Basic Science
Chief Grand Rounds
ERRA Presentations
Journal Club
Palliative Care
Ethics

Basic Science


Our Basic Science lecture occurs on Fridays. 

Please note, residents are required to attend the Basic Science session in-person, in the following conference rooms:

You can find a .pdf of the Surgical Education Session Guidelines HERE


MSH:

5e98 15th Floor - Sim Center Conference Room

MSM:

P4 Auditorium

MSW:

14B boardroom

Elmhurst:

79-01 Broadway Conference Room E8-8


10/10/2025 - Vascular II

Jordan Gipe

Duscussant: Dr. Justin George

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10/3/2025 - Trauma 1

Julian Howland

Duscussant: Dr. Navin Bhatia

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9/26/2025 - Endocrine Adrenal/Pituitary

Tina Doan

Duscussant: Dr. Gustavo Ferndandez-Ranvier

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9/19/2025 - Review II

Hans Huber

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9/12/2025 - Endocrine Thyroid/Parathyroid

Molly Papes

Duscussant: Dr. Denise Lee

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9/5/2025 - Spleen & Pancreas

MacAlistair Colquhoun

Duscussant: Dr. Camilo Correa

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8/29/2025 - Billiary Disease & Liver

Jordan Gipe

Duscussant: Dr. Parissa Tabrizian

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8/22/2025 - Esophagus

Allen Yu

Duscussant: Dr. Spiros Hiotis

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8/15/2025 - Review I

Hans Huber

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8/8/2025 - Stomach

Lindsey Steinberg

Duscussant: Dr. Edward Chin

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8/1/2025 - Large Intestine

Marine Coste

Duscussant: Dr. Michael Plietz

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7/25/2025 - Small Bowel

Julian Howland

Duscussant: Dr. Scott Nguyen

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7/18/2025 - Anorectal

Lee Schmidt

Duscussant: Dr. Sue Hahn

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5/9/2025 - Journal Club

Hernias

Ava Adler

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5/2/2025 - Mock Orals & DEI

Drs. Celia Divino & Joseph Truglio

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4/25/2025 - Career Panel

Drs. Navin Bhatia, Jennifer Whittington, Catherine Tsai, Damien Lazar, Kusuma Nio, Ashley Tsang and Shunpei Okochi

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4/18/2025 - Money & Surgery

Money & Surgery: Because You Don't Know What You Don't Know

Dr. Damien Lazar

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4/11/2025 - Journal Club

Preventing Site Infection

Taylor Delaney, Logan Rashid, and Ann Fefferman

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4/4/2025 - Journal Club

Fluids and Nutrition in Pancreatitis

Lindsey Steinberg, Sydney Record, and Aurora Sullivan

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3/28/2025 - Principles of Laparoscopy

Allen Yu & George Youssef

Duscussant: Dr. Damien Lazar

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3/14/2025 - Obstetrics and Surgery during Pregnancy

Hannah Williams & Lulu Cao

Duscussant: Dr. Celia Divino

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3/7/2025 - Biostatistics

Hans Huber & Sarah Cao

Duscussant: Dr. Stephanie Factor

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2/28/2025 - Head & Neck

Taylor Kline & Michelle Shu

Duscussant: Dr. Randall Owen

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2/14/2025 - Ergonomics

Dr. Sue Hahn

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2/7/2025 - Legal Issues in Surgery/Malpractice

Bonnie Portnoy

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1/31/2025 - Personal Financial After Residency

Dr. Edward Mathney


1/24/2025 - ABSITE Review

Chief Residents

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1/17/2025 - Review 5

Nazanin Khajoueinejad

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1/3/2025 - Basic Breast Science

Clark Pitcher & Haritha Reddy

Discussant: Dr. Benjamin Pocock

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12/27/2024 - Oncology

Saran Kunaprayoon & Jessica Hoffen

Discussant: Dr. Noah Cohen

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12/20/2024 - Pediatric Surgery

Andrea Lifrieri & Lindsey Steinberg

Discussant: Dr. Brian Coakley

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12/13/2024 - Skin and Soft Tissue

Jackie Dillon & Delaney Taylor

Discussant: Dr. David Lee

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12/06/2024 - Review #4

Stephen Trinidad

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11/22/2024 - Transplant

Allen Yu & Ann Fefferman

Discussant: Dr. Joseph DiNorcia

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11/15/2024 - Vascular II

Jordan Gipe & Aurora Sullivan

Discussant: Dr. Justin George

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11/08/2024 - Vascular I

Molly Papes & Yasmeen Dhindsa

Discussant: Dr. Ajit Rao

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11/01/2024 - Thoracic

Rashid Logan & Joseph Sullivan

Discussant: Dr. Daniel Nicastri

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10/25/2024 - Review #3

Nazanin Khajoueinejad

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10/18/2024 - Critical Care

Sydney Record and Shawn Tsutsui

Discussant: Dr. John Oropello

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10/11/2024 - Trauma II

Eziwoma Alibo & Julian Howland

Discussant: Dr. Raymond Wedderburn

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10/04/2024 - Trauma I

Yhan Colon Iban & Schneider Rancy

Discussant: Dr. Navin Bhatia

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09/27/2024 - Adrenal/Pituitary

Charlie Callif & Olivia Katz

Discussant: Dr. Gustavo Fernandez-Ranvier

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09/20/2024 - Review Block 2

Nazanin Khajoueinejad

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09/13/2024 - Thyroid and Parathyroid

Ava Adler & Marine Coste

Discussant: Dr. Denise Lee

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09/06/2024 - Spleen and Pancreas

Laura Barthold

Discussant: Dr. Spiros Hiotis

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08/30/2024 - Liver and Biliary Disease

Sarah Cao & Catherine Yip

Discussant: Dr. Parissa Tabrizian

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08/23/2024 - Anorectal Diseases

Winston Jiang & Hans Huber

Discussant: Dr. Sue Hahn

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08/16/2024 - Review Block 1

Stephen Trinidad

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08/09/2024 - Small Bowel

Carolyn Vanek & Hannah Williams

Discussant: Dr. Scott Nguyen

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08/02/2024 - Large Intestine

MacAlistair Colquhoun & Tina Doan

Discussant: Dr. Michael Plietz

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07/26/2024 - Stomach

Lee Schmidt & George Youssef

Discussant: Dr. Subhash Kini

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07/19/2024 - Esophagus

Can Cao

Discussant: Dr. Brian Housman

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07/12/2024 - Introduction

Stephen Trinidad

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Ethics Curriculum


02/07/2025

Disagreements with Attendings

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11/01/2024

Medical Futility in Surgery

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09/13/2024

Capacity and Treatment Over Objection

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07/26/2024

Course Intro & Practical Tools

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Chief Resident Grand Rounds


Yamira Bell

Leveraging insights from the trauma bay to shape public policy and safety

February 12, 2024


Stephen Trinidad

Challenges and Opportunities in Global Pediatric Surgery

February 5, 2024


Christian Renz

Sterile ORs and Sterile Cockpits: What Medicine Can Learn from the Aviation Industry

January 8, 2024


Bryan Myers

The Future of Transplant Surgery: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going

December 18, 2024


Nazanin Khajoueinejad

Recovery Starts Before the Incision: The Role of Prehabilitation In Surgery

December 11, 2024


Dylan Cuva

Becoming Patients: Navigating the Healthcare Experience

November 6, 2024


Marnie Abeshouse

Imposter Syndrome in Surgery

October 9, 2024

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Sean Johnson

Mind Games: What Surgeons Can Learn From 100 Years of Sport Psychology

March 20, 2024

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Tahsin Khan

Exploring the Role of Surgery in Metastatic Cancer

March 6, 2024

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Allen Zhong

Financial Determinants of Health: Private Equity in Health Care

February 7th, 2024

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Marina Reppucci

Understanding the relationship between surgeon and patient

January 17, 2024

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Keval Ray

PO Caffeine q2h PRN: Exploring the Fiscal and Physical Dimensions of Physician Caffeine Consumption

January 10, 2024

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ACS ERRA Presentations


11/22/2024

Oliguria


11/22/2024

Managing Abnormal Blood Pressure


11/08/2024

Management of Postoperative Hypoxemia


11/08/2024

Post-Op / Inpatient Pain Management


11/01/2024

Shock


11/01/2024

Diabetes Management in the Inpatient Setting


10/11/2024

Arrhythmias


10/11/2024

Post Op Altered Mental Status


09/27/2024

Fluid Management


09/27/2024

Ischemic Extremity


12/15/2023

Electrolyte Imbalances


12/15/2023

DVT Prohylaxis


12/01/2023

Inidications and Modalities for Anticoagulation

Slides


12/01/2023

Post-Operative Arrhythmias


11/10/2023

Hyperkalemia Management


11/10/2023

Post-Operative Hypoxia


10/27/2023

Irregular Heartbeat


10/27/2023

Post-Operative Fever


10/13/2023

Inpatient Glucose Management


10/13/2023

Anuria / Aliguria


09/29/2023

Accute Kidney Injury


09/29/2023

Perioperative Blood Pressure Management


Journal Club


09/19/2025

Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection


08/21/2025

Perioperative Chemotherapy versus Surgery Alone for Resectable Gastroesophageal Cancer


07/10/2025

A comparison of laparoscopically assisted and open colectomy for colon cancer


07/10/2025

A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis


06/12/2025

Sentinel-lymph-node resection compared with conventional axillary-lymph-node dissection in clinically node-negative patients with breast cancer: overall survival fi ndings from the NSABP B-32 randomised phase 3 trial


03/20/2025

A Step-up Approach or Open Necrosectomy for Necrotizing Pancreatitis


11/21/2024

Oxaliplatin, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin as Adjuvant Treatment for Colon Cancer


11/21/2024

Improved Overall Survival With Oxaliplatin, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin As Adjuvant Treatment in Stage II or III Colon Cancer in the MOSAIC Trial


10/17/2024

A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis


10/17/2024

Perforated Diverticulitis with Generalized Peritonitis: Low Stoma Rate Using a Damage Control Strategy


09/19/2024

Do Opiates Affect the Clinical Evaluation of Patients With Acute Abdominal Pain?


09/19/2024

Small bites versus large bites for closure of abdominal midline incisions (STITCH): a double-blind, multicentre, randomised controlled trial


08/22/2024

Same-admission versus interval cholecystectomy for mild gallstone pancreatitis (PONCHO): a multicentre randomised controlled trial


07/18/2024

Laparoscopic peritoneal lavage or sigmoidectomy for perforated diverticulitis with purulent peritonitis: a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, open-label trial


07/18/2024

Hartmann’s procedure versus sigmoidectomy with primary anastomosis for perforated diverticulitis with purulent or faecal peritonitis (LADIES): a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, open-label, superiority trial


10/06/2023

Breast-Conserving Surgery with or without Irradiation in Early Breast Cancer

Slides

09/15/2023

Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatement of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock


08/04/2023

Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma


Palliative Care


09/26/2025

Module #2: Pain Management


07/25/2025

Module #1: Course Intro, Resources, Key Forms