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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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Esophagus, Gastric, Bariatric, & Metabolic GI Tract
Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Education, Quality, Outcomes, & Policy
Small Bowel, Abdominal Wall, Hernia, & Colorectal General & Society Business

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Room 3
RESIDENTS & FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (NON-CME, by invitation only)
 
Residents Conference By invitation only. The participating presentations are indicated throughout this program by the icon to the left.
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 9
QUICK SHOT SESSION: GI TRACT I
 
Moderators: Hop Tran Cao, Houston, TX
Cesar Rodriguez, Lima, Peru
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
RE-CONSTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES FOLLOWING RESECTION OF MID AND LOW RECTAL CANCERS: AN UPDATED NETWORK META-ANALYSIS
Anvin Mathew*1, Deepti Ramachandra1, Anuj Goyal1, Mithun Nariampalli Karthyarth1, Gourav Kaushal3, Nirjhar R. Rakesh1, Abhishek Agrawal1, Princy M. Joseph2, Puneet Dhar1
1Surgical Gastroenterology, All India Institute of medical sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India; 2National Heath Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi, New Delhi, India; 3All India Institute of Medical Sciences - Bathinda, Bathinda, Punjab, India
 
CYST FLUID GLUCOSE LEVELS ARE SUPERIOR TO CYST FLUID CEA LEVELS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF MUCINOUS PANCREATIC CYSTS
Menghan Zhao*, Laura R. Prakash, Virginia Hill, Yi-Ju Chiang, Jeffrey Lee, William A. Ross, Emmanuel Coronel, Phillip S. Ge, Brian R. Weston, Jessica E. Maxwell, Timothy E. Newhook, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Naruhiko Ikoma, Jeffrey E. Lee, Matthew Katz, Manoop S. Bhutani, Michael P. Kim
Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
DISSECTING GENOMIC TUMOR HETEROGENEITY IN PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NOVEL THERAEUTIC STRATEGIES
Hauke Lang1, Fabian Bartsch1, Janine Baumgart*1, Beate Straub1, Jens U. Marquardt2
1General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Universitatsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; 2Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
 
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCUMULATION INDEX TO IDENTIFY PANCREATIC SIDE BRANCH INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASMS WITH UNDERLYING MALIGNANCY
Menghan Zhao*, Laura R. Prakash, Virginia Hill, Jessica E. Maxwell, Timothy E. Newhook, Naruhiko Ikoma, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Jeffrey E. Lee, Matthew Katz, Michael P. Kim
Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
"THE DR IS IN": DIASTASIS RECTI (DR) IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCISIONAL HERNIA AFTER MIDLINE ABDOMINAL SURGERY
Alexander Booth*, Kirkpatrick Gillen, Isabela Visintin, Wilson Ford, Mark Kovacs, Colston Edgerton, Virgilio V. George, Thomas Curran
Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
 
DELAYED REFERRAL TO CRS/HIPEC ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED SURVIVAL FOLLOWING MALIGNANT PERITONEAL MESOTHELIOMA DIAGNOSIS: A MARKOV DECISION ANALYSIS
Armaun D. Rouhi*1, Gerard D. Hoeltzel2, Felix Ho3, Yanik J. Bababekov3, Arthur Yule3, Rashikh Choudhury3, Kristoffel Dumon1, Giorgos C. Karakousis1,4
1Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO; 4Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
 
A DIVERTICULAR DISEASE PREDICTION MODEL USING A POLYGENIC RISK SCORE
Henry D. Schaeffer*, Diane T. Smelser, H. Shanker Rao, Jeremy S. Haley, Kevin Long, Sasha Slipak, David Carey, Rebecca Hoffman
General Surgery, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
 
MODIFIED 2-STAGE VS. 3-STAGE ILEAL POUCH-ANAL ANASTOMOSIS RESULT IN EQUIVALENT LONG-TERM FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES AND POUCH SURVIVAL: A MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS
Stefan D. Holubar*, Christopher Prien, Xue Jia, David Liska, Hermann Kessler, Michael Valente, Amy L. Lightner, Emre Gorgun, Tracy L. Hull, Scott Steele
Colon & Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS (RYGB) AFTER FAILED FUNDOPLICATION: OUTCOMES IN NON-OBESE PATIENTS
Michael Katzen*, Jana Sacco, Dau Ku, Gregory T. Scarola, Vedra Augenstein, Paul D. Colavita, Keith Gersin, B Todd Heniford
General Surgery, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
 
DIRECT COMPARATIVE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ENDOSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTROPLASTY VS. LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
Azizullah Beran*1, Reem Matar3, Veeravich Jaruvongvanich2, Abdullah I. Alalwan1, Ray Portela2, omar ghanem2, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh2
1Internal Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; 2Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN; 3University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
INCREASED ODDS OF OSTEOPOROSIS-RELATED FRACTURES IN PATIENTS WITH HISTORY OF ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS
Paul T. Kröner1, Alfred D. Nelson*1, Klaus E. Monkemuller1, Marco A. D'Assuncao1, Juan P. Gutierrez1, Giovani Schwingel1, Frank Lukens1, Christopher C. Thompson2
1Mayo Clinic's Campus in Florida, Jacksonville, FL; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
 
A NOVEL, LARGE ANIMAL ISCHEMIC MODEL FOR ESOPHAGOGASTRIC ANASTOMOSIS USING INDOCYANINE GREEN (ICG) ANGIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Williams*, Andrew Lin, Brian Zilberman, Connor Crudeli, Julieta E. Barroeta, Francis Spitz, Jennifer M. Burg, David Shersher
Surgery, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 10
QUICK SHOT SESSION: GI TRACT II
 
Moderators: Jenalee Cooksey, Avon, IN
Emily R. Winslow, Washington, DC
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MISSED TELEHEALTH APPOINTMENTS IN HPB SURGERY
J. Christopher Polanco Santana*, Alessandra Storino, Mateo E. Garland, Mark P. Callery, Tara S. Kent
Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
 
ASSOCIATION OF RURAL RESIDENCE AND TIME TO DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA
Daniyal Abbas*, Toni Madugu, Rana Mohamed, Prashant Mudireddy, Scarlett Hao, Ashley Wercholuk, Alexander Parikh, Rebecca A. Snyder
Internal Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
 
CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH PERFORMING FACILITIES TREATING PATIENTS WITH COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL CANCER DATABASE
Chad Barnes*, Erin Ward, Jennifer Merrill, Nathaniel Verhagen, Veronica Loy, Callisia N. Clarke, Kathleen Christians, Ugwuji N. Maduekwe, Thomas C. Gamblin, Anai N. Kothari
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
 
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FACILITY VOLUME OR OPERATIVE APPROACH AND POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY FOR RESECTED PRIMARY LIVER MALIGNANCIES
Jonathan J. Hue*, Kelly Hoerger, Mohamedraed Elshami, Richard S. Hoehn, Luke Rothermel, John Ammori, Jeffrey Hardacre, Jordan M. Winter, Lee M. Ocuin
General Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Univeristy Heights, OH
 
POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS IN IBD PATIENTS RECEIVING COMBINATION BIOLOGIC AND THIOPURINE THERAPY VERSUS BIOLOGIC MONOTHERAPY
Shaya Noorian*1, Andrew T. Weber1, Yejoo Jeon1, Renae A. Tessem2, Saloni Gupta2, Joseph Ebriani2, Michelle Nguyen3, Mary Kwaan1, Jenny S. Sauk1, Berkeley N. Limketkai1
1UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 2University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; 3Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
 
ENABLING PLATFORMS THAT FACILITATE ENDOLUMINAL SURGERY: WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
Ilker Ozgur, David Liska, Amy L. Lightner, Scott Steele, Emre Gorgun*
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
TELEMEDICINE USE ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED NO-SHOW VISITS AMONG GASTROINTESTINAL PATIENTS
Connie Shao*, Chandler McLeod, Andy Hare, Lauren Theiss, Isabel Marques, Burke Smith, Eric L. Wallace, Daniel I. Chu
Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
 
DOES TUMOR LOCATION AFFECT RESPONSE TO NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN GASTRIC CANCER?
Shankar Logarajah*1, Zarah Rahman1, Anthony Basta1, Maitham A. Moslim1, Michael Jureller1, Houssam Osman1,2, D. Rohan Jeyarajah1,2
1Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Richardson, TX; 2Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
 
A 20-YEAR EXPERIENCE IN OVER 200 CASES WITH GIANT PARA-OESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR WITH CRURAL REPAIR AND GASTROPEXY BUT WITH SELECTIVE ANTI-REFLUX PROCEDUE.
Priyantha Siriwardana1, Alan Askari*1, Etsuro Yazaki2,3,1, Bruno Lorenzi1, Alex Charalabopoulos4,1, Mohammad Qamruddin1, Sritharan Kadirkamanathan1,3
1Upper GI Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom; 2Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, London, United Kingdom; 3Queen Mary University of London Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, London, United Kingdom; 4Laiko Geniko Nosokomeio Athenon, Athens, Attica, Greece
 
ENDOSCOPIC MEASUREMENT OF MUCOSAL OXYGEN SATURATION IN POST-BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENTS
Cem Simsek*, Dong Joo Seo, Christopher C. Thompson
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
 
BARIATRIC SURGERY DECREASES MORTALITY WHEN HOSPITALIZED WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Yazan Abu Omar*1, Vibhu Chittajallu2, Miguel Salazar2, Roberto Simons-Linares1
1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2UH Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 9
QUICK SHOT SESSION: GI TRACT III
 
Moderators: Joal D. Beane, Columbus, OH
Vikas Dudeja, Birmingham, AL
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
THE TRUE EFFECT OF RACE: EFFECT MODIFICATION OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RACE AND MULTIMODAL THERAPY COMPLETION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER
Susanna W. de Geus*1, Marianna V. Papageorge1, Alison P. Woods1,2,3, Sing Chau Ng1, David Mcaneny1, Jennifer F. Tseng1, Teviah Sachs1
1Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 3Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
 
SEX-BASED CLINICOPATHOLOGIC AND SURVIVAL DIFFERENCES AMONG PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS
Jacques A. Greenberg*, Nikolay A. Ivanov, Caitlin Egan, Yeon Joo Lee, Rasa Zarnegar, Thomas J. Fahey, Brendan M. Finnerty, Irene M. Min
Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
 
MITIGATING MORBIDITY IN OLDER PATIENTS UNDERGOING MAJOR PANCREATIC AND HEPATOBILIARY SURGERY
Seth Concors*1, Elsa M. Arvide1, Laura R. Prakash1, Tacara Soones2, An Ngo-Huang2, Vinh Q. Nguyen2, Timothy E. Newhook1, Naruhiko Ikoma1, Jessica E. Maxwell1, Hop Tran Cao1, Yun Shin Chun1, Michael P. Kim1, Jeffrey E. Lee1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey1, Matthew Katz1, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng1
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Division of Surgery, Houston, TX; 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
AN AGE-STRATIFIED ANALYSIS OF EARLY POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH COMMON GASTROINTESTINAL MALIGNANCIES
Alexander W. Loftus*, Jonathan J. Hue, Mohamedraed Elshami, Richard S. Hoehn, Luke Rothermel, John Ammori, Jeffrey Hardacre, Jordan M. Winter, Lee M. Ocuin
General Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Univeristy Heights, OH
 
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANNUAL FACILITY VOLUME WITH OVERALL SURVIVAL AND POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY FOR RESECTION OF PROXIMAL EXTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Mohamedraed Elshami*, Jonathan J. Hue, Richard S. Hoehn, Luke Rothermel, Jeffrey Hardacre, John Ammori, Jordan M. Winter, Lee M. Ocuin
Department of Surgery, UH Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
 
ENDOLUMINAL SURGERY OUTCOMES IN 1005 LESIONS
Carla F. Justiniano*, Ilker Ozgur, David Liska, Tracy L. Hull, Scott Steele, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
LONG TERM RESULTS FROM A PROPENSITY MATCHED COHORT OF CROHN'S PATIENTS UNDERGOING LAPAROSCOPIC VERSUS OPEN COLECTOMY
Tara M. Connelly*, Cillian Clancy, Ju Yong Cheong, Xue Jia, Michael Valente, Scott Steele, Hermann Kessler
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
DID THE ACA MEDICAID EXPANSION AFFECT RATES OF ELECTIVE SIGMOID COLECTOMY FOR DIVERTICULITIS?
Arthur G. Affleck*, Vassiliki L. Tsikitis, Saunders Lin
SURGERY, OHSU, Portland, OR
 
LONG-TERM EVALUATION OF AN ORIGINAL RADIOFREQUENCY HEMORRHOIDAL THERMOCOAGULATION PROCEDURE ON BLEEDING, PROLAPSE, QUALITY OF LIFE OF TREATED PATIENTS AND DURATION OF POSTOPERATIVE DOWNTIME IN A 5-YEAR SURVEY: "NO PAIN, NO GAIN" OR "NO PAIN BUT A GAIN"?
BENJAMIN RAUX3, ROMAIN DIDELOT2, FRANZ RUDLER2, AURELIEN MULLIEZ3, Anthony Buisson3, Armando Abergel3, Pierre Blanc2, JEAN-MICHEL DIDELOT*1,2
1Clinique Clementville, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; 2Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; 3Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 
VALUE ASSESSMENT BY SCORE CARDS SURROGATES FOR APPENDECTOMIES, INCLUDING PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL ON PERFORATED APPENDICITIS, AT A HEALTH NETWORK OVER 11 YEARS.
Michael Abdelmasseh, Araceli D. Cuaranta*, Arslan Iqbal, Juan Hernandez-Pelcastre, Jeremy Eckels, Tania Nguyen, Nicholas Tate, Chase Gillispie, Errington C. Thompson, Robert Finley, Barbara Payne, Todd H. Davies, Cierra King, Grace Montgomery, Jonathan Willis, Vineela Kadiyala, Juan Sanabria
Marshall University Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, WV
 
WASTE REDUCTION AT A TERTIARY ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER: OUR COLACE CRUSADE
Adam Lucy*, Mary G. Cox, Shelby Bergstresser, Jarrett Wright, Elise Dasinger, Kirk Russ, Abhishek Parmar
Surgery, UAB, Birmingham, AL
 
PATIENT PERSPECTIVES ON SURGEON-SPECIFIC OUTCOME REPORTS IN BARIATRIC SURGERY
Kyle Lam*, Scarlet Nazarian, Nishita Gadi, Sherif Hakky, Krishna Moorthy, Christos Tsironis, Ahmed Ahmed, James M. Kinross, Sanjay Purkayastha
Imperial College London, London, London, United Kingdom
 
CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE BORRMANN TYPE IN ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER
Yuki Hirata*, Annamaria Agnes, Laura R. Prakash, Paul Mansfield, Brian Badgwell, Naruhiko Ikoma
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Surgical Oncology, Houston, TX
 
ASSESSMENT OF A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WEIGHT MANAGEMENT CENTER AT A TERTIARY ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
Thomas R. McCarty*, Pichamol Jirapinyo, Caroline M. Apovian, Ali Tavakkoli, Christopher C. Thompson
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 10
VIDEO SESSION: GI TRACT
 
Moderators: Fernando A.M. Herbella, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rebecca A. Snyder, Greenville, NC
10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion
 
ROBOTIC-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC TRANS-HIATAL MID-BODY ESOPHAGEAL DIVERTICULECTOMY WITH REPAIR OF SLIDING HIATAL HERNIA
Catherine Zivanov, Victoria M. Gershuni*, Steven Tohmasi, Michael M. Awad
Minimally Invasive Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO
 
REVERSAL OF TRANSORAL GASTROPLASTY USING TUNNELING ENDOSCOPIC METHODS
Rebecca Yao*, Tala Mahmoud, Rabih Ghazi, Farah Abdul Razzak, Donna Maria Abboud, Serge Baroud, Omar M. Ghanem, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh
Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN
 
ROBOTIC ASSISTED ENUCLEATION OF A BRANCH-DUCT INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM (BD-IPMN)
Alexander M. DeMare*, Mir Shanaz Hossain, R Matthew Walsh
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
LAPAROSCOPIC PARTIAL SLEEVE DUODENECTOMY FOR DUODENAL MASS
Molly Benolken*, John Stauffer
General Surgery, Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery, Rochester, MN
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 32
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:
MULTIDISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT OF HEPATOCELLULAR CANCER
 
Sponsored by: SSAT, AASLD, AGA
Moderators: Flavio G. Rocha, Portland, OR
Paul Yien Kwo, Palo Alto, CA

CAN THE LIVER AND PATIENT BE TREATED? THE HEPATOLOGIST'S ROLE IN TREATING HCC
T. Tara Ghaziani, Stanford, CA

NEW AND EVOLVING STRATEGIES FOR TARGETED AND SYSTEMIC THERAPIES
Richard S. Finn, Los Angeles, CA

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY PERSPECTIVE ON LOCOREGIONAL THERAPY FOR HCC
Sarah White, Milwaukee, WI

WHERE DO SURGERY AND TRANSPLANTATION FIT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HCC
Shimul A. Shah, Cincinnati, OH

Q&A
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 4
DDW SHARK TANK (non-CME)
 
Sponsored by: AGA, AASLD, ASGE, SSAT
Moderators: Nicholas J. Shaheen, Chapel Hill, NC
Uzma D. Siddiqui, Chicago, IL

AASLD SHARK
Vijay Shah, Rochester, MN

AGA SHARK
Amrita Sethi, New York, NY

ASGE SHARK
Christopher C. Thompson, Boston, MA

SSAT SHARK
Charles Vollmer, Philadelphia, PA

AASLD INNOVATOR
Adam Buckholz, New York, NY

AGA INNOVATOR
Stephen Steinberg, Boca Raton, FL

ASGE INNOVATOR
Jeffrey M. Marks, Cleveland, OH

SSAT INNOVATOR
Christopher Griffiths, Hamilton, ON
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 10
VIDEO SESSION: SMALL BOWEL, ABDOMINAL WALL, HERNIA & COLORECTAL I
 
Moderators: Thomas Curran, Charleston, SC
Marco Scarpa, Padova, Italy
10-minute presentation, 5-minute discussion
 
OPTIMISING MINIMALLY INVASIVE TME DISSECTION DURING LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION USING 5 NOVEL ATRAUMATIC RETRACTION SYSTEM
JU YONG CHEONG*2,1, Jin Kim2, Seon-Hahn Kim2
1Colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Korea University, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
 
ROBOTIC SUBTOTAL COLECTOMY FOR FAP ON THE DA VINCI SP PLATFORM - ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES AND WORKAROUNDS
Yaron Rudnicki*, David W. Larson
Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN
 
YORK-MASON PROCEDURE FOR RECTOURETHRAL FISTULA REPAIR: A GUIDED VIDEO DOCUMENTING OUR EXPERIENCE
Philip V. Bystrom*2,1, Maria Rojas2, Jan Kaminski2, Jessica Chin2, Joaquin J. Estrada2
1Colorectal Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL
 
ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION (ESD) TECHNIQUES, APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES
Neil Mitra*, Yanni Hedjar, Dhananjika S. Samarakoon, Giorgio Guiulfo, Xiaohong Yan, Hmc Shantha Kumara, Vesna Cekic, Richard L. Whelan
Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
 
ROBOTIC-ASSISTED DUODENOJEJUNOSTOMY FOR TREATMENT OF SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY (SMA) SYNDROME
Sean J. Donohue*, Jack Silva, Iliya Goldberg, Nikolai A. Bildzukewicz
Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
 
THE ROLE OF ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION IN THE HARVEST OF RECTAL MUCOSAL GRAFTS FOR URETHRAL RECONSTRUCTION
Ilker Ozgur1, Hadley M. Wood2, João Pedro Emrich Accioly2, Emre Gorgun*1
1Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland, OH
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 32
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:
BARIATRIC ENDOSCOPIC AND SURGICAL THERAPIES: AN INSIGHT INTO THEIR MECHANISM OF ACTION (AGA ACCREDITED)
 
Sponsored by: AGA, ASGE, SSAT
Moderators: Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, Rochester, MN
Anne O. Lidor, Madison, WI

INTRO
Anne O. Lidor, Madison, WI

MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF INTRAGASTRIC BALLOONS
Vivek Kumbhari, Baltimore, MD

MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF RESTRICTIVE EBT
Gontrand Lopez Nava

MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF INTESTINAL PROCEDURES
Pichamol Jirapinyo, Boston, MA

OVERVIEW OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
John M. Morton, Stanford, CA

CONCLUSION
Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, Rochester, MN

PANEL DISCUSSION / Q&A
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 6DE
GI SURGERY FROM AROUND THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE PANEL
 
Moderators: Daniel B. Jones, Wayland, MA
Yun Shin Chun, Houston, TX

HOW TO LAUNCH A NEW CHAPTER OF THE SSAT IN MY COUNTRY: EXPERIENCE FROM MEXICO
Eduardo E. Montalvo-Javé, Mexico City, Tlalpan, Mexico

HOW TO LAUNCH A NEW CHAPTER OF THE SSAT IN MY COUNTRY: EARLY EXPERIENCE FROM ITALY
Guido Torzilli, Milano, Italy

HOW TO BECOME AN EXPERT LIVER SURGEON IN AN ASIAN COUNTRY
Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Tokyo, Japan

Q&A
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 32
DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM:
50 YEARS OF ENDOSCOPIC EVOLUTION: THE CONTINUAL REPLACEMENT OF GI SURGERY BY ENDOSCOPIC INNOVATION (ASGE ACCREDITED)
 
Sponsored by: ASGE, SSAT, AGA
Moderators: Grace H. Elta, Ann Arbor, MI
Jeffrey M. Marks, Cleveland, OH

WHY ENDOSCOPIC INNOVATION AND GI/SURGERY COLLABORATION HAVE BEEN ESSENTIAL IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF GI DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Jeffrey Ponsky, Cleveland, OH

ORGAN SPARING AND INTRAMURAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY (ESD, EMR, POEM, POP, STER)
Haruhiro Inoue, Tokyo, Japan

REPLACING METABOLIC SURGERY WITH ENDOSCOPIC INNOVATION
Allison R. Schulman, Ann Arbor, MI

THE EXTINCTION OF BILIARY SURGERY - FROM ERCP TO EDGE
Kenneth F. Binmoeller, San Francisco, CA

PANEL DISCUSSION
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 9
QUICK SHOT SESSION: ESOPHAGUS, GASTRIC, BARIATRIC, & METABOLIC I
 
Moderators: Salman K. Al-Sabah, Jabriya, Kuwait
Anthony J. Vine, New York, NY
Ory Wiesel, Hertzeliya, Israel
3-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion
 
THE TRANSDIAPHRAGMATIC PRESSURE GRADIENT AND THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER IN THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE. AN ANALYSIS OF 500 ESOPHAGEAL FUNCTION TESTS.
Natalya C. Dias, Fernando A. Herbella*, Leonardo M. Del Grande, Marco G. Patti
Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo - SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
INEFFECTIVE ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY: THE IMPACT OF CHANGE OF CRITERIA IN CHICAGO CLASSIFICATION VERSION 4.0 (CCV4.0) ON PREDICTING SURGICAL OUTCOME
Margaret Riccardi*1, Steven Tamesis1, Ping Zheng1, Sven Eriksson1, Ashten N. Omstead1, Blair Jobe1,2, Shahin Ayazi1,2
1Esophageal Institute, Department of Surgery, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
 
EFFECT OF GASTRIC CONDUIT MORPHOLOGY ON PERFUSION USING INDOCYANINE GREEN FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN ESOPHAGECTOMY
Yoshitaka Ishikawa*, Andrew C. Chang, Jules Lin, Mark B. Orringer, William R. Lynch, Kiran H. Lagisetty, Elliot Wakeam, Rishindra M. Reddy
Thoracic surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
 
CLINICAL T2 GASTRIC CANCER- IS THERE A SUPERIOR TREATMENT REGIMEN? AN EVALUATION OF NCCN PROPOSED TREATMENT OPTIONS
Rebecca Marcus1, Jennifer Keller*1, Sean Nassoiy1, Wade Christopher1, Douglas Hanes2, Melanie Goldfarb1
1John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA; 2Providence Health and Services, Renton, WA
 
MULTIVISCERAL RESECTION COMPARED TO STANDARD GASTRECTOMY FOR GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA: A PROPENSITY SCORE-MATCHING ANALYSIS
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
 
A MULTICENTER EVALUATION OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MAGNETIC SPHINCTER AUGMENTATION DEVICE REMOVAL
Jack P. Silva*1, Charles Hill2, Mark C. Wang1, Eddie A. Rodriguez1, Derek J. Yan2, Jessica Wu1, Luke R. Putnam1, Caitlin C. Houghton1, Nikolai A. Bildzukewicz1, F. P. Buckley2, John C. Lipham1
1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, Austin, TX
 
THE IMPACT OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY ON THE GASTRIC CONDUCTION SYSTEM MEASURED BY BODY SURFACE GASTRIC MAPPING
Sam Robertson1, Daniel A. Carson1, Tim H. Wang1, Jim Hsu-Shun Wang1, Stefan S. Calder2, Christopher N. Andrews3, Chris Varghese*1, Gabrielle Sebaratnam1, Jonathan S. Woodhead2, Armen A. Gharibans1, John A. Windsor1, Gregory O'Grady1
1Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; 2Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand; 3University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
FEASIBILITY OF AUTOMATIC MACHINE LEARNING (AUTOML) TO PREDICT 90-DAY MORTALITY AFTER GASTRECTOMY FOR CANCER
Gopika SenthilKumar*, Nicolas Koerber, Jennifer Merrill, Callisia N. Clarke, Ugwuji N. Maduekwe, Susan Tsai, Kathleen Christians, Thomas C. Gamblin, Anai N. Kothari
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
 
REDUCING CONDUIT ISCHEMIA AND ANASTOMOTIC LEAKS IN TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY: SIX PRINCIPLES
Matias E. Czerwonko*, Farhood Farjah, Brant K. Oelschlager
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 
ANASTOMOTIC LEAK IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY
Shankar Logarajah*1, Shawn C. Cudworth2, Maitham A. Moslim1, Michael Jureller1, Houssam Osman1,2, D. Rohan Jeyarajah1,2
1Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Richardson, TX; 2Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
 
FUNDOPEXY, A MODIFIED APPROACH TO HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR IN SELECTED PATIENTS: SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES IN PRIMARY AND REOPERATIVE PROCEDURES
Clarissa Hoffman2, Mary Dyson*2, Megan Mai3, Andre Miler4, 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 Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX; 4Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Houston, TX
 
OUTCOMES OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR IN PATIENTS WITH HISTORY OF COPD: A 5-YEAR NSQIP REVIEW
Nicholas Druar*1,2, Santosh Swaminathan2, Mitchell Cahan3,1
1University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; 2St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT; 3Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
 
POSITIVE SYMPTOM ASSOCIATED PROBABILITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH DURABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN QUALITY OF LIFE 6 YEARS FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC FUNDOPLICATION
Karla Bernardi*, Lauren Hawley, Anahita D. Jalilvand, Vivian L. Wang, Kelly Haisley, Kyle A. Perry
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 3
RESIDENT & FELLOW WORKSHOP: CAREERS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN GI SURGERY (NON-CME)
 
The SSAT Resident & Fellow Workshop is a unique opportunity for residents to hear directly from current fellows and representatives from several GI surgical societies about what they need to know when applying for fellowship programs.
Moderators: John C. McAuliffe, Bronx, NY
Naomi M. Sell, Boston, MA
Panelists: Seth Concors, Houston, TX
Carla N Holcomb, Dallas, TX
Allison N Martin, Houston, TX
Andrew Morgan, Weston, FL
Motaz Qadan, Boston, MA
Sahael M. Stapleton, Rochester, MN
Alice C. Wei, Toronto, ON

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