Presented by: Elizabeth George, MD, Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Bio: Dr. George is a board-eligible vascular surgeon and health services researcher at Stanford. She earned her B.A., M.D., and M.S. in Health Policy from Stanford, where she also completed her residency. She specializes in complex vascular procedures and improving high-value surgical care for vulnerable, understudied patient populations.
Talk Title: “Financial toxicity in peripheral arterial disease: more than the metaphorical arm and a leg”
Presented by: Josh Grab
Bio: Joshua Grab is a Biostatistician at the S-SPIRE Center in the Department of Surgery. He has Masters’ degrees in Biostatistics and Mathematics. Josh has 12 years of experience as a biostatistician and data analyst. As a data analyst at UCSF, he worked primarily for the Liver Transplant Center doing survival analyses. At Wake Forest University, he worked on genome-wide association studies for various disease conditions. Before that, he worked at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), building logistic models for mortality within the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ National Cardiac Database.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Presented by: Eric Sun, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD), Stanford University
Talk Title: TBD
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.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
2025 CWIS International Meeting
September 1 – 2, 2025
The Chest Wall Injury Summit Program Committee encourages you to submit an abstract for oral presentation at the 2025 CWIS International meeting in Brussels, Belgium, which will be held on 1-2 September 2025. The goal of the meeting is to exchange ideas about best practices in the daily delivery of excellent patient care.
There may be areas of controversy, where your research and experience can help participants choose the best practice for their individual patients. The abstracts may be research-focused, clinical-focused, or program-focused. The abstract must describe work that is evidence-based and can be early implementation or brainstorming stage.
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