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63rd Annual Meeting
SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
May 21-24, 2022
San Diego Convention Center | San Diego, CA
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Tracks
Esophagus, Gastric, Bariatric, & Metabolic GI Tract
Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Education, Quality, Outcomes, & Policy
Small Bowel, Abdominal Wall, Hernia, & Colorectal General & Society Business

MONDAY, MAY 23, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 32
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:
SURVEILLANCE STRATEGIES FOR HEREDITARY PANCREAS CANCER SYNDROMES
 
Sponsored by: SSAT, ASGE, AGA
Moderators: Taylor S. Riall, Tucson, AZ
Randall Brand, Pittsburgh, PA


INTRODUCTION
Taylor S. Riall, Tucson, AZ

HEREDITARY SYNDROMES WITH HIGH RISK OF PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA
Sapna Syngal, Boston, MA

FAMILIAL PANCREATIC CANCER NOT ASSOCIATED WITH HEREDITARY SYNDROMES
Pari Shah, New York, NY

CURRENT SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA SCREENING IN HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS
Randall Brand, Pittsburgh, PA

SURVEILLANCE FOR MEN1 FAMILIES
Michelle Kim, New York, NY

Q&A
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 9
PLENARY SESSION: ESOPHAGUS, GASTRIC, BARIATRIC, & METABOLIC I
 
Moderators: Carrie Luu, St. Louis, MO
Anthony Vine, New York, NY
Sumeet Mittal, Phoenix, AZ
10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion
 
SHORT-TERM SURGICAL OUTCOMES OF ROBOTIC GASTRECTOMY COMPARED TO OPEN GASTRECTOMY FOR PATIENTS WITH GASTRIC CANCER: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL
Ulysses Ribeiro*1,2, Andre Roncon Dias1,2, Marcus F. Ramos1,2, Osmar K. Yagi1,2, Rodrigo J. De Oliveira1,2, Ricardo Z. Abdalla1,2, Marina A. Pereira1,2, Bruno Zilberstein2, Sergio C. Nahas1,2, Ivan Cecconello1,2
1Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; 2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
Plenary presentationCOMPARATIVE OUTCOMES OF ANTI-REFLUX SURGERY IN OBESE AND MORBIDLY OBESE PATIENTS
Federico Palacardo, Jacques A. Greenberg*, Rodrigo C. Edelmuth, Caitlin Egan, Yeon Joo Lee, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, Philip O. Katz, Brendan M. Finnerty, Thomas J. Fahey, Rasa Zarnegar
Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
 
PREOPERATIVE CHEMOTHERAPY VERSUS UPFRONT SURGERY FOR STAGE CT4 GASTRIC CANCER: WHAT IS THE BEST STRATEGY?
André R. Dias, Marina A. Pereira, Marcus F. Ramos, Ulysses Ribeiro*, Bruno Zilberstein, Sergio Carlos Nahas
Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
USING AN ENDOLUMINAL FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE (ENDOFLIP) TO COMPARE PYLORIC FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROPARESIS TO PATIENTS AFTER ESOPHAGECTOMY
Florian Lorenz*1, Stefanie brunner1, Felix Berlth2, Ulrich Toex1, Isabel Rieck1, Lea Streller1, Peter P. Grimminger2, Christiane J. Bruns1, Tobias Goeser1, Seung-Hun Chon1
1Uniklinik Koln, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; 2Universitatsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
 
Plenary presentationPREOPERATIVE FACTORS IMPACT ON POSTOPERATIVE BLOATING
Rodrigo C. Edelmuth*1,2, Federico Palacardo1, Jacques A. Greenberg1, Caitlin Egan1, Yeon Joo Lee1, Maria Cristina Riascos1, Murtaza Qazi1, Felice Schnoll-Sussman1, Philip O. Katz1, Brendan M. Finnerty1, Thomas J. Fahey1, Rasa Zarnegar1
1Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; 2Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
FUNDOPEXY, AN ALTERNATIVE TO TOUPET FUNDOPLICATION IN SELECTED PATIENTS, WITH HIGHER SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF AND LOWER RATE OF REOPERATION FOR SYMPTOMATIC RECURRENT HIATAL HERNIA
Clarissa Hoffman*3, Megan Mai2, Mary Dyson3, Andre Miller4, Farzaneh Banki1
1Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, Memorial Hermann Southeast Esophageal Disease Center, Houston, TX; 2Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX; 3The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston John P and Katherine G McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX; 4Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Houston, TX
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 26
SSAT AND AHPBA JOINT SYMPOSIUM:
MODERN MANAGEMENT OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
 
Moderators: Flavio G. Rocha, Portland, OR
M B Majella Doyle, Saint Louis, MO

UPDATE ON CLINICAL TRIALS FOR ADVANCED DISEASE
Jonathan M. Hernandez, Bethesda, MD

NOVEL COMBINATIONS OF LOCOREGIONAL, TARGETED AND IMMUNOTHERAPY
Vatche G. Agopian, Los Angeles, CA

NOVEL STRATEGIES TO ENABLE HEPATIC RESECTION FOR HCC
Emily Winslow, Potomac, MD

FUTURE INDICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR HCC
Keri Lunsford, New Brunswick, NJ

Q&A
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 10
VIDEO SESSION: SMALL BOWEL, ABDOMINAL WALL, HERNIA & COLORECTAL II
 
Moderator: Mary F. Otterson, Milwaukee, WI
Terrah Paul Olson, Johns Creek, GA
10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion
 
"CAUDAL-TO-CRANIAL" PLUS "ARTERY FIRST TECHNIQUE" WITH BEYOND D3 LYMPH NODE DISSECTION ON LAPAROSCOPIC RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY
Beishi Zheng*1, Yichen Wang2, Liaonan Zou3
1Internal Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; 2Trinity Health Of New England Medical Group Agawam Office Silver Street, Agawam, MA; 3The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
 
COMBINED REOPERATIVE ROBOTIC LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION AND LAPAROSCOPIC TATME FOR REPAIR OF ANASTOMOTIC-VAGINAL FISTULA WITH TRANSANAL EXTRACTION AND ANASTOMOSIS
Tong Gan*, Kevin T. Behm, Sherief Shawki
Surgery, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN
 
ROBOTIC APPROACH FOR ORGAN INVASIVE RECTAL CANCER
Patrick Heindel*, Vanessa M. Welten, Jennifer L. Irani, Agim Aliaj, Ronald Bleday, Nelya Melnitchouk, Joel E. Goldberg
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
 
ROBOTIC-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT RELEASE (MALR) FOR MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT SYNDROME (MALS)
Carolyn Judge*, Michael Hornacek, Gordon G. Wisbach
Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA
 
A NOVEL PLATFORM FOR SINGLE INCISION MINIMALLY INVASIVE COLECTOMY: SINGLE-PORT ROBOTIC LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION (SP RLAR)
John H. Marks*, Jane Yang, Elizabeth Spitz
Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room 9
CONTROVERSIES IN GI SURGERY DEBATE:
OPTIMAL APPROACH TO THE DIFFICULT GALLBLADDER
 
Moderators: Flavio G. Rocha, Portland, OR
Charles Vollmer, Philadelphia, PA

PROCEED LAPAROSCOPICALLY AND FENESTRATE OR RECONSTITUTE
Erin W. Gilbert, Portland, OR

OPEN AND TRY TO REMOVE AT ALL COSTS
Ismael Dominguez Rosado, Obregon, Mexico

FORGET THE OR, LET'S FIND ANOTHER WAY
Michelle A. Anderson, Ann Arbor, MI

Q&A
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room 3
CONTROVERSIES IN GI SURGERY DEBATE: THE FUTURE OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
 
Moderators: Sergio Bardaro, Shaker Heights, OH
Michel Gagner, Montreal, QC
Alfons Pomp, New York, NY

SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
Teresa L. LaMasters, Des Moines, IA

GASTRIC BYPASS
Shanu Kothari, Greenville, SC

BPD/DS AND SADI
Maria Altieri, Stony Brook, NY

Q&A
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room 10
CONTROVERSIES IN GI SURGERY DEBATE:
TOTAL NEOADJUVANT THERAPY: A PROMISING STRATEGY FOR ALL RECTAL CANCER PATIENTS
 
Moderators: Kim C. Lu, Portland, OR
Imran Hassan, Cedar Rapids, IA
PRO
Sandy H. Fang, Baltimore, MD
Cindy Kin, Stanford, CA

CON
Kellie L. Mathis, Oronoco, MN
Anne-Lise D'Angelo, Rochester, MN
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 26
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:
DEBATES IN MANAGING PAIN IN CHRONIC PANCREATITIS
 
Sponsored by: ASGE, SSAT, AGA
Moderators: Santhi Swaroop Vege, Rochester, MN
Nicholas J. Zyromski, Indianapolis, IN
INTRODUCTION
Santhi Swaroop Vege, Rochester, MN

ERCP SHOULD BE PERFORMED PRIOR TO SURGERY
Vikesh Singh, Ellicott City, MD

SURGERY IS THE BEST TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC PANCREATITIS AND IS UNDERUTILIZED
Mary Dillhoff, Columbus, OH

WE SHOULD BE MOVING TO TPIAT EARLIER FOR CHRONIC PANCREATITIS PAIN
Gregory Cote, Charleston, SC

EVERYONE IS WRONG! PAIN REHABILITATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND UNDERUTILIZED INTERVENTION
Dhiraj Yadav, Pittsburgh, PA

AUDIENCE POLLING RESULTS AND PANEL DISCUSSION
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room 3
MAJA AND FRANK G. MOODY STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE
 
NEW INSIGHTS INTO PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER
Raghu Kalluri, Houston, TX
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Hall C-E
POSTER SESSION II (NON-CME)
 
Authors available at their posters to answer questions 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM; posters on display 9:30 AM - 4 PM.
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Room 2
Ticketed Session MEET-THE-PROFESSOR LUNCHEON:
HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE FUTURE LIVER REMNANT PRIOR TO EXTENDED HEPATECTOMY
 
Faculty: Jordan Cloyd, New York, NY
Julie Hallet, Toronto, ON
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 9
SIMULATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN SURGICAL EDUCATION: RESIDENT AND FELLOW EDUCATION COMMITTEE PANEL
 
Moderators: Jessica Zaman, Albany, NY
Nicholas Laconi, Gainesville, FL
Connie Shao, Birmingham, AL

SURGICAL SIMULATION FOR EVALUATING TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Melissa E. Hogg, Evanston, IL

INCORPORATING VIDEO BASED COACHING INTO SURGICAL EDUCATION
Mary Dillhoff, Columbus, OH

FLS AND FES: ARE THE CURRENT SIMULATION STANDARDS ENOUGH?
Neal E. Seymour, Springfield, MA

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIMULATION: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
Daniel B. Jones, MA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 10
PLENARY SESSION: HEPATOBILIARY & PANCREAS I
 
Moderators: Hauke Lang, Mainz, Germany
John C. McAuliffe, Bronx, NY
Trang K. Nguyen, Indianapolis, IN
10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion
 
OXYGEN CARRIERS ALTER LIVER-RESIDENT IMMUNE CELLS DURING EX VIVO LIVER PERFUSION
Heather Jennings, Kristin Carlson, Joshua Verhagen, Bret Verhoven, Weifeng Zeng, Stacey McMorrow, Peter Chlebeck, David P. Al Adra*
Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
 
Plenary presentationDEFINING EFFECTIVE NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY (NAC) IN PDAC, IMPLICATIONS FROM SURVIVAL AND PATTERN OF FAILURE IN PATIENTS WHO RECEIVED NAC
Hao Liu*1, Mark D'Alesio1, Samer AlMasri1, Abdulrahman Y. Hammad1, Annissa deSilva1, Caroline Rieser1, Eishan Ashwat1, Erica D. Hampton1, Steven Lebowitz1, Hussein H. Khachfe1, Aatur Singhi1, Nathan Bahary2, Kenneth Lee1, Amer H. Zureikat1, Alessandro Paniccia1
1Surgery, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
CONDITIONAL ANALYSIS PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES IN COMPLICATION RISKS AFTER LIVER RESECTION: RISK STRATIFICATION BY SURGICAL COMPLEXITY
Yoshikuni Kawaguchi*, Rihito Nagata, Yuichiro Mihara, Akihiko Ichida, Takeaki Ishizawa, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Junichi Kaneko, Junichi Arita, Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Tokyo Daigaku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 32
SSAT/ASCRS SYMPOSIUM: TIMING OF RESECTION FOR PATIENTS WITH SEVERE IBD
 
Moderators: Thomas Edward Read, Gainesville, FL
Vassiliki L. Tsikitis, Portland, OR
 
NEOADJUVANT AND ADJUVANT MEDICAL THERAPY FOR CROHN'S DISEASE
Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, Rochester, MN

MITIGATING RISK OF ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; WHEN TO CLOSE A STOMA?
Alessandro Fichera, Dallas, TX

DOES ANASTOMOTIC CONFIGURATION IN CROHN'S IMPACT RECURRENCE?
Sarah Stringfield, Dallas, TX

Q&A
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 9
QUICK SHOT SESSION: HEPATOBILIARY & PANCREAS I
 
Moderators: Yun Shin Chun, Houston, TX
Alexander Parikh, Greenville, NC
Orlando Torres, Sao Luis, Brazil
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
OPIOID REDUCTION FOLLOWING MINIMALLY INVASIVE LIVER SURGERY: AIMING BEYOND INCISION SIZE
Russell G. Witt*, Raymond Traweek, Elsa M. Arvide, Sa Nguyen, Naruhiko Ikoma, Timothy E. Newhook, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Yun Shin Chun, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Hop Tran Cao
Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Division of Surgery, Houston, TX
 
NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS-ASSOCIATED ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND STRESS: INCIDENCE, RISK FACTORS, AND TARGETS FOR INTERVENTION
Sean P. McGuire*, Thomas K. Maatman, Kathleen A. McGreevy, Anne Mary Montero, Michael G. House, Nicholas J. Zyromski
General Surgery, Indiana University System, Indianapolis, IN
 
GALLSTONE DISEASE IN THE YEAR PRIOR TO PANCREATIC CANCER DIAGNOSIS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION
Marianna V. Papageorge*1, Susanna W. de Geus1, Alison P. Woods1,2, Sing Chau Ng1, David Mcaneny1, Jennifer F. Tseng1, Kelly Kenzik3,1, Teviah Sachs1
1Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 3The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
 
COMPARISON OF SURGICAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING PANCREATIC SURGERY BETWEEN THE VETERAN AFFAIRS HEALTH SYSTEM (VHA) AND NSQIP PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
Lucas Keller-Biehl*1,2, Alexander Simmonds1,2, Wayne Tse1,2, Adam Khader1,2, Leopoldo Fernandez1,2, Michael Amendola1,2
1Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 2VA Richmond Medical Center, Richmond, VA
 
THE PRESENCE OF VASCULAR DISEASE IS ASSOCIATED WITH MORE SEVERE BILIARY INFECTIONS: A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Emanuel A. Jaramillo*1,2, Lygia Stewart1,2
1Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; 2San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA
 
EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF LUMEN APPOSING SELF-EXPANDABLE METAL STENTS FOR EUS GUIDED CHOLECYSTECTOMY: AN UPDATED METAANALYSIS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Saqib Walayat*, Nikhil Kalva, Srinivas R. Puli
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Peoria, Peoria, IL
 
PREVALENCE OF ACUTE PANCREATITIS IS INCREASED AMONG PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT BARIATRIC SURGERY: A NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED STUDY
Ahmed Eltelbany*, Osama Hamid, Abdul Mohammed, Khaled Alsabbagh Alchirazi, Sushrut Trakroo, Madhusudhan R. Sanaka, Prashanthi N. Thota
Cleveland Clinic, Lakewood, OH
 
DOES GOAL-DIRECTED FLUID MANAGEMENT DURING PANCREATODUODENECTOMY PREVENT DELAYED GASTRIC EMPTYING?
Alexandra M. Roch*, Rachel C. Kim, James Butler, Trang K. Nguyen, Eugene P. Ceppa, Nicholas J. Zyromski, C. Max Schmidt, Attila Nakeeb, Michael G. House
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
 
IMPROVEMENT IN OPERATIVE TIMES WITH COOPERATIVE PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY AT AN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY CANCER CENTER
Yarrow Sheldon*, Bormann Bradford, Raafat Abdel-Misih, Nicholas Petrelli, Gregory Tiesi
Surgical Oncology, Christiana Care Health Services Inc, Wilmington, DE
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 3
QUICK SHOT SESSION: ESOPHAGUS, GASTRIC, BARIATRIC, & METABOLIC II
 
Moderators: Wayne L. Hofstetter, Houston, TX
Paresh C. Shah, New York NY
Daniel Tseng, Portland, OR
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
IMPACT OF SIZING PROTOCOL ON LONG-TERM DYSPHAGIA AFTER MAGNETIC SPHINCTER AUGMENTATION
Shahin Ayazi*1,2, Ping Zheng1, Sven Eriksson1, Steven Tamesis1, Ali H. Zaidi1,2, Meghan Allen1, Ashten N. Omstead1, Blair Jobe1,2
1Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
 
LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN USE AND THROMBOTIC COMPLICATIONS IN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL RESECTION FOR MALIGNANCY IN A MULTI-ETHNIC ASIAN POPULATION
Lydia L. Tan*1, Xuan Gleaves1, Prabhu Nesargikar1, Shen Liang2, Asim Shabbir1, Guo Wei Kim1, Jimmy B. So1
1General Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; 2National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
 
ENDOSCOPIC VACUUM THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH ANASTOMOTIC LEAKAGE AFTER ESOPHAGO-GASTRIC SURGERY
Lisanne M. Pattynama*, Roos E. Pouw, Mark I. Van Berge Henegouwen, Freek Daams, Suzanne S. Gisbertz, Jacques Bergman, Wietse J. Eshuis
Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
 
BARIATRIC SURGERY IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED UPPER GI BLEEDING IN HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR CIRRHOSIS: A NATIONWIDE STUDY
Vibhu Chittajallu*1, Yazan Abu Omar2, Miguel Salazar1, Roberto Simons-Linares2
1Digestive Health Institute, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH; 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY PATTERNS IN PARAESOPHAGEAL HIATUS HERNIA
Rocio Carrera Ceron*, Robert B. Yates, Andrew S. Wright, Brant K. Oelschlager, Roger P. Tatum
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 
A SIMPLIFIED DVT PROPHYLAXIS SCORING SYSTEM TAILORED TO LAPAROSCOPIC HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR AIMED TO FACILITATE GUIDELINES APPLICATION AND PREVENT OVERTREATMNT
Raymar Turangan*2, Sylvestre Pineau2, Clarissa Hoffman2, Nada Mustafa2, Bashar Alramahi2, Pavel Levin3, Shinil K. Shah2, Farzaneh Banki1
1Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, Memorial Hermann Southeast Esophageal Disease Center, Houston, TX; 2The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston John P and Katherine G McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX; 3Texas Oncology, Houston, TX
 
NATIONAL TRENDS AND OUTCOMES IN UTILIZATION OF FUNDOPLICATION PROCEDURES FOR GERD.
Muhammad Haseeb*2,1, Zubair Khan3, Pichamol Jirapinyo1, Christopher C. Thompson1
1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston John P and Katherine G McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
 
FACT VS. FICTION: WHY DO PATIENTS AVOID ANTI-REFLUX SURGERY? ADDRESSING THEIR CONCERNS HEAD-ON
Mian H. Hanif*, Justin Turcotte, Paul Kim, Adrian Park
Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD
 
VOICE HOARSENESS WITH REFLUX AS A SUSPECTED ETIOLOGY: INCIDENCE, EVALUATION, TREATMENT, AND SYMPTOM OUTCOMES
Sydney Korsunsky*, Leonel Camejo, Diep Nguyen, Rahul Mhaskar, Joel Richter, Joy Gaziano, Vic Velanovich
Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 10
QUICK SHOT SESSION: SMALL BOWEL, ABDOMINAL WALL, HERNIA, & COLORECTAL I
 
Moderators: Fadwa Ali, Dallas, TX
Irena Gribovskaja-Rupp, Iowa City, IA
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
IS NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY BEFORE CYTOREDUCTION ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED SURVIVAL IN APPENDICEAL/COLORECTAL ADENOCARCINOMA WITH PERITONEAL METASTASES?
Stephanie Young*1,2, Siu-Yuan Huang2, Melanie Goldfarb1, Victoria O'Connor2, Anna Leung2
1John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA; 2Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
 
RECURRENCE FOLLOWING COLORECTAL CANCER RESECTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTIC BOWEL PREPARATION
Ryan B. Morgan*, Julia Chael, Nicholas P. Dylla, Meejeon Roh, Eric Pamer, Olga Zaborina, Benjamin D. Shogan
The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
 
CAUDAL-TO-CRANIAL BUT NOT MEDIAL-TO-LATERAL APPROACH IN LAPAROSCOPIC RIGHT COLECTOMY HARVESTS MALIGNANT D3 STATION LYMPH NODES: A CROSS- SECTIONAL STUDY
Beishi Zheng*1, Yichen Wang2, Bing Chen3, Xin Zheng4, Liaonan Zou5
1Internal Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; 2Trinity Health Of New England Medical Group Agawam Office Silver Street, Agawam, MA; 3NYU Langone Health, New York, NY; 4Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center, Loma Linda, CA; 5The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
 
MANAGEMENT OF PELVIC SEPSIS AFTER TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION FOR RECTAL CANCER - A 10-YEAR EXPERIENCE OF A NATIONAL REFERRAL CENTER
Sarah Sharabiany*1, Hanneke Joosten1, Gijsbert D. Musters1, Kevin Talboom1, Pieter Tanis2, Willem A. Bemelman1, Roel Hompes1
1Surgery, Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; 2Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
 
QUALITY-OF-LIFE COMPARISON AFTER ELECTIVE COLECTOMY FOR DIVERTICULITIS BETWEEN PATIENTS OLDER AND YOUNGER THAN 65 YEARS: A PILOT FEASIBILITY STUDY IN MHEALTH USE
Numa Perez*, Hiroko Kunitake, David L. Berger, Rocco Ricciardi, Liliana Bordeianou, Christy E. Cauley
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery, Boston, MA
 
UTILIZATION AND HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES IN TREATMENT OF DIVERTICULITIS
Laxmi P. Dongur, Fernando Lambreton*, Elizabeth O'Daniel, Uma R. Phatak
Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX
 
TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND (TRUS): AN ACCURATE AND INVALUABLE TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING SUITABLE CANDIDATES FOR TRANSANAL EXCISION/TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY (TAE/TEM) IN EARLY-STAGED RECTAL TUMORS
Charlotte H. Campbell*1, Jason Conway1, Doug Case2, Laura E. Lavette3, Darius A. Jahann1, Gregory S. Waters4, Jean Ashburn4, Alton Sutter4, Girish Mishra1
1Dept Gastroenterology and Hepatology Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC; 2Dept Public Health Sciences Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC; 3Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; 4Dept Surgery Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC
 
THE IMPACT OF PERIOPERATIVE CHEMOTHERAPY ON CONDITIONAL SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER: SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING.
Mohammed O. Suraju*1, Paolo Goffredo2, Sarah Bell1, Apoorve Nayyar1, Jeremy Chang1, Catherine Tran1, Dakota T. Thompson1, Imran Hassan1
1The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; 2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
 
RECURRENCE RATES OF ADVANCED NEOPLASIA AFTER ENDOSCOPIC OR SURGICAL RESECTION IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
Monica E. Derks*1, Maarten te Groen1, Charlotte P. Peters2, Gerard Dijkstra3, Annemarie C. De Vries4, Tessa Romkens5, Carmen S. Horjus Talabur Horje6, Nanne De Boer7, Iris D. Nagtegaal8, Lauranne Derikx1, Frank Hoentjen1,9
1Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands; 2Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; 3Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; 4Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; 5Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis Afdeling Maag- Darm- en Leverziekten, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; 6Rijnstate, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands; 7Amsterdam UMC Locatie VUmc, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; 8Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands; 9University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
IMMUNOREACT 5: FEMALE PATIENTS WITH RECTAL CANCER HAVE A HIGHER EXPRESSION OF PDL-1 AND A HIGHER INFILTRATION OF T-CELLS WITHIN THE RECTAL MUCOSA.
Gaya Spolverato2, Matteo Fassan2,1, Giulia Capelli2, Melania Scarpa1, Valentina Chiminazzo2, Andromachi Kotsafti1, Imerio Angriman2, Michela Campi2, Ottavia De Simoni1, Cesare Ruffolo2, Astghik Stepanyan2, Chiara Vignotto2, Francesco Marchegiani2, Luca Facci2, Francesca Bergamo1, Stefano Brignola2, Gianluca Businello2, Vincenza Guzzardo2, Luca Dal Santo2, Roberta Salmaso2, Marco Massani5, Anna Pozza5, Ivana Cataldo5, Tommaso Stecca5, Angelo Dei Tos2, Vittorina Zagonel1, Pierluigi Pilati1, Boris Franzato1, Giovanni Pirozzolo4, Alfonso Recordare4, Roberto Merenda4, Giovanni Bordignon4, Silvio Guerriero6, Chiara Romiti6, Giuseppe Portale7, Chiara Cipollari7, Maurizio Zizzo3, Andrea Porzionato2, Marco Agostini2, Francesco Cavallin8, Barbara Di Camillo9, Romeo Bardini2, Ignazio Castagliuolo2, Salvatore Pucciarelli2, Marco Scarpa*2
1Oncological Surgery Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV-IRCCS), Padova, Italy; 2Azienda Ospedale Universita Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy; 3Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova IRCCS, Surgery, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy; 4Azienda ULSS 3 Serenissima, Venezia, Veneto, Italy; 5Azienda ULSS n 2 Marca Trevigiana, Treviso, Veneto, Italy; 6ASUR 4, Ospedale di Fermo, Fermo, Italy; 7Azienda ULSS 6 Euganea, Padova, Veneto, Italy; 8Independent Statistician, Solagna, Italy; 9Universita degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Padova, Veneto, Italy
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 32
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: GASTROPARESIS (AGA ACCREDITED)
 
Sponsored by: AGA, SSAT, ASGE
Moderators: Michael Camilleri, Rochester, MN
Steven Keilin, Atlanta, GA

WHAT IS GASTROPARESIS? DEFINITION, EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIATION FROM FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA
Linda Anh B. Nguyen, Redwood City, CA

MEDICAL THERAPY: DIET, PROKINETICS, ANTI-EMETICS, NEUROMODULATORS, BOTULINUM TOXIN
Henry P. Parkman, Philadelphia, PA

G-POEM: VIDEO PRESENTATION OF PROCEDURE AND UTILITY OF PYLORIC MEASUREMENTS
Qiang Cai, Atlanta, GA

WHAT TO DO IF NOTHING WORKS: ROLE OF GASTRIC ELECTRICAL STIMULATION, VAGAL STIMULATION, SURGERY, OTHER INTERVENTIONS (E.G. IMMUNOTHERAPIY)
Pankaj J. Pasricha, Baltimore, MD

PANEL DISCUSSION
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 23
DDW DIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM:
CURRENT ISSUES AND INITIATIVES IN DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN DIGESTIVE DISEASES
 
Sponsored by: SSAT, AGA, AASLD, ASGE
Moderators: Ibironke Oduyebo, Ann Arbor, MI
Lauren Nephew, Indianapolis, IN

STRATEGIES TO REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES IN COLON CANCER
Folasade (Fola) P. May, Culver City, CA

STRATEGIES TO REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Dinee C. Simpson, Evanston, IL

CLINICAL TRIAL DIVERSITY
Lanla Conteh, Columbus, OH

WORKPLACE EQUITY IN POLICIES FOR PARENTAL/PATERNITY LEAVE
Lauren D. Feld, Seattle, WA

PANEL DISCUSSION
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 3
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Members Only
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room 23 Lobby
DDW DIVERSITY RECEPTION
 
Immediately following the DDW Diversity Symposium, this reception provides a networking opportunity for attendees to gather, discuss relevant issues, and learn more about what each society is doing to promote diversity in GI.

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