Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Nancy King Glober, MD
Emergency Medicine Fellow, Stanford University
Title: “Optimizing care by Emergency Medical Services providers, the guardians of our community.”
PI: Prasanthi Govindarajan, MD, MBBS, MAS
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Monthly Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Sofia C. Zambrano, PhD
Psychologist & Postdoctoral Researcher
University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
Title: “Talking about death and caring for dying patients: A qualitative perspective on physicians’ and surgeons’ experiences and needs.”
Short Bio
Sofia C. Zambrano is a Colombian psychologist and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Sofia obtained her PhD from The University of Adelaide, Australia and her dissertation on how physicians experience the death of their patients was awarded the Dean’s commendation for Research Excellence. Her main research interests lie in understanding the psychological impact that communicating about death and dying has on healthcare professionals, patients, and families. She is the principal investigator of an international project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that aims to understand how and when physicians decide to communicate with patients and their significant others about the end of life. Together with her Australian husband, she spends her free time in either the Swiss mountains or at opposite ends of the earth, where their friends and family are.
Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
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Jason Field, President & CEO
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Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Miquell Miller, MD; General Surgery Resident
Department of Surgery
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Title: “Inequities in Cancer Care and the Impact on Survival: A SEER Analysis”
Work In Progress Session
Presented by:
James Korndorffer, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, General Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Title: “Establishing Performance Benchmarks of Practicing Surgeons Using Simulator-based Assessments and Demonstrating their Relationship to Clinical Performance and Patient Outcomes”
Work-In-Progress Session
Presented by:
Carolyn Dacey Seib, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Department of Surgery
Stanford University
Title: “The Impact of Treatment Choice on Long-Term Outcomes in Older Adults with Primary Hyperparathyroidism”