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.”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Weekly Work-In-Progress
Presented by:
Brooke Gurland, MD
Clinical Professor, General Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Title: “App-Based Physical Therapy Coaching for Pelvic Floor Disorders and Stroke Rehabilitation.”
For dial-in instructions, please contact Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Weekly Work-In-Progress ASC Practice Session
Practice presentation run for Academic Surgical Congress
Presented by Stanford, Department of Surgery Residents
Stanford University
Work-In-Progress Session
Practice presentation run for Academic Surgical Congress
Presented by Stanford, Department of Surgery Residents
Stanford University
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Speaker: |
Mentor: |
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| S-SPIRE Center |
Hyrum Eddington, Medical Student |
Arden Morris, MD |
Communication and Trust among Diverse Patients with Colorectal Cancer and their Surgeons |
| General Surgery |
Rachel Smith, Medical Student |
Lisa Knowlton, MD |
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Readmissions for Trauma and Emergency General Surgery Patients |
| Vascular Surgery |
Aditi Kashikar, MBBS, MD Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Shipra Arya, MD |
Frailty Reduces Long-term Survival after Peripheral Artery Revascularizations Regardless of Approach |
| Goodman Surgical Education Center |
Anna Carroll, Medical Student |
James Lau, MD |
Student Values Inform Early Career Plans in Service and Surgery – A Qualitative Focus Group Analysis |
Join us for our 2019 event celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Hear presentations from three of our own surgeons on the research they’re doing to prevent breast cancer and help survivors. Lunch to immediately follow!

21st Annual Thomas J. Fogarty Lecture: Focus on Innovation featuring Brook Byers, Founding Partner, Kleiner Perkins
The Fogarty lectureship was established to bring together a diverse community in Silicon Valley focusing on leaders in discovery, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This event is sponsored by the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Fogarty Institute for Innovation and the Stanford Department of Surgery.
About Brook Byers:
Brook Byers is a founding member of Kleiner Perkins. A venture capital investor since 1972, Brook has been closely involved with more than 60 new technology-based ventures, many of which have become public companies. He formed the first life sciences practice group in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led KP to become a premier venture capital firm in the medical, healthcare and biotechnology sectors. KP has invested in and helped build more than 120 life sciences companies that have developed hundreds of products to treat underserved medical needs for many millions of patients. Brook has been an innovator in precision medicine and health genomics, antibodies and devices. He was the founding president and then chairman of four biotechnology companies that were incubated in KP’s offices and went on to become public companies with an aggregate market value of more than US $8 billion. He serves on the board of directors of Epiodyne, Enjoy, Newsela, Octave and Verana Health.
Brook serves on the Board of Overseers of the University of California San Francisco medical campus and hospitals, the Stanford Medicine Advisory Council, the Board of Directors of the New Schools Foundation, the Advisory Board of Stanford’s Center for Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics and the Stanford Center for Biodesign. In 2007, UCSF awarded Brook the UCSF Medal, its honorary degree equivalent. In 2008, Brook was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association. In 2010, he received an honorary Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Brook graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Register: http://bit.ly/FogartyLecture-2019