Yale Department of Surgery Research Day
Wednesday, June 6
TAC auditorium
Noon – 2:00 pm Poster session
2:00 pm Welcome – Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA, chair and William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery, and Alan Dardik, MD, PhD, professor of surgery (vascular)
2:10 – 3:15 pm Invited surgery faculty talks
Alan Dardik, MD, PhD - “Enabling Longterm Implantation of Vascular Devices”
Brigid Killelea, MD, MPH - “Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcomes”
Robert Becher, MD - “From the Ground Up: Creating a Foundation for a Career in Surgical Outcomes Research”
Peter Yoo, MD - “Understanding the Well-being of Surgical Trainees”
3:30 – 3:55 pm Abstract winners talks
Student abstract winner: Whitney Fu - “Peripheral but not Follicular T Helper Cells Are Activated by Allogeneic Human Endothelial Cells Under IRI-like Conditions and Promote Donor-specific Antibody”
Resident abstract winner: Jonathan Merola, MD - “Generation of Immunoevasive Human Endothelial Cells by CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Ablation of β2-Microglobulin and CIITA”
Resident abstract winner: Norm Nicolson, MD - “Germline Mutation and Somatic Silencing of SMARCA4 in Multiple Synchronous Endocrine Neoplasms: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Type 5”
Postdoc abstract winner: Ayman Saeyeldin, MD - “Decision-making Algorithm for Ascending Aortic Aneurysm - Real World Effectiveness”
Postdoc abstract winner: Guangxin Li, MD - “mTOR activation induces a degradative phenotype of smooth muscle cell and exacerbates aortic aneurysm disease”
4:00 – 5:05 pm Keynote speaker – Murat Gunel, MD, chair and Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and professor of genetics and of neuroscience.