General Surgery Grand Rounds 2021-2022 Speakers

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2021-2022 Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors

Monday, May 23, 2022 
Pedro Pablo Gomez, MD
General and Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery, St Joseph Hospital, Bangor, ME
Topic – “10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was A Resident”
Dr. Gomez has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, May 16, 2022
Steven Venticinque, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology & Surgery, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Topic – “Leadership for Perioperative Success”
Dr. Venticinque has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, May 9, 2022
Ronald Stewart, MD
Professor and Chair
Topic – “Fluid Management in ARDS and Surgical Patients”
Dr. Stewart has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, May 2, 2022
Lillian Liao, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatric Trauma Medical Director
Topic – “Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities – The Next Frontier for Injury Prevention in Trauma”
Dr. Liao has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, April 25, 2022
Kent Van Sickle, MD
Professor and Chief of General Surgery
Topic – “Mesh Materials for Hernia Repair: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”
Kent Van Sickle, M.D. has disclosed he is a consultant for Medtronic/Covidien & Intuitive Surgical

Monday, April 18, 2022
Electron Kebebew, MD
Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of General Surgery, The Harry A. Oberhelman Jr. & Mark L. Welton Professor at Stanford University, School of Medicine
Topic – “Precision Endocrine Surgery”
Dr. Kebebew has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, April 11, 2022
Mark Muir, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “Management of Duodenal and Pancreatic Injuries”
Dr. Muir has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, April 4, 2022
Patrick Nguyen, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “Investing for Retirement: Time, Yield, Savings Rate”
Dr. Nguyen has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, March 28, 2022
Margaret Gallagher, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Topic – “Congenital Lung Lesions: Overview and Management”
Dr. Gallagher has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, March 21, 2022
Alicia Logue, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “Why Become A Robotic Surgeon? Lessons Learned in Navigating and Surviving Professional Change”
Dr. Logue has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, March 14, 2022
Sylvia Botros-Brey, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “Establishing Psychological Safety within the Clinical Learning Environment”
Dr. Botros-Brey has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, March 7, 2022
Anand Dayama, MD
Assistant Professor
Topic – “Changing Paradigm in Management of Type B Aortic Dissection”
Dr. Dayama has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, February 28, 2022
Fia Yi, MD
Colorectal Surgeon
Topic – “Most Common Benign Anorectal Diseases for General Surgeons”
Dr. Yi has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, February 14, 2022
Haisar Dao Campi, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “The Difficult Stoma”
Dr. Dao Campi has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, February 7, 2022
Kari Smith, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Topic – “Not “Just Another Lap Chole”: Workup and Surgical Management of Gallbladder Cancer”
Dr. Smith has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, January 24, 2022
Donald Jenkins, MD
Professor
Topic – “The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Quality Program”
Dr. Jenkins has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, January 10, 2022
Ronald Stewart, MD
Professor and Chair
Topic – “Personal Finance for the Young Surgeon”
Dr. Stewart has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, December 20, 2021
Carissia Calvo-Strube, MD
Assistant Professor
Topic – “Axillary Management in Invasive Breast Cancer: Staging, Dissection, and
De-escalation”
Dr. Calvo-Strube has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, December 13, 2021
Danielle Fritze, MD
Assistant Professor
Topic – “Pediatric Transplantation: Life Beyond Organ Failure”
Dr. Fritze has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, December 6, 2021
Keely Voytovich, MD
Chief Resident
Topic – “The Highs and Lows of HIPEC”
Dr. Voytovich has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, November 29, 2021
Ismail Jatoi, MD
Professor
Topic – “Risk-Reducing Mastectomy”
Dr. Jatoi has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, November 22, 2021
Donald Jenkins, MD
Professor
Topic – “Whole Blood Transfusion Update”
Dr. Jenkins has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, November 15, 2021
Patrick Nguyen, MD
Associate Professor
Topic – “Surgery Clerkship Overview & Teaching Outcomes”
Dr. Nguyen has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, November 8, 2021
Ruchir Puri, MD
Assistant Professor
Topic – “Wraps, Beads and Fasteners: Alternatives to Nissen”
Dr. Puri has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Monday, November 1, 2021
Fred Corley, MD
Professor
Topic – “Lessons Learned in Orthopaedics”
Dr. Corley has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, October 18, 2021
Daniel Dent, MD
Professor/Clinical
Topic – “Competency-Based Education in Surgical Training”
Dr. Dent has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, October 11, 2021
Mio Kitano, MD
Interim Division Chief, Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery
Topic – “Racial Disparities in Gastric Cancer”
Dr. Kitano has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, October 4, 2021
Michael Sippel, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Topic – “ECMO for Surgeons”
Dr. Sippel has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, September 27, 2021
Jan Patterson, MD
Professor
Topic – “COVID-19: Unsolved Mysteries”
Jan Patterson, MD has disclosed she has been has been a site principal investigator for new antimicrobial agents; is currently a
co-investigator for the NIH Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) studies; and is a sub-investigator for the Novavax
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial at UT Health and University Hospital.

Monday, September 20, 2021
Mallory Wampler, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Topic – “Nutrition Optimization for the Surgical Patient”
Dr. Wampler has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, September 13, 2021
Joseph Mills, MD
Professor and Chief, Baylor College of Medicine
Topic – “New Guidelines and Treatment Paradigm for Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia (CLTI)”
Dr. Mills has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, August, 30, 2021
Jason Jensen, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Topic – “Pancreatitis for Surgeons”
Dr. Jensen has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, August, 23, 2021
Adam Gonzalez, MD
General Surgery Chief Resident
Topic – “Goosebumps: Work-Up and Management of Esophageal Masses”
Dr. Gonzalez has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, August 16, 2021
Jennifer LaCoss, MD
Medical Director – UHS Palliative Care, Assistant Professor – UTHSCSA
Topic – “Hospice and Beyond: Setting Your Patient Up for A Successful Transition for End of Life Care”
Dr. LaCoss has disclosed she provides physician services via the UT Dept of Medicine for VITAS hospice care.

Monday, August 9, 2021
Jennifer Tseng, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery Boston University School of Medicine
Topic – “Health Equity Now”
Dr. Tseng has disclosed that she is currently an advisor for Curadel Scientific Advisory Board and was previously on the Mauna Kea Board of Directors.

Monday, August 2, 2021
Ronald Stewart, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Topic – “Firearm Injury Prevention: A Public Health and Medical Approach from the American College of Surgeons”
Dr. Stewart has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, July 19, 2021
Donald Jenkins, MD
Professor/Clinical, Vice Chair for Quality, UTHSCSA Department of Surgery
Topic – “Surgical Quality”
Dr. Jenkins has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monday, July 19, 2021
Ronald Stewart, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Topic – “Leadership Development in Surgery & Medicine: 7 P’s to Be”
Dr. Stewart has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.