Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Speaker Ready Room
Commodore Perry

Poster Set-Up
Brenton Hall & Grand Ballroom

Exhibit Hall Hours
Brenton Hall

Scientific Session I
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: James M. Lindberg, MD; Carlos E. Marroquin, MD

Impact Of Pre-Operative Weight Loss On 30-Day Complication Rates Following Bariatric Surgery
*Omnia S. Saleh¹, *Youssef MK Farag²,³,⁴, *Pourya Medhati¹, Ali Tavakkoli^1
1Division of General and GI Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; ²PGME, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ³Bayer, Hanover NJ, United States; ⁴Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

Diagnostic Staging Laparoscopy In Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Review Of Best Practices And Quality Assessment At A Rural Regional Referral Hospital
*John A. Steinharter¹, Conor O'Neill^2
1University of Vermont Robert Larner, MD School of Medicine, Burlington, VT, United States; ²University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, United States

Post-Surgical Opioid Prescribing via Rule-Based Guidelines Derived from In-Hospital Consumption: An Assessment of Efficacy Based on Actual Patient-Reported Post-Discharge Opioid Consumption
Brendin Beaulieu-Jones¹, *Margaret T. Berrigan¹, *Kortney A. Robinson¹, *Larry A. Nathanson², *Aaron Fleishman¹, *Gabriel A. Brat^1
1Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ²Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

Gender Disparities in Surgical Resident Operative Performance Evaluations
*Yao Liu, *Jasmine Gibson, *Kenneth Lynch, *Ashlie Haas-Rodriguez, *Carla Moreira, *Rachel Beard, David Harrington, Thomas J. Miner
Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

EHR-Integrated Questionnaires In Colorectal Surgery: Would Patients Accept This As Standard Of Care?
*Ming Cai, Sandra L. Wong, Sara W. Mayo
Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States

Comparing the Outcomes of Single-port and Three-port Laparoscopic Appendectomies in Pediatric Patients
*Elyssa Harris¹, Max D. Hazeltine¹, Robert McLoughlin¹, *Julie Flahive², *Yurima Guilarte-Walker³, Jeremy Aidlen¹, Michael Hirsh¹, *Kaitlyn Wong¹, Muriel Cleary^1
1Pediatric Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, United States; ²Surgery, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States; ³Health Informatics and Implementation Science, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

Sustained Success of a Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Protocol Over One Decade
Anna Kobzeva-Herzog¹, Jeffrey J. Siracuse², Michael Cassidy³, *Spencer Wilson¹, *Ryan Macht⁴, *Stephanie Talutis⁵, *Pamela Rosenkranz¹, David McAneny^1
1General Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ²Vascular Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ³Surgical Oncology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ⁴Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; ⁵Vascular Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Gender-specific Differences in Tissue Remodeling and Revascularization Following Gene-based Therapy in a Mouse Model of Hind Limb Ischemia
*Priscilla E. Lam¹, Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu², *Ajayan Manoor Supran², *Pradeep Seetur Radhakrishna², *Andrew Kemerley², Alexander Palesty¹, *Nilanjana Malik^2
1Surgery, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT, United States; ²Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Uconn Health, Farmington, CT, United States

Assessment of the Modified Frailty Index and Risk Factors for Point-of-Origin Discharge Failure (PODF) Following Lobectomy
*Victoria Yin², *Sean C. Wightman¹, *Scott M. Atay¹, *Takashi Harano¹, Anthony W. Kim^1
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States; ²Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Robotic One Anesthetic Diagnosis and Treatment (ROADAT): A Novel Program for Expedited Lung Cancer Care
*Kevin M. Dickson¹, *Benjamin A. Palleiko¹, *Mark W. Maxfield¹, *Rahul Sood², *Andrew Fischer³, Karl Uy¹, *Isabel Emmerick¹, Feiran Lou^1
1Surgery, UMass Chan, Worcester, MA, United States; ²Interventional Pulmonology, UMass Chan, Worcester, MA, United States; ³Pathology, UMass Chan, Worcester, MA, United States

AI and Surgery: the Progress, the Promise, and the Perils
Grand Ballroom
*Gregory D. Hager; Johns Hopkins University

Coffee Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters
Brenton Hall

Scientific Session II
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Alia Aunchman, MD; Lucy Ruangvoravat, MD

Analysis of Demand for General Surgeons in Northern New England
*Robin Cotter, *Matthew Carroll, Brent White, Sean Bears, Kari Rosenkranz
General Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States

Site-Specific Variations in Circulating Tumor DNA Levels and Kinetics in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
*Varun V. Bansal¹, *Erika Belmont², *Ankit Dhiman³, *Hunter D. Witmer⁴, *Frederick Godley⁴, *Shen Li⁴, *Cecilia T. Ong⁴, *Blase Polite², *Oliver Eng⁵, *Ardaman Shergill², *Kiran K. Turaga^1
1Surgical Oncology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States; ²Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; ³Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States; ⁴Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; ⁵Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange County, CA, United States

Recurrence Rates After Nonoperative Treatment Of Acute Appendicitis In Children: Long-Term Follow-Up
*Emily Hensler, *Debra Watson-Smith, *Andrew McCarthy, *Melissa Vanover, Francois Luks
Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI, United States

Patient Satisfaction and Attendance with Virtual Care in a Multidisciplinary Bariatric Program
Lindsay Miamen, Vasundhara Mathur, Meghan Ariagno, Amanda Lavasseur, Catherine Page, Ema Barbosa Brown, Yali Lu, Paul Davidson, Scott Shikora, Eric Sheu
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Intrinsic Tumor Characteristics Related to Recurrence Risk and Overall Survival In Patients with Uveal Melanoma
*Aikaterini Dedeilia¹, *Nicholas Stratigakis², *Aleigha Lawless², *Tatyana Sharova², *Kendra Pallin², Genevieve M. Boland^1
1Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; ²Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Effectiveness of a Basic Bleeding Control Course for Public Transit Drivers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
*Josh Drake¹, *Fredirick Mashili², *George Kiwango², *Deus Kitapondya², *Sean Kivlehan^1
1Emergency Health Systems, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Boston, MA, United States; ²Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of

Effects of an IV acetaminophen-based pain protocol on neonatal post-operative outcomes
*Christopher Zaro, *Symren Dhaliwal, *Katherine Sullivan, *Jeremy Aiden, Michael Hirsh, Muriel Cleary
Medical School, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

Posters of Distinction
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: John H. Sanders, MD; Brent C. White, MD

Temporal Trends In Lymph Node Harvest For Oncologic Resection Of Stage II And III Colon Cancer
*George Q. Zhang, *Joshua Kang, *Vanessa Welten, Jennifer Irani, *Nelya Melnitchouk, James Yoo, Ronald Bleday, *Joel Goldberg
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

Management Of NASH/Cirrhosis Patients In A Tertiary Bariatric Surgery Center
*Darya M. Herscovici¹, *Thuy Duong Doan¹, *Avery Pullman¹, *Lyle Suh¹, Richard Perugini^2
1. UMASS Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States. ². Department of Surgery, UMASS Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.

Regional And Hospital Based Socioeconomic Disparities In The Management Of Acute Cholecystitis
*Carmen Fahlen, *Chibueze Nwaiwu, *Andrew H. Stephen, Daithi S. Heffernan
Brown University / Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, United States.

Overall Volume Of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Positively Impacts Gastric Cancer Outcomes At Centers With Low Gastrectomy Volume
*Kelsey Romatoski, *Susanna W. de geus, *Sophie H. Chung, Marianna V. Papageorge, *Alison P. Woods, *Gordana Rasic, *Sing Chau Ng, Jennifer F. Tseng, Teviah E. Sachs
General Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

Using Thromboelastography With Platelet Mapping To Tailor Post-Operative Thromboprophylaxis Following Lower Extremity Revascularization
*Ryan Hall, *Monica Majumdar, *Sasha Suarez, *Ivy Lee, *Tiffany Bellomo, *Samuel Jessula, *Kathryn Nuzzolo, *Nikolaos Zacharias, *Anahita Dua
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

Expression Of Contactin-1 As A Potential Mediator Of Melanoma Brain Metastasis
*David G. Su¹, *Veronica Chiang³, *David Schoenfeld², Kelly Olino⁴, *Harriet Kluger², *Lucia Jilaveanu^2
1. General Surgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, Hamden, CT, United States. ². Medical Oncology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States. ³. Neurosurgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States. ⁴. Surgical Oncology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States.

Welcome Reception
Rose Island

Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Speaker Ready Room
Grand Ballroom

Continental Breakfast
Brenton Hall

Exhibit Hall Hours
Brenton Hall

Scientific Session III
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Dougald C. MacGillivray, MD; Brendin R. Beaulieu-Jones, MD

Patient Reported Outcomes In Emergency General Surgery A Qualitative Study
Kevin M. Schuster, *Yasmin Ali, *Rick O'Connor, *Rachel Levinson
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

Assessing Resolution of Inflammation as a Potential Novel Risk Determinant for Stage 3 Colon Cancer Recurrence: A Translational Study
*Megan L. Sulciner¹, *Kimmie Ng², *William Tan², *Lauren Brais², Chandrajit Raut³, *Charles Serhan^4
1Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; ²Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ³Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; ⁴Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Outcome Of A Care Protocol In A Dedicated Pilonidal Care Clinic
*Madelyn McArthur, *Kathleen Renzi, *Gheed Murtadi, *Nikki Check, David P. Mooney
Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Assessing Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema Screening and Treatment Gaps in a Safety-Net Hospital
*Sara Young¹, Alaina Geary¹, *Xuewei Zhao¹, *Kelly Kenzik¹, Michael Cassidy¹, *Robin Newman², *Andrea Merrill^1
1Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ²Occupational Therapy, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

Introduction of New Members
Grand Ballroom

The Surgical Chairs Job In Modern Medicine: Who Do You Work For, What Do You Do, Who And What Do You Need To Do It? A Moderated Exploration Of The Challenges, Frustrations And Conflicts As Well As The Joys And Opportunities
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH; Sidhu P. Gangadharan, MD
Panelist:
Keith D. Lillemoe, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital
Scott H. Kurtzman, MD; Waterbury Hospital
Mitchell C. Norotsky, MD; University of Vermont Medical Center
Sandra L. Wong, MD; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Brian W. Nolan, MD; Maine Medical Center

Coffee Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters
Brenton Hall

Scientific Session IV
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Paige Teller, MD; David J. Mancini, MD

Mining for Gold - The Personal Statement in General Surgery Residency Candidate Selection
*Gordana Rasic, *Aaron D. Richman, Donald T. Hess, Luise I. Pernar
Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

Development of a Mobile Application for Peer-to-Peer Physician Consultations in the War Setting in Ukraine
Ali Dzhemiliev*¹, Svitlana Bielichenko², Darya Kizub³, Galyna Shabat⁴, Inesa Huivaniuk⁵, Solomiia Semeniv⁷, Olha Lutsiv⁶, Vanessa Welten¹, Nelya Melnitchouk^1
1Surgery, Brigham and Women`s Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Massachusets General Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Hematology Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Huston, TX; ⁴Merano Hospital, Merano, Italy; ⁵National Cancer Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine; ⁶University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada; ⁷Krakow Hospital, Krakow, Poland

COVID-19 Recovery and Abdominal Cancer Surgical Outcomes: An NCDB Analysis
*Peter L. Zhan¹, *Maureen E. Canavan², *Sora Ely¹, *Brooks Udelsman¹, *Winston L. Trope¹, *Daniel J. Boffa¹, *Ira L. Leeds^1
1Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

Safety of Same Day Discharge after Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Six Year North American Analysis
*Tina Bharani, Ali Tavakkoli, Malcolm K. Robinson, Eric Sheu
¹Department of Surgery , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Outcomes and Predictors of Adverse Events in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: A Retrospective Study
*Abdulrahman H.M. Hassab¹, *James Antonios¹, *Matthew Williams¹, *Arnar Geirsson¹, *Prashanth Vallabhajosyula¹, Roland Assi¹,²,^3
1Department of Surgery (Cardiac), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States; ²Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States; ³Program in Vascular Biology and Therapeutics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

Outcomes and Management of Re-establishing Bariatric Patients' Care
*Pourya Medhati, *Omnia Saleh, Eric Sheu, Ali Tavakkoli
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

A New Era For ERAS: Opioid-Free Discharge?
*Ming Cai, *Jessica R. Henkin, Sara W. Mayo
Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States

37th Annual Samuel Jason Mixter Lecturer
Sponsored by the NESS Scholars Foundation
Grand Ballroom

The Changing Paradigm of Surgical Education
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS

New England ASMBS chapter for MBS at NESS Meeting
Aquidneck room

Optional Tour: Golden to Gilded (Separate Registration Required)
Newport Historical Society, 127 Thames St, Newport, RI
Price: $15 per person. The tour will be held rain or shine; all ticket sales are final.
Participants will meet in the lobby of the Newport Harbor Island Hotel at 1:40 pm and walk circa 15 minutes to the Museum of Newport History at the Brick Market (no transportation provided). The Newport Historical Society will then lead a walking tour, lasting approximately 75-90 minutes, which highlights the transformation of the city and its people, from Newport’s colonial Golden Age to Gilded Age summer colony.

New Members Pre-Reception (Invitation only)
Newport

DEI in Surgery Pre-Reception
Newport

Please note that the New Member Pre-Reception and the DEI in Surgery Pre-Reception are a combined event.
Dress is business attire (as this event leads directly into the President’s Reception & Dinner). The Combined Pre-Reception is for the Executive Committee and new Active, Senior, and Associate members (and their spouses/partners) who are attending their first Annual Meeting, as well as for the DEI Committee and attendees to engage in a fun DEI networking opportunity.

President's Reception & Dinner
Reception: Ballroom Foyer
Dinner: Grand Ballroom
Business Attire

Post Dinner Speaker: The past, present, and future of fisheries in Narragansett Bay and beyond
*Sarah Schumann

Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Speaker Ready Room
Grand Ballroom

Continental Breakfast
Brenton Hall

Annual Business Meeting (Members Only)
Grand Ballroom

Scientific Session V
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Maija Cheung, MD; Kartik Pandya, MD

Sports Hernia and MRI: How Does The "Gold Standard" Correlate?
John Bonadies¹, *Daryle J. Lamonica², *Evan Fear^3
1PACT, Hartford Healthcare, North Haven, CT, United States; ²Quinnipiac Medical School, Hamden, CT, United States; ³Biochemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States

Proteomic Analysis Reveals Sex Specific Changes in Chronically Ischemic Swine Myocardium Treated with Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor Canagliflozin
*Dwight D. Harris, *Sharif A. Sabe, *Mark Broadwin, *Cynthia Xu, *Mohamed Sabra, *M. Ruhul Abid, Frank Sellke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

Development of a Deep Learning System for Prediction of Chemotherapy Resistance from Staging Laparoscopy Images
Thomas Schnelldorfer¹, *Janil Castro¹, *Francis W. Nugent², *Georgios Georgalis^3
1Division of Surgical Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ²Division of Hematology / Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; ³Data Intensive Studies Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States

Managing surgical complications, might endoscopy save the day?
Grand Ballroom
Co-Moderators: Ali Tavakkoli, MD; Donald T. Hess, MD

Chronic Sleeve leak with Gastrobronchial Fistula
Eric Sheu, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital

Colonocutaneaous Fistula with Infected Mesh
Donald T. Hess, MD; Boston Medical Center

RYGB with Choledocholithiasis
Marissa Mendez, MD; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med. Ctr.

Recent Advances In Endoscopic Management Of GI Complications
Chris Thompson, MD; Brigham & Women's Hospital

Introduction of President
Grand Ballroom
Kathleen A. LaVorgna, MD
2022 - 2023 NESS Vice President

Presidential Address
Grand Ballroom
"New England Surgical Society: Long may it prosper"
Giles F. Whalen, MD
2022-2023 NESS President