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SSAT RESIDENTS & FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Program Outline
(Subject to Change)
San Diego Convention Center | San Diego, CA

in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®
All Research Conference sessions will be in Room 10 of the San Diego Convention Center unless otherwise indicated.
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025
7:30 AM
WELCOME BREAKFAST
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
SESSION I: COLORECTAL & ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES
8-minute presentation, 7-minute discussion
Moderators: |
Vic Velanovich, MD Gregory Kennedy, MD |
ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED COLON CANCER: IS LESS MORE?
Julia Frebault
1,
2, Alexander Troester
1, Michael Horsey
1, Sarah Mott
3, Schelomo Marmor
1, Arjun Gupta
1, Imran Hassan
4, Pridvi Kandagatla
5, Paolo Goffredo
1
1University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 2Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 3University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, United States, 4MercyOne, Des Moines, IA, United States, 5Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States
MODIFYING THE GUT MICROBIOTA WITH PREBIOTICS STRENGTHENS THE GUT BARRIER AND PREVENTS THE DISSEMINATION AND GROWTH OF COLORECTAL CANCER CELLS
Roy Hajjar
1,
2, Ayodeji S. Ajayi
1,
2, Manon Oliero
1,
2, Gabriela Fragoso
1, Annie Calve
1, Thibault Cuisiniere
1,
2, Claire McCartney
1,
2, Ahmed Amine Alaoui
1,
2, Nassima Taleb
1, Claire Gerkins
1,
2, Carole Richard
2,
1, Manuela M Santos
2,
1
1Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
EXPONENTIAL SURGE IN ANTIREFLUX SURGERY UTILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: RESULTS FROM A 25-YEAR NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED ANALYSIS
Daniel M. Simadibrata
1, Ronnie Fass
2
1Department of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
EVALUATING LYON CONSENSUS 2.0 VS. DEMEESTER SCORE: PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF ESOPHAGEAL ACID EXPOSURE CRITERIA FOR ANTIREFLUX SURGERY OUTCOMES
Sven Eriksson
1,
3, Inanc Sarici
1,
3, Amanda Scobie
1, Nicholas Belleza
1, Mara Fryer
1, Ping Zheng
1, Shahin Ayazi
1,
2,
3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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 Eriksson
1,
3, Johnathan Nguyen
1, Naveed Chaudhry
1, Ping Zheng
1, Shahin Ayazi
1,
2,
3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 3Chevalier Jackson Research Fellowship, Esophageal Institute, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
THE PADOVA CLASSIFICATION IN ACTION: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY ON POST-FUNDOPLICATION OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION (PFOO)
Francesca Forattini
1, Khanh Hoang Nicholas Le
2, Luca Provenzano
1, Matteo Santangelo
1, Giovanni Capovilla
1, Arianna Vittori
1, Matteo Pittacolo
1, Loredana Nicoletti
1, Lucia Moletta
1, Michele Valmasoni
1, Rena Yadlapati
2, Renato Salvador
1
1Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy, 2University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
10:15 AM
COFFEE/SOCIAL BREAK
10:45 AM - 11:45 PM
SESSION II: HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES
8-minute presentation, 7-minute discussion
Moderator: |
Motaz Qadan, MD |
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, United States
ASSOCIATION OF ELEVATED CA19-9 AND OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT HEPATECTOMY FOR COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Elena Panettieri
1,
2, Antony Haddad
2, Andrea Campisi
1, Jace P. Landry
2, Agostino Maria De Rose
1, Francesco Ardito
1, Hop S. Tran Cao
2, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng
2, Yun Shin Chun
2, Felice Giuliante
1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
2, Timothy E. Newhook
2
1Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Lazio, Italy, 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
TUMOR BURDEN PREDICTS OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION OF MULTIFOCAL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Jun Kawashima
1,
2, Miho Akabane
1, Zayed Rashid
1, Abdullah Altaf
1, Selamawit Woldesenbet
1, Mujtaba Khalil
1, Azza Sarfraz
1, Diamantis Tsilimigras
1, Odysseas Chatzipanagiotou
1, François Cauchy
3, Federico Aucejo
4, Hugo P. Marques
5, Tom Hugh
6, Feng Shen
7, Shishir K. Maithel
8, B. Groot Koerkamp
9, Irinel Popescu
10, Minoru Kitago
11, Matthew Weiss
12, Guillaume Martel
13, Carlo Pulitano
14, Luca Aldrighetti
15, George A. Poultsides
16, Andrea Ruzzenente
17, Todd W. Bauer
18, Ana Gleisner
19, Itaru Endo
2, Timothy M. Pawlik
1
1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Yokohama Shiritsu Daigaku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 3Hospital Beaujon, Clichy, Île-de-France, France, 4Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States, 5Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 6The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China, 8Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, 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, United States, 13University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 14Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, 15IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, 16Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 17Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy, 18University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, 19University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR FEATURES OF YOUNG-ONSET INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Adriana C. Gamboa
1, Elena Panettieri
1, Yun Shin Chun
1, Ashton A. Connor
3, Milind Javle
2, Timothy E. Newhook
1, Shubham Pant
2, Hop S. Tran Cao
1, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng
1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
1
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Division of Surgery, Houston, TX, United States, 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States, 3Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, United States
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
LUNCH & LECTURE
12:00 PM
INTRODUCTION TO KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Zhi Ven Fong, MD, MPH
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona
12:15 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
CONNECTING THE DOTS: EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY
Thomas Tsai, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SESSION III: PANCREATIC & PAWS DISEASES
8-minute presentation, 7-minute discussion
Moderators: |
Taylor Riall, MD Trang Nguyen, MD |
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. Cox
1, Sunidhi Jaiswal
1, Siamak Amirfakhri
1, Thinzar Lwin
3, Sumbal Talib
2, Maneesh Jain
2, Robert Hoffman
1, Aaron Mohs
2, Surinder Batra
2, Michael Bouvet
1
1Surgery, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, 2. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States, 3City of Hope, Duarte, CA, United States
INDUCIBLE GENETIC MOUSE MODEL OF INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM USING IN VIVO ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS WITH CRISPR-CAS9
Hannah N. Rinehardt
1, Alexander Kolodychak
2, Alexis Martyn
1, Vinitha Dhamotharan
1, Alexander Kreger
3, Madison Thomas
1, Lydia Liszewski
1, Andrew Kolodychak
4, Ting Zhang
1, George Gittes
1
1Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh John G Rangos Sr Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, United States, 3UH Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States, 4University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
BIDIRECTIONAL PACLITAXEL PLUS NILOTINIB FOR PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS: PHASE II CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS
Shruthi R. Perati, Amber F. Gallanis, Stephanie Canady, Molly Sullivan, Nancy Moore, Yvonne Mallory, Audra Satterwhite, Diane Ahn, Silvia Figueiroa Da Cruz, Stacy Joyce, John Lee, Andre De Souza, Jessica Mukherjee, Sarah Shin, Ning Ma, Lamin Juwara, Jibran Ahmed, Alice Chen, Jeremy L. Davis, Andrew Blakely
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
TUMOR DNA ANALYSIS IN PERITONEAL FLUID TO DETECT AND MONITOR PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS
Muhammad Talha Nawaz
5,
1, Muhammad Talha Waheed
4, Kirsten Dennison
5,
1,
2, Bradon Mcdonald
1,
5,
2, Stephanie McGregor
3,
2, Syed Nabeel Zafar
1,
2, Mustafa Raoof
4, Muhammed Murtaza
1,
5,
2
1University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Surgery, Madison, WI, United States, 2University of Wisconsin-Madison Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI, United States, 3University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Madison, WI, United States, 4City of Hope Department of Surgery, Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, 5Center for Human Genomics & Precision Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
SESSION IV: STOMACH/BARIATRIC/METABOLIC
8-minute presentation, 7-minute discussion
Moderator: |
Anne Lidor, MD |
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 Abedalqader
2, Nour El Ghazal
2, Noura Jawhar
2, Donna Abboud
2, Simon J Laplante
2, Eric J. Vargas
2, Andres Acosta
2, Omar M. Ghanem
2
1Internal Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, 2Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN, United States
OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES WITH MASH AND MASLD: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BARIATRIC SURGERY AND GLP-1 AGONISTS
Zehra Naseem
1, Varun Aitharaju
1, Aun Muhammad
2, Arjun Chatterjee
1, Stephen A. Firkins
1, Roma Patel
1, Akash Khurana
1, Roberto Simons-Linares
1, Bailey Flora
1, Erika Staneff
1, Rehan Haidry
3
1Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States, 2The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States, 3Cleveland Clinic London Ltd, London, England, United Kingdom
THE DIABETES REMISSION INDEX (DRI): AN INNOVATIVE PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DIABETES REMISSION AFTER METABOLIC PROCEDURES
Wissam Ghusn
1,
3, Pearl Ma
2, Robert A. Vierkant
3, Manpreet Mundi
3, Matyas Fehervari
4, Kayla Ikemiya
2, Karl Hage
5, Andres Acosta
3, Michael Camilleri
3, Barham Abu Dayyeh
3, Kelvin Higa
2, Omar M. Ghanem
3
1Internal Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, 2University of California San Francisco Department of Medicine Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States, 3Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN, United States, 4Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 5Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES AT 10-YEARS POST-SURGERY: RESULTS OF A MULTINATIONAL MULTICENTER ANALYSIS
Donghyun Ko
3, Do Han Kim
2, Wilhelm S. Basegoda
4, Jose A. Porres
5, Paul T. Kröner
6, Christopher C. Thompson
1
1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, 2Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York, NY, United States, 3Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT, United States, 4University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, 5Universidad Francisco Marroquin Facultad de Medicina, Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala, 6Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA, United States
3:30 PM
ADJOURNMENT OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS RECEPTION & AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
San Diego Convention Center
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