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SSAT RESIDENTS & FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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San Diego Convention Center | San Diego, CA
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®
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
8:00 AM
ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED COLON CANCER: IS LESS MORE?
Julia Frebault1, 2, Alexander Troester1, Michael Horsey1, Sarah Mott3, Schelomo Marmor1, Arjun Gupta1, Imran Hassan4, Pridvi Kandagatla5, Paolo Goffredo1
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
8:15 AM
POSTOPERATIVE ANTIBIOTICS IN PEDIATRIC PERFORATED APPENDICITIS: COMPARATIVE OUTCOMES WITH MONOTHERAPY VS. MULTI-DRUG COVERAGE
Jaclyn R. Dempsey, Aakash Srikanth, Geetha Radhakrishnan, Ravi Radhakrishnan
Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
8:30 AM
MODIFYING THE GUT MICROBIOTA WITH PREBIOTICS STRENGTHENS THE GUT BARRIER AND PREVENTS THE DISSEMINATION AND GROWTH OF COLORECTAL CANCER CELLS
Roy Hajjar1, 2, Ayodeji S. Ajayi1, 2, Manon Oliero1, 2, Gabriela Fragoso1, Annie Calve1, Thibault Cuisiniere1, 2, Claire McCartney1, 2, Ahmed Amine Alaoui1, 2, Nassima Taleb1, Claire Gerkins1, 2, Carole Richard2, 1, Manuela M Santos2, 1
1Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
8:45 AM
LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF HYBRID ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTER
Salih N. Karahan, Mustafa Oruc, Kamil Erozkan, Joshua Sommovilla, Scott Steele, Emre Gorgun
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
9:00 AM
EXPONENTIAL SURGE IN ANTIREFLUX SURGERY UTILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: RESULTS FROM A 25-YEAR NATIONWIDE POPULATION-BASED ANALYSIS
Daniel M. Simadibrata1, Ronnie Fass2
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
9:15 AM
EVALUATING LYON CONSENSUS 2.0 VS. DEMEESTER SCORE: PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF ESOPHAGEAL ACID EXPOSURE CRITERIA FOR ANTIREFLUX SURGERY OUTCOMES
Sven Eriksson1, 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, 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
9:30 AM
THE IMPACT OF GAS BLOAT SYNDROME ON OUTCOMES AFTER NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH ANATOMICAL FAILURE AND NEED FOR REVISIONAL SURGERY
Inanc Sarici1, 3, Sven Eriksson1, 3, Johnathan Nguyen1, Naveed Chaudhry1, Ping Zheng1, Shahin Ayazi1, 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
9:45 AM
THE PADOVA CLASSIFICATION IN ACTION: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY ON POST-FUNDOPLICATION OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION (PFOO)
Francesca Forattini1, 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, United States
10:00 AM
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, 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
10:45 AM
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
11:00 AM
ASSOCIATION OF ELEVATED CA19-9 AND OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT HEPATECTOMY FOR COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Elena Panettieri1, 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, United States
11:15 AM
TUMOR BURDEN PREDICTS OUTCOMES AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION OF MULTIFOCAL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Jun Kawashima1, 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, 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
11:30 AM
CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR FEATURES OF YOUNG-ONSET INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Adriana C. Gamboa1, 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, 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
1:00 PM
SPECIFIC TARGETING OF PANCREATIC CANCER IN ORTHOTOPIC MOUSE MODELS WITH AN ANTI CA-19-9 ANTIBODY CONJUGATED TO A NIR FLUOROPHORE
Javier Bravo1, 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, United States, 2. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States, 3City of Hope, Duarte, CA, United States
1:15 PM
INDUCIBLE GENETIC MOUSE MODEL OF INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM USING IN VIVO ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS WITH CRISPR-CAS9
Hannah N. Rinehardt1, 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, 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
1:30 PM
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
1:45 PM
TUMOR DNA ANALYSIS IN PERITONEAL FLUID TO DETECT AND MONITOR PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS
Muhammad Talha Nawaz5, 1, Muhammad Talha Waheed4, Kirsten Dennison5, 1, 2, Bradon Mcdonald1, 5, 2, Stephanie McGregor3, 2, Syed Nabeel Zafar1, 2, Mustafa Raoof4, Muhammed Murtaza1, 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
2:00 PM
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, United States
2:15 PM
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK REDUCTION IN A LARGE COHORT STUDY: COMPARATIVE OUTCOMES OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY, ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS, AND BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION SURGERIES
Wissam Ghusn1, 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, United States, 2Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN, United States
2:30 PM
OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES WITH MASH AND MASLD: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BARIATRIC SURGERY AND GLP-1 AGONISTS
Zehra Naseem1, Varun Aitharaju1, Aun Muhammad2, Arjun Chatterjee1, Stephen A. Firkins1, Roma Patel1, Akash Khurana1, Roberto Simons-Linares1, Bailey Flora1, Erika Staneff1, Rehan Haidry3
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
2:45 PM
THE DIABETES REMISSION INDEX (DRI): AN INNOVATIVE PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DIABETES REMISSION AFTER METABOLIC PROCEDURES
Wissam Ghusn1, 3, Pearl Ma2, Robert A. Vierkant3, Manpreet Mundi3, Matyas Fehervari4, Kayla Ikemiya2, Karl Hage5, Andres Acosta3, Michael Camilleri3, Barham Abu Dayyeh3, Kelvin Higa2, Omar M. Ghanem3
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
3:00 PM
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 Ko3, Do Han Kim2, Wilhelm S. Basegoda4, Jose A. Porres5, Paul T. Kröner6, Christopher C. Thompson1
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
3:15 PM
TRENDS IN GLP-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST UTILIZATION AND BARIATRIC SURGERY RATES: A REAL-WORLD ANALYSIS FROM 2021-2024
Ahmed Telbany, Evelyn Inga, Pooja Viswanath, Abhishek Patel, Gulshan Parasher
Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
3:30 PM
ADJOURNMENT OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS RECEPTION & AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
San Diego Convention Center
Tortuga Room