LECTURE: PROFESSIONALISM
Thomas J. Nasca, Chicago, IL

Moderators:

Laura Maggino, Verona, Italy Charles Vollmer, Philadelphia, PA

PRO DEBATE
Giovanni Marchegiani, Verona, Italy

CON DEBATE
Nicholas Zyromski, Indianapolis, IN

PANEL AND AUDIENCE DISCUSSION

SSAT Annual Business Meeting, for SSAT members only.

Moderators:

Niraj Gusani, Hershey, PA Susan Tsai, Milwaukee, WI

INTRA-OPERATIVE BILE CULTURE IN PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY: TEACHING OLD DOGMA NEW TRICKS
Thomas L. Sutton^*, Jack P. O'Grady, Robert G. Martindale, Skye C. Mayo, Erin Gilbert, Brett C. Sheppard
Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

Primary Discussant: Stephen W. Behrman

OUTCOMES OF MIXED PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES TREATED WITH NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY AND LIVER RESECTION
Meredith C. Mason^*, Maciej Krasnodebski, Caeli Barker, Yujiro Nishioka, Anai N. Kothari, Yi-Ju Chiang, Timothy E. Newhook, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Yun Shin Chun, Thomas Aloia, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Hop Tran Cao
Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Primary Discussant: Guido Torzilli

CLINICALLY RELEVANT PANCREATIC FISTULA FOLLOWING PANCREATODUODENECTOMY IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH INTRAOPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS: AN INTERNATIONAL, MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED ANALYSIS.
Fabio Casciani^*1,2, Maxwell T. Trudeau¹, Claudio Bassi², Charles Vollmer^1
1Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Primary Discussant: Paresh C. Shah

COVID-19'S IMPACT ON CANCER CARE: INCREASED EMOTIONAL STRESS IN PATIENTS AND HIGH RISK OF PROVIDER BURNOUT
Omid Salehi^*1, Sylvia V. Alarcon¹, Eduardo A. Vega¹, Onur C. Kutlu², Olga Kozyreva¹, Jennifer Chan³, Vera Kazakova¹, Dominique Harz³, Claudius Conrad^1
1Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA; ²University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL; ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Primary Discussant: Hop S. Tran Cao

STROMAL SUBTYPES OF PANCREATIC CANCER IN PATIENT-DERIVED XENOGRAFT MODELS
Louisa Bolm^*1, Natalie Petruch¹, Pascal Finetti², Taisuke Baba¹, Jorge Roldan¹, Jon Michael Harrison¹, Andrew L. Warshaw¹, Carlos Férnandez-Del Castillo¹, Andrew S. Liss^1
1Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azu, France

Primary Discussant: Jose G. Trevino

CARING FOR PATIENTS WITH COMPLICATIONS AFTER COMPLEX GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY: A NATIONAL STUDY OF INTERHOSPITAL TRANSFER AMONG MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES
Priya Pathak, Djhenne Dalmacy, Diamantis Tsilimigras, Madison Hyer, Adrian Diaz, Timothy M. Pawlik^*
Surgery, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Primary Discussant: Julie Hallet

Moderators:

Neil Hyman, Chicago, IL Thomas Read, Gainesville, FL

IS THERE EVER A PLACE FOR A MUCOSECTOMY?
Luca Stocchi, Jacksonville, FL

BOTTOM UP OR TOP DOWN?
Karen Zaghiyan, Los Angeles, CA

IPAA FOR CROHN'S DISEASE?
Tracy L. Hull, Cleveland, OH

MANAGEMENT OF THE FAILING POUCH
Ravi P. Kiran, New York, NY

Moderators:

Michael F. Mcgee, Chicago, IL Alessandro Fichera, Dallas, TX

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE OUTREACH PROGRAM
Anthony G. Charles, Chapel Hill, NC

HOW TO BUILD A HOMEGROWN PROGRAM
April C. Roslani, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DEVELOPING NCCN GUIDELINES FOR NATIONAL RECTAL CANCER CARE IN BOLIVIA
Steven J. Schuetz, Elmhurst, IL

Moderators:

Liane S. Feldman, Montreal, QC Richard A. Hodin, Boston, MA

DIAGNOSIS OF REFLUX (INCLUDING APR AND NON ULCER DYSPEPSIA)
Min P. Kim, Houston, TX

ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF REFLUX: TIF, STRETTA, ARMS - WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Michael Ujiki, Evanston, IL

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF REFLUX: WHEN TO USE NISSEN, TOUPLET, LINX, MESH?
John C. Lipham, Los Angeles, CA

LONG TERM OUTCOMES AND REASONS FOR FAILURE
Leena Khaitan, Cleveland, OH

THE FAILED WRAP: CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
Aurora D. Pryor, Stony Brook, NY

Moderators:

Flavio G. Rocha, Seattle, WA Michael D'Angelica, New York, NY

Y90 FOR HCC: HYPE OR ESTABLISHED THERAPY
Adam Yopp, Dallas, TX

HEPATIC ARTERY CHEMOTHERAPY FOR COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Sepideh Gholami, Davis, CA

THE ROLES OF SURGERY AND INTRA-ARTERIAL THERAPIES FOR INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Shishir K. Maithel, Atlanta, GA

IMPROVING AWARENESS AND SENSITIVITY TO LGBT HEALTH ISSUES
William Dewitt, New York, NY

CULTURAL BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE
Julius Wilder, Durham, NC

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
Pilar Ortega, Chicago, IL

SOCIOECONOMIC BARRIERS TO GASTROENTEROLOGICAL CARE
John Carethers, Ann Arbor, MI

CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS
Join the speakers for an additional one-on-one question and answer session

SSAT DISCUSSANT
Ali Tavakkoli, Boston, MA

AASLD DISCUSSANT
Grace L. Su, Ann Arbor, MI

AGA DISCUSSANT
Juanita L. Merchant, Ann Arbor, MI

ASGE DISCUSSANT
Vanessa M. Shami, Charlottesville, VA

Moderators:

Danielle Deperalta, Boston, MA Major Lee, Philadelphia, PA

MAGNITUDE OF CA19-9 DECLINE IN RESPONSE TO NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH OVERALL SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC CANCER
Sam Thalji^*, William Hall, Mohammed Aldakkak, Kathleen Christians, Callisia N. Clarke, Ben George, Mandana Kamgar, Bryan Hunt, Srivats Madhavan, Naveen Kulkarni, Beth A. Erickson, Douglas B. Evans, Susan Tsai
Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Primary Discussant: John C. McAuliffe

UTILIZATION OF THE KAWAGUCHI-GAYET COMPLEXITY CLASSIFICATION TO CREATE, IMPLEMENT, AND VALIDATE RISK-STRATIFIED POST-HEPATECTOMY PATHWAYS BASED ON ANTICIPATED LENGTH OF STAY
Bradford J. Kim^*, Elsa M. Arvide, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Whitney L. Dewhurst, Teresa L. Phan, Hop Tran Cao, Thomas Aloia, Yun Shin Chun, Matthew Katz, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Timothy E. Newhook
Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Primary Discussant: Andreas Karachristos

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA CLINICAL TRIALS
Kelly M. Herremans^*1, Andrea N. Riner¹, Steven J. Hughes¹, Jose G. Trevino^2
1University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL; ²Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA

Primary Discussant: William Lancaster

EARLY VERSUS DELAYED CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE BILIARY PANCREATITIS A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
Hasan Shoaib^*, Muhammad N. Asghar, Saqib Walayat, Sonu Dhillon, Steven S. Tsoraides
Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL

Primary Discussant: Lee M. Ocuin

SINGLE-CELL RNA SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA REVEALS TRANSCRIPTOMIC CHANGES IN FIBROBLASTS FOLLOWING FOLFIRINOX-BASED NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION THERAPY
Jon Harrison^*1, Jonathan E. Chang², Michelle Piquet², Slavica Dimitrieva², Millicent Gabriel², Keith D. Lillemoe¹, Andrew L. Warshaw¹, Mari Mino-Kenudson¹, Carlos Férnandez-Del Castillo¹, Viviana Cremasco², Dave Ruddy², Andrew S. Liss^1
1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Inc, Cambridge, MA

PATIENT STATED PREFERENCES FOR NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA
Jordan Cloyd^*, Allan Tsung, Aslam Ejaz, Timothy M. Pawlik, Angela Sarna, Heena P. Santry, Celia Wills, Norah Crossnohere
Surgery, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, OH

Primary Discussant: Ernest Ramsay Camp

Moderators:

Joshua Bleier, Philadelphia, PA Radhika Smith, St. Louis, MS

DISCHARGE TIMING AFTER OSTOMY CONSTRUCTION: IS SHORT LENGTH OF STAY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED READMISSIONS?
Mary G. Smithson^*, Tara Wood, Karin M. Hardiman, Drew J. Gunnells, Daniel I. Chu, Robert H. Hollis
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Primary Discussant: Nishit Shah

EARLY VERSUS LATE RECURRENCE IN RECTAL CANCER: DOES TIMING MATTER?
Marina Affi Koprowski^*, Thomas L. Sutton, Nima Nabavizadeh, Charles R. Thomas, Emerson Chen, Adel Kardosh, Charles Lopez, Skye C. Mayo, Kim C. Lu, Daniel O. Herzig, Vassiliki L. Tsikitis
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

Primary Discussant: Thomas Curran

ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY WITH TIMING TO AND OUTCOMES FROM SURGERY FOR DIVERTICULITIS
Adrian Diaz^*, Kathryn Taylor, Ushapoorna Nuliyalu, Justin B. Dimick, Hari Nathan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Primary Discussant: Brian Bello

ASSOCIATION OF GERIATRIC MEASURES WITH SURGICAL OUTCOMES IN COLORECTAL SURGERY PATIENTS
Margaret Johnson^*, Lauren Wood, Robert H. Hollis, Drew J. Gunnells, Jamie A. Cannon, Karin M. Hardiman, Daniel I. Chu, Gregory D. Kennedy, Melanie S. Morris
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL

IMPACT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE ON RISK OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING COLORECTAL CANCER SURGERY - A NATIONWIDE COHORT STUDY
Gencer Kurt^*, Katalin Veres, Frederikke Schønfeldt Troelsen, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Rune Erichsen
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus Universitetshospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Primary Discussant: Emily Steinhagen

IMPACT OF ENHANCED RECOVERY PATHWAY (ERP) ON SURGICAL DISPARITIES FOR PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
Lauren Theiss^*, Tara Wood, Connie Shao, Isabel Marques, Robert H. Hollis, Drew J. Gunnells, Karin M. Hardiman, Jamie A. Cannon, Gregory D. Kennedy, Melanie S. Morris, Daniel I. Chu
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL

Primary Discussant: Konstantin Umanskiy

Moderators:

Christopher Ducoin, Tampa, FL Carrie Luu, St Louis, MS

OPTIMAL TREATMENT OF CT2N0 SQUAMOUS-CELLS ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA (SCC): IS UPFRONT SURGERY REALLY THE WAY?
Elisa Sefora Pierobon^*, Giovanni Capovilla, Lucia Moletta, Gianpietro Zanchettin, Renato Salvador, Mario Costantini, Stefano Merigliano, Michele Valmasoni
University of Padova, Padova, Italy

EPSTEIN-BARR TUMOR-ASSOCIATED INFECTION IS RESTRICTED TO MORE DISTAL ADENOCARCINOMA OF ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION (AEGJ), WHILE PD-L1 IS HIGHLY IMMUNOEXPRESSED IN BOTH, ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (ESCC) AND AEGJ
Mateus B. Ribeiro^*1, Sergio B. Marques², Ibere C. Soares³, Marina A. Pereira³, Flavio R. Takeda³, Fauze Maluf-Filho³, Rubens A. Sallum³, Bruno Zilberstein³, Adriana V. Safatle-Ribeiro³, Ulysses Ribeiro^3
1Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil; ²Universidade de Sao Paulo Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ³Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

PERIOPERATIVE AND SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES AFTER REMEDIAL ANTI-REFLUX SURGERY
K. Mirzaei Baboli^*, Sumeet Mittal
Norton Thoracic Institute, Phoenix, AZ

THE LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER-DOR IS AN EFFECTIVE LONG-TERM TREATMENT FOR END-STAGE ACHALASIA
Giulia Nezi^*, Francesca Forattini, Federica Riccio, Arianna Vittori, Luca Provenzano, Giovanni Capovilla, Loredana Nicoletti, Lucia Moletta, Elisa Sefora Pierobon, Gianpietro Zanchettin, Michele Valmasoni, Stefano Merigliano, Mario Costantini, Renato Salvador
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy

REDUCED WRAP DISTENSIBILITY PREDICTS DYSPHAGIA AMONG PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL, BUT NOT COMPLETE, FUNDOPLICATION
Lester Tsai^*, Santiago Horgan, Bryan J. Sandler, Ryan C. Broderick, Alice J. Race, David C. Kunkel
Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF RADIOINDUCED ESOPHAGEAL CANCER: RESULTS OF A SINGLE CENTER CASE-CONTROL STUDY WITH PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING
Giovanni Capovilla^*, Anna Laura De Pasqual, Elisa Sefora Pierobon, Lucia Moletta, Renato Salvador, Mario Costantini, Gianpietro Zanchettin, Luca Provenzano, Stefano Merigliano, Michele Valmasoni
University of Padova, Padova, Italy

OPERATIVE TIME FOR ESOPHAGECTOMY IN ESOPHAGEAL CANCER: DOES TIME REALLY MATTER? A NSQIP STUDY
Brandon W. Nuckles^*, Ayobami Fatunmbi, Shengxuan Wang, Joseph Blansfield
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA

POSITIVE HISTOLOGIC MARGINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH COMPROMISED OVERALL SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING RESECTION OF INTERMEDIATE AND LARGE GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS
Dhruv J. Patel^*1, Joseph N. Fahmy², Constantine Godellas², Lawrence Knab², Gerard Abood², Frederick Luchette^2,3, Marshall S. Baker^2,3
1Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Palatine, IL; ²Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; ³Edward Hines, Jr Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, IL

FUNDUS TO ANTRUM RATIO MEASURED WITHIN ONE WEEK AFTER ENDOSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTROPLASTY PREDICTS TOTAL BODY WEIGHT LOSS OVER TIME
Kaveh Hajifathalian^*, Donevan R. Westerveld, Andrea S. Kierans, Amit Mehta, Angela Wong, Grace C. Lo, Sarah Oh, Reem Z. Sharaiha
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York Presbyterian-Cornell, New York, NY

WEIGHING THE OPTIONS: ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF BARIATRIC SURGERY AMONGST PROVIDERS BASED ON REFERRAL PATTERNS
Lee Ying^*2, Ysabel C. Ilagan-Ying¹, Mariana Almeida³, Artur V. Viana¹, Yihan Yang¹, John Morton², Albert Do^1
1Internal Medicine, Yale University Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, CT; ³Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

THE ROLE OF SARCOPENIA IN PREDICTING THE POST-OPERATIVE MORBIDITY AND PERI-OPERATIVE MORTALITY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE SURGERY FOR GASTRIC CANCER
Sinduja Ramanan^*3, Vikram Kate³, Amaranathan Anandhi³, Deepak Barathi¹, Thulasingam Mahalakshmy^2
1Department of Radiodiagnosis, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India; ²Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India; ³Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India

IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ENHANCED RECOVERY PATHWAY RESULTS IN DECREASED LENGTH OF STAY AFTER GASTRECTOMY
Anitha Kammili^*, Jonathan Cools-Lartigue, Lorenzo E. Ferri, Carmen L. Mueller
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

INCIDENCE, BURDEN AND PREDICTORS OF ONE-YEAR READMISSION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING BARIATRIC SURGERY
Pedro Palacios Argueta^*3,2, Miguel Salazar¹, Paul T. Kröner², Frank Lukens², C. Roberto Simons-Linares^1
1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Mayo Clinic's Campus in Florida, Jacksonville, FL; ³Cook County, Chicago, IL

TRENDS AND OUTCOMES FOR SIMULTANEOUS CHOLECYSTECTOMY DURING BARIATRIC SURGERY OVER THE PAST DECADE
Paul T. Kröner^*2, Michele B. Ryan¹, Christopher C. Thompson^1
1Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Medicine, Boston, MA; ²Mayo Clinic's Campus in Florida, Jacksonville, FL