Dana T. Lin, MD, FACS is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery and Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program.

Cara A. Liebert, MD, FACS is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery and VA Palo Alto and serves as the Assistant Clerkship Director and Director of the Balance in Life Program.

TALK TITLE: “Validity Evidence of ENTRUST for Assessment of Surgical Decision-Making.”

Please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu for Zoom dial-in instructions.

Presented by: Dr. Karleen Giannitrapani is the Associate Director of the VA Palliative Care Quality Improvement Resource Center (QUIRC), supporting VA geriatrics and extended care services nationally. She is also Core Investigator based at the VA HSR&D Center for Innovation to implementation (Ci2i), and an Instructor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. She has a VA Career Development Award on building better teams across disciplines and was selected as a “2020 Research Scholar” by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for related work.

Title: “They (Surgeons) Don’t Have to Love Us or Even Like Us, but They Have to See that We (Palliative Care) Will Benefit the Patient and Family”: Perspectives of Palliative Care on Improving Quality in the Perioperative Period

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here. Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here. Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

This curriculum is designed to support beginner, intermediate, and advanced “Stata” users. The courses do not require registration and can accommodate up to 300 participants. The most recent and advanced version, Stata-16, integrates Python with Stata.

We strongly encourage you to participate!

Please direct questions regarding Zoom dial-in instructions to Lakshika Tennakoon, Data Scientist, Division of Trauma and Acute Care, Department of Surgery at lakshika@stanford.edu

This curriculum is designed to support beginner, intermediate, and advanced “Stata” users. The courses do not require registration and can accommodate up to 300 participants. The most recent and advanced version, Stata-16, integrates Python with Stata.

We strongly encourage you to participate!

Please direct questions regarding Zoom dial-in instructions to Lakshika Tennakoon, Data Scientist, Division of Trauma and Acute Care, Department of Surgery at lakshika@stanford.edu

In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, this session has been canceled.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here. Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Liam Rose is a health economist and investigator with the Health Economics Resource Center at VA Palo Alto. His research focuses on applied microeconomics with an emphasis on econometric techniques that can provide causal inference. His work focuses on access to care, utilization, and changes in health in the transitions to Medicare and retirement. Liam has a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Talk Title: “An Introduction to Casual Inference with Observational Data.”

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here. Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu