Presented by: Clifford Sheckter, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University.
Bio: Dr. Cliff Sheckter is a California native, growing up in the rural Eastern Sierra. He graduated from UCLA with a BS in Anthropology and earned summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He attended USC (Keck) for medical school on an academic scholarship and graduated valedictorian with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He fell in love with burn care while at USC/LA General Medical Center and completed his surgical training at Stanford. While in residency, he pursued a fellowship/postdoc in Health Systems Design at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC). He earned an MS in Health Policy from Stanford, focusing on health economics. He received additional training in Surgical Critical Care and Burn Surgery at the University of Washington.
Presented by: Christopher Stave, MLA, Information Services Librarian, School of Medicine, Lane Library
Bio:Christopher Stave, MLA, is librarian and member of Lane Library’s Research & Instruction team. Christopher serves as Lane’s Graduate/Clinical Education Librarian, and acts as the liaison between Lane and the Department of Graduate Medical Education. Christopher is also the designated librarian for the departments of Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Pediatrics.
VAM25 Education Session Proposals
Education Sessions cover a wide range of clinical and non-clinical topics relevant to SVS members and attendees. These sessions, comprising nearly 50% of daily programming, cater to diverse age groups and practice settings through various formats, including small group lectures, case-based courses, hands-on activities, and innovative approaches.
About the Call
- Submissions can be from individuals, on behalf of SVS committees, councils and tasks and those from affiliate societies.
- Proposals submitted outside the online process will not be considered or reviewed.
- Submission does not guarantee acceptance.
- The primary contact will be notified by the end of September if their proposal has been selected.
- The deadline for submission is 3 p.m. CT, Wednesday, Aug. 28.
Presented by: Marc Melcher, MD, Professor of Surgery, Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University
Bio: I am committed to figuring out how more people can benefit from liver and kidney transplants. Patients are dying while waiting for these organs. Therefore, my clinical and research efforts are focused on increasing the number of patients whose lives can be saved with transplantation.
February 6th through 9th, 2025
2025 ANNUAL WINTER MEETING
The Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society is a national society with over 1,500 members and a 45+ year history dedicated to advancing clinical practice, research, and professional development of young vascular surgeons. The VESS mission is to improve the quality and safety of vascular & endovascular surgical procedures and general vascular care through education, scholarship, advocacy and leadership. The VESS Annual Meeting provides the premiere forum for face‐to‐face interaction with our incredibly diverse group of early career vascular surgeons who represent the future of our specialty.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
VESS is now accepting abstracts for the 2025 Annual Winter Meeting.
All submissions must be completed by Wednesday, September 4th, 2024.
Bio: Dr. Knowlton is a trauma and critical care surgeon and NIH funded public health researcher whose focus is on improving access to and quality of care for trauma and surgical patients. She obtained her medical degree at McGill University and completed her general surgery residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her desire to understand varied healthcare systems and develop solutions for vulnerable surgical populations led her to obtain an M.P.H. at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and complete a research fellowship at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Most recently, she trained as a Surgical Critical Care fellow at Stanford University Medical Center and joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in early 2018.
Presented by: Julie Wu, MD, Medical Oncologist, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and VA National Oncology Program.
Talk Title: “EHR Analytics with GenAI: a Nationwide Case Study of the Longstanding Smoking History Problem”
Bio: Julie Wu is a medical oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and with the VA National Oncology Program. Julie’s research interests are in generative AI for large-scale EHR analytics, lung cancer screening and second primary lung cancer, and precision oncology.
Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.
For inquiries regarding full location and Zoom detail instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Presented by: Katherine Arnow, MS, Senior Biostatistician, S-SPIRE Center, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
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>