermann, Alaa Sada^*, Todd A. Kellogg, Travis J. McKenzie
Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

HSA_CIRC_0000234 FUNCTIONS AS A COMPETITIVE ENDOGENOUS RNA TO REGULATE VAMP3 EXPRESSION BY SPONGING MIR-142-3P IN GASTRIC CANCER
Lei Peng^*, Guoxin Zhang
Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

MANAGING IBD IN THE ERA OF BIOLOGICS
Sponsored by: SSAT, AGA

Moderators:

Scott A. Strong, Chicago, IL Gary R. Lichtenstein, Philadelphia, PA

INTRODUCTION
Gary R. Lichtenstein, Philadelphia, PA

MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS - GI PERSPECTIVE
William Sandborn, San Diego, CA

MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS - SURGERY PERSPECTIVE
Alessandro Fichera, Chapel Hill, NC

PREOPERATIVE USE OF BIOLOGIC AGENTS - GI PERSPECTIVE
Brian G. Feagan, London, ON

PREOPERATIVE USE OF BIOLOGIC AGENTS - SURGERY PERSPECTIVE
Phillip Fleshner, Los Angeles, CA

TREATMENT OF PERIANAL CROHN'S DISEASE - GI PERSPECTIVE
Edward Loftus, Rochester, MN

TREATMENT OF PERIANAL CROHN'S DISEASE - SURGERY PERSPECTIVE
Amy Lightner, Rochester, MN

Q&A
Scott A. Strong, Chicago, IL

Moderators:

Collin E. Brathwaite, Mineola, NY Ron G. Landmann, Jacksonville, FL

3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion

REPURPOSING THE FDA APPROVED DRUG PYRVINIUM PAMOATE TO TARGET HUR IN PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA
Christopher Schultz¹, Teena Dhir^*1, Alex Haber¹, Wei Jiang¹, Saswati N. Chand¹, Brown Samantha¹, Emanuel Petricoin², Charles J. Yeo¹, Jonathan R. Brody^1
1Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; ²University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

JEJUNOSTOMY FEEDING TUBES FOLLOWING COMPLEX FOREGUT/HPB SURGERY: ARE THEY REALLY SUCH A HASSLE?
Conor H. O'Neill^*, Robert C. Martin
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

"FAILURE TO LIFT" AFTER BOWEL WALL INJECTION OF LARGE SESSILE POLYPS: WHAT IS ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS A PREDICTOR OF INVASIVE CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT A HISTORY OF PRIOR SNARE USE.
Dasuni Niyagama Gamage^*1, Neil Mitra¹, Jaspreet Sandhu², Vesna Cekic¹, Shantha Kumara HMC¹, Xiaohong Yan¹, Richard L. Whelan^1
1Surgery, Mount Sinai West Hospital, New York, NY; ²Surgery, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

NOVEL PREOPERATIVE PATIENT-CENTERED SURGICAL WELLNESS PROGRAM IMPACTS LENGTH OF STAY FOLLOWING PANCREATECTOMY
Danielle K. DePeralta^*, Mazhar Soufi, katelyn flick, Rachel E. Simpson, Cameron Colgate, Josh Sadowski, Eugene P. Ceppa, Michael G. House, Nicholas J. Zyromski, Attila Nakeeb, William Wooden, E M. Kilbane, Nancy Strange, Kristen Kelley, C. Max Schmidt
Surgery, Indiana University, Boston, MA

NATIONAL UNDERUTILIZATION OF MULTIMODALTIY TREATMENT FOR GASTRIC CANCER
Natalie Liu^*, Yiwei Xu, Amir A. Rahnemai-Azar, Daniel E. Abbott, Sharon M. Weber, Anne O. Lidor
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES OF SALVAGE ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION FOR ANAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA INITIALLY MANAGED WITH CHEMORADIATION.
Felipe F. Quezada^*, Kashif Saeed, Iris H. Wei, Jesse Joshua Smith, Garrett Nash, Philip Paty, Jose Guillem, Martin Weiser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Emmanouil Pappou
Department of Surgery, Colorectal Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

THE EFFECT OF INCOME ON SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES
Naomi M. Sell^*, Grace C. Lee, Kenneth K. Tanabe, Cristina R. Ferrone, Motaz Qadan
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

BARIATRIC SURGERY OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS REQUIRING ANTICOAGULATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MBSAQIP
Aryan Modasi^*, Jerry Dang, Noah Switzer, Daniel W. Birch, Shahzeer Karmali
General Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

OUTCOMES FOR CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY AND HYPERTHERMIC INTRAPERITONEAL CHEMOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT A HIGH VOLUME CENTER IN THE UNITED STATES
Athena Hsu^*, Joel Baumgartner, Jula Veerapong, Andrew M. Lowy, Kaitlyn J. Kelly
Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

RANDOMIZED TRIAL BETWEEN HISTIDINE-TRYPTOPHAN-KETOGLUTARATE [HTK] AND INSTITUTE OF GEORGE LOPEZ(IGL-1] PERFUSION SOLUTIONS IN LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Sai T. Vasala^*, Puneet Dhar, Sudhindran S, Sudheer OV, Johns S. Mathew
Surgical Gastroenterology, Amrita Institute Of Medical Sciences, Kochi, KErala, India

DEMEESTER SCORE AND HISTOPATHOLOGIC FINDINGS ON LOWER ESOPHAGEAL BIOPSY: DO THEY CORRELATE?
Elizabeth Bruenderman^*, Matthew Woeste, Joseph T. Miller, Stacy Block, Robert C. Martin, Farid Kehdy
Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

ASSESSING THE SOCIETAL COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF PREOPERATIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR COLON CANCER SURGERY
Ira Leeds^*, Jonathan Efron, Bashar Safar, Sandy Fang, Fabian M. Johnston
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

ASSESSMENT OF PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF MULTIDETECTOR-ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MDCT) FOR RESECTABLE BILIARY CANCER: MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY STUDY IN JAPAN
Satoshi Nara^*25, Kazuaki Shimada²⁵, Katsuhiko Uesaka¹, Masaru Konishi², Masayuki Ohtsuka³, Satoshi Hirano⁴, Michiaki Unno⁵, Hiroaki Yanagimoto⁶, Tatsuya Nomura⁷, Naohiro Sata⁸, Hiroshi Wada⁹, Etsuro Hatano¹⁰, Hirohiko Sakamoto¹¹, Tetsuo Ohta¹², Yasuhiro Fujino¹³, Soichiro Morinaga¹⁴, Munenori Tahara¹⁵, Yoshiyasu Ambo¹⁶, Koji Ohta¹⁷, Tsutomu Fujii¹⁸, Hirofumi Shirakawa¹⁹, Hiroaki Nagano²⁰, Atsushi Miyamoto²¹, Kazuhisa Takeda²², Keishi Sugimachi²³, Junji Furuse^24
1Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan; ²National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan; ³Department of General Surgery, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; ⁴Department of Gastroenterological Surgery II, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; ⁵Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan; ⁶Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan; ⁷Department of Surgery, Niigata Cancer Centre Hospital, Niigata, Japan; ⁸Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimono, Japan; ⁹Department of Surgery, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan; ¹⁰Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan; ¹¹Saitama Cancer Center Hospital, Saitama, Japan; ¹²Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan; ¹³Hyogo Prefectural Cancer Center, Akashi, Japan; ¹⁴Department of Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan; ¹⁵Sapporo Kosei Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; ¹⁶Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; ¹⁷Shikoku Cancer Center, Matsuyama, Japan; ¹⁸Department of Surgery and Science, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; ¹⁹Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya, Japan; ²⁰Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and liver transplantation, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan; ²¹National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan; ²²Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan; ²³Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan; ²⁴Department of Medical Oncology, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Japan; ²⁵Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

19-YEAR PROCEDURAL TRENDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GASTROPARESIS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Kelly Ieong^*1, Talar Tatarian⁴, Lizhou Nie², Jie Yang³, Konstantinos Spaniolas⁴, Aurora D. Pryor^4
1Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY; ²Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; ³Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY; ⁴Division of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY

THE ROLE OF A FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE AS A PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ESOPHAGEAL WORKUP PRIOR TO ANTIREFLUX SURGERY
Bailey Su^*1,2, Zachary M. Callahan², Stephanie M. Novak², Kristine Kuchta², Michael Ujiki^2
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL

GASTRIC PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY (G-POEM)
Session Director: Michael B. Ujiki, Evanston, IL

FACULTY
Byron Fernando Santos, Lebanon, NH
Steve Leeds, Dallas, TX
Eric Pauli, Hershey, PA
Paul Severson, Crosby, MN
Lee Swanstrom, Portland, OR
Marc Ward, Dallas, TX

Join national experts for a half day course to evaluate the learners' technical ability in a unique “into the fire” approach to demonstrate the endoscopic technique to pyloromyotomy. Learners will then be able to practice in simulated real tissue models with expert mentoring.

Moderator:

Kerry Bolton, Washington, DC

BASIC SCIENCE (SSAT)
David B. Stewart, Tucson, AZ

BASIC SCIENCE (ASGE)
Kenneth K. Wang, Rochester, MN

BASIC SCIENCE (AASLD)
Harmeet Malhi, Rochester, MN

BASIC SCIENCE (AGA)
Jason Mills, St. Louis, MO

Moderators:

Jonathan F. Critchlow, Boston, MA Jason Sicklick, San Diego, CA

3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion

COMPARING ANALGESIC EFFICACY IN ERAS PATHWAY PATIENTS- EPIDURAL CATHETER VS TRANSVERSE ABDOMINIS PLANE CATHETER
Justin T. Van Backer^*1, Robert Brookover¹, David Miller², Peter Andriakos², Igor Galay², Farzana Afroze², Kim Williams³, Brian T. Valerian¹, Edward Lee^1
1Surgery, Albany Medical Center, Loudonville, NY; ²Anesthesia, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; ³Quality Management, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY

CONCURRENT JEJUNOSTOMY AT THE TIME OF ESOPHAGECTOMY IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED SHORT TERM PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES: ANALYSIS OF THE NSQIP DATABASE
Michael Watson¹, Sally J. Trufan², Nicole Gower¹, Lauren A. Jeck¹, Benjamin M. Motz^*1, Joshua S. Hill¹, Jonathan Salo^1
1Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgey, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC; ²Department of Biostatistics, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER INCIDENCE AND TRENDS IN UNITED STATES RURAL AND URBAN POPULATIONS
Skyler Taylor^1,2, Amir A. Khan^*1, Whitney Zahnd^2,3, Sabha Ganai^1,2
1Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL; ²Population Science and Policy, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL; ³University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC

CLINICAL IMPACT OF MUSCLE QUANTITY AND QUALITY IN COLORECTAL CANCER PATIENTS: A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING ANALYSIS
Yukina Kusunoki^*, Yuji Toiyama, Yoshinaga Okugawa, Akira Yamamoto, Kurando Kusunoki, Yusuke Omura, Chengzeng Yin, Shozo Ide, Takahito Kitajima, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Hiromi Yasuda, Junichiro Hiro, Shigeyuki Yoshiyama, Masaki Ohi, Toshimitsu Araki, Masato Kusunoki
Department of Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

TRANSDIAPHRAGMATIC PRESSURE GRADIENT (TPG) HAS A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD) IN THE OBESE AND IT CORRELATES WITH ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE BUT NOT WITH BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)
Leonardo M. Del Grande¹, Fernando A. M. Herbella^*1, Rafael C. Katayama¹, William G. Lima¹, Marco G. Patti^2
1Department of Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ²Department of Surgery and Medicine, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

PERSISTENT OPIOID USE AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT HEPATECTOMY FOR NEOPLASTIC DISEASE
Tracey Pu^*1, Richard A. Erali¹, Michael Share¹, Gregory B. Russell², Clancy J. Clark¹, Edward Levine¹, Perry Shen^1
1Department of Surgical Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

USING A FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE TO EVALUATE ADEQUACY OF INTERVENTION AND PREDICT PATIENT OUTCOMES IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ACHALASIA
Bailey Su^*1,2, Zachary M. Callahan², Stephanie M. Novak², Kristine Kuchta², JoAnn Carbray², Michael Ujiki^2
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²General Surgery, Northshore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL

INCREASING SURGEON FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPY UTILIZATION: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF TEN YEARS OF FELLOW CASE NUMBERS
David Morrell^*1, Cheyenne C. Sonntag¹, Amber Schilling¹, Jose M. Martinez³, Jeffrey M. Marks², Eric Pauli^1
1Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; ²Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; ³University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL

TECHNICAL SUCCESS IS THE SOLE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESSFUL ENDOSCOPIC CLOSURE OF POST-SURGICAL GASTROINTESTINAL LEAKS: A MULTICENTER NORTH AMERICAN COHORT
Antonio R. Cheesman^*1, Habeeb Salameh¹, GAURAV KAKKED¹, Rebekah E. Dixon¹, Daniel J. Stein², Tyler M. Berzin², Prashant Kedia³, Jose Nieto⁴, Abdulhameed M. Al-Sabban⁵, Kristen Koller⁵, Vivek Kumbhari⁵, Christopher J. DiMaio¹, Satish Nagula¹, Nikhil A. Kumta^1
1Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY; ²BIDMC/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ³Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX; ⁴Borland Groover Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; ⁵Sibley Memorial Hospital - Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD

THE INCIDENCE AND IMPACT OF INCIDENTAL POLYPS FOUND AT THE TIME OF EVALUATION FOR ESD/EMR OF A KNOWN LARGE SESSILE BENIGN POLYP.
Dasuni Niyagama Gamage^*1, Neil Mitra¹, Jaspreet Sandhu², Tianyi Lu¹, Vesna Cekic¹, Shantha Kumara HMC¹, Xiaohong Yan¹, Richard L. Whelan^1
1Surgery, Mount Sinai West Hospital, New York, NY; ²Surgery, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

OUTCOMES AND PREDICTORS OF OF MORBIDITY FOLLOWING SURGICAL DRAINAGE OF PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYSTS
Sean Neifert^*, Jeanie Gribben, Nicole Ilonzo, I. Michael Leitman
Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

SIMULTANEOUS LAPAROSCOPIC PYLOROPLASTY AND GASTRIC STIMULATOR INSERTION IS AN EFFECTIVE PALLIATIVE OPTION FOR TREATMENT OF MEDICALLY REFRACTORY GASTROPARESIS
Daniel A. Barrera^*1, Aishwarya Rajagopal⁴, Ahmed M. Zihni^2,3, Ashwin A. Kurian^2
1Centura Health St. Anthony Hospital, Denver, CO; ²SurgOne Foregut Institute, Denver, CO; ³The Oregon Clinic, Portland, OR; ⁴University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

ACCELERATION OF POSTOPERATIVE RECOVERY WITH BRIEF INTRAOPERATIVE VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION MEDIATED VIA THE AUTONOMIC MECHANISM
Alimujiang Maisiyiti^*1,2, Yan Meng^1,3, Xue Lin^1,4, Yiling Zhang^1,5, Payam Gharibani¹, Jiande Chen^1
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, hernias and abdominal wall surgery, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China; ³Department of Gastroenterology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; ⁴Department of Gastroenterology, College of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China; ⁵School of Life Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

PRE-OPERATIVE SARCOPENIA PREDICTS LOW ISLET CELL YIELD FOLLOWING TOTAL PANCREATECTOMY WITH ISLET AUTOTRANSPLANTATION (TPIAT) FOR CHRONIC PANCREATITIS (CP)
Guru Trikudanathan^*1, Ghislaine Feussom¹, Levi Teigen¹, Satish Munigala², Ahmed Dirweesh¹, Melena Bellin^1
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Washington University, St Louis, MO

COMPARISON OF SHORT- AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES BETWEEN ANATOMICAL SUBTYPES OF RESECTED BILIARY TRACT CANCER IN A WESTERN HIGH-VOLUME CENTER
Eva Roos, Marin Strijker^*, Lotte C. Franken, Olivier R. Busch, Jeanin E. Van Hooft, Heinz-Josef Klümpen, Hanneke van Laarhoven, Johanna Wilmink, Joanne Verheij, Thomas M. van Gulik, Marc Besselink
Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Moderator:

Stephen W. Behrman, Memphis, TN

10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion

TOTALLY ROBOTIC IVOR-LEWIS ESOPHAGECTOMY WITH INTRATHORACIC ROBOT-SEWN ANASTOMOSIS FOR CARDIO-ESOPHAGEAL CANCER WITH THE DA VINCI XI
Cigdem Benlice^*1, Ahmet Demirkaya², Afag Aghayeva¹, Bilgi Baca¹, Ismail Hamzaoglu¹, Tayfun Karahasanoglu^1
1General Surgery, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey; ²Thoracic Surgery, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey

ROBOTIC TRANS-DUODENAL AMPULLECTOMY WITH RECONSTRUCTION
Gabrielle E. Cervoni^*, Tori H. Singer, Corinne DeCicco, Jonathan F. Critchlow, Tara S. Kent, A. J. Moser
Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Jamaica Plain, MA

LAPAROSCOPIC MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT RELEASE FOR CELIAC ARTERY COMPRESSION SYNDROME
Brian R. Davis^*, Benjamin Clapp, Richard W. McCallum
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center E, El Paso, TX

ROBOTIC REPEAT RIGHT HEPATECTOMY FOR COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS
Marcel Autran Machado^*1, Fabio F. Makdissi², Rodrigo C. Surjan¹, Tiago Basseres³, Marcel C C. Machado^1
1Surgery, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ²Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ³Surgery, Hospital Nove de Julho, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

GASTRIC PERFORATION SECONDARY TO INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON
Joshua P. Landreneau^*1, Juan S. Barajas-Gamboa², Carlos Abril², Ricard Corcelles², Matthew Kroh^2,1
1General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University Heights, OH; ²Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

TRANSGASTRIC PANCREATIC DEBRIDEMENT: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO A SINGLE-STAGED PROCEDURE FOR WALLED-OFF PANCREATIC NECROSIS
Thomas K. Maatman^*
Surgery, Indiana University, Indianpolis, IN

NEW CHALLENGES IN DIGESTIVE TRACT SURGERY WORLDWIDE

Moderators:

Waddah B. Al-Refaie, Washington, D.C. Sean P. Cleary, Rochester, MN

HOW TO MANAGE A PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN WORKLOAD AND WELL BEING
Sachiyo Nomura, Tokyo, Japan

HOW TO ADDRESS THREATS AND CHALLENGES AND SAVE ACADEMIC GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY?
Alberto R. Ferreres, Buenos Aires, Argentina

THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
Robin S. McLeod, Toronto, ON, Canada

SURGEONS' BURNOUT: HOW TO PREVENT, HOW TO MANAGE, AND HOW TO CORRECT?
Bruno Zilberstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil

THE IMPAIRED SURGEON: THE ROLE OF PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION
Julio M. Mayol, Madrid, Spain

PREPARING FOR RETIREMENT: HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AT THE END OF THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER?
Christopher Ellison, Columbus, OH

PANEL AND AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

Moderators:

Anthony Vine, New York, NY Jayleen Grams, Birmingham, AL

3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion

HIGH RESOLUTION MANOMETRY CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH ACHALASIA AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY WITH PARTIAL FUNDOPLICATION
Emmanuel Contreras Jiménez^*2, Enrique Coss-Adame¹, Miguel A. Valdovinos¹, Janette Furuzawa-Carballeda¹, Sofia Narvaez-Chavez¹, Hector Olvera-Prado¹, Jose Peralta-Figueroa¹, Gonzalo Torres-Villalobos^2
1National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico; ²Surgery Division, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

CHARACTERISTICS AND SURVIVAL OF GASTRIC CANCER PATIENTS WITH PATHOLOGICAL COMPLETE RESPONSE
Alexander P. Stark^*1, Naruhiko Ikoma¹, Yi-Ju Chiang¹, Jeannelyn Estrella², Prajnan Das³, Bruce D. Minsky⁴, Mariela Blum⁴, Paul Mansfield¹, Brian Badgwell^1
1Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; ²Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; ³Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; ⁴Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

LAPAROSCOPIC GASTROPEXY FOR LARGE PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA IN THE ELDERLY
Andrew D. Newton^*, Julie Clanahan, David A. Herbst, Daniel T. Dempsey
Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AND DIGESTIVE SYMPTOMS IN LONG TERM, DISEASE FREE SURVIVORS FOLLOWING ESOPHAGECTOMY
Fredrik Klevebro^*1, Piers R. Boshier², K V. Savva², Annabelle Waller², Lory Hage², George Hanna², Donald Low^1
1Thoracic surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA; ²Dep. of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

OUTCOME PREDICTOR SCORE FOR MULTIVISCERAL RESECTION IN T4 GASTRIC CANCER
André R. Dias², Marina A. Pereira², Marcus F. Ramos², Bruno Zilberstein¹, Ivan Cecconello¹, Ulysses Ribeiro^*2,1
1Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; ²Gastroenterology, Sao Paulo State Casncer Institute - University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, ICESP-HCFMUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA MICROENVIRONMENT: CD34 EXPRESSION IN PERITUMORAL ADIPOSE TISSUE IS ASSOCIATED WITH TUMOR NECROSIS AND IMPAIRED IMMUNE RESPONSE WITHIN THE TUMOR, AND IS DECREASED BY NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT
Elisabetta Trevellin^*1, Amedeo Carraro², Matteo Fassan³, Andromachi Kotsafti⁴, Matteo Cagol⁴, Luca Maria Saadeh⁴, Melania Scarpa⁴, Francesco Cavallin⁴, Umberto Tedeschi², Massimo Rugge³, Roberto Vettor¹, Marco Scarpa^5
1Department of Medicine - Endocrine Metabolic Laboratory, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ²Department of General Surgery and Odontoiatrics, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; ³Department of Medicine - Surgical Pathology & Cytopathology Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ⁴Laboratory of Advanced Traslational Research, Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV-IRCCS), Padova, Italy; ⁵General Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy

MAGNETIC SPHINCTER AUGMENTATION IN MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX (LPR) AND PREDICTORS OF FAVORABLE OUTCOME
Shahin Ayazi^*, Kristy Chovanec, Ping Zheng, Ali H. Zaidi, Ashten N. Omstead, Adam Alleyne, Kirsten Newhams, Tameka Scott, Jonathan Levy, Toshitaka Hoppo, Blair A. Jobe
Esophageal and Lung Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA

ESOPHAGECTOMY WITH ENHANCED RECOVERY IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE FOR THE ELDERLY
Christopher Hadjittofi^*, Pedro Serralheiro, Hugh Warren, Edward Cheong, Michael P. Lewis, Bhaskar Kumar
Upper GI Surgery, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom

GASTROJEJUNAL ANASTOMOTIC STENOSIS: A TIME TO RE-INTERVENTION ANALYSIS COMPARING AXIOS STENT PLACEMENT TO GOLD-STANDARD BALLOON DILATION
Kelly Hathorn^*1, Thomas J. Wang², Pichamol Jirapinyo¹, Jamila Wynter¹, Ahmad Najdat Bazarbashi¹, Thomas R. McCarty¹, Marvin Ryou¹, Christopher C. Thompson^1
1Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Massachusett General Hospital, Boston, MA

MANAGING REFLUX AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY: CONVERSION OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY TO GASTRIC BYPASS
Laura Mazer^*, Scott A. Cunneen, Daniel Shouhed, Edward H. Phillips, Miguel Burch
Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ALONE DOES NOT ENTIRELY EXPLAIN UNDERUSE OF HIGH-VOLUME CENTERS BY MINORITIES UNDERGOING ESOPHAGECTOMY
Tamar B. Nobel^*1,2, Michael Curry¹, David R. Jones¹, Daniela Molena^1
1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; ²Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

INSULIN CESSATION FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS VERSUS GASTRECTOMY
Keyvan Heshmati^*, Jacqueline Hogan, Paul Sheils, Eric G. Sheu, Ali Tavakkoli
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

LYMPH NODE METASTASIS IN EARLY ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
Sophie L. Brigstocke^*, Vaishali Patel, Saurabh Chawla, Parit Mekaroonkamol, Steven Keilin, Qiang Cai, Field F. Willingham
Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

CLINICAL OUTCOMES 4 YEARS AFTER POEM FOR TREATMENT OF ACHALASIA
Ryan J. Campagna^*1, Arturo Cirera¹, Joseph Triggs², Ezra N. Teitelbaum¹, Dustin Carlson², John E. Pandolfino², Eric S. Hungness^1
1Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; ²Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

POTENTIAL OF INTRAOPERATIVE WRAP PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE DETERMINATION IN PREDICTING POST-FUNCOPLICATION DYSPHAGIA: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
Kenan Ulualp^*, Patrick Sanvanson, Karlo Kovacic, Francis O. Edeani, Mark Kern, Reza Shaker, Jon Gould
Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Mem Lutheran Hosp, Milwaukee, WI

CAREERS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN GI SURGERY
Surgical residents can obtain information about programs and career options that will help them decide which fellowship is the best fit.

Moderators:

Adham Saad, Tampa, FL Heather Lillemoe, Houston, TX

FELLOWSHIPS 101: SSO/AHPBA
John C. McAuliffe, New York, NY
Thomas A. Aloia, Houston, TX

FELLOWSHIPS 101: SAGES/ASMBS
Christopher G. Ducoin, New Orleans, LA
Elan R. Witkowski, Boston, MA

FELLOWSHIPS 101: ASCRS
Heather Yeo, New York, NY
Jamie Cannon, Birmingham, AL
Jennifer S. Beaty, Omaha, NE

FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB IN GI SURGERY
Motaz Qadan, Boston, MA
Ruchir Puri, Jacksonville, FL

FELLOWSHIP "INSIDER'S VIEW" - ADVICE FROM CURRENT FELLOWS
Christopher P. Scally, Houston, TX
Christy Cauley, Boston, MA
Carla Holcomb, Birmingham, AL