Program | Residents & Fellows
SSAT 41st RESIDENTS & FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026 | 7:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Program Outline
(Subject to Change)
McCormick Place Convention Center | Chicago, IL
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®
All Research Conference sessions will be in W179a of McCormick Place Convention Center unless otherwise indicated.
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026
| Moderators: |
Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, MD Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD Anne O. Lidor, MD, MPH Gregory Kennedy, MD, PhD, MBA Andreas Kaiser, MD, FACS, FASCRS Daniel M. Jones, MD |
7:30 AM
WELCOME BREAKFAST
8:00 AM
COMMENCEMENT OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE
METASTASECTOMY IMPROVES SURVIVAL IN MSI-HIGH CRLM PATIENTS IN THE IMMUNOTHERAPY ERA: A NATIONAL CANCER DATABASE ANALYSIS
Kevin Perez
1,
2, Victor Dominguez
1,
2, Maher Sraj
2, David Caba Molina
1, Vicente Ramos
1, Aaron Saunders
2, Emanuel Eguia
2
1Surgical Oncology, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, CA, United States; 2Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, United States
AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER TUMOR REGRESSION GRADE AFTER NEOADJUVANT THERAPY: IMPLICATIONS FOR LONG-TERM OUTCOMES IN RECTAL CANCER
Michel Gardere Camargo, Scott Steele, Mikhael Belkovsky, Stefan D. Holubar, Michael Valente, Hermann Kessler, David Liska, Leonardo Duraes
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
RECURRENCE PATTERNS AND SURVIVAL IN RESECTED T4 COLON ADENOCARCINOMA
Ryan B Morgan, Kilian Brown, Taylor Neilson, Megan Delisle, Kentaro Ochiai, Y. Nancy You, Brian Keith Bednarski, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Ramy S Behman, Jeongyoon Moon, Craig A Messick, Montserrat Guraieb Trueba, Miguel Rodriguez Bigas, George J Chang, Josh Smith, Paul Mansfield, Yun Song, Beth Helmink, Keith Fournier, Paula Marincola Smith, Michael White
Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
HIGH FIBER PREHABILITATION RESCUES DIET INDUCED ANASTOMOTIC LEAK IN MICE
Mohsen Rouhani Ravari
2, James Bradford
2, Andrea D. Olivas
2, Kristina Martinez-Guryn
1, Orlando DeLeon
2, Benjamin Daniel Shogan
2
1Midwestern University - Downers Grove Campus, Downers Grove, IL, United States; 2The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTION IN THE UES FOR RETROGRADE CRICOPHARYNGEUS DYSFUNCTION (BOTUS R-CPD): FIRST RESULTS OF A TRIPLE-BLIND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Karlien Raymenants
1,
2, Tim Vanuytsel
2,
1, Joris Arts
3,
1, Karen Van Den Houte
1, Filip J Baert
4, Nathalie Rommel
1, Jan F. Tack
1,
2, Kathelijne Delsupehe
4
1Targid, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; 2UZ Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; 3AZ Sint-Lucas Brugge, Bruges, Flanders, Belgium; 4AZ Delta VZW, Roeselare, Flanders, Belgium
COMPARATIVE RISK OF POSTOPERATIVE GASTROPARESIS AFTER POEM VERSUS HELLER MYOTOMY FOR ACHALASIA
Ahmed Aly
1,
2, Penelope Rechtorovic
1,
2, Vineeth Sadda
1,
2, Himsikhar Khataniar
2,
4, Ping Zheng
1,
2, Shahin Ayazi
1,
2,
3
1Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Chevalier Jackson Esophageal Research Center, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 3Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States; 4Department of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
UTILIZATION PATTERNS AND ONE-YEAR OUTCOMES OF HELLER MYOTOMY VS POEM
Kevin Nguyen
1, Ahmed Telbany
2, Amal Shine
2
1The University of New Mexico Department of Internal Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States; 2The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
DOES TYPE OF FUNDOPLICATION AFFECT RECURRENCE RATES FOLLOWING PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR?
Ayesha Siddiq
1,
2, Nicholas Catanzaro
2, Mujjahid Abbas
1,
2, Joshua Lyons
1,
2, Hamza Chatha
1,
2, Patrick Wieland
1,
2, Saher-Zahra Khan
1,
2, Nicolette M Winder
1,
2, Samuel J Zolin
1,
2, Jeffrey M. Marks
1,
2, Leena Khaitan
1,
2
1Surgery, University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, OH, United States; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
EFFECTS OF A STANDARDIZED PANCREATIC EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY CARE PROTOCOL ON WEIGHT RECOVERY, CHEMOTHERAPY FEASIBILITY, AND ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES AFTER PANCREATECTOMY
Poowanon Saksiri, Thakerng Pitakteerabundit, Tortrakoon Thongkan, Siriyupa Kaewbunsri, Ponlagrit Kumwichar
Prince of Songkla University Faculty of Medicine, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
DECISION REGRET AND LONG-TERM QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ENDOSCOPIC SURVEILLANCE VS TOTAL GASTRECTOMY IN CDH1 PATIENTS
Divya Lakshmi Deverakonda, Noah Xavier Tocci, Jared Hendren, Jenny H Chang, Erlind Allkushi, Breanna Perlmutter, Robert Naples, Daniel Joyce, Robert Simon, Carol A. Burke, R Matthew Walsh
General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
REGIONAL NODAL STATUS INFLUENCES RECURRENCE PATTERNS FOLLOWING HEPATECTOMY FOR MULTIFOCAL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Kever A. Lewis
1, Elena Panettieri
2, Galen Gist
1, Francesco Ardito
2, Mario De Bellis
3, Andrea Ruzzenente
3, Iolanda Scoleri
4, Emmanueal Boleslawski
4, Kristoffer W. Brudvik
5, Flavio Milana
6, Guido Torzilli
6, Guillauma Passot
7, Madhulika Eluri
1, Sunyoung S. Lee
1, Z. Ian Hu
1, Shubham Pant
1, Milind Javle
1, Adriana C. Gamboa
1, Yun Shin Chun
1, Ching-Wei D Tzeng
1, Felice Giuliante
2, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
1, Hop S Tran Cao
1, Timothy E Newhook
1
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 2Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Lazio, Italy; 3Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona Sede di Borgo Roma, Verona, Veneto, Italy; 4Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille, Hauts-de-France, France; 5Oslo Universitetssykehus, Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 6IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Lombardia, ITALY 7Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , France
ROLE OF KRAS MUTATIONS IN HEPATIC PFS FOR UNRESECTABLE CRLM RECEIVING HAI THERAPY
Alexis Andrea Webber, Caio Max S. Rocha Lima, Michael McCormack, Ravi Paluri, Perry Shen
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENDOLOOP-ASSISTED, FULLTHICKNESS, AND APC-ASSISTED TRANSORAL OUTLET REDUCTION IN TREATMENT FOR WEIGHT REGAIN AFTER ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL PRELIMINARY RESULT
Aniwat Saleepol
1, Parit Mekaroonkamol
1,
2, Kittithat Tantitanawat
3, Sireenada Sattawatthamrong
4, Aisawan Asumpinawong
5, Kasenee Tiankanon
1, Phonthep Angsuwatcharakon
6,
4, Pradermchai Kongkam
1,
4, Suthep Udomsawaengsup
5,
4, Rungsun Rerknimitr
1,
4
1King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital Department of Internal Medicine, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; 2Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; 4Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; 5King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital Department of Surgery, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; 6King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital Department of Anatomy, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
TIME-DEPENDENT RECURRENCE RISK AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AFTER HEPATIC RESECTION FOR NEUROENDOCRINE LIVER METASTASES
Kyoji Ito
1, Mikel Madi
1, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi
2, Elena Panettieri
3, Adriana C. Gamboa
1, Timothy E Newhook
1, Yun Shin Chun
1, Hop S Tran Cao
1, Ching-Wei D Tzeng
1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
1, Jessica E. Maxwell
1
1Surgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 2Tokyo Daigaku, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan; 3Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Lazio, Italy
MYELOID-SPECIFIC TLR4 SIGNALING DRIVES EARLY CYTOKINE SURGE AND CD4+ T-CELL CYTOTOXICITY THAT REDUCES PANCREATIC TUMOR BURDEN IN PRECLINICAL MODELS
Utpreksha Vaish
2, Suryansh Suryansh
2, Dhanisha Sulekha Suresh
2, Maria Fernanda Noriega Salcedo
2, Abhiram Beena Kannan
2, Sweta Bhandari
2, Tejeshwar Jain
2, Srikanth Iyer
2, Vikas Dudeja
1
1Surgery, University of Iowa Health Care, Birmingham, AL, United States; 2The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
SEX DIFFERENCES IN OPIOID-SPARING ANALGESIA: INSIGHTS FROM THE TOWARD OPIOID FREE AMBULATORY SURGERY (TOFAS) PROGRAM
Sidhant Kalsotra, William Taylor Head, Divyaam Satija, Stefanie C Rohde, Savannah Renshaw, Benjamin Poulose
General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
VENTRAL HERNIA COMPLEXITY DOES NOT PREDICT FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES: OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE FINDINGS FROM ABVENTURE-P
Sidhant Kalsotra
2, Mengda Yu
3, Kiana Shannon
2, Peter Edwards
2, Savannah Renshaw
2, Elanna Arhos
1, Lai Wei
3, Stephanie Di Stasi
4,
5, Ajit Chaudhari
5,
6,
7, Benjamin Poulose
2
1Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States; 2The Ohio State University Department of Surgery, Columbus, OH, United States; 3Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Biostatistics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States; 4The Ohio State University Division of Physical Therapy, Columbus, OH, United States; 5The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Sports Medicine Research Institute, Columbus, OH, United States; 6The Ohio State University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States; 7Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
SINGLE VERSUS DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY FOR SMALL-BOWEL EVALUATION: UPDATED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF EFFICACY AND SAFETY WITH EMPHASIS ON OBSCURE GI BLEEDING DETECTION
Hamza Altal, Mohammad Darweesh, Saba Daher, Usama Abu-Heija, Asaiel Makahleh, Chakradhar M Reddy
Internal Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States
EARLY SURGERY VS SERIAL ENDOSCOPIC BALLOON DILATION FOR ILEAL CROHN’S STRICTURES: A 15-YEAR MULTICENTER REAL-WORLD COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS STUDY
Ahmed Salem
2, Shrouq Khazaaleh
1, Asad ur Rahman
3, Fatima Khan
2, Effa Zahid
3, Inas Fouad Soliman Mikhail
5, Jana G Hashash
4, Mohammad Alomari
1
1Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States; 2Maimonides Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 3Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, United States; 4Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States; 5Staten Island University Hospital, New York, NY, United States
TUBE-IN-TUBE ENDOSCOPIC VACUUM THERAPY (TT-EVT) FOR ESOPHAGOJEJUNAL ANASTOMOTIC LEAKS IN ONCOLOGIC PATIENTS
Marcelo Simas de Lima, Ylanna Fortes Fonseca, Gustavo Andrade De Paulo, Renata Nobre Moura, Bruno da Costa Martins, Luciano Lenz, Fernanda Carvalho Franco, Adriana Medeiros Lima, Marcelo Morganti Ferreira Dias, Megui Marilia Mansilla Gallegos, Caterina Maria Pia Simoni Pennacchi, Carla Cristina Gusmon Oliveira, Sebastian Naschold Geiger, Amanda Aquino de Miranda Pombo, Marina Tucci Gammaro Baldavira Ferreira, Andressa Abnader Machado, Cesar Capel de Clemente, Adriana Safatle-Ribeiro, Fauze Maluf Filho
Endoscopy, Cancer Institute of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
ADJUVANT THERAPIES FOR R0 RESECTED PN0 STAGE I-III EXTRAHEPATIC CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
G. Aitken, A.M. Fleming, P.V. Dickson
Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
11:30 AM
NETWORKING LUNCHEON WITH SSAT LEADERS
12:30 PM
ADJOURNMENT OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE