President's Opening Remarks
Secretary's Welcome & Introduction of
New Fellows Elected In 2008

President's Introduction of Honorary Fellows

Report of the Committee on Arrangements

Eulogies for Michael E. DeBakey, MD, David Sabiston, MD, and James C. Thompson, MD

SCIENTIFIC SESSION I
Moderator: Anthony D. Whittemore., MD

1. Does Surgical Quality Improve in the American College of Surgeons? National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP): An Evaluation of All Participating Hospitals
*Bruce L Hall, MD, PhD, MBA¹, *Barton H Hamilton, PhD¹, *Karen Richards, BS², *Karl Y Bilmoria, MD, MS, *Mark E Cohen, PhD², *Clifford Y Ko, MD, MS, MSHS^4
1Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO; ²American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL; ³Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ⁴UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Sponsored By: Thomas R. Russell, MD, American College of Surgeons

2. Endograft Repair of Traumatic Aortic Injury - A Technique in Evolution
*David G Neschis, MD¹, *Sina Moainie, MD¹, *William R Flinn, MD¹, Thomas M Scalea, MD², Stephen T Bartlett, MD¹, Bartley P Griffith, MD^1
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD

3. Secondary Intervention after Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (EVAR)
*Andrew B Adams, MD, *Mark F Conrad, MD, *Julie M Guest, BS, David C Brewster, MD, *Glenn M LaMuraglia, MD, Richard P Cambria, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

4. The Better Colectomy Project: Association of best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery
*Alexander F Arriaga, MD^{1 & 2}, *Robert T Lancaster, MD, MPH^{2 & 3}, *William R Berry, MD, MPH, MPA², *Scott E Regenbogen, MD, MPH^{2 & 3}, *Stuart R Lipsitz, ScD¹, *Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, MD, MPH^{2 & 6}, *Andrew W Elbardissi, MD, MPH^{1 & 2}, *Priya Desai, BA, MPH^{1 & 2}, *Stephen J. Ferzoco, MD⁴, *Ronald Bleday, MD³, *Elizabeth Breen, MD¹, *William V. Kastrinakis, MD⁵, *Marc S. Rubin, MD⁵, *Atul A Gawande, MD, MPH^{1 & 2}
1 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; 3 Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA; 4Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA; 5North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA; 6Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA.

Sponsored By: Stanley W. Ashley, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Introduction of the President
Thomas R. Russell, MD

Address by the President
Anthony D. Whittemore, MD

SCIENTIFIC SESSION II
Moderator: Donald D. Trunkey, MD

5. Randomized Controlled Trial to Determine the Efficacy of Long-Term Growth Hormone Treatment in Severely Burned Children
*Ludwik K Branski, MD, David N. Herndon, MD, *Gabriela A Kulp, MS, *Gordon L Klein, MD, *Felicia N. Williams, MD, *David L. Chinkes, PhD, *Marc G. Jeschke, MD, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, Galveston, TX

6. Personalized Medicine: Genetic Variation and Early Loss of Physiologic Complexity are Associated with Mortality in 633 Trauma Patients
*Patrick R Norris, PhD, *Jeffrey A Canter, MD, *Judith M Jenkins, MSN, *Anna E Williams, BA, John A Morris, Jr., MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

7. Validation of the Riboleukogram to Detect Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia after Severe Injury
*J. Perren Cobb, MD¹, Ernest E. Moore, MD², *Doug L. Hayden, MA³, *Joseph P. Minei, MD⁴, *Joseph Cuschieri, MD⁵, *Jingyun Yang, PhD³, *Bernard H. Brownstein, PhD¹, *Laura Hennessy, RN⁶, *Philip H. Mason, PhD³, *William S. Schierding, MS¹, *David J. Dixon, PhD¹, Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD³, *H. Shaw Warren, MD³, *David A. Schoenfeld, PhD³, Ronald V. Maier, M^5
1Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; ²University of Colorado, Denver, CO; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁴University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX; ⁵University of Washington, Seattle, WA; ⁶Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

8. Impact of Motorcycle Helmets and State Laws on Society's Burden: A National Study
Martin A. Croce, MD, *Ben L. Zarzaur, MD, *Louis J. Magnotti, MD, Timothy C. Fabian, MD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

9. Impact of Future Liver Remnant Volume on Outcome in 301 Consecutive Extended Right Hepatectomies
*Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, MD, *Yoji Kishi, MD, *Yun S Chun, MD, *David C Madoff, MD, *Martin Palavecino, MD, *Michael J Wallace, MD, *Eddie K Abdalla, MD, Steven A Curley, MD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

10. Underuse of Surgical Resection in Patients with Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer: Location, Location, Location
*Nestor F Esnaola, MD, MPH¹, *Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD¹, *Chris Finney, MIS², *Marvella Ford, PhD^1
1Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ²South Carolina Office of Research and Statistics, Charleston, SC

Sponsored By: David Cole, MD, Medical University of South Carolina

11. Parenteral Fish Oil Improves Outcomes in Patients with Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Injury
*Mark Puder, MD, PhD, *Jonathan A Meisel, MD, *Valim Clarissa, MD, ScD, *Hau D Le, MD, *Elizabeth M Robinson, BA, *Katherine B Novak, BS, *Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, *Kathleen M Gura, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA

Sponsored By: Robert C. Shamberger, MD, Children's Hospital Boston

12. Ipsilateral vs. Bilateral Central Neck Lymph Node Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
*Tracy-Ann S Moo, MD¹, *Ben Umunna, BS¹, *Meredith Kato, MD¹, *Anna Kundel, MD¹, *James Lee, MD², *Rasa Zarnegar, MD¹, *Thomas J Fahey, III, MD^1
1New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY; ²New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, New York, NY

Sponsored By: Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College

13. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy is Accurate and Reduces the Need for Axillary Dissection in Breast Cancer
Kelly K Hunt, MD, *Min Yi, MD, *Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, *Cynthia Guerrero, BA, *Gildy V. Babiera, MD, *Isabelle Bedrosian, *Rosa F. Hwang, MD, *Henry M. Kuerer, MD, Phd, Merrick I. Ross, MD, *Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

SCIENTIFIC SESSION III
Moderator: Anthony D. Whittemore, MD

14. Small-incision Mitral Valve Repair: Safe, Durable, and Approaching Perfection
*James S Gammie, MD, Stephen T Bartlett, MD, Bartley P Griffith, MD
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

15. Anti-RAGE Therapies as Novel Treatment for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
*Fan Zhang, MD, PhD¹, *Bo Liu, PhD¹, *Dai Yamanouchi, MD, PhD¹, *Yan Zhang², *Kaori Kato, MD¹, *Shirling Tsai, MD³, *Roman Nowygrod, MD², *Ann Marie Schmidt², Craig K Kent, MD^1
1University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI; ²Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ³Weill Medical School, Cornell University, New York, NY

16. Understanding Variations In Surgical Mortality In Medicare Patients
*Amir A Ghaferi, MD, *Nicholas H. Osborne, MD, John D. Birkmeyer, MD, *Justin B. Dimick, MD, MPH
University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, MI

17. Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-Extremity Vascular Amputation?
*Scott E Regenbogen, MD, MPH^{1 & 2}, *Atul A Gawande, MD, MPH^{2 & 3}, *Stuart R Lipsitz, ScD³, *Caprice C Greenberg, MD, MPH³, *Ashish K Jha, MD, MPH^3
1Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Sponsored By: Michael J. Zinner, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital

18. Will The Clinicians Support The Researchers and Teachers? Results of a Salary Satisfaction Survey of 1,038 Academic Surgeons
*John E Scarborough, MD, *Kyla M Bennett, MD, *Tristan B Swedish, BA, *Rebecca A Schroeder, MD, Danny O Jacobs, MD, Paul C Kuo, MD
Duke University, Durham, NC

19. Five Hundred Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantations at a Single Center
Kareem M Abu-Elmagd, MD, PhD, *Guilherme Costa, MD, *Geoffrey J Bond, MD, *Kyle Soltys, MD, *Rakesh Sindhi, MD, *George Mazariegos, MD
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

FORUM DISCUSSION
The Surgeon's Role in Global Health
Moderator: Anthony D. Whittemore, MD

Speakers:
Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH*
Brigham and Women's Hopsital, Boston, MA

Paul Farmer, MD*
Partners In Health, Boston, MA

SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV
Moderator: Thomas R. Russell, MD

20. Predictive Factors for Pathological Complete Response for Rectal Cancer Following Neoadjuvant Therapy
*Luiz FC Lobato, MD, *Luca Stocchi, MD, *Daniel Geisler, MD, *David Dietz, MD, Victor W Fazio, MD, *Ian C Lavery, MD, Mathew F Kalady, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

21. Rates and Patterns of Recurrence Following Curative Intent Surgery for Colorectal Liver Metastases: an International Multi-institutional Analysis of 1512 Patients
*Timothy M Pawlik, MD, MPH¹, *Mechteld de Jong, MD¹, *Carlo Pulitano, MD², *Dario Ribero, MD³, *Jennifer Strub, MD⁴, *Gilles Mentha, MD⁴, *Lorenzo Capussotti, MD³, *Michael A Choti, MD, MBA^1
1Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; ²Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; ³Unit of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, A.O. Ordine Mauriziano, Torino, Italy; ⁴University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Sponsored By: Frederic E. Eckhauser, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital

22. The Estimated Cost of Training the Future Surgical Workforce
*Thomas E Williams, Jr., MD, PhD, *Bhagwan Satiani, MD, MBA, *Andrew Thomas, E. Christopher Ellison, MD,
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

23. Redefining Geriatric Pre-Operative Assessment Using Frailty, Disability And Co-Morbidity
*Thomas N Robinson, MD¹, Ben Eiseman, MD¹, *Jeffrey I Wallace, MD, MPH¹, *Skotti D Church, BS¹, *Kim K McFann, PhD¹, *Shirley M Pfister, RN, MS, NP², *Terra J Sharp, NP-C¹, *Marc Moss, MD^1
1University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ²Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO

24. The Pediatric Surgeons’ Approach To In-Utero Treatment Of Feto-Fetal Transfusion Syndrome
*Francois I Luks, MD, PhD, *Stephen R Carr, MD, *Christopher S Muratore, MD, *Barbara M O'Brien, MD, Thomas F Tracy, Jr., MD, MS
Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

25. Burnout and Career Satisfaction Among American Surgeons; A Survey of 7905 ACS Members
Charles M Balch, MD, FACS¹,*Gerald J. Bechamps, MD, FACS², Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS³, Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS¹, *Tait D. Shanafelt, MD⁴, Paul Collicott, MD^3
1Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; ²Winchester Surgical Clinic, Winchester, VA; ³American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL; ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

EXECUTIVE SESSION
Fellows Only
Presentation of the Flance-Karl Award

SCIENTIFIC SESSION V
Moderator: New President-Elect

26. Portal-Systemic Encephalopathy in a Randomized Clinical Trial of Endoscopic Sclerotherapy Versus Emergency Portacaval Shunt Treatment of Acutely Bleeding Esophageal Varices in Cirrhosis
Marshall J Orloff, MD, *Jon I. Isenberg, MD, *Henry O. Wheeler, ME, *Kevin S. Haynes, MD, *Horacio Jinich-Brook, MD, *Roderick Rapier, MD, *Florin Vaida, PhD, *Robert J. Hye, MD,
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

27. Right Ventricle Infundibulum Sparing Tetralogy of Fallot Repair in Over 300 Patients
*David LS Morales, MD, *Farhan Zafar, MD, *Jeffrey S Heinle, MD, *Elena C OCampo, MD, Charles D Fraser, Jr., MD
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

28. Has Recognition of the Relationship Between Mortality and Hospital Volume for Major Cancer Surgery in California Made any Difference? Analysis of the Last Decade
*Warren J Gasper, MD¹, *Piero M Fisichella, MD², *David Glidden, MD¹, Lawrence W Way, MD¹, Marco G Patti, MD^3
1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Loyola University, Maywood, IL; ³University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

29. 1,000 Consecutive Pancreas-Kidney Transplants at a Single Center with 20 Years; Follow-up
Hans W Sollinger, MD, PhD, *Jon S Odorico, MD, *Yolanda T Becker, MD, Anthony M D'Alessandro, MD, *John D Pirsch, MD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

30. Fulminant Hepatic Failure in Children: Superior and Durable Outcomes with Liver Transplantation Over 25 Years at a Single Center
*Douglas G Farmer, MD, *Robert S Venick, MD, *Sue V McDiarmid, MD, *John Duffy, MD, *Omar Kattan, BS, *Johnny Hong, MD, *Jorge Vargas, MD, *Hasan Yersiz, MD, Ronald W Busuttil, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

31. A Prospective Randomized Trial of Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Versus Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity
Ninh T Nguyen, MD, *Johnathan A Slone, MD, MBA, MPH, *Marcelo W Hinojosa, MD, David B Hoyt, MD
UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA

32. Hepatic Metastasis At Diagnosis In Patients With Wilms Tumor Is Not An Independent Adverse Prognostic Factor. A Report From The Childrens Oncology Group- National Wilms Tumor Study(4/5)
*Peter F Ehrlich, MD¹, Robert C Shamberger, MD², *Fernado Ferrer, MD³, *Michael Ritchey, MD⁴, *James Anderson, PhD⁵, *Jeff Dome, MD⁶, *Daniel Green, MD⁷, *John Kalapurakal, MD⁸
1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2 Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA; 3 Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT; 4 Pediatric Urological Associates, Pheonix, AZ; 5 Nebraska Medical Center- University of Omaha, Omaha, NE; 6 Childrens National Medical Center, Washington, DC; 7 St Jude Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; 8 Northwestern University, Chicago, IL