Due to the winter season, the WIP (Work-in-Progress) series will be paused until regular operations resume on January 6, 2025.

We wish everyone a safe and joyful holiday season! Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to reconnecting in the new year.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.

Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.

Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Presented by: Aaron Dawes, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, General Surgery, Stanford University.
Talk Title: “Despite initial improvements, the impact of Medicaid expansion on continuity of enrollment has waned over time.”

Bio: Dr. Dawes is a board-certified, fellowship-trained colon and rectal surgeon. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Dawes treats a wide variety of conditions involving the colon, rectum, and anus, always leveraging the latest evidence and technologies. He is fully trained in minimally invasive surgical techniques–including laparoscopic, robotic, and trans-anal minimally invasive surgery–and strives to employ them, whenever possible, in an effort to reduce pain and shorten recovery. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Dawes is a health services researcher, receiving his Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His research focuses on policy development, measurement, and evaluation for patients with colorectal conditions. He is particularly interested in using data to drive policy interventions aimed at reducing disparities in quality, access, and value.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Presented by: Carolyn Seib, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Dr. Carolyn Dacey Seib is a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon and board certified general surgeon. Her practice is focused on surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands.

Dr. Seib has clinical and research expertise in the surgical management of endocrine disorders in older adults, including primary hyperparathyroidism, thyroid cancer, and hyperthyroidism. Dr. Seib completed her undergraduate education at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 2004. She received her M.D. at the New York University School of Medicine and then attended residency in General Surgery at UCSF. Dr. Seib also completed a fellowship in Endocrine Surgery at UCSF, during which she cared for patients with complex disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands.

Dr. Seib focuses on providing individualized care for patients with thyroid malignancy, hyperthyroidism, primary hyperparathyroidism, and adrenal disorders. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging and the American Thyroid Association to study the surgical management of endocrine disorders in older adults and has a number of peer-reviewed journal publications on this topic that have received national attention, including being featured in the New York Times.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Due to the Martin Luther King holiday, this WIP (Work-in-Progress) session will be paused until January 27, 2025. We wish everyone a safe holiday!

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.

Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.

Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Presented by: Sydney Conover, Qualitative Research Assistant, Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i), Palo Alto Veterans Affairs
Talk Title: “Qualitative Methods for Generative AI: Insights from Extracting Smoking History from Clinical Notes.”

Bio: Sydney Conover is aqualitative research assistant within Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i) at the Palo Alto VA. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a BS in Public Health, and a minor in Biology (2022). Her past qualitative work has focused on attitudes surrounding e-cigarettes and hepatitis B education. Her current research centers on the application of qualitative methodologies to Natural Language Processing, with the aim of developing an evaluation framework for analysis of text-based input and output data for modern large language models.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>