Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Anne Fernandez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center
Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
University of Michigan

Title: Alcohol-related Clinical Practices in Surgical Healthcare: Qualitative findings from patients and healthcare providers.

Short Bio

Dr. Anne Fernandez, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on surgical optimization for patients with alcohol use disorders, including brief motivational interventions in healthcare settings. The goal of this work is to improve surgical outcomes through early pre-operative intervention that addresses addiction and other behavioral health risk factors. She currently has a career development grant funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Fernandez is a faculty member of the UM Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center and the UM Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.

Work In Progress Session

Presented by:
Charles Liu, MD
General Surgery Resident
Stanford Hospital and Clinics

Title: “Out-of-Pocket Spending by Surgical and Trauma Patients Following Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”

Work In Progress Session

AcademyHealth Practice Presentation Run
Department of Surgery
Stanford University

Kirbi Yelorda, MD, General Surgery Resident
Title: “Implementation of an Experiential Program for Underrepresented Minority High School Students to Enhance Diversity in the Surgical Workforce”

Qian Ding, MS, S-SPIRE Biostatistician
Title: “Prevalence and Factors Associated with Low Value Preoperative Testing for Patients Undergoing Carpal Tunnel Release at an Academic Medical Center”

Amber Trickey, PhD, S-SPIRE Sr. Biostatistician
Title 1: “Factors Associated with Initiation of Chronic Opioid Use after Treatment of Common Pain Syndromes: A Private Insurance Claims Analysis”
Title 2: “Evaluating Accuracy of the Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System Universal Calculators for Elective Total Joint Replacement” 

Presented by:
Dr. Lisa Knowlton
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Gen Surg.)

Presentation Title: “National impact of Medicaid expansion upon ED utilization in trauma patients”

&

Aleksandra Degtyar
Intern
Trauma section
Stanford University

Presentation Title: “What Brings You in Today? Effects of the Affordable Care Act on reasons for Emergency Department Utilization”

Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Carolyn Dacey Seib, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Department of Surgery
Stanford University

Title: “Developing a Framework for Decision Support in Older Adults with Primary Hyperparathyroidism”.

Weekly Work In Progress

Presented by: Dr. Shipra Arya
Associate Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery)
Stanford University Medical Center

Title: “Multidisciplinary Care of High Risk Surgical Patients”

Work-In-Progress Session

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

Talk Title: TBD

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”

Nikki H. Williams
Institutional Official, Senior Research Process Manager
Stanford University
School of Medicine Research Management Group

Title: “Simplifying the Proposal Process”

Weekly Work-In-Progress 

Presented by:
Dan Eisenberg, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)
Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care Center
Stanford University

Title: “Healthcare Utilization in Veterans with Obesity; Does Bariatric Surgery Blunt the Impact of Low Socioeconomic Status?”