Department of Surgery Has Banner Year at 2019 Pacific Coast Surgical Association Meeting
The UCSF Department of Surgery had a banner year at the Pacific Coast Surgical Association (PCSA) annual meeting in Tuscon, Arizona on February 15-18, 2019
Seven department faculty were voted in as active members:
- Jade Hiramoto
- Elizabeth Wick
- Carter Lebares
- Rita Mukhtar
- Amar Nijagal
- Ankit Sarin
- Aaron Jensen
Our UCSF faculty and learners were also recognized for their outstanding research, with a number of abstracts being chosen for podium presentations, several garnering awards.* Our medical student, Norah Liang, mentored by Dr. Lan Vu, of Pediatric Surgery, won her award competing with residents and fellows, making this achievement all the more impressive. Dr. Whitney Goering was awarded the "Resident Prize for Northern CA Caucus" and received the 2nd Place Resident Prize for the PCSA overall. Dr. Aaron Jensen won the PSCA New Member Prize.
This was a banner year for UCSF (especially for UCSF women) nominated and accepted as new members and selected for podium presentations and awards, continuing the long tradition of UCSF's active involvement in and recognition of excellence at PCSA.
--- Quan-Yang Duh, M.D., Past President, Pacific Coast Surgical Association.
| Name | UCSF Position | Paper / Podium Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Tasce Bongiovanni | Fellow | Introducing Complementary Alternative Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit: Are providers ready? |
| Whitney Goering * | Fellow | The Importance of Operative Team Expertise - the Presence of a Dedicated Specialty Nurse analysis of 11,005 (Awarded Resident Prize for Northern CA Caucus) Received the 2nd Place Resident Prize for the PCSA overall |
| Monica Jain | Fellow | A Model for Institutional Adoption of Innovative Surgical Techniques |
| Aaron Jensen * | Faculty | Parenteral Nutrition Prolongs Hospital Stay in Children with Non-Operative Blunt Pancreatic Injury: A Propensity-Matched Analysis - (Awarded PSCA New Member Prize) |
| Elizabeth Lancaster | Resident | Opioids and Endocrine Surgery: None Might Be Better than Some |
| Norah Liang | Student | Predicting Respiratory Infections In Children With Congenital Cystic Lung Lesions Using Computed Tomography Imaging |
| Norah Liang * | Student | Diaphragmatic Excursion on Ultrasound is Associated with Respiratory Outcomes Following Repair of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (Awarded "Mini-Podium Award") |
| Anne Stey | Fellow | Predictors of Tracheostomy Timing in Critically Injured Patients |
| Michael Zobel | Resident | Surgical Management of Children with Hypoglycemia due to Congenital Hyperinsulinism or Insulinoma |
