Monthly Work-In-Progress Session
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Presented by:
Amy Li, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
General Surgery, Department of Surgery
Stanford University
Title: “Evaluating Treatment Trends, Care Fragmentation and Outcomes for Pancreatic Cancer in California”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Weekly Work-In-Progress
Presented by:
Cara A. Liebert, MD, FACS
Clinical Instructor (VAPAHCS), General Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Dana Lin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford Health Care – Valley Care
Title: “ENTRUST: Innovation in Assessment of Surgical Decision-Making.”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Due to President’s Holiday, the Weekly Work In Progress has been canceled. We will resume on February 22, 2021.
Weekly Work-In-Progress
Presented by:
Brooke Gurland, MD
Clinical Professor, General Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Title: “App-Based Physical Therapy Coaching for Pelvic Floor Disorders and Stroke Rehabilitation.”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Weekly Work-In-Progress
Presented by:
Tom Handley, MD
Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Stanford University
Title: Cost-effectiveness of Dapagliflozin for Non-Diabetic Chronic Kidney Disease
Bio: Tom Handley is an MD from the UK. He is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar studying for a master’s degree in Health Policy, with specific interests in transplant policy and optimization.
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
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Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Dept. of Statistics
Presented by:
Dr. Dr. Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Director and Senior Research Scientist-Physical, Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University
Yulin Chien
Software Developer
Stanford University Research Informatics Center (RIC)
Eileen Kiamanesh
Research Data Analyst
Stanford University Research Informatics Center (RIC)
Title: “Introduction to the Research Informatics Center”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Jeffrey Kwong is an MD Student and Master’s Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research under the mentorship of Dr. Gordon Lee, Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) at Stanford University Medical Center.
TITLE: “Randomized Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial: Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Blocks in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Reconstruction with Abdominal Free Flap“
ZOOM DIAL IN:
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Kristen Davis, MPH
Social Science Research Professional, S-SPIRE Center
Stanford University
Marzena Sasnal, PhD
Social Science Research Professional, S-SPIRE Center
Stanford University
TITLE: “NIH Grant Updates, Data Sharing Plan & Working Session: Updating Your Biosketch to the New NIH Format”
ZOOM DIAL IN:
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Presented by:
Talha Rafeeqi, MBBS
General Surgery Resident
Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV
Under the mentorship of Dr. Bruzoni
Associate Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery)
Stanford University Medical Center
Title: “The Effect of Metabolic Surgery on Diabetes Remission in the Underserved Hispanic
Pediatric Population”
Bio:
Dr. Rafeeqi was born and raised in the Bay Area and graduated from Palo Alto Senior High School. He elected to study medicine in the country of his heritage, Pakistan, where he attained his medical degree from Dow University of Health Sciences. Since then, he has journeyed from working with Dr. Brendan Visser in the HPB Surgery department, to New Jersey where he completed his intern year, and now Las Vegas where he is completing third year of his general surgery residency. He will be starting this July as the Pediatric Surgery department’s Innovations in Pediatric Surgery research fellow, where he will work to organize and carry out research to further the management of pediatric surgical disease.
For Zoom dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu.