THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SURGERY
9th Annual Surgical Trainee Paper Competition Program
Monday, February 3, 2025
Oral Presentations
5:45pm – Cocktail Hour and Dinner
6:10pm – Welcome Dr. Kirton
6:15pm – Quick Shots - Introductions-Dr. Farma (3min each, 2min Q&A) 5min total
Yazid Ghanem, MD – Cooper University Hospital
DAX Copilot: Ambient AI Scribe May Help Reduce Surgical Resident Burnout from Clinical Documentation Burden
Urhum Khaliq, MD – Fox Chase Cancer Center
Multicenter Retrospective Study Evaluating the Role of Functional Lumen Imaging Probe in Post-for and Thoracic Surgery Gastroparesis
Walker Lyons, MD – Fox Chase Cancer Center
Management and Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients With 1-of-1 and 2-of-2 Positive Sentinel Nodes
Isheeta Madeka, MD – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Development and Implementation of a Robotic General Surgery Training Curriculum at an Academic Residency Program
6:45pm – PAS Business Meeting - Readings, New Officer Slate- Dr’s Reid & Weingarten
7:00pm – Long Presentations - Dr. Farma (7min each, 3min Q&A) 10min total
Praveen Chatani, MD – Fox Chase Cancer Center
Incidence of and Risk Factors for Radiographically Occult Nodal Metastases in Colon Cancer: Is It Time for a New Lymphadenectomy Standard?
Sourav Podder, MD – Thomas Jefferson University
Surgical Opioid Stewardship: From the Epidemic Through the Pandemic and Beyond
Tomas M. Prudencio, MS – Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
What Matters and What Does Not? Patient and Graft Survival Predicted by a Novel Score Following Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplantation
Gena Topper, MD – Cooper University Hospital
Development of a Preclinical Model to Evaluate Epigenetic Therapies in HIPEC for Colorectal Cancer with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Shubha Vasisht, MS – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Artificial Intelligence Guidance for Safe Dissection in Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy
7:55pm – Quick Shots - Dr. Farma (3min each, 2min Q&A) 5min total
Rachel Nation, MD – Cooper University Hospital
Lighting Up PNET: Creating a Murine Model with a Novel Bioluminescent Cell Line
Adele Ricciardi, MD – Penn Medicine
Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles for Gene Editing of the Fetal Lung
Hannah Sofield, MD – Cooper University Hospital
Targeting MET Activation in CDH1 Deficient Diffuse Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases
Gracia Vargas, MD – Penn Medicine
Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Versus Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Adenocarcinoma
8:25pm – Award Presentation/Final Announcement