Presented by Amber Trickey, PhD
Biostatistician 3
Stanford-Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center
Health Services Research Unit

Bio

Amber Trickey, PhD, MS, CPH is Senior Biostatistician of the S-SPIRE Center. She supports multidisciplinary teams in research design, implementation, and analysis. In 15 years of health services research, with 8 years focused in surgery, Dr. Trickey has collaborated with diverse investigators, including attending physicians, residents, nurses, psychologists, and engineers. Dr. Trickey obtained degrees in epidemiology and biostatistics, evaluated data quality in trauma care, and led data validation studies using a surgical registry (NSQIP) and administrative claims. Dr. Trickey has contributed to public and private grants on surgical safety, simulation-based training, team communication, error disclosure, and quality metrics.

Work-In-Progress Session

Cindy Kin, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center

Talk Title: TBD

Presented by Dr. Stephanie D. Chao, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center

21st Annual Thomas J. Fogarty Lecture: Focus on Innovation featuring Brook Byers, Founding Partner, Kleiner Perkins

The Fogarty lectureship was established to bring together a diverse community in Silicon Valley focusing on leaders in discovery, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This event is sponsored by the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Fogarty Institute for Innovation and the Stanford Department of Surgery.

About Brook Byers:
Brook Byers is a founding member of Kleiner Perkins. A venture capital investor since 1972, Brook has been closely involved with more than 60 new technology-based ventures, many of which have become public companies. He formed the first life sciences practice group in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led KP to become a premier venture capital firm in the medical, healthcare and biotechnology sectors. KP has invested in and helped build more than 120 life sciences companies that have developed hundreds of products to treat underserved medical needs for many millions of patients. Brook has been an innovator in precision medicine and health genomics, antibodies and devices. He was the founding president and then chairman of four biotechnology companies that were incubated in KP’s offices and went on to become public companies with an aggregate market value of more than US $8 billion. He serves on the board of directors of Epiodyne, Enjoy, Newsela, Octave and Verana Health.

Brook serves on the Board of Overseers of the University of California San Francisco medical campus and hospitals, the Stanford Medicine Advisory Council, the Board of Directors of the New Schools Foundation, the Advisory Board of Stanford’s Center for Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics and the Stanford Center for Biodesign. In 2007, UCSF awarded Brook the UCSF Medal, its honorary degree equivalent. In 2008, Brook was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association. In 2010, he received an honorary Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Brook graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Register: http://bit.ly/FogartyLecture-2019

ACS Clinical Congress 2019 Practice Presentation Run
Department of Surgery
Stanford University

Presented by:

Tiffany Anderson, MD, General Surgery Resident
Title: “A Decade in Surgical Education and Simulation Fellowship – A New Pathway for the Surgical Education Leader”

Lauren Wood, MD, General Surgery Resident
Title: “Treating children with achalasia using per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM): twenty-one cases in review”

Laura Graham, PhD, S-SPIRE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Title: “Association Between Timing and Costs of Postoperative Wound Complications”

Presented by:
Alexander Sox-Harris, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Surgery
S-SPIRE Center
Stanford University, School of Medicine

Presented by:
Thomas M. Krummel, MD
Emile Holman Professor, and Professor, by Courtesy, of Cardiothoracic Surgery and of Bioengineering and Co-Director, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign