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“On the Cutting Edge” News from the Department of Surgery WINTER 2020 “ON THE CUTTING EDGE” NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY 22 Department of Surgery Residents: The Next Chapter... 06 18 30 Surgical Notes from the Chair Dr. Aziz Merchant Named Division Chief Sharing Perspectives on Mentorship: of General Surgery Providing Structure to Culture Change 08 Gun Violence Prevention: 20 32 It’s Everyone’s Lane Remembering Dr. Eric Muñoz at a Rutgers NJMS Team Performs 64 Surgeries, Rededication of Trauma Center in his Name Trains 300 in “Stop the Bleed” in Peru 10 NJMS Students Select Dr. Joanelle Bailey 22 34 and Dr. David Palange for Humanism Awards Department of Surgery Residents - Graduating Resident Profile: The Next Chapter Dr. Reyna Gonzalez 12 Back to Bedside Grant 24 38 “Cutting Edge” Presentations at Honors and Awards 14 Grand Rounds New Vascular Center 40 and Wound Healing Center 26 New General Surgery Residents Fifth Annual Research Symposium 16 42 Training RJMS Surgery Staff 28 Resident Presentations at ASC to “Stop the Bleed” Welcome Huzaifa A. Shakir, MD, FACS, FACCP 43 Personal Note The go-to source for exciting developments and major advances in education, research and clinical missions within our Department. Contents Honors & Awards Welcome Highlights HUMANISM AWARD DR. HUZAIFA A. SHAKIR, MD, GRADUATING RESIDENT PROFILE: FACS, FACCP DR. REYNA GONZALEZ GME AWARDS NEW RESIDENTS REMEMBERING DR. MUNOZ˜ GOLDEN APPLE 2019 FACULTY AWARDS On the Scene Speakers Features FIFTH ANNUAL RESEARCH “CUTTING EDGE” RUTGERS NJMS TEAM SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS AT PERFORMS 64 SURGERIES, GRAND ROUNDS TRAINS 300 IN “STOP THE STAFF STOP THE BLEED” IN PERU BLEED TRAINING NEW VASCULAR AND WOUND ADVOCACY IN DC HEALING CENTER BACK TO BEDSIDE Have a great story to tell? SHARE IT WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES: CONTACT DONNA SHORE, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR, [email protected] * On the cover - General Surgery Residents Graduate - Dr. Gregory Grimberg, Dr. Kenneth Walsh, Dr. Anastasia Kunac, Program Director; Dr. Paul Johnson, Dr. Akia Caine, Dr. Diana Arellano, Dr. Reyna Gonzalez, Dr. Anne C. Mosenthal, Chair; Dr. Eihab Abdelfatah, Dr. Chetan Merchant. WINTER, 2020 | 4 Inside this issue ON THE CUTTING EDGE DR. ANNE C. MOSENTHAL DR. STEPHANIE BONNE WINTER, 2020 Surgical Notes Gun Violence from the Chair Prevention: It’s PAGE 6 Everyone’s Lane PAGE 8 Residents Receive Remembering and ACGME Grants Honoring Dr. for “Back to Eric Munoz˜ Bedside” Research at Rededication PAGE 12 of Trauma Center in his Name PAGE 20 5 | WINTER, 2020 SURGICAL NOTES FROM THE CHAIR: Endings and Beginnings and the Power of Mentorship By Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS Benjamin F. Rush, Jr., MD, Endowed Chair, Department of Surgery The power of mentorship we provide each other resident) David Palange, D.O. They share their plays an important role in the training of our perspectives on the path to formally integrating residents on the journey to becoming surgeons. mentorship into our culture and what mentorship Both mentors and mentees benefit from these has meant to their careers. relationships. It is part of our Departmental Our graduating Administrative Chief Resident, commitment to Professional Development on Dr. Reyna Gonzalez, drew upon her experience many different levels. and high expectations from a career as an elite We highlight mentorship in special coverage gymnast and coach to a Grand Rounds lecture of a joint Grand Rounds presentation by on “educating millennials.” Professor Dorian Wilson, MD, and PGY 5 Resident (and new administrative chief Coaching and Mentoring Update WINTER, 2020 | 6 The Professional Development work in coaching Minimally Invasive Surgery. Dr. Merchant we began last year with consultant Dr. Jeffrey brought the division together during his role as Hull continues to evolve and engage all of interim chief. And now as permanent chief, he us as faculty members. Dr. Anastasia Kunac, is developing a strategic vision for the Division Associate Professor of Surgery and General of becoming a leader in surgery outcomes and Surgery Residency Program Director is making an impact on reducing health disparities leading this effort in conjunction with our and improving health equity. mentoring program. Dr. Merchant’s focus on developing others and Multiple faculty and staff have used promoting mentorship of junior faculty in clinical “StrengthsFinder,” and “Pulse 360” feedback and research initiatives is a part of his leadership to advance their personal development. What towards the strategic vision. we have learned has been embraced by many, The vision of including me… it was good to gain a better Dr. Michael Curi, Associate for understanding of how I am perceived by others. Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery a comprehensive vascular center has been We are training doctors to be more than just realized with the opening of the new Vascular good surgeons, but how to be good people: good and Wound Care center. This is a unique multi- communicators, good collaborators and mentors disciplinary center, collaborating with plastic and building a culture that fosters a learning surgeon Dr. Mark Granick, Professor of Plastic environment for all. and Reconstructive Surgery. The Center offers the added benefit of comprehensive care for I encourage you to read the story about our patients with chronic wounds needing improved “Gold Foundation Humanism Award” winners, vascular flow and plastic surgery care and and to Dr. Joanelle Bailey Dr. David Palange treatment. understand the impact their mentorship had on medical students, Thobekile Ndlovu and Welcome to new cardiothoracic surgeon Justin Sipiora. Dr. Huzaifa Shakir, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, a longtime and well- We celebrated the life of one of our great mentors known local heart and chest surgery specialist. with the re-dedication of the Dr. Eric Munoz Trauma Center on the tenth anniversary of his Our residents conducted significant research untimely passing. Several speakers lauded the presentations around the country. Look for contributions of the late Dr. Eric Munoz as a highlights in this issue. surgeon, teacher and legislator, and Dr. David ˜ I also call attention to the many awards bestowed Livingston, Professor and Chief of Trauma on well-deserving faculty and residents, and I am and Surgical Critical Care, shared his own honored to receive the “Mentorship Award” from special, personal remembrances. ˜ the Faculty Organization of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Highlights Congratulations to Dr. Aziz Merchant on his appointment to Division Chief of General and 7 | WINTER, 2020 DR. STEPHANIE BONNE Gun Violence Prevention: It’s Ever yone’s Lane “If you ask the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) how many people are shot and live, they don’t know. There is no formal data collected in one location. So how can we think up ways, new ideas, and fresh thinking to solve this problem? That’s what we are doing in New Jersey.” Dr. Stephanie Bonne Dr. Stephanie Bonne Keynotes “Call to Action” Conference In what she called her “day job” Dr. Bonne, Assistant Professor of to prevent gun violence deaths and as a trauma surgeon, Dr. Stephanie Surgery, Division of Trauma and injuries. The 1996 Dickey Amendment Bonne said stopping the tide of Surgical Critical Care, has taken on to the United States Constitution gunshot victims has to begin an expanded role as the Surveillance prevents federal funding of gun long before the patient reaches Core Director guiding violence research used to promote the Trauma Center and the the collection of all firearm injury gun control. operating room. data in New Jersey. Dr. Bonne said The New Jersey “We have to use a public health model Dr. Bonne cited the data-driven efforts Center on Gun Violence Research versus a medical model to treat the of “Mothers Against Drunk Driving” is bringing together the public affected population with interventions which created “interventions that health and criminal justice resources based on preventions,” Dr. Bonne dramatically reduced motor vehicle of Rutgers University with state and said in her keynote speech to the deaths by million miles traveled.” local officials to identify root causes first conference hosted byThe New of gun violence. Yet, New Jersey is only the second Jersey Center on Gun Violence state in the nation to take a public Research at Rutgers University. health approach to collecting data WINTER, 2020 | 8 “Gun violence spreads in populations like a disease.” She referenced a “heat map” of Newark census Dr. Bonne also participated in firstMedical blocks using geospatial tracking data of gun Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention violence at the neighborhood and street level conducted by the American College of Surgeons as one of the tools being employed to create Committee on Trauma. “This event brought intervention strategies and tactics. key leadership from medical organizations to brainstorm the key components needed to As an example, Dr. Bonne said public health data address firearm injury from a public health reveals that many people who commit suicide by perspective,” Dr. Bonne said. “As the medical gun had visited gun ranges prior to their attempt. community continues to seek a public health “The intervention involved talking to people at gun approach to gun violence prevention and with ranges about their mental health, and a public the new funding for The New Jersey Center for service video was created to spread the word,” Gun Violence Research at Rutgers University, I Dr. Bonne said. am encouraged that a public health approach will Focusing on root causes, Dr. Bonne said, “Gun lead us to find meaningful solution to the crisis of violence spreads in populations like a disease.” gun violence in the United States.” Her work will identify at-risk populations At the Gun Violence Prevention Conference including: hosted by Rutgers, New Jersey Governor Phil Women: “Access to a gun in a home raises the Murphy said a next step will be to convene a risk of women being killed by a gun in a domestic summit of mayors of five New Jersey cities; violence death by 500 percent.” Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, Paterson and Camden to discuss strategies to collect data and Children: “Firearm deaths are the number two identify causes of gun violence.
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