Letter from President Summer 2016 Newsletter
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Improving lives through education, research and innovation www.ahpba.org SUMMER 2016 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT NEWSLETTER 233 internationally world-renowned invited speakers shared their expertise to the members and 2,016 abstracts were submitted, of which 1,112 were presented. TABLE OF CONTENTS I am excited that the 2017 AHPBA Annual Meeting will be held at Loews, Miami Beach Letter from President from March 29 to April 2, 2017. The chair of the scientific program, Shishir Maithel, Shimul 2016-17 Officers & Committees Shah (co-chair) and members of the program committee are hard at work organizing the 2017 Meeting Save the Date Gazi B. Zibari, MD program and adding exciting new features. Program Committee Update As expected, when meetings are held on odd I am delighted to inform you that the 12th calendar years, we anticipate to have more Chapter Recognition World congress of the IHPBA, which was held international flavor with the participation of on April 20-23, 2016 at Sheraton WTC, Sao the IHPBA Scientific Committee members. Awards & Recognition Paulo, Brazil was a great success. The meeting Additionally, President Elect Rebecca Minter, was a joint Congress of IHPBA, AHPBA with the help of the program chair is organizing Committee Reports and the Brazilian Chapter of AHPBA. Many an outstanding Pre-Congress Symposium titled Controversies and Conundrums in HPB Surgery. Membership congratulations go to Chairs of the Program, Chuck Vollmer, (IHPBA Program Chair), Dr. Javier Lendoire, in his presidential Meetings of Interest Chris Sonnenday (AHPBA Program Chair), the International Scientific Committee and address AHPBA Globalization, informed HPB Carnival Dance the Brazilian Local Organizing Committee as us that we now have 16 AHPBA chapters well as to all program committee members. in South America and Central America. AHPB Foundation Together they did an excellent job developing Of course, most of the credit goes to him a comprehensive scientific program, and and Oscar Imventarza whose hard work IHPBA 2016 Sao Paulo covering different topics that were of great along with the commitment of our past interest to the members such as state of the presidents has paid off. The following Mission Outreach Trips art lectures, dilemmas, controversies and new chapter presidents were honored: Caribbean - Wesley P. Francis, Colombia In Remembrance: Nonie Lowry debates. - Oscar Guevara, Costa Rica - José Pablo On the first day, three interesting activities Garbanzo Corrales, Honduras - Hoover took place simultaneously: a case- Henriquez Cooper, and Nicaragua - Sergio based postgraduate course, a practical Lopez Torres. Clearly, globalization, hands-on training course and the first membership harmonization with IHPBA and Humanitarian Medical Outreach endeavors /AHPBA international state-of-the-art conference on MIS pancreatectomy. Also Luiz Carneiro all go hand in hand, bringing pride to D’Albuquerque and his team organized an the membership of these impressive /AHPBA impressive and attractive social program with achievements. the typical “Carnival Brazilian” flavor at their famous Soccer Stadium. AHPBA continues to have a very robust Humanitarian Medical Outreach Program. Follow us on At the congress, there were 2,099 delegates, AHPBA & IHPBA have teamed up and Facebook and Twitter! with representatives from 82 countries. together successfully initiated a partnership with the World Health Organization You don’t have to belong to Facebook 1 or Twitter to view the AHPBA pages. 2016–2017 OFFICERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRS We would like to introduce the AHPBA 2016–2017 Executive Council and Committee Chairs OFFICERS COMMITTEE CHAIRS President Clinical Trials Ad Hoc Chair AHPBA Headquarters Gazi B. Zibari, MD Michael D’Angelica, MD 2625 West 51st Terrace John C. McDonald Regional Westwood, KS 66205 Transplant Center Committee on Surgical Innovation Shreveport, LA M. Majella Doyle, MD Telephone: 913-402-7102 Fax: 913-273-1140 President-Elect Conflict of Interest Ad Hoc Chair Email: [email protected] Rebecca Minter, MD Sean Cleary, MD Web: www.ahpba.org UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Development & Industry Council Chair William R. Jarnagin, MD Secretary Felipe Jose Fernandez Coimbra, MD Education & Training Chair Program Committee Chair AC Camargo Cancer Center Tara Kent, MD Shishir K. Maithel, MD Sao Paulo, Brazil HPB Program Directors Chair Publications Committee Chair Treasurer Rohan Jeyarajah, MD Roberto Alejandro Hernandez, MD Charles M. Vollmer, MD University of Pennsylvania International Relations Chair Research Committee Chair Philadelphia, PA Hosein Shokouh-Amiri, MD John Mansour, MD Membership Committee Chair Allied Health Subcommittee Chris Anderson, MD Lindsey Manos, PA-C Professional Development Chair Mike House, MD Loews Miami Beach Hotel IN Miami Beach, Florida Providing Value to Patients, Providers and Researchers 2017 ANNUAL MEETING March 29–April 2, 2017 ABSTRACT DEADLINE – September 30, 2016 www.ahpba.org/meeting/call-for-abstracts 2 AMERICAS HEPATO-PANCREATO-BILIARY ASSOCIATION LETTER FROM PRESIDENT continued (WHO). Through the hard work of our Latin American outreach mission, Quyen Chu, Charles Vollmer, Gazi Zibari, Drs. Oscar Imventarza, Jagannath & the International Relations Committee Susan Orloff, Mallory Williams and Lendoire, WHO is on board with our will select four trainees and AHPBA Mariano Gimenez. Additionally, attorney organization’s pursuits. Their logo will members from Mexico, the Caribbean, Trina Chu is providing free legal assistance, give us a significant amount of protection Central and South America to attend the and for that we are indebted to her. and hopefully our medical supplies will AHPBA Annual Meeting in Miami with Revenues generated from sales of this no longer be confiscated by customs of the assistance of $10,000 in grant money. textbook will be ploughed back into our the host country. However, in order to get Also, as in previous years, the Research organization to help us grow, flourish, and WHO’s logo for our mission trips, we are Committee will select three recipients embark on new pursuits. Many of you will required to let them know far in advance. to receive $5,000 grants to travel from be contacted to help contribute chapters We will be organizing our teams at least South America to North America and vice and because this is your textbook, please 9 months ahead of schedule. Our goal is versa. Lastly, we are excited to announce feel free to contact any of the editors with to send a total of eight outreach teams to the continuation of a second $30,000 your ideas and interest. Central America and South America as AHPBA Research Grant. Two $30,000 well as other parts of the world. We need grant recipients are selected by the I would be remiss not to mention our volunteers, and an online registry has been AHPBA Research Committee to provide beloved Association Management created by our parent body IHPBA to help the opportunity for a resident or fellow Director, Nonie Lowry, who passed away with this. For anyone interested, please to spend one year of full time research far too young in early April. Dr. Chapman contact Dr. Shokouh-Amiri hshokouh@ under the mentorship of an AHPBA gave a moving tribute to Nonie at the wkhs.com (AHPBA International Relations member, during the 2017 academic year. World Congress meeting in Sao Paulo. Chair) or Dr. Gimenez matianoegimenez@ For more information on AHPBA award We thank Nonie for her endless energy gmail.com (AHPBA International Relations opportunities, please visit www.ahpba.org. and dedication to the AHPBA. She will Co-Chair), Ms. Jen Hogg (jen@ihpba. be greatly missed by so many. Marjorie org) of IHPBA, or AHPBA Directors – I am also excited to share with you that Malia and Jill Willhite will carry on Nonie’s Association Management Marjorie Malia we have successfully partnered with the legacy, and the AHPBA is in good and and Jill Willhite [email protected]. To American College of Surgeons to send 1-2 capable hands as we go into the future. emphasize the importance of humanitarian of our members to attend the Brandeis outreach work, we are in the process of University Heller Leadership Program As you can see, we have embarked on creating the Humanitarian Award to be in Health Policy and Management. This many exciting endeavors that I hope will given annually to a member who best scholarship will be awarded annually and continue to increase our organization’s personifies this aspect of our mission. we are in the process of creating criteria to value. Our society is strong and we are select members. Please be on the lookout poised to make significant strides in Our Association is committed not for this opportunity. meeting our missions and goals. I hope only to support our chapters with the to work closely with all of you in the humanitarian medical outreach but also To continue to add value to our members, upcoming days as we continue this great with chapter meetings. I am delighted we have embarked on an exciting endeavor journey together. to share that for this calendar year our of publishing a unique clinical textbook association will support a total of ten “Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary And Transplant chapters for their annual meetings (Brazil, Surgery: Practical Management of Caribbean, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Dilemmas”. The textbook is supported Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru & by AHPB Foundation and will be divided Uruguay). We will send two officers or into six sections (Liver, Biliary, Pancreas, council members to all newly formed Transplant, Trauma & Innovation and Gazi B. Zibari, MD AHPBA Chapters. In further support of Technology). The founding editors are President SUMMER 2016 NEWSLETTER | ahpba.org 3 PROGRAM COMMITTEE UPDATE Education, and Mentorship”. We will focus raise the meeting to a new level! on our next generation of HPB surgeons. We are featuring many new symposiums Their original research will be highlighted, and state-of-the-art lectures this year and we will facilitate interaction and including “Liver Replacement Therapy discourse between our young members Systems – MARS / ELAD”, “Potpourri of and the senior surgeons and leadership the Bile Duct”, “HPB Surgery and the Law”, throughout the meeting.