Kentucky Chapter - 2020 Chapter Meeting

TIME	EVENT	SPEAKER/FACILITATORS
7:00 AM—7:45 AM	Executive Council Meeting
8:00 AM	Welcome and Overview	Nicolas Ajkay, MD, FACS President, Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Surgeons University of Louisville
8:10 AM—9:00 AM	The implementation of opioid prescribing guidelines in Michigan	Michael Englesbe, MD, FACS The Cyrenus G. Darling Sr., MD and Cyrenus G. Darling Jr., MD Professor of Surgery Section of Transplantation Surgery University of Michigan
9:00 AM—10:00 AM	Improving Hernia Outcomes through Patient-Centered Research	John Fischer, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia
10:00 AM—10:10 AM	Break
10:10 AM—11:00 AM	Surgery and Innovation: Leveraging Technology to Advance Clinical Care	William B. Inabnet, III, MD, MPH, FACS Johnston-Wright Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery University of Kentucky
11:00 AM—12:00 PM	Resident Paper Competition	Cortney Lee, MD, FACS
Session One	Ventral hernia patient outcomes post-operatively housed on surgical versus nonsurgical units	Elizabeth Bittner, MD University of Kentucky
Session Two	Plasma resuscitation with adjunctive peritoneal resuscitation reduces ischemia induced intestinal barrier breakdown following hemorrhagic shock	Jessica Schucht, MD University of Louisville
Session Three	Utility of symptoms in CA 19-9 non-expressors for recurrence detection after pancreatectomy for periampullary carcinoma	Thomas Amburn, BA University of Kentucky
Session Four	A Cost-Utility Analysis of the Contemporary Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Acute Appendicitis in Children	Jonathan Vacek, MD University of Louisville
Session Five	Opioid-free thyroid and parathyroid operations: are patients satisfied?	Preston Leader, MD University of Kentucky
Session Six	Evaluating the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on surgical outcomes after breast conserving surgery.	Matthew Woeste, MD University of Louisville

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Program Objectives

This activity is designed for physicians. Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the opioid crisis and apply strategies to reduce opioid abuse
2. Describe safe implementation of technology in endocrine surgery
3. Evaluate patient centered outcomes in hernia surgery

Additional Resident Paper Competition Presentations

Roberto G. Aru, MD

Minnesota Tube Utility in Non-variceal Distal Esophageal Hemorrhage Refractory to Endoscopic and Endovascular Intervention

Sarah Couch, MD

What is the Normal Size of the Esophageal Hiatus?

Zain Hassan, BS

Preoperative Opioid Use and Surgical Site Infections Following Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair

Jessica Masch, MD

The Impact and Cost of Burn Treatment While Smoking on Home Oxygen

Michael Nisiewicz, BS

Recurrence Not Increased with Absorbable Mesh in Clean Contaminated, Contaminated and Infected Hernia Repair

Jonathan Vacek, MD, MS

Reconsidering the Appropriateness of a Negative Appendectomy in Children

Michelle Holland Wahlgren, MD

Effect of the Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Margin Consensus Guideline Implementation on Re-excision Rates, Satisfaction, and Cost

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