Due to the ASC Congress, the Work In Progress Session has been cancelled.

SPEAKER: Bruce Ling, MD
Assistant Professor (Research) of Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Stanford Medicine

Title: “Decoding Multi-Omics Based Big Data with BI/AI Solutions in Health Care”

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Anne Fernandez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center
Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
University of Michigan

Title: Alcohol-related Clinical Practices in Surgical Healthcare: Qualitative findings from patients and healthcare providers.

Short Bio

Dr. Anne Fernandez, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on surgical optimization for patients with alcohol use disorders, including brief motivational interventions in healthcare settings. The goal of this work is to improve surgical outcomes through early pre-operative intervention that addresses addiction and other behavioral health risk factors. She currently has a career development grant funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Fernandez is a faculty member of the UM Department of Psychiatry Addiction Center and the UM Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation.

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.

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
UPMC Endowed Chair of Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine
Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Critical Care Medicine

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Title:  “Conducting Trials of Interventions to Improve Communication and Decision Making in ICUs”

Cancelled due to the 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress.

We will resume on March 4, 2019!

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session-CANCELLED

Presented by:

Amber Trickey, PhD       &      Sylvia Merrell, DrPH
Sr. Biostatistician                         Research Scholar
S-SPIRE Center                            S-SPIRE Center
Stanford University                    Stanford University

Title: “Conceptual Frameworks and Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs): Why We Need (and Love) Them”