Monthly Work In Progress

Monthly Work In Progress

“S-SPIRE Updates”

Presented by: Dr. Arden Morris
Director, Stanford-Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center
Vice Chair of Clinical Research
Stanford University

PCSA 2019 Annual Meeting

http://pcsaonline.org/2019-Annual-Meeting

PCSA Abstract Submission Deadline

Pacific Coast Surgical Association annual meeting call for abstracts: http://pcsaonline.org/2018-Call-for-Abstracts

PD Bootcamp | Introduction and Goal Setting

Presented by: Lisa Knowlton, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC, Associate Professor of Surgery, General Surgery, Stanford University

BIo: Dr. Knowlton is an Associate Professor of Surgery and an Acute Care Surgeon whose practice encompasses trauma surgery, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. She is an NIH and ARPA-H funded researcher whose focus is on improving access to innovative, high-quality surgical care. She obtained her medical degree at McGill University and completed her general surgery residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her desire to understand varied healthcare systems and develop policy solutions led her to obtain an M.P.H. at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and complete a research fellowship at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. After training as a Surgical Critical Care fellow at Stanford University Medical Center, she joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in early 2018. She was promoted to Associate Professor in the University Medical Line in 2023. Her institutional leadership roles include serving as the Unit Based Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, the Associate Vice Chair of Research for the Stanford Department of Surgery, the SHC Surgical AI Lead for Early Clinical Deterioration, and the Associate Program Director for the Surgical Critical Care fellowship.

PD Bootcamp: Intro & Goal Setting

Dr. Arden Morris
S-SPIRE Director
Title: Introduction, Goal Setting

PD Bootcamp | Planning and Conducting a Successful Interview

Presented by: Marc Melcher, MD, Professor of Surgery, Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University

Bio: I am committed to figuring out how more people can benefit from liver and kidney transplants. Patients are dying while waiting for these organs. Therefore, my clinical and research efforts are focused on increasing the number of patients whose lives can be saved with transplantation.