Presented by:
Francesca Rinaldo, MD, PhD
Title: “Case Studies in Digital, Real-world Data Collection and AI Model Building”
Bio:
Francesca Rinaldo, MD, PhD is a physician- scientist with a background in basic/translational research, clinical research and healthcare delivery innovation. She is an affiliated scholar at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), a Design, Innovation and Clinical Entrepreneurship (DICE) Fellow, and Director of Clinical Success at doc.ai, where she works with multidisciplinary teams to design and execute digital clinical studies and build novel and clinically relevant machine learning models. From 2015-2020 she was a resident in General Surgery at Stanford, and completed the CERC Healthcare Design Fellowship in 2017-2018. As a CERC fellow, Francesca was a Clinical Lead for the Stanford CERC Partnership for AI-assisted Care (PAC) and received seed funding from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She is a content matter expert in Aging and Late Life, and her clinical interests are strongly rooted in health services and technology aimed at improving the health of the rapidly aging global population. She is passionate about exploring novel applications of digital health technology for improving the quality, cost and accessibility of healthcare for all individuals.
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Presented by:
Elsie Gyang Ross, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and of Medicine (BMIR) at Stanford University Medical Center
TITLE: “Developing a Cohort Study to Test Performance of
Machine Learning Models for
Peripheral Artery Disease.”
ZOOM DIAL IN:
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Presented by:
Aviva Mattingly
Title: “Surgery and COVID-19: What can the pandemic response teach us about essential surgical operations in the United States and the impact of government mandates?”
Bio:
Aviva Mattingly is a 4th year medical student and 1st year master’s student in epidemiology and clinical research at Stanford. Prior to medical school, she completed a post-baccalaureate research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, focused on HIV clinical trials. While at Stanford she has been interested in research related to global health and surgery and hopes to pursue an academic career in a surgical field.
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Presented by:
Ana Mezynski, Administrative Associate III
S-SPIRE Center, Dept. of Surgery
Title: “The Move: S-SPIRE Edition”
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The Weekly Work In Progress has been canceled due to Memorial Day. We will resume on Monday, May 31, 2021.
Dear Department of Surgery,
The Monthly Work-In-Progress zoom session hosted by Stanford-Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center (S-SPIRE) has been canceled due to Labor Day.
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Take care!
Speaker: Dr. Jayme Locke, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine Faculty
Talk Title: “Should Race Be Eliminated from Kidney Function Estimating Equations?”
Bio: Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke completed an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at East Carolina University prior to matriculating to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she received training in general surgery and multi-visceral abdominal transplantation. Dr. Locke completed her Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis in biostatistics and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Her research interests include complex statistical analysis and modeling of transplant outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities. She has authored more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 20 book chapters, and is an NIH R01-funded investigator. In addition, Dr. Locke is a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, and is an editorial board member for Annals of Surgery. She is also a member of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS; Councilor-at-Large), and American Society of Nephrology (ASN), as well as, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Society of University Surgeons (SUS; Councilor-at-Large), the Southern Surgical Association (SSA), Society of Clinical Surgery (SCS), and the American Surgical Association (ASA). Dr. Locke is the recipient of numerous honors including the UAB Dean’s Excellence Award in Research 2016, and was named the 2016 James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellow, Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal, AL.com’s 2015 Women Who Shape the State, B-Metro Top Women in Medicine 2017, American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellow 2018, Association for Clinical & Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator Award: Translation into Public Benefit and Policy (2018), and the AST Clinical Science Faculty Award 2020.
Dr. Locke is currently Professor of Surgery and the Arnold G. Diethelm MD Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute and Chief of the Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery.
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Speaker:
Clifford C. Sheckter, MD
Assistant Professor
General Surgery, Department of Surgery
Stanford University
Talk Title: “Private Equity Investment in Ambulatory Surgery Centers—Evaluating Transformation in Cost and Care.”
In-person session. Please refer inquiries to Marzena Sasnal at msasnal@stanford.edu.
Speaker:
Alec L. Schielke, D.C.
Staff Chiropractor; San Jose
Palo Alto VA Health Care System
Integrated Primary Care
Talk Title: “Is Core Strength Associated with Low Back Pain Severity in Veterans? A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Design”
In-person session. Please refer inquiries to Marzena Sasnal via email at msasnal@stanford.edu
Speaker:
Hilary Bagshaw, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology, Radiation Therapy
Talk Title: “Second Primary Cancer Following Prostate Radiation.”
In-person session. Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu