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.”
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Due to President’s Holiday, the Weekly Work In Progress has been canceled. We will resume on February 22, 2021.
Department Chair Dr. Mary Hawn in conjunction with the San Jose Surgical Society hosts the new George B. Armanini Lecture. Dr. Ron Weigel is Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Iowa.
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.
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Zara Cooper, MD, MSc is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon, and surgical intensivist certified in palliative medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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”
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Wei Zhou, MD, FACS, is a professor of surgery and the chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
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.