Stanford Surgery at #ACSCC17:
General Surgery’s Dr. Sherry Wren will be honors with the International Award
Session Code: PS103
Title: Humanitarian Surgical Outreach at Home and Abroad: Reports of the 2017 Volunteerism and Humanitarian Award Recipients
Date and Time of Session: Monday, October 23: 9:45 am – 11:15 am
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 1AB
General Surgery Resident Jared Forrester will present “Developing Operating System Process Maps for Surgical Infection Prevention: A Tool to Improve Perioperative Standards in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)”
Session Code: PS103
Title: Global Surgery/Humanitarian Outreach I
Date and Time of Session: Monday, October 23: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 6D
Cocktail Reception
Date and Time: Monday, October 23 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, 1 Market Pl., San Diego, CA, Regatta A-B
Who: All Stanford Surgery current residents, faculty, and staff as well as program alumni are invited to attend!
Associate Professor of Surgery Dr. Frederick Dirbas will present “Breast Ultrasound as an Adjunct to the Application of Radiotherapy in Malignant Disease”
Title: Interventional and Intraoperative Breast Ultrasound for the General Surgeon
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 24 from 9:00 am – 4:30pm
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 15AB
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General Surgery Resident Kimberly Kopecky will present
Title: Surgery Hurts, ACS Surgical Palliative Care Academic Symposium
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 24 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: San Diego Marriott Marquis
Adjunct Professor of Surgery (vascular surgery) Christopher Cheng will be chairing the Innovation & Investment Summit. where more than a dozen startups related to the field of vascular surgery will pitch using a “Shark Tank” format. 
Dr. Jeff Norton, Chief of the Division of General Surgery, will present.
Click here to download the 8 page (!) list of Stanford trainee and faculty presentations at the upcoming meeting: https://surgerycalendars.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Stanford-Abstracts-1.pdf
Each year, the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery hosts 15-30 talented high school and undergraduate students in our research laboratories. During their 7-week internship, students master basic lab techniques, present their scientific discoveries to colleagues in oral and poster presentations, and join research teams led by experienced (PhD level) mentors who dedicate invaluable time to inspire and guide them on their first steps towards a successful career in science.
nternships last for seven weeks, from mid-June through the 1st. wk. of August, and are awarded to outstanding high school, and undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in the biomedical/biological sciences to work on a research project that entails exposure to the latest biochemical, molecular, and analytical techniques in a given field.
Applications must be submitted by January 31, 2018.
Dr. Roy Phitayakorn, a general and endocrine surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, will present: “Trust me, I am just learning while practicing while teaching!” Is Resident Autonomy a Realistic Goal???