Embargo Policy
Studies scheduled for presentation at the American Surgical Association's 135th Annual Meeting, April 23-25, 2015, San Diego, California
The embargo on studies and their associated abstracts (including those posted online prior to the conference) scheduled for presentation at the American Surgical Association's 135th Annual Meeting, April 23-25, 2015, San Diego, California, is the date and time of each individual scientific presentation (not the beginning of the overall session in which it has been scheduled). News media activities are restricted until the embargo lifts. Any news media activity about a study and its associated abstract must include the following: "The complete manuscript of this study and its presentation at the American Surgical Association's 135th Annual Meeting, April 2015, in San Diego, California, is anticipated to be published in the Annals of Surgery pending editorial review."

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
8:15 AM	Marina Ballroom E-G OPENING SESSION President's Opening Remarks Secretary's Welcome & Introduction of New Fellows Elected in 2014 President's Introduction of Honorary Fellows Presentation of the Medallion for Scientific Achievement Presentation of the Medallion for the Advancement of Surgical Care Past President Eulogies Report of the Committee on Arrangements
9:10 AM - 11:00 AM	Marina Ballroom E-G SCIENTIFIC SESSION I Moderator: Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D.
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM	1. Combined Preoperative Mechanical Bowel Preparation with Oral Antibiotics Significantly Reduces Surgical Site Infection, Anastomotic Leak and Ileus After Colorectal Surgery Ravi P. Kiran*, A.C. Murray*, Cody Chiuzan*, David Estrada*, Kenneth A Forde New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM	2. Frozen Red Blood Cells are Safe and Effective: A Prospective Randomized Trial Martin A. Schreiber1, John B. Holcomb2, Bryce Robinson*3, Joseph Minei4, Ronald Stewart5, Laszlo Kiraly*1, Belinda McCully*1, Bryan Cotton*6, Dina Gomaa*3, Michael W. Cripps*4, Mark DeRosa*5, Samantha Underwood*1 1Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR;2Univrsity of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX;3University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH;4University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX;5University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX;6University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM	3. Impact Of The Addition Of Carboplatin And/or Bevacizumab To Neoadjuvant Paclictaxel Followed By Doxorubicin And Cyclophosphamide On Breast Conservation Rates In Triple-negative Breast Cancer: Surgical Results From CALGB 40603 (Alliance). Mehra Golshan*1, Constance T. Cirrincione*2, Donald T. Berry*3, William M. Sikov*4, Sara Jasinski*2, Tracy F. Weisberg*5, George Somlo*6, Eric P. Winer*7, Clifford Hudis*8, David W. Ollila9 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA;2Alliance Statistics and Data Center; Duke University, Durham, NC;3Alliance Statistics and Data Center, MD Anderson, Houston, TX;4Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI;5Maine Center for Cancer Medicine, Scarborough, ME;6City of Hope Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA;7Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA;8Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY;9University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll, NC
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM	4. Changing Paradigms in the Management of 2184 Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Bellal Joseph*, Ansab A. Haider*, Viraj Pandit*, Andrew Tang*, Narong Kulvatunyou*, Terence O'Keeffe*, Peter Rhee The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM	Marina Ballroom E-G PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM	Introduction of the President John M. Daly, M.D.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Address by the President Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D.
1:30 PM - 5:15 PM	Marina Ballroom E-G SCIENTIFIC SESSION II Moderator: James S. Economou, M.D.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM	5. Factors Influencing the Decision of Surgery Residency Graduates to Pursue General Surgery Practice or Fellowship Mary E. Klingensmith1, Thomas H Cogbill2, Fred A Luchette3, Thomas A. Biester*4, Kelli Samonte*4, Andrew Jones*4, Mark A Malangoni4 1Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO;2Gundersen Health System, LaCrosse, WI;3Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, IL;4American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM	6. Genome-Wide Association Study of Post-Burn Scarring Identifies a Novel Protective Variant Ravi F. Sood*, Anne M. Hocking*, Lara A. Muffley*, Maricar Ga*, Shari Honari*, Alexander P. Reiner*, Nicole S. Gibran UW Medicine Regional Burn Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM	7. Long-Term Outcomes of Helper Peptide Vaccination for Metastatic Melanoma Yinin Hu*, Helen Kim*, Christopher M. Blackwell*, Mark E. Smolkin*, Craig L. Slingluff, Jr. University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM	8. Defining 10 Year Outcomes with Living Donor Liver Transplantation in North America Kim M. Olthoff1, Abby Smith*2, Michael Abecassis3, Talia Baker*3, Carl Berg*4, Charlotte Beil*2, Jean Emond5, Gregory Everson*6, Chris Freise7, Brenda Gillespie*2, Benjamin Samstein*5, Abraham Shaked1 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;2Arbor Research, Ann Arbor, MI;3Northwestern University, Chicago, IL;4Duke University, Durham, NC;5Columbia University, New York, NY;6University of Colorado, Denver, CO;7University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM	9. Overall Survival and Renal Function of Patients with Bilateral Wilms Tumor Undergoing Surgery at a Single Institution Andrew M. Davidoff1, Rodrigo B. Interiano*1, Lynn Wynn*1, Noel Delos Santos*1, Jeffrey S. Dome*2, Rachel C. Brennan*1, M. Elizabeth McCarville*1, Matthew J. Krasin*1, Kathleen Kieran*3, Mark A. Williams*1 1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN;2Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC;3University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM	10. Prophylactic Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement Does Not Result in a Survival Benefit for Trauma Patients Mark R. Hemmila*1, Nicholas H. Osborne*1, Peter K. Henke1, John P. Kepros*2, Sujal G. Patel*3, Nancy J. Birkmeyer*1 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;2Michigan State University, Lansing, MI;3Covenant Medical Center, Saginaw, MI
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM	11. Autologous Reconstruction and Visceral Transplantation for Gut Failure Following Bariatric Surgery: 20 years of experience Kareem M. Abu-Elmagd1, Guilherme Costa*2, Ruy J. Cruz*2, Masato Fujiki*1, Koji Hashimoto*1, Neha Parekh*1, Ajai Khanna*1, Abhinav Humar2, John Fung1 1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH;2University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
4:25 PM - 4:50 PM	12. Resection Margin And Survival In 2371 Patients Undergoing Hepatic Resection For Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Surgical Technique Or A Biologic Surrogate? Eran Sadot*, Bas Groot Koerkamp*, Julie Leal*, Jinru Shia*, Mithat Gonen*, Peter J. Allen, Ronald P. DeMatteo, T. Peter Kingham*, William R. Jarnagin, Michael I. D'Angelica Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NEW YORK, NY
4:50 PM - 5:15 PM	13. Treatment of 200 Locally Advanced (Stage III) Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Patients with Irreversible Electroporation: Safety and Efficacy Robert C.G. Martin1, David Kwon*2, Sricharan Chalikonda*3, Marty Sellars*4, Eric Kortz*5, Charles R. Scoggins*1, Kevin T. Watkins*6, Kelly M. McMasters1 1University of Louisville, Louisville, KY;2Henry Ford Hospital Department of Surgery, Detroit, MI;3Cleveland Clinic Department of Surgery, Cleveland, OH;4Piedmont Hospital Department of Surgery, Atlanta, GA;5Swedish Medical Center Department of Surgery, Denver, CO;6Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Atlanta, GA
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Mission Hills ASA WOMEN IN SURGERY BREAKFAST
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Marina Ballroom E-G SCIENTIFIC SESSION III Moderator: Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D.
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM	14. Prospective Randomized Double Blinded Trial Comparing Two Anti-mrsa Agents With Supplemental Coverage To Cefazolin Prior To Lower Extremity Revascularization. Patrick A. Stone*, Ali abuRahma, Stephen Hass*, Albeir Mousa*, Asmita Modak*, Mary Emmett*, James Campbell*, Aravinda Nanjundappa*, Mohit Srivastiva* WVU, Charleston, WV
8:25 AM - 8:50 AM	15. Early Versus Late Hospital Readmission After Major Procedures Among Patients With Employer-Provided Health Insurance Yuhree Kim*, Gaya Spolverato*, Aslam Ejaz*, Joe Canner*, Eric Schneider*, Timothy M. Pawlik Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
8:50 AM - 9:15 AM	16. Fast as a Predictor of Outcomes After Resuscitative Thoracotomy: A Prospective Evaluation Kenji Inaba*, Konstantinos Chouliaras*, Scott Zakaluzny*, Pedro Teixeira*, Emre Sivrikoz*, Crystal Ives*, Galinos Barmparas*, Nikos Koronakis*, Demetrios Demetriades LAC+USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM	17. Tumor Genotype Determines Phenotype and Disease-Related Outcomes in Thyroid Cancer: A Study of 1,510 Patients Linwah Yip*, Marina N. Nikiforova*, Jenny Yoo*, Kelly L. McCoy*, Michael T. Stang*, Kristina J. Nicholson*, Michaele J. Armstrong*, Steven P. Hodak*, Robert L. Ferris*, Yuri E. Nikiforov*, Sally E. Carty University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM	18. Intraoperative Molecular Imaging Provides Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Primary Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Gregory T. Kennedy*1, Olugbenga T. Okusanya*1, Daniel F. Heitjan*1, Charuhas Deshpande*1, Leslie A. Litzky*1, Jane J. Keating*1, Steven M. Albelda*1, Shuming Nie*2, Philip S. Low*3, Jeffrey A. Drebin1, Sunil Singhal*1 1University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA;2Emory University, Atlanta, GA;3Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM	19. Factors Predicting Outcomes After Total Pancreatectomy And Islet Auto Transplant -Lessons Learned From Over 500 Cases Srinath Chinnakotla*, Gregory Beilman, Ty Dunn*, Melena Bellin*, Martin Freeman*, Mustafa Arain*, Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg*, David Radosevich*, Alfred Clavel*, David Sutherland, Timothy Pruett University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Marina Ballroom E-G FORUM DISCUSSION Development of Surgical Scientists Moderator: Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D. Sources of Funding Ronald J. Weigel University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA ACS Scholarships Generating Academic Leaders Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr. UVA Health System, Charlottesville, VA Assuring Productivity: The Role of the Chair Timothy J. Eberlein Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO My Grant Was Denied: What Now? Charles E. Lucas Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Marina Ballroom E-G SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV Moderator: John M. Daly, M.D.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM	20. The Relationship Between Margin Width And Local Recurrence (LR) Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS): 3001 Women Treated With Breast-conserving Surgery (BCS) Over 30 Years Kimberly J. Van Zee, Preeti D. Subhedar*, Cristina Olcese*, Sujata Patil*, Monica Morrow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM	21. Sarcoma Resection With and Without Vascular Reconstruction: A Matched Case-Control Study George A. Poultsides*, Thuy B. Tran*, David G. Mohler*, Matthew W. Mell*, Raffi S. Avedian*, Brendan C. Visser*, Jason T. Lee*, Kristen Ganjoo*, E. John Harris*, Jeffrey A. Norton Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM	22. Management of the Parathyroid Glands in Preventative Thyroidectomy for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 Jeffrey F. Moley, Kathryn A. Rowland, Linda Jin*, Amber L. Traugott, Michael A. Skinner*, Samuel A. Wells Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM	23. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons voluntary public reporting initiative: the first four years David Shahian1, Frederick Grover2, Richard Prager3, Fred Edwards*4, Giovanni Filardo*5, Sean O'Brien*6, Xia He*6, Anthony Furnary*7, J. Scott Rankin*8, Vinay Badhwar*9, Joseph Cleveland*2, Franco Fazzalari*3, Mitchell Magee*10, Jane Han*11, Jeffrey Jacobs*12 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;2University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, CO;3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;4University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL;5Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX;6Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC;7Starr-Wood Cardiac Group, Portland, OR;8Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;9University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;10HCA Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TX;11Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago, IL;12Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Saint Petersburg, FL
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM	24. Complete Pathologic Response to Pretransplant Locoregional Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Defines Cancer Cure after Liver Transplantation: Analysis of 501 Consecutively Treated Patients Vatche G. Agopian*, Maud Morshedi*, Michael Harlander-Locke*, Justin McWilliams*, Ali Zarrinpar*, Fady M. Kaldas*, Douglas G. Farmer, Daniela Markovic*, Hasan Yersiz*, Jonathan R. Hiatt, Ronald W Busuttil UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM	25. Use Of A Bundle Checklist Combined With Provider Confirmation Reduced Risk Of Nosocomial Complications And Death In Trauma Patients Don Reiff*, Thomas Shoultz*, Russell Griffin*, Benjamin Taylor*, Loring W. Rue, III University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Marina Ballroom E-G EXECUTIVE SESSION ASA Fellows Only Presentation of the Flance-Karl Award
7:00 PM	Marina Ballroom Foyer ANNUAL RECEPTION
8:00 PM	Marina Ballroom ANNUAL BANQUET
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2015
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Marina Ballroom E-G SCIENTIFIC SESSION V Moderator: New President- Elect
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM	26. Collected World Experience of the Snorkel/Chimney Endovascular Technique in the Treatment of Complex Aortic Aneurysms: The PERICLES Registry Jason T. Lee*1, Konstantinos Donas*2, Mario Lachat*3, Giovanni Torsello*2, Frank J. Veith4 1Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA;2Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany; 3University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4New York University-Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
8:25 AM - 8:50 AM	27. How Well Does Renal Transplantation Cure Hyperparathyroidism? Irene Lou*, Scott Odorico*, David Foley*, David Schneider*, Rebecca Sippel*, Herbert Chen University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
8:50 AM - 9:15 AM	28. A Quarter Century of Organ Protection in Open Thoracoabdominal Repair Anthony L. Estrera*, Harleen K. Sandhu*, Kristofer M. Charlton-Ouw*, Rana O. Afifi*, Ali Azizzadeh*, Charles C. Miller, III*, Hazim J. Safi University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, HOUSTON, TX
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM	29. Racial Disparity in African American Renal Transplants: Is Alemtuzumab Induction the Great Equalizer? Alison A. Smith*, Mira John*, Isabelle Dortonne*, Anil S. Paramesh*, Mary Killackey*, Rubin Zhang*, Belinda Lee*, Bernard M. Jaffe, Joseph F. Buell* Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM	30. Trans-Abdominal Redo Ileal Pouch Surgery For Failed Restorative Proctocolectomy Lessons Learned Over 500 Patients Feza H. Remzi*, Erman Aytac*, Jean Ashburn*, Jinyu Gu*, Tracy L. Hull*, David W. Dietz*, Luca Stocchi*, James M. Church, Bo Shen* Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM	31. Components Of Hospital Perioperative Infrastructure Can Overcome The Weekend Effect In Urgent General Surgery Procedures Anai N. Kothari*1, Matthew A.C. Zapf*2, Robert Blackwell*3, Victor Chang*2, Zhiyong Mi*1, Gopal N. Gupta*3, Paul C. Kuo1 1Loyola University Chicago, Department of Surgery, Maywood, IL;2Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL;3Loyola University Chicago, Department of Urology, Maywood, IL
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM	32. A Longitudinal Assessment of Outcomes, Cost, and Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Immediate Breast Reconstruction- Comparing Implant and Autologous Reconstruction John P. Fischer*, Justin P. Fox*, Liza C. Wu*, Suhail K. Kanchwala*, Joshua Fosnot*, Stephen J. Kovach*, Joseph M. Serletti Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
11:00 AM	ADJOURN

* By Invitation