7:00-7:30

Registration/Breakfast

7:30-8:00

Business Meeting

Session 1 Moderator: George Yang, MD, PhD

8:00-8:15

Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD, MBA

Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Leveraging the Learning Healthcare  System: Challenges and Successes

8:15-8:30

O. Joe Hines, MD

Professor of Surgery

Chief of General Surgery

UCLA Geffen School of Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer and Inflammation

8:30-8:45

Ravi S. Radhakrishnan, MD, MBA

Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Chief of Pediatric Surgery

Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

The Anti-inflammatory Effects of Novel  Oridonin Analog CYD0693 in Rat  Cardiomyocytes Involves the GRK2/NF κB Pathway

Session 2 Moderator: Tracy Wang, MD, MPH

8:45-9:00

Bruce A. Cairns, MD

Professor of Surgery/Microbiology and  

Immunology

Univ. of North Carolina Medical Center

Evaluating the Cellular Immune  

Response in a Translational Mouse  Model of Inhalation Injury

9:00-9:15

Michael O. Meyers, MD

Professor of Surgery

Univ. of North Carolina School of Medicine

PET Response in Guiding Treatment  During Neoadjuvant Therapy for GE  Junction Cancer

9:15-9:30

Todd Vogel, MD, MPH

Associate Professor and Chief of Vascular and  Endovascular Surgery

University of Missouri

An Evaluation of Hospital Readmission  After Vascular Surgery Procedures:  Insights and Future Directions

9:30-10:00

BREAK

Session 3 Moderator: Kasper Wang, MD

10:00-10:15

Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Surgery

University of Pennsylvania

Against the Grain: The Push to Integrate  Outcomes and Education

10:15-10:30

Martin Heslin, MD

Professor and Exec. Vice Chair of Surgery Chief of Medical Staff

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Defending the Doc Through Peer and  Professional Review

10:30-10:45

Michael House, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Indiana University School of Medicine

Developing Biomarker Systems for the  Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic  Cancer

10:45-11:00

Nicholas Zyromski, MD

Professor of Surgery

Indiana University School of Medicine

Stem Cells and Acute Pancreatitis: A Tale  of Two Cells

11:00

Closing Comments