Dr. Dennis Lund, CMO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, will present. Read his bio.
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Understanding Gender Disparities in Access to Surgery in Malawi — WIP Session
Please join us for the S-SPIRE Center’s first Weekly Work In Progress (WIP) Session:
Understanding Gender Disparities in Access to Surgery in Malawi
Speaker: Amee Keepak Azad
Mentor: Prof. Sherry M. Wren MD, FACS, FCS (ECSA)
Beer, pop and snacks provided.
Stanford Cosmetic Surgery Clinic’s Grand Opening

Join us for:
- Answers to all your cosmetic surgery questions and concerns
- Free trials of Filler, Botox, and Kybella
- Refreshments and snacks
- Raffles and prizes
Guest Lecturer: Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF
Guest Lecturer Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF will present “The Act of Writing” at the Dept. of Surgery Grand Rounds.
About Dr. Livingston:
- Contributing Editor for JAMA
- Deputy Editor, Clinical Review and Education, for JAMAand The JAMA Network
- Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) School of Medicine and at Northwestern University.
- Previously served as Professor and Chairman of GI and Endocrine Surgery at UTSW School of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Arlington.
Chandler Lecture: “A quarter century of developing thoracoscopic surgery in infants and children”
As part of the Chandler Lecture Series, Steven Rothenberg, MD, will present “A quarter century of developing thoracoscopic surgery in infants and children.”
About Dr. Rothenberg:
- Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s in Denver, Colorado
- Professor of Surgery at Columbia University in New York City
- “SAGES Pioneer in Surgical Endoscopy” for 2015
Ignatius Lecture: “Surgical Coaching for Performance Improvement” featuring Dr. Greenberg
Caprice Greenberg, MD, will present her lecture “Surgical Coaching for Performance Improvement.”
About Dr. Greenberg:
- Professor at University of Wisconsin
- Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research
- Vice Chair of Research, University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
- Director, Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program
Salvatierra Lecture — “The Canary in the Coal Mine: Transplantation in the Era of Transparency”

As part of the Salvatierra Lecture Series, Timothy Pruett, MD, will present “The Canary in the Coal Mine: Transplantation in the Era of Transparency.” About Dr. Pruett:
- Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Chief of Transplantation and the John S. Najarian Surgical Chair in Clinical Transplantation at University of Minnesota
- Chair of the ASTS/AST joint committee for Biovigilance
- Medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine
- General Surgery and Transplantation training at the University of Minnesota
- Internal Medicine residency at the University of Michigan
Diversity Lecture — “The Military is a Great Social Experiment”
As part of the Department of Surgery’s Diversity Lecture series, Col. Jeff Hutchinson, MD, FAAP will present “The Military is a Great Social Experiment.”
About Col. Jeff Hutchinson:
- Colonel in the US Army and an Adolescent Medicine specialist
- Uniformed Services University (USU) Interim Chair of Pediatrics
- USU School of Medicine Chief Diversity Officer
- Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the United States Military Academy
- Medical degree from the University of California San Francisco
Postoperative Pain Management in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic

Dr. Tina Hernandez-Boussard, associate professor (research) of medicine for the Biomedical Informatics Training Program, will present.
How bile ducts get injured, and how they get fixed
Dr. Brenden Visser, an associate professor of surgery in the Division of General Surgery, will present.