The Society of Black Academic Surgeons

MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

Sixteenth Annual Scientific Session

April 6-8, 2006

Department of

University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio Venues of Cincinnati Women’s Reception hosted by Dr. hosted Reception Women’s Karyn Butler

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Drs. Quitel, Oluwole, and Spight Drs. Matthews, Weaver, and Bland

Drs. Bumpers, Gibbs and Cason Drs. Merrill and Stain

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Mr. James Kingsbury (Executive Director, University Hospital), Dr. Kenneth Davis, Jr., and Dr. Jane Henney (Provost, University of Cincinnati Medical Center)

Surgical Amphitheatre, University of Cincinnati

- 6 - - 7 - Society of Black Academic Surgeons Scientific Sessions Sixteenth Annual Friday (continued) April 7, 2006 Scientific Session 8:15-10:00 a.m. Local Presentations Thursday April 6, 2006 (Kenneth Davis, Jr, MD, Moderator) 8:15 a.m. Timothy M. Crombleholme, MD 3:30-7:00 p.m. Registration, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland “Fetal Surgery: Current Status” Plaza, Lobby 8:30 a.m. Karyn L. Butler, MD “Support for the Sick at Heart: Cardioprotection 5:00-6:30 p.m. Reception for Women Surgeons, Hilton in a Clinically Relevant Model of Heart Disease” Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Suite 740 8:45 a.m. Calvin A. Selwyn, Jr, MD “Endoluminal Surgery: Current and Future 6:30-8:30 p.m. Welcome Reception, Hilton Cincinnati Techniques” Netherland Plaza, Mezzanine 9:00 a.m. Karl S. Matlin, PhD “Surgical Research” 9:15 a.m. Amy B. Reed, MD Friday April 7, 2006 “ Training in the 21st Century” 9:30 a.m. Randall K. Wolf, MD 6:00-7:15 a.m. Registration and Breakfast Buffet, Hilton “The Future of Surgery” Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Continental 9:45 a.m. Syed A. Ahmad, MD Ballroom (Mezzanine Level) “The UC Experience with Total Pancreatectomy and Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation for 7:15 a.m. Board Buses, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Chronic Pancreatitis” Plaza, Fifth Street Entrance (revolving door) 10:00-10:15 a.m. Break 7:30 a.m. Buses Depart for University of Cincinnati 10:15-11:15 a.m. Asa Yancey Lecture: “Surgical Biodiversity” 8:00-11:15 a.m. Local Program, University of Cincinnati Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD Department of Surgery, Surgical Amphitheater 11:15 a.m. Board Buses and Depart for Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza 8:00-8:15 a.m. Welcome 12:00-1:00 p.m. Luncheon, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza (Rosewood, Fourth Floor)

- 8 - - 9 - Scientific Sessions Scientific Sessions Saturday April 8, 2006 Friday (continued) April 7, 2006 6:30-8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast Buffet, Scientific Sessions, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Continental Ballroom Continental Ballroom (Mezzanine Level) 1:00-3:00 p.m. Scientific Session I - Clinical Trials/ Scientific Sessions, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Education 8:00-10:00 a.m. Scientific Session III - Trauma/ 3:00-3:45 p.m. State of the Art Lecture: “The Integration of Critical Care Mentorship into Translational Surgical 10:00-10:15 a.m. Break Research: Student, Resident, and Faculty Implications” 10:15-11:15 a.m. Business Meeting (members only) Kirby I. Bland, MD 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. State of the Art Lecture: “Principles of 3:45-4:00 p.m. Break HIV ” Michael S. Saag, MD 4:00-5:00 p.m. Scientific Session II - 12:00-1:00 p.m. Luncheon (Rosewood, Fourth Floor) 6:30 p.m. Board Buses, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Fifth Street Entrance (revolving door) 1:00-2:45 p.m. Scientific Session IV - Cardiothoracic/ Vascular 6:45 p.m. Buses Depart for National Underground Railroad Freedom Center 2:45-3:00 p.m. Break 7:00-9:00 p.m. Cocktail/Dinner Reception, National 3:00-4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion - “Critical Skills for Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Academic Success” (Karyn L. Butler, MD, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati Moderator) Guest of Honor: Mark Mallory, Mayor 4:15-5:00 p.m. Presidential Address: Selwyn M. Vickers, of the City of Cincinnati MD Welcome: Spencer Crew, PhD, President, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Presidential Reception, Hilton Cincinnati National Underground Railroad Freedom Netherland Plaza, Fourth Floor Foyer Center 7:30-10:00 p.m. Presidential Dinner (Black Tie), Hilton 9:00 p.m. Buses Depart for Hilton Cincinnati Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Pavilion Netherland Plaza Ballroom, Fourth Floor Guest Speaker: Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati businessman & basketball icon - 10 - - 11 - Asa Yancey Lecture Panel Discussion Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD Christian R. Holmes Professor “Critical Skills for Academic Success” Chairman, Department of Surgery University of Cincinnati Karyn L. Butler, MD, Moderator “Surgical Biodiversity” Associate Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery State of the Art Lectures Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics University of Cincinnati Kirby I. Bland, MD Cincinnati, OH Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery L.D. Britt, MD, MPH University of Alabama at Birmingham Brickhouse Professor of Surgery “The Integration of Mentorship into Translational Surgical Chairman, Department of Research: Student, Resident, and Faculty Implications” Eastern Virginia Norfolk, VA Michael S. Saag, MD Professor of Edward E. Cornwell, III, MD Director, UAB Center for AIDS Research Director, Adult Trauma Service University of Alabama at Birmingham The Johns Hopkins Hospital “Principles of HIV Therapy” Baltimore, MD Dr. Claude H. Organ, jr. Resident Award Winners Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD Christian R. Holmes Professor 2003 Richard E. Redlinger, Jr, BS Chairman, Department of Surgery Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh University of Cincinnati Pittsburgh, PA Cincinnati, OH Donn H. Spight, MD University of Cincinnati Toni Robinson-Smith, MD Cincinnati, OH Associate Professor 2004 Zara R. Cooper, MD, MSc Department of & Laboratory Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital University of Cincinnati Boston, MA Cincinnati, OH 2005 Sonya Walker, MD University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA

- 12 - - 13 - Dr. Jeff Matthews– Asa Yancey Lecturer State of the Art Lecture: “Surgical Biodiversity” Dr Kirby Bland

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Sixteenth Annual Scientific Session Sixteenth Annual Scientific Session Sessions at a Glance Sessions at a Glance Session I Session II Clinical Trials/Education Oncology

Friday, April 7, 2006 Friday, April 7, 2006 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Moderators: Paul R. Cunningham, MD, Moderators: Cassann N. Blake, MD, MPH, and Orlando Kirton, MD and Wade G. Douglas, MD 1. MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS FOR ALLOGRAFT 9. DISRUPTION OF TGF-β SIGNALING AND ITS RESTORATION LOSS IN BLACK & WHITE RECIPIENTS OF RENAL ALLOGRAFTS MODULATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOGENESIS IN Joseph Keith Melancon, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital HEPATOCELLULAR CANCER CELL LINES AND ELF+/- MUTANT 2. PATIENT LEVEL PREDICTORS OF TIMELY PROPHYLACTIC TISSUES ANTIBIOTIC ADMINISTRATION Krit Kitisin, MD, Georgetown University Hospital Stephen H. Gray, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham 10. PANCREATIC STELLATE CELLS PROMOTE MALIGNANT 3. FACTORS AFFECTING INNOVATION IN : POTENTIAL IN PANCREATIC CANCER HOSPITAL TYPE AND APPENDECTOMIES Keith D. Amos, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cedric V.Pritchett, BS, PA-C, Ohio State University Center 4. A WEB-BASED PROGRAM FOR THE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION 11. ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA IN AFRICAN-AMERICANS: OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RARE AND DEADLY Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr, MD, MPH, Brigham & Women's Hospital Craig M. Hooker, MPH, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 5. MYOCELLULAR CREATINE TRANSPORTER FUNCTION IS 12. EARLY-AGE-ONSET FAMILIAL PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA MODULATED BY CHANGES IN ITS PHOSPHORYLATION STATUS MAY IMPACT LONG-TERM SURVIVAL Marcus D. Darrabie, BS, Duke University Medical Center Ted A. James, MD, University of Vermont 6. TGF-BETA SIGNALING MAY PLAY A PROTECTIVE ROLE IN PREVENTING LIVER FROM INSULIN INDUCED STEATOSIS Krit Kitisin, MD, Georgetown University Hospital 7. BEARD SYCOSIS AND DISFIGURING KELOID SCARRING OF THE FACE, NECK, AND SCALP: A 15-YEAR EXPERIENCE Fritz Jean-Pierre, MD, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/The Chicago Medical School 8. IN VIVO MODEL OF ADIPOGENESIS USING A HYDROGEL BIOMATERIAL Lamont Cathey, MD, Carolinas Medical Center - 16 - - 17 - Scientific Sessions State of the Art Lecture: Dr. Michael Saag “Principles of HIV Therapy”

- 18 - - 19 - Evening Reception, National Scientific Sessions Underground Railroad Freedom Center

The Honorable Mark Mallory, Mayor, City of Cincinnati

Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, Dr. Ken Davis, Mayor Mallory and Dr. Spencer Crew, President National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

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Sixteenth Annual Scientific Session Sixteenth Annual Scientific Session Sessions at a Glance Sessions at a Glance Session III Session IV Trauma/Critical Care Cardiothoracic/Vascular

Saturday, April 8, 2006 Saturday, April 8, 2006 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Moderators: Robert A. Cherry, MD, Moderators: Eddie L. Hoover, MD, and Kimberly Joseph, MD and Girma Tefera, MD

13. SCREENING FOR BLUNT THORACIC AORTIC INJURIES: ARE 21. AN EVALUATION OF OUTCOMES AFTER CAROTID ENDARTER- CHEST X-RAYS ADEQUATE? ECTOMY WITH EXTRA- AND INTRA-CRANIAL TANDEM LESIONS A. Peter Ekeh, MD, Wright State University Rory J. Howard, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University 14. A COMPREHENSIVE INJURY RISK ASSESSMENT SCREENING 22. ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING IN MYOCARDIAL HYPERTROPHY TOOL FOR SENIOR POPULATIONS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS INDUCES A DISTINCT PATTERN OF JAK-STAT ACTIVATION FROM A MINORITY COMMUNITY Karyn L. Butler, MD, University of Cincinnati Lodze Quitel, MD, Harlem Hospital 23. THE ROLE OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS IN THORACIC AORTIC 15. ANASTOMOTIC STAPLE LINES: DOES REINFORCEMENT MATTER? ISCHEMIA REPERFUSION Rory J. Howard, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University John E. Jones, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital 16. APO E IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED MORTALITY IN 24. RACIAL DISPARITY IN PATIENT PRESENTATION FOR CAROTID SEPTIC RATS ENDARTERECTOMY Omar M. Kattan, BA, University of California, San Francisco David C. Chang, PhD, MPH, MBA, Johns Hopkins University 17. MURINE BURN WOUND INFLAMMATION THAT INCREASES BURN 25. 360-DEGREE FEEDBACK SURVEY TO ASSESS FACULTY DEPTH MAY BE CAUSED BY LOCAL REPERFUSION INJURY COMPETENCY IN A PRACTICE Freeman Suber, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Robert S. D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, Rush University Medical School 26. BRACHIAL AND INFRA-BRACHIAL ARTERIAL RECONSTRUCTION 18. HOSPITAL-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS WORK FOR CHRONIC ISCHEMIA Carnell Cooper, MD, University of Maryland Kakra Hughes, MD, Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital 27. EXTRACORPOREAL PHOTOPHERESIS CAUSES DELETION OF 19. EARLY ENTERAL NUTRITION IMPROVES GUT EDEMA- CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT SPECIFIC T CELLS IN VIVO ASSOCIATED ILEUS Christie Gooden, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Stacey D. Moore-Olufemi, MD, University of Texas-Houston 20. CYCLOSPORIN A INHIBITS HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK-INDUCED HYPERPERMEABILITY & MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSITION PORES Georgia Holder-Haynes, MD, Texas A&M University

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Cassann N. Blake, MD, MPH Syed A. Ahmad, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor of Surgery Karmanos Cancer Institute Division of Wayne State University University of Cincinnati Detroit, MI Karyn L. Butler, MD Robert A. Cherry, MD Associate Professor of Surgery Chief, Section of Trauma and Critical Care Department of Surgery Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics Hershey, PA University of Cincinnat Paul R. Cunningham, MD Timothy M. Crombleholme, MD Professor and Chair of Surgery Professor of Surgery, and Gynecology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University Molecular and Developmental Biology Syracuse, NY Director, Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati Wade G. Douglas, MD Director, Center for Molecular Fetal Therapy Assistant Professor of Surgery Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine University of Cincinnati Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center Karl S. Matlin, PhD Huntington, WV Professor of Surgery Eddie L. Hoover, MD Director, Division of Research Department of Surgery Director of the Epithelial Pathobiology Research Group State University of New York at Buffalo Department of Surgery Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center University of Cincinnati Buffalo, NY Amy B. Reed, MD Kimberly Joseph, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Director, Trauma Intensive Care Unit Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program Cook County Hospital Division of Vascular Surgery Chicago, IL University of Cincinnati Orlando C. Kirton, MD Calvin A Selwyn, Jr, MD ChiefofSurgery - Hartford Hospital Assistant Professor of Surgery Professor of Surgery, University of Connecticut Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery Hartford, CT University of Cincinnati Girma Tefera, MD Randall K. Wolf, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Section of Vascular Surgery Director, Center for Surgical Innovation University of Wisconsin - Madison Ethicon-Endosurgery Chair for Innovation in Surgery Madison, WI University of Cincinnati

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Charles F. Bratton, M.D. Medical University of South Carolina

Jason F. Hall, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital

Abhinav Human, M.D. University of Minnesota

Burnett Kelly, M.D. Vanderbilt University (Left to Right) LD Britt, Henri Ford, Angela Lewis, Selwyn Vickers, Loren Roth, Edward Barksdale, R. Scott Angela Lewis, M.D. Jones, Pierre Theodore, Donn Spight, J. Keith Melancon, University of Louisville Adninav Humar, Charles F. Bratton Drs. Jason F. Hall J. Keith Melancon, M.D and Angela Lewis Johns Hopkins Medical School

Clark J. Simons, M.D. Indiana University

Donn Spight, M.D. University of Cincinnati

Pierre Theodor, M.D. University of California, San Francisco

Drs. Donn Spight, Jeffrey Matthews, and Burnet Kelly Drs. L.D. Britt, R. Scott Jones, and Selwyn Vickers

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Dr. Loren Roth (center), Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, makes a contribution to SBAS in honor of Dr. Edward Barksdale (left), accompanied by Dr. Selwyn Vickers

Dr. Selwyn Vickers Presidential Address

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Mr. Oscar Robertson

- 30 - - 31 - Passing the Baton Save the Date April 12-15, 2007 Wyndham Chicago Hotel Chicago, Illinois

For questions, please call Ms. Erin Quinn Meeting Coordinator 312-202-5034

- 32 - - 33 - Special Appreciation Previous SBAS Meetings

The Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) 1989 Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC expresses appreciation to: 1991 Harvard University, Boston, MA OUR HOSTS: 1993 UC Davis-East Bay (Meeting held in Napa Valley, CA) 1994 UTMB, Galveston, TX 1995 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1996 University of Colorado, Denver, CO Faculty and Staff, UC Department of Surgery 1997 State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 1998 Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC SBAS gratefully acknowledges the following company 1999 University of Louisville, Louisville, KY for their educational grant in support of this program: 2000 Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, CA Merck & Co., Inc. 2001 Harvard University, Boston, MA 2002 Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA and the following companies for their exhibitor contribu- tions in support of this program: 2003 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 2004 Howard University, Washington, DC AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals 2005 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Autosuture Division of TycoHealthcare Future SBAS Meetings 2007 Chicago - Rush University Medical Center, April 12-15 KCI 2008 Cleveland - Cleveland Clinic King Pharmaceuticals 2009 Seattle - University of Washington Pfizer - Anti-Infective Division

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Sponsored in part by a grant from

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