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Studies scheduled for presentation at the American Surgical Association's 137th Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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 137th Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 137th Annual Meeting, April 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is anticipated to be published in the Annals of Surgery pending editorial review."

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017
8:15 AM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
OPENING SESSION

President's Opening Remarks
Secretary's Welcome & Introduction of New Fellows Elected In 2016
President's Introduction of Honorary Fellows
Presentation of the Medallion for the Advancement of Surgical Care
Past President Eulogy
Report of the Committee on Arrangements

9:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
SCIENTIFIC SESSION I
Moderator: Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM 1. Outcomes of Concurrent Operations: Results from the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
Jason B. Liu*1, Julia R. Berian*1, Kristen A. Ban*1, Yaoming Liu*1, Mark E. Cohen*1, Peter Angelos2, Jeffrey B. Matthews2, David B. Hoyt1, Bruce L. Hall1, Clifford Y. Ko1
1American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL; 2University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM 2. A Prospective Randomized Multicenter Trial of Distal Pancreatectomy with and without Routine Intraperitoneal Drainage
George Van Buren, II1, Mark Bloomston*2, Carl R. Schmidt*2, Stephen W. Behrman*3, Nicholas J. Zyromski*4, Chad G. Ball*5, Katherine A. Morgan*6, Steve J. Hughes*7, Paul J. Karanicolas*8, John D. Allendorf*9, Charles M. Vollmer, Jr.10, Quan Ly*11, Kimberly M. Brown12, Vic Velanovich13, Jordan M. Winter*14, Amy L. McElhany1, Peter Muscarella, II*2, C. Max Schmidt4, Michael G. House*4, Elijah Dixon5, Mary E. Dillhoff*2, Jose G. Trevino15, Julie Hallet*8, Natalie S.G. Coburn*8, Atilla Nakeeb*4, Kevin E. Behrns15, Aaron R. Sasson*11, Eugene P. Ceppa*4, Sherif R.Z. Abdel-Misih*2, Taylor S. Riall12, Eric J. Silberfein1, E. Christopher Ellison2, David B. Adams6, Cary Hsu1, Hop S. Tran Cao1, Somala Mohammed1, Nicole Villafañe Ferriol1, Omar Barakat1, Nader Massarweh1, Christy Chai1, J. Euberto Mendez1, Andrew Fang1, Eunji Jo1, Mo Qianxing1, William E. Fisher1
1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;3Baptist Memorial Hospital/University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN;4Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN;5University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;6Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC;7University of Florida, Gainesville, TX;8Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada;9Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY;10University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;11University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE;12The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; 13University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;14Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA;15University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM 3. Firearm Deaths In America: Can We Learn From the Almost Half-million Lives Lost?
Shelby Resnick, Randi N. Smith, Jessica Beard, Daniel N. Holena, Patrick M. Reilly, C. William Schwab, Mark J. Seamon
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM 4. Expanding the Margins: High Volume Utilization of Marginal Liver Grafts among 2000 Liver Transplants at a Single Institution
Karim J. Halazun1, Ralph C. Quillin2, Tomoaki Kato2, Craig R. Smith2, Fabrizio Michelassi1, Benjamin Samstein1, James V. Guarerra2, Robert S. Brown1, Jean C. Emond2
1Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; 2Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Introduction of the President
Theodore N. Pappas, M.D.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Address by the President
Surgical Mentorship: A Great Tradition, but Can We Do Better for the Next Generation?

Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.

1:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
SCIENTIFIC SESSION II
Moderator: Ronald V. Maier, M.D.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM 5. Cytolytic Induction Therapy Improves Clinical Outcomes in African-American Kidney Transplant Recipients
David J. Taber, John McGillicuddy, Charles Bratton, Satish Nadig, Derek Dubay, Prabhakar Baliga
MUSC, Charleston, SC
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM 6. Axillary Dissection, Nodal Recurrence and Extent of RT in Z0011 Eligible Breast Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study
Monica Morrow, Kimberly Van Zee, Melissa Pilewskie, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Andrea Barrio, George Plitas, Lisa Sclafani, Laurie Kirstein, Sujata Patil, Hiram Cody, III
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM 7. Improving Mortality and Decreasing VTE after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury:Low Molecular Weight Heparin is Superior to Unfractionated Heparin
Elizabeth Benjamin, Gustavo Recinos, Alberto Aiolfi, Kenji Inaba, Demetrios Demetriades
USC Los Angeles County Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM 8. Results of the First Prospective Multi-institutional Treatment Study in Children With Bilateral Wilms Tumor (AREN0534). A Report From the Children's Oncology Group.
Peter F. Ehrlich1, Murali Chintagumpala2, Yuen Chi3, Fred Hoffer4, Elizabeth Pearlman5, John Kalapurakal6, Anne Warwick7, Robert C. Shamberger8, Geetika Khanna9, Arnold Paulino10, Eric Gratias11, Elizabeth Mullen12, James Geller13, Jeff Dome14, Michael Ritchey15
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2MD Anderson Baylor, Houston, TX;3University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;4University of Washington, Seattle, WA;5Luire Childrens Hospital, Chicago, IL;6Northwestern, Chicago, IL;7Walter Reed Medical Center, Washinton, DC;8Boston Childrens and Harvard University, Boston, MA;9University of Washington at St Louis, St Louis, MO;10Md Anderson, Houston, TX;11Childrens Oncology Group, Atlanata, GA;12Dana Farber and Boston Childrens Hopsital, Boston, MA;13University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH;14Children National Medical Center, Washington DC, DC;15Phoenix Childrens Hosptial, Phoenix, AZ
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM 9. Intraoperative Molecular Imaging Is Superior to Positron Emission Tomography for Identifying Malignant Pulmonary Nodules
Jarrod D. Predina1, Andrew Newton1, Jane Keating1, Olugbenga Okusanya2, Jeffrey Drebin1, Sunil Singhal1
1University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; 2University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM 10. Laparoscopic Surgery For Small Bowel Obstruction Is Associated With A Higher Risk Of Bowel Injury: A Population-based Analysis Of 8,584 Consecutive Patients
Ramy Behman, Avery B. Nathens, James Byrne, Stephanie Mason, Nicole Look Hong, Paul J. Karanicolas
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM 11. Who Makes it to the End? A Novel Predictive Model for Identifying Surgical Residents at Risk of Dropping Out
Heather Yeo1, Jonathan Abelson1, Jialin Mao1, Frank Lewis2, Fabrizio Michelassi1, Richard H. Bell3, Art Sedrakyan1, Julie Sosa4
1New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; 2American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA;3Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA;4Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
4:25 PM - 4:50 PM 12. Trending Fibrinolytic Dysregulation: Changes in Fibrinolysis Over Hospitalization Predict Poor Outcome in Severely-injured Children
Christine Leeper, Matthew D. Neal, Christine McKenna, Barbara Gaines
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
4:50 PM - 5:15 PM 13. The 5th Vital Sign: Postoperative Pain Predicts 30-day Readmission and Emergency Department Visits
Mary T. Hawn1, Laura Graham2, Tyler Wahl2, Elise Aucoin2, Karishma Desai1, Melanie Morris2, Kamal Itani3, Gordon Telford4, Joshua Richman5, Tina Hernandez-Boussard1
1Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;3Boston VAMC, Boston, MA;4Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI;5University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birminham, AL
 
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Franklin 3–4
ASA WOMEN IN SURGERY BREAKFAST
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
SCIENTIFIC SESSION III
Moderator: Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM 14. Impact of Pretransplant Bridging Locoregional Therapy for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Within Milan Criteria Undergoing Liver Transplantation: Analysis of 3601 Patients from the US Multicenter HCC Transplant Consortium
Vatche G. Agopian1, Michael P. Harlander-Locke1, Richard M. Ruiz2, Goran B. Klintmalm2, Sander S. Florman3, Brandy Haydel3, Maarouf Hoteit4, David D. Lee5, C. Burcin Taner5, Elizabeth C. Verna6, Karim J. Halazun7, Amit D. Tevar8, Federico Aucejo9, William C. Chapman10, Neeta Vachharajani10, Marc L. Melcher11, Mindie H. Nguyen11, Trevor L. Nydam12, Constance Mobley13, Mark R. Ghobrial13, Beth M. Amundsen14, James F. Markmann14, Alan N. Langnas15, Carol A. Carney15, Jennifer Berumen16, Alan W. Hemming16, Debra L. Sudan17, Johnny C. Hong18, Joohyun Kim18, Michael A. Zimmerman18, Abbas Rana19, Michael L. Kueht19, Christopher M. Jones20, Thomas M. Fishbein*21, Ronald W. Busuttil1
1Dumont UCLA Transplant Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX;3Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY;4Penn Transplant Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA;5Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL;6New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY;7New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY;8Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA;9Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH;10Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO;11Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA;12Division of Transplant, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO;13Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX;14Division of Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;15Section of Transplantation, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE;16Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA;17Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC;18Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI;19Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX;20Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY;21Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
8:25 AM - 8:50 AM 15. Should Patients with Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas Undergo Long-Term Radiographic Surveillance? Results of 3,024 Patients Evaluated at a Single Institution
Sharon A Lawrence, Marc A Attiyeh, Kenneth Seier, Mithat Gonen, Vinod Balachandran, T Peter Kingham, Michael I D'Angelica, Ronald DeMatteo, Murray F Brennan, William R Jarnagin, Peter J Allen
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
8:50 AM - 9:15 AM 16. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Postoperative Thoracic Epidural Analgesia Versus Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia after Major Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Thomas A. Aloia*1, Bradford J. Kim1, Yun Shin Chun*1, Juan P. Cata*1, Mark J. Truty*2, Alexander Holmes*1, Jose M. Soliz*1, Keyuri U. Popat*1, Debra L. Kennamer*1, Thomas F. Rahlfs*1, Jeffrey E. Lee1, Vijaya Gottumukkala*1, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey1
1University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM 17. Wide Variation and Over-Prescription of Opioids Following Elective Surgery
Cornelius A. Thiels1, Stephanie S. Anderson1, Daniel S. Ubl1, Kristine T. Hanson1, Whitney J. Bergquist1, Richard J. Gray2, Halena M. Gazelka1, Robert R. Cima1, Elizabeth B. Habermann1
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM 18. Minimally Invasive Proctectomy Is Associated With Reduced Margin Positivity And Improved Survival In Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
Sarath Sujatha-Bhaskar, Mehraneh D. Jafari, John V. Gahagan, Steven Mills*, Joseph C. Carmichael*, Michael J. Stamos, Alessio Pigazzi*
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM 19. Readiness of US General Surgery Residents for Independent Practice
Brian George1, Jordan Bohnen2, Reed Williams3, Shari Meyerson4, Mary Schuller4, Andreas Meier*5, Laura Torbeck3, Samuel Mandell6, John Mullen*2, Douglas Smink*7, Jeffrey Chipman*8, Edward Auyan9, Kyla Terhune*10, Paul Wise*11, Jennifer Choi*3, Eugene Foley12, Justin Dimick1, Michael Choti13, Nathanial Soper4, Keith D. Lillemoe2, Joseph Zwischenberger14, Gary Dunnington3, Debra DaRosa4, Jonathan Fryer4
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;3Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN;4Northwestern University, Chicago, IL;5SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY;6University of Washington, Seattle, WA;7Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA;8University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;9University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;10Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;11Washington University, Saint Louis, MO;12University of Washington, Madison, WI;13University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX;14University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
FORUM DISCUSSION
A Lifetime of Surgical Education: Can We Do Better?
Moderator: Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.

Training in Surgery: Identifying, Preparing, and Providing the Optimal Experience for Our Residents
Mary E. Klingensmith, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

"Practice Ready": Competency Assessment of the Finishing Surgical Resident
Ara Darzi, M.D.
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Maintenance of Certification: The Reality of Sustaining Competency
Spence M. Taylor, M.D.
USC School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV
Moderator: Theodore N. Pappas, M.D.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM 20. Multicenter Randomized Prospective Trial Of Blood Transfusion In Major Burn Injury
Tina L. Palmieri1, James Holmes2, Brett Arnoldo3, Michael Peck4, Bruce Potenza*5, Amalia Cochran*6, Booker King7, William Dominick*8, Robert Cartotto*9, Dhaval Havsar*10, Nathan Kemalyan*11, Edward Tredget12, Francois Stapelberg13, David Mozingo*14, David G. Greenhalgh1, Bradley Pollock15
1University of California Davis and Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California, Sacramento, CA;2Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC;3University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX;4The Arizona Burn Center, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ;5University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA;6University of Utah Department of Surgery, Salt Lake City, UT;7Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX;8Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA;9Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada;10Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS;11Oregon Burn Center, Portland, OR;12University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada13New Zealand National Burn Centre, Middlemore Hospital, Middlemore, New Zealand14University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, FL;15University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM 21. Is Annual Surgical Volume Enough? The Role of Experience and Specialization on Inpatient Mortality Following Hepatectomy
Daniel A. Hashimoto, Yanik J. Bababekov, Sahael M. Stapleton, Keith D. Lillemoe, David C. Chang, Parsia A. Vagefi
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM 22. Understanding and Resetting Radiosensitivity in Rectal Cancer
Katherine A. Kelley, Shushan Rana, Rebecca Ruhl, Christian Lanciault, John G. Hunter, Charles R. Thomas, Sudarshan Anand, Vassiliki L. Tsikitis
Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM 23. Impact of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on Surgical Readmissions Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Andrew M. Ibrahim, Hari Nathan, Jyothi Thumma, Justin B. Dimick
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM 24. Surgical Management of Gallbladder Cancer: Simple versus Extended Cholecystectomy and the Role of Adjuvant Therapy
Gyulnara G. Kasumova, Omidreza Tabatabaie, Ayotunde B. Fadayomi, Sing Chau Ng, Jennifer F. Tseng
Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM 25. Failure to Diagnose Hyperparathyroidism in 10,432 Patients with Hypercalcemia: Opportunities for System-Level Intervention to Increase Surgical Referrals and Cure
Courtney Balentine, Rongbing Xie, James J. Kirklin, Herbert Chen
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
EXECUTIVE SESSION
ASA Fellows Only

Presentation of the Flance-Karl Award
7:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F Foyer
ANNUAL RECEPTION
8:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
ANNUAL BANQUET
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2017
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Grand Ballroom Salons A–F
SCIENTIFIC SESSION V
Moderator: New President-Elect
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM 26. Anatomical Resections Improve Disease Free Survival in Patients with KRAS-Mutated Colorectal Liver Metastases
Georgios Antonios Margonis1, Stefan Buettner1, Kazunari Sasaki1, Nikolaos Andreatos1, Jan N.M. IJzermans2, Jeroen L.A. van Vugt2, John L. Cameron1, Jin He*1, Christopher L. Wolfgang1, Matthew Weiss*1
1Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD;2Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
8:25 AM - 8:50 AM 27. Individualized Metabolic Surgery Score: Procedure Selection Based on Diabetes Severity
Ali Aminian1, Stacy A. Brethauer1, Amin Andalib2, Amy S. Nowacki1, Amanda Jimenez3, Ricard Corcelles3, Zubaidah NorHanipah1, Suriya Punchai1, Antonio M. Lacy*3, Bartolome Burguera1, Josep Vidal3, Philip R. Schauer1
1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH;2McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada3Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Spain
8:50 AM - 9:15 AM 28. Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel from Survey Data is Associated with All-Cause 30-Day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina
George Molina*1, William R. Berry*1, Stuart R. Lipsitz*1, Lizabeth Edmondson*1, Zhonghe Li*1, Bridget A. Neville*1, Aunyika T. Moonan*2, Lorri R. Gibbons*2, Atul A. Gawande1, Sara J. Singer*1, Alex B. Haynes*1
1Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA;2South Carolina Hospital Association, Columbia, SC
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM 29. Tumor Biology and Response to Chemotherapy Impact Breast Cancer-Specific Survival in Node-Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Axillary Dissection: Long-Term Follow-Up from ACOSOG Z1071 (Alliance)
Judy C. Boughey1, Karla Ballman2, Linda McCall3, Elizabeth A. Mittendorf4, Thomas Julian5, David Byrd6, Kelly K. Hunt4
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN;2Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, NY;3Duke University, Durham, NC;4MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX;5Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA;6University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM 30. Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System (MARS) Effectively Replaces Hepatic Function in Severe Acute Liver Failure (ALF)
Steven I. Hanish1, Rolf N. Barth1, Deborah M. Stein2, Eno-obong Essien1, Paul Thurman2, Stephen T. Bartlett1, Thomas M. Scalea2
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;2R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM 31. Health-Related Quality of Life and Functional Outcomes in 5-year Survivors After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Zhi Ven Fong1, Donna M Alvino1, Carlos Fernández-del Castillo1, Ryan D Nipp1, Lara N Traeger1, Margaret Ruddy1, Carrie C Lubitz1, Colin D Johnson2, David C Chang1, Andrew L. Warshaw1, Keith D Lillemoe1, Cristina R Ferrone1
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM 32. Prediction of Recurrence Beyond Milan Criteria After Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma- An International Validation of a Clinical Risk Score
Jian Zheng1, Joanne Chou1, Mithat Gonen1, Neeta Vachharajani2, William C. Chapman2, Maria B. Majella Doyle*2, Simon Turcotte*3, Franck Vandenbroucke-Menu*3, Réal Lapointe3, Stefan Buettner4, Bas Groot Koerkamp*4, Chung Yip Chan*5, Brian KP Goh*5, Jin Yao Teo*5, Juinn Huar Kam*5, Jeyaraj P. Raj*5, Peng Chung Cheow*5, Alexander YF Chung*5, Pierce KH Chow6, London LPJ Ooi*5, Vinod P. Balachandran*1, T Peter Kingham1, Peter J. Allen1, Michael I. D'Angelica1, Ronald P. DeMatteo1, William R. Jarnagin1, Ser Yee Lee*5
1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY;2Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO;3Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada;4Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands;5Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore;6Singapore General Hospital and National Cancer Center, Singapore, Singapore
11:00 AM ADJOURN

* By Invitation



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