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66th Annual Meeting
SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
May 3-6, 2025
San Diego Convention Center | San Deigo, CA
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®


All rooms at San Diego Convention Center unless otherwise indicated.

Ticketed Session indicates a Ticketed Session requiring a separate registration and fee.
Residents Conference Indicates a Plenary presentation that is also being presented at the Resident & Fellows Research Conference.
Live Streamed Indicates a Live-streamed Session.

Tracks
Esophagus, Gastric, Bariatric, & Metabolic Education, Quality, Outcomes, & Policy
Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Colorectal
Peritoneal Surface, Abdominal Wall & Small Bowel General & Society Business

Program | Residents & Fellows | Posters

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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025
6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Room 11
Ticketed Session BREAKFAST CONNECTION: PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF GLP-1 DRUGS FOR PROVIDERS
 
Faculty: Karen Gibbs, New Haven, CT
Konstantinos Spaniolas, Stony Brook, NY
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 3
VIDEO SESSION: ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES
 
Moderators: Ruchir Puri, Jacksonville, FL
 
697. EMERGENCY HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR WITH ISCHEMIC STOMACH
Arianna Vittori*1,2, Andrés R. Latorre-Rodríguez1,3, Andrew Keogan1,4, Sumeet K. Mittal1,4
1Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ; 2University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padova, Italy; 3Universidad del Rosario. Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Bogotá D.C., Colombia; 4Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
 
698. POSTERIOR RECTUS SHEATH FLAP FOR HIATAL AUGMENTATION (PORSHA) WITH DIAPHRAGMATIC RELAXING INCISIONS
Michelle Campbell*, Yalini Vigneswaran
Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
699. MULTIFACTORIAL DYSPHAGIA AFTER HELLER MYOTOMY IS BEST REMEDIATED WITH REVISIONAL HELLER MYOTOMY
Mohammad Alomari*, Holland Korbitz, Daniel Knewitz, Steven Bowers
General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
 
700. RE-DO LAPAROSCOPIC PARACONDUIT HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR AFTER ROBOTIC-ASSISTED HIATOPLASTY WITH VASCULARIZED AUTOLOGOUS POSTERIOR RECTUS SHEATH
Luca Giulini*1, Melissa Kemeter1, Filitsa Farmaki1, Lucas Thumfart1, Attila Dubecz2, Markus K. Diener1
1Klinikum Nurnberg, Nuremberg, BY, Germany; 2HELIOS Klinikum Erfurt, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
 
701. LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY AND PARTIAL EPIPHRENIC DIVERTICULECTOMY INTRAOPERATIVE CHALLENGES AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES
Peijun Zhao2, Austin Zhu*2, 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
 
702. LAPAROSCOPIC REVISIONAL HELLER MYOTOMY WITH GASTROPEXY
Jon Vandenberg*, Steven Bowers
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
 
703. LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY WITH PULL-DOWN TECHNIQUE AND ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS IN A PATIENT WITH OBESITY AND SIGMOID SHAPE ESOPHAGUS (END-STAGE ACHALASIA)
Luca Provenzano*1,2, Francesca Forattini1,2, Giovanni Capovilla1,2, Andrea Costantini1,2, Giulia Pozza1,3, Alice Albanese1,3, Michele Valmasoni1,2, Mirto Foletto1,3, Renato Salvador1,2
1Universita degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Oncologiche e Gastroenterologiche, Padova, Veneto, Italy; 2UOC Chirurgia Generale 1, Azienda Ospedale - Universitŕ Padova, Padova, Italy; 3UOSD Week Surgery, Azienda Ospedale - Universitŕ Padova, Padova, Italy
 
704. REFRACTORY ACHALASIA: ROBOTIC-ASSISTED DOR FUNDOPLICATION TAKEDOWN AND HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR, REDO HELLER MYOTOMY AND TOUPET FUNDOPLICATION
Agustina A. Pontecorvo*, Tamar Tsenteradze, Enrique F. Elli
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
 
705. LAPAROSCOPIC DIAPHRAGMATIC PLICATION AND FUNDOPEXY FOR THE TREATMENT OF LEFT DIAPHRAGMATIC PARALYSIS AND INTRA-ABDOMINAL GASTRIC VOLVULUS
Jared McDonald2, Robert Anderton*2, 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
 
706. PEPTIC PERFORATION OF THE ESOPHAGUS IN A PATIENT WITH ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME
Arianna Vittori*1,2, Andrés R. Latorre-Rodríguez1,3, Andrew Keogan1,4, Sumeet K. Mittal1,4
1Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ; 2University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padova, Italy; 3Universidad del Rosario. Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Bogotá D.C., Colombia; 4Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 9
VIDEO SESSION: HEPATOBILIARY TRACT DISEASES
 
Moderators: Elena Penettieri, Rome, Italy
Saumya Singh, Phoenix, AZ
Toms Augustin, Cleveland, OH
 
707. PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ROBOTIC SURGERY: TWO CASES OF SPLENORENAL SHUNT IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
Erin M. Duggan*, Nathaly Llore, Alexis Schiazza, Steven Lobritto, Mercedes Martinez, Jean Emond, Tomoaki Kato, Jason Hawksworth
Transplant Surgery, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
 
708. LESS IS MORE: MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPROACH TO MIRIZZI'S SYNDROME REQUIRING BILIARY RECONSTRUCTION
Ramiro Cadena Semanate*, Sherif Saleh, Alejandro Feria, Ala Abdel-Jalil, Kevin El-Hayek
Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
 
709. CENTRAL HEPATECTOMY WITH IN-SITU VASCULAR RECONSTRUCTION: A CASE FOR FEASIBILITY AND ONCOLOGIC SAFETY
Saurabh Singhal*
Aakash Healthcare Private Limited, Dwarka, DL, India
 
710. COMBINED RESECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF INVADED PORTAL VEIN IN LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL RESECTION OF GALLBLADDER CYSTIC DUCT CANCER
Yu-Shi Dai, Rui-Qi Zou*, Fei Liu, YanWen Jin, FuYu Li
Department of Medical Ultrasound, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
 
711. TECHNIQUES OF BLEEDING CONTROL DURING ROBOTIC LIVER RESECTION IN VARIOUS SETTINGS
Kristina Milivojev Covilo*, Sharona B. Ross, Hasan Al Harakeh, Iswanto Sucandy
Digestive Health Institute, Advent Health Tampa, Tampa, FL
 
712. EXTENDED RIGHT HEPATECTOMY WITH EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT RESECTION FOR CYSTIC DUCT CANCER
Hiromichi Ito*, Kosuke Kobayashi, Atsushi Oba, Yoshihiro Ono, Yosuke Inoue, Yu Takahashi
Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
 
713. NAVIGATING LARGE CBD STONES INTRAOPERATIVELY: DIRECT VIDEO VISUALIZATION, EXPLORATION, AND RETRIEVAL
Mary K. Winslow*, Karan Kumar, Ramanathan Seshadri
Surgery, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT
 
714. ROBOTIC REPAIR AFTER COMMON HEPATIC BILE DUCT TRANSECTION DURING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY
Olivia Hopper*, Ziad Awad
Surgery, University of Florida Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
 
715. ROBOTIC HEPATIC DEBRIDEMENT AND PARTIAL RESECTION FOR CHRONICALLY INFECTED BILOMA WITH BILIARY FISTULA
Ahmed Younos*, Mohamad Younos, Sharona B. Ross, Iswanto Sucandy
AdventHealth, Altamonte Springs, FL
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 6DE
Live Streamed PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY
 
Moderators: Taylor S. Riall, Tucson, AZ
 
Residents Conference 691. ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED COLON CANCER: IS LESS MORE?
Julia Frebault*1,2, Alexander Troester1, Michael Horsey1, Sarah Mott3, Schelomo Marmor1, Arjun Gupta1, Imran Hassan4, Pridvi Kandagatla5, Paolo Goffredo1
1University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; 2Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; 3University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; 4MercyOne, Des Moines, IA; 5Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN
 
Residents Conference 692. EXPONENTIAL SURGE IN ANTIREFLUX SURGERY UTILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: RESULTS FROM A 25-YEAR NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED ANALYSIS
Daniel M. Simadibrata*1, Ronnie Fass2
1Department of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
 
Residents Conference 693. POSTOPERATIVE CTDNA IS ASSOCIATED WITH OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT HEPATECTOMY: RESULTS FROM THE INTERCEPT PROGRAM
Brittany C. Fields*, Antony Haddad, Yifan Wang, Elsa M. Arvide, Deborah E. Mrema, Kristin D. Alfaro-Munoz, Robert J. Kell, Van Karlyle Morris, Arvind Dasari, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Yun Shin Chun, Hop S. Tran Cao, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Scott Kopetz, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Timothy E. Newhook
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
Residents Conference 694. SPECIFIC TARGETING OF PANCREATIC CANCER IN ORTHOTOPIC MOUSE MODELS WITH AN ANTI CA-19-9 ANTIBODY CONJUGATED TO A NIR FLUOROPHORE
Javier Bravo*1, Kristin E. Cox1, Sunidhi Jaiswal1, Siamak Amirfakhri1, Thinzar Lwin3, Sumbal Talib2, Maneesh Jain2, Robert Hoffman1, Aaron Mohs2, Surinder Batra2, Michael Bouvet1
1Surgery, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA; 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; 3City of Hope, Duarte, CA
 
Residents Conference 695. CRACKING THE CODE: KEY FACTORS INFLUENCING RECURRENCE TIMING AFTER HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR
Mikhail Attaar*, Bradley Kushner, Michael M. Awad
Surgery, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
 
Residents Conference 696. CARDIOVASCULAR RISK REDUCTION IN A LARGE COHORT STUDY: COMPARATIVE OUTCOMES OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY, ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS, AND BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION SURGERIES
Wissam Ghusn*1,2, Tala Abedalqader2, Nour El Ghazal2, Noura Jawhar2, Donna Abboud2, Simon J Laplante2, Eric J. Vargas2, Andres Acosta2, Omar M. Ghanem2
1Internal Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA; 2Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room 10
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
 
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BOTH SIDES NOW
Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 10
DORIS AND JOHN L. CAMERON GUEST ORATION
 
Moderator: Taylor S. Riall, Tucson, AZ

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BREAKING DOWN THE TAPE: USING VIDEO REVIEW AND ROBOTICS TO ADVANCE PANCREATIC SURGERY
Herbert J. Zeh, III, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Halls C-E, Lower Level (Poster Hall)
POSTER SESSION II: COLORECTAL & PAWS DISEASES (NON-CME)
 
Colorectal Moderators:
PAWS Moderators:
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 11
Ticketed Session MEET-THE-PROFESSOR: GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP WITH RESEARCH COMMITTEE LEADERS
 
Faculty: Sajid Khan, New Haven, CT
Jeffrey B. Matthews, Madison, WI
Emily R. Winslow, Chicago, IL
Vikas Dudeja, Miami, FL
Rebekah White, San Diego, CA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Trainee & Early Career Lounge
Live Streamed SSAT MEET-THE-EXPERTS
 
Faculty: Paulo Goffredo, Minneapolis, MN
Andrew D. Newton, Houston, TX
Victoria Gershuni, St. Louis, MO
Kimberly Washington, Arlington, TX
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 3
PLENARY SESSION: BEST OF ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES
 
Moderators: Joerg Zehetner, Bern, Switzerland
Rasa Zarnegar, New York, NY
Ziad Awad, Jacksonville, FL
 
Residents Conference 864. THE IMPACT OF GAS BLOAT SYNDROME ON OUTCOMES AFTER NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH ANATOMICAL FAILURE AND NEED FOR REVISIONAL SURGERY
Inanc Sarici*1,3, Sven Eriksson1,3, Johnathan Nguyen1, Naveed Chaudhry1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,2,3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
Residents Conference 865. THE PADOVA CLASSIFICATION IN ACTION: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY ON POST-FUNDOPLICATION OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION (PFOO)
Francesca Forattini*1, Khanh Hoang Nicholas Le2, Luca Provenzano1, Matteo Santangelo1, Giovanni Capovilla1, Arianna Vittori1, Matteo Pittacolo1, Loredana Nicoletti1, Lucia Moletta1, Michele Valmasoni1, Rena Yadlapati2, Renato Salvador1
1Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy; 2University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
 
Residents Conference 866. EVALUATING LYON CONSENSUS 2.0 VS. DEMEESTER SCORE: PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF ESOPHAGEAL ACID EXPOSURE CRITERIA FOR ANTIREFLUX SURGERY OUTCOMES
Sven Eriksson*1,3, Inanc Sarici1,3, Amanda Scobie1, Nicholas Belleza1, Mara Fryer1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,2,3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
867. REDEFINING PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR: MIDTERM OUTCOMES OF THE NOVEL PORSHA TECHNIQUE FOR COMPLEX HIATUS RECONSTRUCTION
Michelle Campbell*, Yalini Vigneswaran, Mustafa Hussain, Vivek Prachand
Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
Residents Conference 868. PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY AND LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY SHOW SIMILAR OUTCOMES IN TYPE III ACHALASIA
Archana Jeeji*, Alexander S. Farivar, Emily M. Mackay, Adam J. Bograd, Peter T. White, Brian E. Louie
Thoracic Surgery, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
 
869. TRANSHIATAL VERSUS TRANSTHORACIC ESOPHAGECTOMY: THE INFLUENCE OF ONE-LUNG VENTILATION ON POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS, LYMPH NODE YIELD AND OVERALL SURVIVAL
Jasmin Trachsel2, Sarah Gerber1, Pauline Aeschbacher1, Dino Kröll1, Yves Borbély*1
1Inselspital Universitatsspital Bern, Bern, BE, Switzerland; 2Inselspital Universitatsspital Bern, Bern, BE, Switzerland
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 9
PLENARY SESSION: BEST OF HEPATOBILIARY TRACT DISEASES
 
Moderators: Kimberly Washington, Portland, OR
Dulundu Ender, Istanbul, Turkey
Sean Cleary, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
 
Residents Conference 870. TUMOR BURDEN PREDICTS OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION OF MULTIFOCAL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Jun Kawashima*1,2, Miho Akabane1, Zayed Rashid1, Abdullah Altaf1, Selamawit Woldesenbet1, Mujtaba Khalil1, Azza Sarfraz1, Diamantis Tsilimigras1, Odysseas Chatzipanagiotou1, François Cauchy3, Federico Aucejo4, Hugo P. Marques5, Tom Hugh6, Feng Shen7, Shishir K. Maithel8, B. Groot Koerkamp9, Irinel Popescu10, Minoru Kitago11, Matthew Weiss12, Guillaume Martel13, Carlo Pulitano14, Luca Aldrighetti15, George A. Poultsides16, Andrea Ruzzenente17, Todd W. Bauer18, Ana Gleisner19, Itaru Endo2, Timothy M. Pawlik1
1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 2Yokohama Shiritsu Daigaku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; 3Hopital Beaujon, Clichy, Île-de-France, France; 4Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 5Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; 6The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 7Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China; 8Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 9Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; 10Institutul Clinic Fundeni, Bucuresti, Romania; 11Keio Gijuku Daigaku, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 12Northwell Health Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY; 13University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; 14Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia; 15IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy; 16Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 17Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy; 18University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 19University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
 
871. EFFECT OF PANTOPRAZOLE AS AN ADJUNCT TO STANDARD MEDICAL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH UNCOMPLICATED AMOEBIC LIVER ABSCESS: A RANDOMIZED PILOT STUDY
Ramesh Kumar*, Rishabh Patel, Sudhir Kumar, Rajeev Nayan Priyadarshi
Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Patna Library, Patna, Bihar, India
 
872. TARGETING THE GUT MICROBIOME IMPROVES ANTI-TUMOR CYTOTOXIC CD8 T-CELL RESPONSE AGAINST HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
Dhanisha S. Suresh, Tejeshwar Jain*, Utpreksha Vaish, Srikanth Iyer, Vikas Dudeja
surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
 
Residents Conference 873. ASSOCIATION OF ELEVATED CA19-9 AND OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT HEPATECTOMY FOR COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Elena Panettieri*1,2, Antony Haddad2, Andrea Campisi1, Jace P. Landry2, Agostino Maria De Rose1, Francesco Ardito1, Hop S. Tran Cao2, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng2, Yun Shin Chun2, Felice Giuliante1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey2, Timothy E. Newhook2
1Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Lazio, Italy; 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
Residents Conference 874. CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR FEATURES OF YOUNG-ONSET INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Adriana C. Gamboa*1, Elena Panettieri1, Yun Shin Chun1, Ashton A. Connor3, Milind Javle2, Timothy E. Newhook1, Shubham Pant2, Hop S. Tran Cao1, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey1
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Division of Surgery, Houston, TX; 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Houston, TX; 3Houston Methodist, Houston, TX
 
875. OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH INDETERMINATE BILIARY STRICTURES FOLLOWING COMPREHENSIVE ENDOSCOPIC WORKUP
Andrew Kleehammer*1, Matthew Giansiracusa1, Sean Olson1, Lindsey Creech1, Tayna D. Latortue1, Tiffany Y. Chua1, Jennifer Fieber2, Chris Forsmark1, Aleksey A. Novikov1
1Gastroenterology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 10
COMPLEX GI FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE: PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROVERSIES IN GRADUATE SURGICAL TRAINING
 
Moderators: Annie Benzie, Edison, NJ
Jacquelyn Turner, New Orleans, LA

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GENERALIST
Rohan Jeyarajah
Methodist Health System, Dallas, TX

SPECIALIST
Michael D'Angelica
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

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TRAINING IN ACADEMIC CENTERS VERSUS HEALTH / COMMUNITY SYSTEMS

ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE
Tara Kent
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
Michael Truitt
Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio Ltd, San Antonio, TX

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WHAT IS AN ACADEMIC SURGEON: RESEARCH IN ACADEMIA VERSUS OUTSIDE ACADEMIA

INSIDE ACADEMIA
Mary Hawn
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

OUTSIDE ACADEMIA
Lee Swanstrom
Institute for Image-guided Surgery, University of Strasbourg, Portland, OR
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 32
Live Streamed MAJA AND FRANK G. MOODY LECTURE
 
Moderator: Vic Velanovich, Tampa, FL

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THE ETHICS OF SURGICAL CARE: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF SURGERY
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 3
VIDEO SESSION: COLORECTAL DISEASES
 
Moderators:
 
952. MANAGING POUCH POLYPS: COMBINED ENDOSCOPIC AND ENDOROBOTIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION
Salih N. Karahan*, Brogan Catalano, Mustafa Oruc, Phoenix Bell, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
953. TRANSVERSE PERINEAL SUPPORT: A SURGICAL SOLUTION FOR PERINEAL DESCENT
Luca Manfrino*, Claudio Missaglia, Francesco Palmieri, Cozzolino Sofia, Andrea Vignali, Pierpaolo Sileri
Colorectal Surgery, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
 
954. UNTWISTING THE PLOT: RESOLVING A MISDIAGNOSIS OF CROHN'S DISEASE IN AN ULCERATIVE COLITIS PATIENT WITH A TWISTED J-POUCH
Kamil Erozkan, Imran Khan*, Faris S. Almadi, Tracy Hull, Olga Lavryk
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
955. LAPAROSCOPIC SUTURE RECTOPEXY FOR RECURRENT RECTAL PROLAPSE AFTER FAILED VENTRAL MESH RECTOPEXY AND PERINEAL REPAIR
Oscar Santes*, Florencia Lucero-Serrano, Danilo Tueme de la Peńa, Emilio Sánchez-García Ramos, Noel Salgado-Nesme
Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
 
956. ENDOSCOPIC INTERMUSCULAR DISSECTION (EID) FOR RECTAL CANCER
Shaimaa Elkholy*1, Karim Essam1, Abeer A. Abdellatef1, Kerolis Yousef1, Hany Haggag1, Hussein H. Okasha1, Ahmed H. Rashad1, Mohamed Nabil Alkady1, Mohamed Abdel Zaher1, Mostafa Kabeel2, Dalia Abd El-Kareem1, Sara Shaban3, Mohamed El-Sherbiny1
1Cairo University Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt; 2Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; 3Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
 
957. ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION FOR A CHALLENGING RECTAL LESION IN A SYMPTOMATIC CHILD WITH SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME
Ahmad A. Madkour*1,2, Amr El Fouly1, Ahmad H. Salem2, Badreya Abd Allah2, Mahkoud Khamees2, Mohamed G. Saqr2, Hassan Atalla3
1Gastroenterology, Helwan University, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt; 2Egypt General Authority for Healthcare, Cairo, Egypt; 3Mansoura University Gastroenterology Surgical Center, Mansoura, Egypt
 
958. COMPLEX LAPAROSCOPIC HARTMANN REVERSAL WITH ANASTOMOTIC LEAK MANAGEMENT
Mustafa Oruc*, Joshua Sommovilla, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
959. ROBOTIC SIGMOID RESECTION IN A PATIENT WITH PELVIC KIDNEY ANOMALY: OVERCOMING ANATOMICAL AND SURGICAL CHALLENGES
Mustafa Oruc*, Joshua Sommovilla, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
960. ROBOTIC EXCISION OF PRESACRAL MATURE CYSTIC TERATOMA IN A MALE: A VIDEO VIGNETTE
Jessica Chin*, Jared Emolo, Joaquin Estrada, Jan Kaminski
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL
 
961. ROBOTIC ISOPERISTALTIC SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS: A SOLUTION FOR OBESE PATIENTS WITH LIMITED INTESTINAL MOBILITY
Salih N. Karahan*, Mustafa Oruc, Brogan Catalano, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 9
ORAL SESSION: ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES II
 
Moderators: Stephanie Worrell, Tucson, AZ
Brian Louie, Seattle, WA
 
968. DURABILITY OF ESOPHAGEAL ACID NORMALIZATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION AND MAGNETIC SPHINCTER AUGMENTATION OVER TIME
Inanc Sarici*1,3, Sven Eriksson1,3, Johnathan Nguyen1, Naveed Chaudhry1, Mara Fryer1, Ali H. Zaidi1,2, Kirsten Newhams1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,2,3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Pittsburgh, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
970. INTERIM ANALYSIS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF PLATELET-RICH PLASMA TO REDUCE RECURRENCES AFTER LARGE PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR
Ashley Tran*, Luke R. Putnam, Katie Galvin, Caitlin C. Houghton, John C. Lipham
Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles, CA
 
971. IMPACT OF DIFFERENT ANATOMIC FAILURE PATTERNS OF ANTIREFLUX SURGERY ON DISTAL ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX SYMPTOMS
Inanc Sarici*1,3, Sven Eriksson1,3, Naveed Chaudhry1, Mostafa Abdelhalim1, Kirsten Newhams1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,2,3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
972. ROLE OF MUCOSAL IMPEDANCE IN ASSESSMENT OF THE REFLUX BARRIER AFTER NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION
Inanc Sarici*1,3, Sven Eriksson1,3, Johnathan Nguyen1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,2,3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Pittsburgh, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
973. POEM VS LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER-DOR IN THE TREATMENT FOR ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA: LONG TERM RESULTS (> 5 YEARS) OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY USING PROPENSITY SCORE
Andrea Costantini*1, Francesca Mangiola2, Giovanni Capovilla1, Rosario Landi2, Luca Provenzano1, Loredana Nicoletti1, Michele Valmasoni1, Cristiano Spada2, Mario Costantini1, Pietro Familiari2, Renato Salvador1
1Azienda Ospedale Universita Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy; 2Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Lazio, Italy
 
974. DECISION REGRET FOR PATIENTS UNDEROING PER ORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY AND LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY
Sullivan A. Ayuso*, Miracle Burt, Kristine Kuchta, Jean-Christophe Rwigema, Derrius Anderson, Jonathan Chao, Joann Carbray, Natalie Liu, H. Mason Hedberg, Michael Ujiki
Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
 
975. GAS-BLOAT SYMPTOMS AFTER ANTIREFLUX SURGERY: ASSESSMENT OF THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH (SIBO) TESTING RESULTS IN GUIDING POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT.
Inanc Sarici*1,3, Sven Eriksson1,3, Kelsi J. Swanson1, Sarah Scott1, Ann M. DeWitt1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1,3,2
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
976. LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF FAILED FUNDOPLICATION: A 10-YEAR ANALYSIS OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO REDO FUNDOPLICATION
Andric Perez-Ortiz*1, Gonzalo Torres-Villalobos2, Ana Sandoval Mussi1, Grece Daniela Salinas García3, Jorge Gerardo Obregón Méndez1, Martin Vega de Jesús1, Cesar Decanini1
1Department of Surgery, Centro Medico ABC, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico; 2Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; 3Hospital Espanol, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
 
977. INDUCTION THERAPY FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERS CT-DERIVED BODY COMPOSITION AND SURGICAL RISK
Ernest G. Chan*1, Darren Bryan1, Jules Lin2, Maria L. Madrariaga1, Brian A. Derstine2, Pablo G. Sanchez1, Stewart C. Wang2, Mark Ferguson1
1Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 
978. THE IMPACT OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ON PARAOESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR OUTCOMES
William T. Head*, Divyaam Satija, Stefanie C. Rohde, Theresa Wang, Kyle Perry
Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
 
979. LAPAROSCOPIC ANTIREFLUX SURGERY OUTCOMES AT 12 MONTHS IN THE FIRST 100 PATIENTS TO UNDERGO REFLUXSTOP PROCEDURE IN A SINGLE INSTITUTION IN SWITZERLAND
Joerg Zehetner*, Ioannis Linas, Ulf Kessler, Yannick Fringeli
Surgery, Clinic Beau-Site Berne, Bern, Switzerland
 
980. IMPACT OF FOOD INSECURITY ON POSTOPERATIVE OUTCOMES OF ESOPHAGEAL PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY AT A LARGE TERTIARY INSTITUTION
Adithya J. Menon*1, Dalton A. Norwood2, Ryan T. Griffin1, Sergio A. Sánchez-Luna3, Kristen Wong4
1The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL; 2Division of General Internal Medicine & Population Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 3Basil I. Hirschowitz Endoscopic Center of Excellence, Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 4Department of Surgery - Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
 
981. FLIP PLANIMETRY HAS BETTER CORRELATION WITH PREOPERATIVE DYSPHAGIA THAN HIGH-RESOLUTION MANOMETRY IN ANTI-REFLUX SURGERY EVALUATION
Derrius Anderson*, Jean-Christophe Rwigema, Sullivan A. Ayuso, Kristine Kuchta, Jonathan Chao, Natalie Liu, Mason Hedberg, Michael Ujiki
NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 10
PLENARY SESSION: BEST OF PANCREATIC DISEASES
 
Moderators: Jin He, Baltimore, MD
Ting-Chun Tina Kuo, Taipei City, Taiwan
 
Residents Conference 962. INDUCIBLE GENETIC MOUSE MODEL OF INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM USING IN VIVO ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS WITH CRISPR-CAS9
Hannah N. Rinehardt*1, Alexander Kolodychak2, Alexis Martyn1, Vinitha Dhamotharan1, Alexander Kreger3, Madison Thomas1, Lydia Liszewski1, Andrew Kolodychak4, Ting Zhang1, George Gittes1
1Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh John G Rangos Sr Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI; 3UH Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; 4University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
 
963. UBE2N AS A PROMISING NEW RESPONSE MARKER TO CHEMOTHERAPY IN PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA - RESULTS FROM MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSES OF NEOADJUVANT TREATED PANCREATIC CANCER
Lennart von Fritsch*1, Jannis Duhn1, Maren Drenckhan1, Lorena Llontop1, Cristina Ferrone2, Vikram Deshpande3, Oliver Schilling4, Jutta Kirfel5, Rüdiger Braun1, Louisa Bolm1, Ulrich F. Wellner1, Tobias Keck1, Kim C. Honselmann1
1University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein Department of Surgery, Luebeck, Germany; 2Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Pathology, Boston, MA; 4University of Freiburg Department of Pathology, Freiburg, Germany; 5University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein Institute of Pathology, Luebeck, Germany
 
964. PREHABILITATION FOR PANCREATECTOMY: ASSESSING FEASIBILITY AND IMPACT ON RECOVERY
Evelyn Alexander*, Nicholas Galouzis, Maria K. Fotinos, Hunter Alexander, Lusine Mesropyan, Mohammad Khreiss, Taylor S. Riall, Carrie Luu
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson, Tucson, AZ
 
965. WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH FOR ROBOTIC PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY FOR PANCREATIC HEAD CANCER? UTILITY OF LEFT POSTERIOR SMA-FIRST APPROACH
Yosuke Inoue*, Kosuke Kobayashi, Atsushi Oba, Yoshihiro Ono, Hiromichi Ito, Yu Takahashi
Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
 
966. SURVEILLANCE OF SUB-CENTIMETER SIDE-BRANCH IPMNS: RISK OF INVASIVE DISEASE AND FOLLOW-UP RECOMMENDATIONS
Chase J. Wehrle*, R Matthew Walsh, Pranav Kumar, Breanna Perlmutter, Jenny H. Chang, Abby Gross, Robert Naples, Kathryn A. Stackhouse, Samer A. Naffouje, Daniel Joyce, Toms Augustin, Robert Simon
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
967. INFILTRATION OF MACROPHAGES AND MICROENVIRONMENT INFLAMMATORY PROTEINS IN PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA
Jordan A. McKean*1, Gerik W. Tushoski-Alemán1, Grace R. Thompson1, Kelly M. Herremans1, Andrea Riner2, Patrick Underwood2, Song Han1, Steven J. Hughes1
1Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 32DS
DIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM: INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: WHAT HAVE WE DONE AND WHERE DO WE GO
 
Moderators: Joan A. Culpepper-Morgan, New York, NY
Eduardo E. Montalvo-Jave, Mexico City, Mexico

BRINGING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES TO A NATIONAL SOCIETY
Jennifer Christie
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN A SURGERY DEPARTMENT IN HBCU?
John Stewart
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Byron Cryer
Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN A SURGERY DEPARTMENT IN A NON-HBCU?
Jeffrey Matthews
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Q&A
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 152AB
DDW SHARK TANK (NON-CME)
 
Sponsored by: AGA, AASLD, ASGE, SSAT
Moderators: Scott Fraser, Malvern, PA
Michael L. Kochman, Philadelphia, PA

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WELCOME AND SHARK TANK INTRODUCTIONS
Scott Fraser1, Michael L. Kochman2
1Fraser Healthcare, LLC, Malvern, PA; 2Gastroenterology Division, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA

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AASLD SHARK
Jin Ge
Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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AGA SHARK
Lawrence R. Kosinski
SonarMD, Chicago, IL

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ASGE SHARK
Klaus Mergener
Digestive Health Specialists, Seattle, WA

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SSAT SHARK
Shahin Ayazi
Esophageal Institute, Department of Surgery, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA

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AASLD INNOVATOR

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AGA INNOVATOR

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ASGE INNOVATOR
Andres Acosta
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN

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SSAT INNOVATOR
Yongwoo D. Seo
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

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