MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM SCHOLAR PRESENTATIONS
Chesapeake Room
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
BUSINESS MEETING & PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Regency Ballroom
INTRODUCTION OF THE PRESIDENT
Ronda S. Henry-Tillman, MD
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
Dai H. Chung, MD
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SCIENTIFIC SESSION I
Regency Ballroom
Moderators: Dai H. Chung, MD, & Rebecca C. Britt, MD
1. BRAF MUTATION DRIVES EARLY MULTIFOCAL INTRAHEPATIC RECURRENCE AFTER CURATIVE RESECTION OF LIVER-LIMITED COLORECTAL METASTASES
*Miho Akabane
1, *Andrea Baldo
1, *Jun Kawashima
1, *Azza Sarfraz
1, *Odysseas P. Chatzipanagiotou
1, *Selamawit Woldesenbet
1, *Federico Aucejo
2, *Irinel Popescu
3, *Minoru Kitago
5, *George Poultsides
4, *Yuki Imaoka
4, *Andrea Ruzzenente
6, *Itaru Endo
7,
Timothy M. Pawlik1
1Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, 3Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 4Stanford University, Stanford, California, 5Keio Gijuku Daigaku, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, 6Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy, 7Yokohama Shiritsu Daigaku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2. TARGETING MELANOMA-ASSOCIATED FIBROBLASTS TO OVERCOME CANCER STEM CELL-DRIVEN DRUG RESISTANCE
*Hongwei Shao
1, *
Mecker Moller2, *Nga Le
1,
Omaida C. Velazquez1, *Zhao-Jun Liu
1
1Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 2Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
3. IMPROVED OUTCOMES WITH HYPOTHERMIC MACHINE PERFUSION IN DONATION AFTER CIRCULATORY DEATH LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
*Christine Haugen
1, *Catherine Pratt
1, *Alex L Chang
1, *Devin Guillory
1, *James Guarrera
2, Shimul A. Shah
3,
David A. Gerber1, *
Ralph C. Quillin III1
1Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2Surgery, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 3Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
4. IS THERE A ROLE FOR PRE-HOSPITAL PRECISION RESUSCITATION: A PROSPECTIVE MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL BLOOD ANALYSIS
Juan C. Duchesne1, *Sydney Caputo
2, *Jacob Broome
4, *Gerrit Holleman
3, *Mark Piehl
5, *Thomas Dransfield
8, *Danielle Tatum
3, *Caroline Taylor
3, *Alison Smith
15, *David Rayburn
3, *Meg Marino
8, *Faris Azar
6, *Mario Gomez
7, *Dalier Rodriguez Mederos
7, *Kyle Gibson
9, *David Hamilton
10, *Tomas Jacome
11, *Scott Branney
12, *Warren Dorlac
13, *Joanna Wycech Knight
14
1Surgery, The University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Health Related Professions, Jackson, Mississippi, 2Surgery, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, California, 3Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 5Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 6St. Mary's Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, 7Broward Healthcare System Inc, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 8New Orleans Medical Emergency Services, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9Northeast Georgia Health System Inc, Gainesville, Georgia, 10CommonSpirit Penrose Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 11Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 12CommonSpirit Saint Anthony North Hospital, Westminster, Colorado, 13Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, Colorado, 14Delray Beach Medical Center, Delray, Florida, 15Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
5. GOALS OF CARE TRANSITIONS FOLLOWING POSTOPERATIVE UNDERTRIAGE
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Tyler Loftus, *Matthew Ruppert, *Die Hu, *Victoria Nolan, *Jeremy Balch, *Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, *Firas Madbak, *Benjamin Shickel, *Azra Bihorac,
Gilbert R. Upchurch
University of Florida Health, Gainesville, Florida
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SCIENTIFIC SESSION II
Regency Ballroom
Moderators: Rhonda S. Henry-Tillman, MD, & Rebecca C. Britt, MD
6. ACA EXPANSION AND THE TRAUMA CARE PARADOX: INCREASED MORTALITY AMID IMPROVED INSURANCE COVERAGE
*Siobhan Nnorom, *Jonathan Mitchell, Edward E. Cornwell, Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, *Debra Ford, Terrence M. Fullum, *Daniel Tran, *Alexander Evans, Kakra Hughes, Mallory Williams, *May Tee, *Robin Williams, *Miriannie Rivera-Valerio, *Alexandria Curry,
Quyen D. Chu
Howard University Hospital
7. CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS IS A SURGICAL DISEASE: THE EVOLUTION, STANDARDIZATION, AND IMPACT OF LAPAROSCOPIC COMMON BILE DUCT EXPLORATION IN THE ACUTE CARE SURGERY SETTING
*Jeff Conner,
Preston R. Miller, *Greg Stettler, *Micaela Gomez, *Hannah Carroll, *Heather Ots, *Carma Goldstein, *Lucas Neff, *
Andrew Nunn
Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
8. BLOOD-BASED IMMUNOGLOBULIN-BOUND NEOANTIGEN SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH MEN1-RELATED DUODENOPANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR PROGRESSION
*Hiroyuki Katayama
2, *Johannes Fahrmann
2, *Courtney Olsen
1, *Natasha Flores
2, *Pawel Mazur
2, *Amanda Wasylishen
2, *Carla Pieterman
3, *Ehsan Irajizad
2, *Jody Vykoukal
2, *Ranran Wu
2, *Jennifer Dennison
2, *Christine Peterson
2, *Hua Zhao
2, *Kim-Anh Do
2, *Daniel Halperin
2, *Sunita Agarwal
4, *Jenny Blau
4, *Smita Jha
4, *Jaydira Del Rivero
4, *Naris Nilubol
4, *Mary Walter
4, *James Welch
4, *Lee Weinstein
4, *Menno Vriens
3, *Rachel van Leeuwaarde
3, *Mark van Treijen
3, *Gerlof Valk
3,
Nancy D. Perrier1, *Samir Hanash
2
1Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 3UMC Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, Netherlands, 4National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
11. MINIMALLY INVASIVE PARENCHYMA-SPARING PANCREATECTOMY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER INCIDENCE OF POSTOPERATIVE DIABETES AND PANCREATIC EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY
*Dario Solinas, *Marco Dal Molin, *Brady Campbell, *Shuang Zhang, John L. Cameron, *Christopher R. Shubert, *Kelly Lafaro, *Richard A. Burkhart, *William R. Burns,
Jin He
Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
13. CHARACTERIZING CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF MAJOR PEDIATRIC VASCULAR TRAUMA: A MULTI-YEAR, DUAL-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
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Regan Williams, *Kevin Lang, *Calvin Jung, *Erin Koffman, *Saskya Byerly, *Dina M. Filiberto, *Rachel M. Landisch, *Hamda Almaazmi,
Andrew J. Kerwin, *Erica L. Mitchell
Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
NEW MEMBERS RECEPTION
Commonwealth Room
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
SCIENTIFIC SESSION III
Regency Ballroom
Moderators: Dai H. Chung, MD, & Rebecca C. Britt, MD
14. GENETIC RISK, HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND RISK STRATIFICATION FOR DIVERTICULITIS
*Thomas Ueland
1, *Jonathan Mosley
2, *Jamie Robinson
1, *Eric Gamazon
3, *Lillias Maguire
4, *Richard Peek
3,
Kenneth W. Sharp1, *
Alexander Hawkins1
1Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 2Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 3Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 4Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15. NATIONAL-LEVEL RESIDENT SATISFACTION WITH FEEDBACK QUANTITY ON THEIR BEST AND WORST ROTATIONS
*Andrada Diaconescu
1, *Chandler McLeod
1, *Daniela Munoz Wilson
1, George A. Sarosi
2, *Carol Barry
3, *Andrew Jones
3, *Rebecca Minter
4, *Jo Buyske
3, *Karen Brasel
3, †
Brenessa Lindeman1
1Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, Birmingham, Alabama, 2Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, 3The American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
*17. DNA METHYLATION QUANTIFICATION FOR HCC DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS DETERMINATION
*Salar Javanshir, *Isabella Angelli-Pahim, *Anastasia Chambers, *Pavan Iyengar, *Rishi Ganguli, Steven J. Hughes, *Daiki Soma, *Thiago Beduschi, *Sergio Duarte, †
Ali Zarrinpar
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
*18. TOWARD OPIOID-FREE AMBULATORY SURGERY: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY USING MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POSTOPERATIVE OPIOID UTILIZATION
*Savannah Renshaw
1, *Divyaam Satija
1, *Abdullah Aly
2, *Peter Edwards
1, *Kiana Shannon
1, *Michael Guertin
3, *Victor Heh
1, †
Benjamin K. Poulose1
1Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 3Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
20. SURVIVAL IMPACT OF INTRAOPERATIVE CO2 DYSREGULATION IN PATIENTS UNDERGIONG PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY FOR PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA
*Ashley Wetzel, *Andrea Feci, *Joseph Gorman, *Isabel Lavine, *Edoardo Manca, *Richard Zheng, *Nader Hanna, *Harish Lavu,
Charles J. Yeo, *
Avinoam Nevler
Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
21. PREDICTING PEDIATRIC SURGICAL CASE DURATION USING MACHINE LEARNING: LEVERAGING TEAM DYNAMICS AND CASE FLOW ATTRIBUTES
*Katherine Adams
2, *Yang Yang
3, *Gian-Gabriel Garcia
4, *Arka Roy
2, *Xin-Li Leong
5,
Dai H. Chung1, *Vishal Ahuja
5
1The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 2The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 3Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 4Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, 5Southern Methodist University Edwin L Cox School of Business, Dallas, Texas
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV
Regency Ballroom
Moderators: John H. Armstrong, MD, & Rebecca C. Britt, MD
25. A TALE OF TWO HOSPITALS: GERIATRIC SURGICAL PATHWAY IMPROVES POSTOPERATIVE LENGTH OF STAY
*Sarah Jabour
1, *Oluwafemi Owodunni
2, *Solimar Santiago Del Rosario
3, *Dianne Russell
1, *Fareeha Khan
4, Tom Magnuson
1,
Susan L. Gearhart1
1Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 2University of New Mexico Department of Emergency Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 4Geriatrics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
26. RURAL-DWELLING PATIENTS CAN SAFELY UNDERGO LUNG AND COLON CANCER SURGERY AT THEIR LOCAL RURAL HOSPITAL WITH GOOD PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES
Michael E. Egger1, *Tyler Jones
2, *Quinn Piamonte
1, *Charlie Zhang
3, *Seyed Karimi
4, *Bert Little
4, *Matthew Fox
5, *Sandra L. Kavalukas
1, Kelly M. McMasters
1, *Maiying Kong
6
1Hiram C Polk Jr, MD Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 2UofL Health Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky, 3Geographic and Environmental Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 4Health Management and System Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 5Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 6Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
27. THE IMPACT OF MEDICAID EXPANSION ON PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA SURVIVAL IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES
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Felipe B. Maegawa1, *Kevin T. Nguyen
1, *Ankit D. Patel
1, *Savannah R. Smith
1, *Olatunji B. Alese
2, *Ari Szomstein
1, Juan M. Sarmiento
1, John F. Sweeney
1, Edward Lin
1
1Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, 2Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
29. PREDICTORS OF OUTCOMES IN 1441 VASCULAR INJURIES - A 10 YEAR EXPERIENCE IN A LARGE URBAN TRAUMA CENTER
Juan Asensio1, *Santiago A. Ceron
1, *David J. Mondschein
1, *Shane Martin
1, *Ime Inyang
1, *Carlos Bechara
1, *Eduardo Smith-Singares
4, Mallory Williams
2, *Vincent Rowe
3, *Jose Velasco
1
1Rush University Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL; 2Trauma, John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL; 3University of California Los Angeles Gonda Vascular Center, Los Angeles, CA; 4Washington State University, Pullman, WA
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Black Tie
6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
ASSOCIATION DINNER & DANCE
Grand Ballroom
Black Tie
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
SCIENTIFIC SESSION V
Regency Ballroom
Moderators: Dai H. Chung, MD, & Rebecca C. Britt, MD
30. CIRCULATING INFLAMMATORY FACTORS AFTER BURN INJURY INDUCE CARDIAC MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION
*Jake Wen
1, *Susana Fortich
1, *Jana DeJesus
1, *Geetha Radhakrishnan
2,
Ravi S. Radhakrishnan1
1Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, 2Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas
31. IS AGE JUST A NUMBER? ACCESS TO AND OUTCOMES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS >65 YEARS
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Santosh Nagaraju1, *David Taber
1, *Steven Hanish
1, *John McGillicuddy
1, *Dirk Van Der Windt
1, *Diego di Sabato
1, *Aurora Posadas Salas
2, *Kannan Samy
1,
Prabhakar Baliga1
1Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, 2Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
32. BIOLOGY VS. BARRIERS: SOCIOECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE DECREASES OVERALL SURVIVAL IN PANCREATIC CANCER DESPITE RECEIPT OF GUIDELINE-CONCORDANT TREATMENT
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Annabelle Fonseca1, *Ioannis Liapis
1, *Jaspinder Sanghera
1, *Michelle Holland
1, *Krisha Amin
2, *Rida Ahmed
2, *Sailesh Kumar
1, *Archie Landrum
1, *Ahmed Abdalla
2, *Joshua Richman
1, *Smita Bhatia
1,
Martin J. Heslin1
1Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 2Medical Oncology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
33. CONSEQUENCES OF PATIENT-DIRECTED BYPASS OF LOCAL SURGICAL CARE: A MULTISTATE ANALYSIS.
Anthony G. Charles3, *Mustafa Abid
1, *Mark Holmes
2, *Tyler Malone
2
1Surgery, The University of North Carolina System, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 3Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
35. PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR OUTCOMES IN THE ELECTIVE, URGENT AND EMERGENT PATIENT POPULATIONS
*Cody Crnkovic, *John Slaughter, *Davis Howell, *Margaret Plymale, *Daniel Davenport, William B. Inabnet,
J. Scott Roth
Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
SECOND BUSINESS MEETING
Regency Ballroom
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
PRESIDENT'S LUNCHEON
Empire & Crystal Rooms