Presented by:
Arash Fereydooni, MD, Vascular Surgery Resident, Stanford University &
Ben Liu, Research Assistant, Vascular Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: “AI-Driven Multimodal Risk Assessment Combining CT Imaging Biomarkers and Frailty Scores for Enhanced Mortality Prediction in Surgery Patients”

Bios:

Arash Fereydooni MD MS MHS is currently a 5th-year Stanford vascular surgery resident and a Cardiovascular Institute post-doctoral scholar at Dr. Shipra Arya’s lab. He is training to care for patients with complex vascular disease while also pursuing innovations that improve the clinical care of these patients.

Ben Liu is currently a research assistant at Dr. Shipra Arya’s lab. With interests at the intersection of computer vision and surgery, he has published research with the Stanford Machine Learning Group, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Stanford Medical AI and Computer Vision Lab.

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

Presented by: Leon Naar, MD, General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Beyond the Diagnosis: The Role of Persistent Poverty in Colon and Rectal Cancer Care.”

Bio: Leon Naar is a fourth year General Surgery resident at Stanford, currently conducting research under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron Dawes. His work focuses on health services research in Colon and Rectal Cancer patients. After residency, Leon’s goal is to pursue fellowship training in the field of Colon and Rectal Surgery.

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

Presented by: Shipra Arya, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Shipra Arya, MD, SM, FACS, is a Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and section chief of vascular surgery at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She has a Master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health with focus on research methodology and cardiovascular epidemiology. She completed her General Surgery Residency at Creighton University Medical Center followed by a Vascular Surgery Fellowship at University of Michigan. She has been funded by American Heart Association (AHA), NIH/NIA GEMSSTAR grant, VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i), and is currently funded by VA HSR&D for a multicenter stepped wedge cluster randomized clinical trial called “PAtient-centered mUltidiSciplinary Care for vEterans Undergoing Surgery (PAUSE) trial”. Her current work focuses on streamlining frailty evaluation, as well as implementation of patient and system level interventions to improve surgical quality and to provide high-value and patient centered care.

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

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>