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GRAND ROUNDS VIDEO

 

Welcome to the new SURGICAL GRAND ROUNDS VIDEO webpage.

The Department of Surgery and the Office of Continuing Medical Education at Upstate Medical University is proud to sponsor Surgical Grand Rounds via the World Wide Web. Please bookmark this page to view a new grand rounds presentation every Wednesday. Each presentation will be available for a limited amount of time.

SUNY Upstate Medical University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the Essentials for Enduring Materials of the ACCME.

Instructions:
Lectures that are currently available for CME Credit will have a notice on the right of the link.
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4/30/08 - Ronald Szyjkowski, MD - “Curing Barrett’s Esophagus”  
4/23/08 - Donald Nuss, MD - “Management of Chest Wall Malformations”  
4/2/08 - Thomas Fogarty, MD - “Current Status of Innovation in the Academic Environment”  
3/12/08- Kiron Nair, MD - "Heart Transplant - A Brief Review" and Tatiana Kovtoun, MD - "SLNB in Melanoma: Controversies in Care"  
3/5/08 - Roy K. Greenberg, MD - "The Future of Aortic Intervention"  
2/27/08 - Kiri Brandy, MD - "Red on Yellow - Kill a Fellow. Red on Black Won't Hurt Jack" and Frances Lim, MD - "Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery - Should We Abandon This Practice?"
2/13/08 - John McCabe, MD - "Hyperbaric Medicine: Indications in Surgical Patients"
2/6/08 - Amy L. Friedman, MD - "Modern Kidney Transplantation - Not Straight from the Textbook"
1/30/08 - Kara Kort, MD - "Breast, Endocrine and General Surgery Problems in the Pregnant Patient - Doing What's Best for Mother (and Baby!)"
1/23/08 - Arnold Luterman, MD - "Burn Injury United States 2007 - Current National Readiness - Guidelines for Evaluation and Treatment - New Initiatives"
1/16/08 - Cynthia Corpron, MD - Intestinal Failure, Short Gut and Pseudo-obstruction: Old Problems and New STEPS Toward Treatment"
1/9/08 - David H. Feiglin, M.D. - "Molecular Imaging - Clinical Utilization in the Diagnosis of Breast Pathology"
1/2/08 - Charles Bagwell, MD - "Days of Suffering (and Healing Knights) - A History of Medicine Through the Middle Ages"
12/12/07 - Leslie J. Kohman, MD - "Update On Screening for Lung Cancer"  
12/5/07 - William R. Jarnagin MD - "Surgical Management of Hepatic Colorectal Metastases"  
11/7/07 - Amadeo Marcos, MD - "Controversies in Living Donor Liver Transplantation"  
10/24/07 - Amy K. Alderman, MD, MPH - “Understanding Disparities in Post Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction”  
10/17/07 - Michael M. Meguid, MD, PhD - “Role of Enteral and Parenteral Fish Oil in ICU Patients After Abdominal Surgery”
10/3/07 - Paul R.G. Cunningham, MD and David Tinker - "The Department of Surgery 2007: An Update"
9/26/07 - Lalainia Secreti, MD - "Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Flight Surgeon's Perspective"
9/19/07 - Michael M. Meguid, MD, PhD and Scott Albert, MD - "Successful Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Overcomes Leptin-Induced Starvation Response Leading to Sustained Weight Loss" and "Open lung strategy improved oxygenation but not reduce lung injury as compared with ARDSnet ventilation in a porcine ARDS model"
9/12/07 - Lenworth Jacobs, MD - "Advanced Trauma Operative Management Course: A New Method for Surgical Education"  
9/5/07 - Joyce Mackessy, MS, MBA, RD, CNSD, CDN -"Understanding Joint Commission: The Culture of Patient Safety"
7/18/07 - Maxine Thompson - "Sexual Harassment Prevention: What Everyone Needs to Know"  
6/13/07 - L.D. Britt, MD - "Graduate Medical Education in Surgery: Is it Time for a Flexner Report Part II? "
6/6/07 - Ashok Shaha, MD - "Locally Aggressive Thyroid Cancer"
5/16/07 - Shalini Anne, Md - "Esophageal Cancer - What Every Surgeon Needs to Know"
5/9/07 - Margaret Tandoh, MD - "Burn Care in New York State: The Clark Burn Center - Past, Present and Future"
5/2/07 - K. Craig Kent, MD - "Is There Still Time For Research in Surgery?"  
4/25/07 - Vivian Gahtan, MD and Muhammad Asad Khan, MD - "Lower Extremity Revascularization - Are the New Technologies Justified?"
4/18/07 - Donna Caniano, MD - "Surgical Ethics: Progress and Challenge"
4/4/07 - Lucio Pavone, MD - "The Effects of Resident Work Hour Restrictions: An Evidence-Based Review" and Leslie Disher, DO - Impacts of the 80 hour work week: Past, Present and Future"  
3/21/07 - Kenneth Cooper, DO - "The History of Osteopathic Medicine" and Matthew McDonald, DO - "Early Definitive Closure of the Open Abdomen"
3/14/07 - Robert Kellman, MD - "CranioMaxilloFacial Trauma: A Retrospective"  
3/07/07 - Michael Ratner, MD - "Postoperative Adhesions and Small Bowel Obstructions"
2/28/07 - Margaret D. Plocek MD - "An Evidence-Based Review of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery"
2/14/07 - Randy J. Seeley, PhD - "How Obesity Went to Our Heads: Novel Aspects of the CNS Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight "  
2/7/07 - Geoffrey M. Graeber MD - "Empyema Thoracis"
1/31/07 - Howard Simon, MD - "Pick Your Poison: Chemical Death Through the Ages"  
1/24/07 - Charles Lutz, MD - "Robotic Cardiac Surgery" and Gregory Fink, MD - "Endovascular Aortic Therapy"
1/17/07 - Sharon A. Brangman, MD - "Acute Care for the Elderly: The ACE Approach"
1/03/07 - Taewan Kim, MD - "Minimally Invasive Surgery: Past, Present and Future"
12/13/06 - Monica Sharlow - "Documentation vs Coding & Billing"
12/6/06 - John Fey, MD - "A Chilling Experience: Hypothermia and Cold Injury"  
11/15/06 - James D'Agostino, MD -"Interesting Consults From the Emergency Department"
11/8/06 - Richard Wells, MD - "Hernia Repair: A Personal Odyssey"
11/1/06 - David Tinker - "Practice Management - Survey General Surgery Conference"
 
10/25/06 - Elizabeth A. Rafferty, MD - "Imaging Advances in Breast Cancer Detection: MRI and Breast Tomosynthesis"
10/18/06 - William H. Marx, MD - "What do the Jesuits, the Army and Disney Have to Do With Patient Care?”
10/4/06 - Douglas Osei-Hyiaman, M.Med.Sci., MD, PhD - "Role of Endocannabinoids in the Control of Energy Intake and Energy Homeostasis"
9/27/06 - John Fortune, MD - "The Weighty Problem of Trauma (Trauma in the Obese Patient) and a Quick Review of the Trauma Activities in Central New York
9/20/06 - Amir Fayyazi, MD - "Retroperitoneal Approach for Treatment of Lumbar Pathologies"
9/13/06 - Dilip Kittur, MD - “Advances in Transplantation: Miracles and Enigmas”
9/6/06 - Paul R.G. Cunningham, MD - “Department of Surgery: Update 2006 ”
6/21/06 - Catherine Caldicott, MD and Ken Cooper, MD - "If We Only Knew What She Wanted: Clarifying Medical, Ethical and Professional Issues"
6/14/06 - Bret Schipper, MD - "The Future of Adipose Tissue Engineering"
6/7/06 - Alan Lefor, MD - "Cancer Programs: Value in Patient Care and Education"
5/31/06- Christopher P. Demas, MD - "Surgical Approach to Complex Wound Management"
5/17/06 - Jeffrey Halter, MD - "The Pediatric Obesity Epidemic: Morbid Obesity or Morbid Obesity Surgery?"
5/17/06 - Alvina Won, MD - "Mediastinal Masses"
5/10/06 - William R. Flinn, MD, "Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Open Surgical Repair"
 
5/3/06 - Thomas Baesl, MD - "Wilms Tumor"  
4/26/05 - Arthur Matas, MD - "(Some) Ethical Considerations in Kidney Transplantation-Increasing the
Organ Supply by Conventional or Unconventional (Market) Approaches"
 
4/19/06 - Matthew McDonald, DO and Dilip Kittur, MD - "Hepatic Surgery"  
4/5/06 - Jay L. Grosfeld, MD - "The Story of Intestinal Atresia"
 
3/22/06 - David Reed, MD - "CPR Guidelines and the Role of AED"
 
3/15/06 - Sean Roddy, M.D.- "Billing and Coding for the Surgeon"
 
3/8/06 - Rory Howard, MD - "Triple Whammy - Renal Failure"
3/1/06 - Kenneth Brydges, D.O. - "Hepatic Metastases from Colorectal Cancer-What are the Options?" and Vishnudas Panemanglore, MD - "Ergonomics of a Laparoscopic Surgeon-Hazards in the OR"  
2/15/06 - Bonnie Fraser, MD - "Replantation of the Hand and Digits" and Emanuel Haque, MD - "Evolution of TRAM Flap"  
2/8/06 - Kara Kort, MD - "An Update on the Continuously Changing Management of Breast Cancer"
 
2/1/06 - Tarakad S. Ramachandran, MD - "Acute Ischemic Stroke" and Michael Costanza, MD - "Carotid Stenting: Is This the Beginning of the End for Carotid Endarterectomy?"
 
1/25/06 - Imtiaz Munshi, MD - "Perspectives in the management of splenic trauma: An assessment of our efforts to save the spleen" and Kwame Amankwah, MD - "Splenic artery embolization"  
1/18/06 - Patricia J. Numann, MD "Lessons Learned"  
1/11/06 - Frank Szmalc, MD "Organ Donation"
 
1/4/06 - Jiri Bem, MD "Practice Parameters of Colorectal Cancer"
 
12/14/05 - Gabriel Haas, M.D. "The Role of Robotics in Urologic Surgery" and Ali Moinzadeh, M.D. "Complications in Laparoscopic Surgery"
 
12/7/05 - Jiri Bem, MD and David Carney, MD "Practice Parameters of Colorectal Cancer"  
11/16/05 - Frank R. Lewis, Jr., M.D. "What Will a General Surgeon Be in 2010?"
 
11/9/05 - Imtiaz Munshi, M.D. "Competitive Analysis of Bariatric Surgery"
 
10/26/05 - Kathy D. Miller, MD "Opportunity Knocks - Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer"  
10/12/05 - William H. Marx, DO, FACS "Adaptive Tidal Volume Support Ventilation" and Carlos Lopez, M.D. "Non-Invasive Ventilation"  
10/5/05 - Howard Todd Massey, M.D. "Current Strategies in the Treatment of End-Stage Cardiac Disease"
 
9/28/05 - Elisabeth Dexter, MD "Thoracoscopic Lobectomy" and Leslie Kohman, MD "Update on Screening for Lung Cancer"
 
9/14/05 - John G. Kral, MD, PhD, FACS "Which is Worse for Kids: Obesity or Bariatric Surgery?"  
9/7/05 - Paul R.G.Cunningham, MD "Chair's Annual Message: SUNY Upstate Medical University Department of Surgery"  
6/15/05 - Scott R. Schell, MD, PhD "Evaluating Surgical Trainees: Expanding Our Scope with
Computer-Based Models"

 
6/8/05 - David E. Cummings, MD "Hormonal Mechanisms of Weight Loss and Diabetes Resolution After Bariatric Surgery"
 
6/1/05 - Merril T. Dayton, M.D. "Risk Factors For Developing Colon Cancer- Polyopsis to Pull-throughs"
 
5/18/05 - Marin H. Kollef, MD "Ventilator Assisted Pneumonia"
 
5/11/05 - Jack Cronenwett, MD "Improving the Care of Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms"  
5/4/05 - Guven Yalcintas, Ph.D. "You Don't Have to be Einstein to Invent"  
4/20/05 - J. Tim Riley, MD "Endovascular Repair: Past, Present, Future"
 
4/6/05 - Philip F. Halloran, MD "Why do Kidney Transplants Fail? Controversies in the Approach to
Chronic Allograft Nephropathy"

 
3/30/05 - Howard Simon, MD "Endocrine Surgery of the Abdomen"  
3/23/05 - Patricia Numann, MD "Parathyroidectomy 2005"  
3/16/05 - Margaret Tandoh, DO "Penetrating Neck Injuries"  
3/9/05 - Vishnudas Panemanglore, MD "Surgery in Ancient India"
3/2/05 - Michael Ratner, MD "The Beegees and Pediatric Surgery: Echoes in the General Surgery Universe"
2/23/05 - Dilip Kittur, MD “Hepatic Cancer: Myth and Reality”  
2/16/05 - Jay Steinberg, DO "The Benefits of Surgical Research: Beyond Just to get a Better Fellowship"  
2/9/05 - John D. Fey, MD "My Father's Favorite Plagiarisms: "Don't Confuse the Issues with the
Facts" or "Figures Don't Lie…..but Liars Figure "

 
2/2/05 - Monica DaSilva, MD "Serendipity in Surgical Innovations"  
1/26/05 - John B. Fortune, MD "Strategies for Blood Conservation in Multiply Injured Patients"
1/19/05 - Jeffrey Peters, MD "Lymphadenectomy for Cancer; Was Halsted Right?"
1/12/05 - Linda Nicolette, MD "Management of Appendicitis in Pediatrics"
 
1/5/05 - Margherite Bonaventura, MD "Anastomotic Leaks"  
12/15/04 - Lloyd Ratner, MD "Progress and Problems in Renal Transplantation"  
12/8/04 - Louise Prince, MD "Organ Donation - University Hospital Update"
12/1/04 - Dennis F. Bandyk, MD "Vascular Graft Infections - New Strategies"
11/17/04 - Taewan Kim, MD ""Gastroesophageal Reflux"  
11/10/04 - Anthony Picone, MD "Ventriculoplasty"
11/3/04 - Amy Edmondson, PhD "Learning From Failure in Health Care: Frequent Opportunities, Pervasive Barriers"
10/27/04 - Patrick I. Borgen, M.D. "Clinical Significance of Axillary Metastasis in Breast Cancer"
10/20/04 - Mary I. Jumbelic, MD "Importance of the Autopsy"  
10/6/04 - Carl A. Weiss, III, M.D., Ph.D."Laparoscopic Splenectomy"
9/29/04 - Surgical Research Laboratories "Research in Progress"
9/22/04 - Obeid Ilahi, MD - "Ventilator Assisted Pneumonia"  
9/8/04 - Paul Cunningham, MD " I-man, Irie – and the Department of Surgery"
7/14/04 - Claude Organ, MD "Duodenal Ulcer Surgery: Something New, Something Old"
6/16/04 - Greg Fink, MD "Surgical Options for Heart Failure"
6/9/04 -John J. Ricotta, MD “Training of Residents and Fellows in the 21st Century”
6/2/04 - Eric Jensen, MD ""Liver Metastases from Colon and Rectal Carcinoma: Diagnosis, Surgical Management and Outcomes"
5/19/04 - Wiley W. Souba, MD "Leadership in Academic Medicine Today - Changing Demands in a Turbulent Environment"
5/12/04 - Julie A. Freischlag, MD " Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms - How Things Have Changed Over 50 Years
5/05/04 - Thomas Baesl, MD " Feeding the Rat - Introduction to Exercise Physiology and Athletic Performance"
4/28/04 - Margaret Plocek, MD "Principles and Practice of Surgery for Cancer of the Rectum"
4/21/04 - Bradley M. Rogers, MD "Thoracoscopy: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?"
4/14/04 - Dilip Kittur, MD "Challenging Surgical Problems"
4/07/04 - Frank Schimpfhauser, MD "Teachers as Learners: Learning to Teach"  
3/31/04 - David Lehmann MD, Pharm.D "Acute Colonic Pseudo-obstruction: Pharmacologic Strategies for Prevention"  
3/24/04 - Pamela Zimmerman, MD "Carotid Disease: Past, Present and Future"  
3/10/04 - Robert J. Weber, MD "Rehabilitation Medicine for Exceptional Surgeons"  
3/03/04 - Kristine Keeney, MD "Contemporary Issues in the Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ"  
2/25/04 - Elisabeth Dexter, MD "Lung Cancer Resection in the Elderly"  
2/18/04 - Frank Szmalc, MD "An Historical Overview of Amputations"  
   

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Target Audience:
Physicians practicing general, pediatric, thoracic, cardiac, bariatric, transplant surgeries. This information may also be of interest to other specialists with patients in need of a surgical procedure.

Purpose:
To provide practical medical information to enhance the physicians' ability to diagnose, evaluate, and select appropriate treatment of patients with surgical needs.
Information provided on this website should not be considered medical advice or a substitute for a consultation with a licensed physician.

Method of Participation:
Participants may view the online video recorded lecture and answer the self-assessment questions. Credit may be requested by submitting the electronic CME credit form. This process will take approximately 75 minutes.
Credit Designation:
“SUNY Upstate Medical University designates this educational activity for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”
Accreditation Statement:
"SUNY Upstate Medical University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Disclosure
In planning and developing this activity, the SUNY Department of Surgery recognized physicians' diverse educational need for in-depth information related to recent advances in medical practice, technology and state-of-the-art procedures. During this activity, faculty may include discussions about drug interventions, whether FDA approved or not approved. Therefore it is incumbent on physicians participating in this activity to be aware of these factors in interpreting the content and evaluating recommendations. Moreover, views of faculty do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the SUNY Department of Surgery.

In compliance with disclosure policies, the faculty have been encouraged to disclose any commercial relationships or personal benefit which may be associated with their presentations. This disclosure in no way implies that the information presented is biased or of lesser quality.

Special Thanks: This program is made possible in part by Gore Technologies Worldwide.

Disclaimer:
The primary purpose of this CME activity is education. Information presented and techniques discussed are intended to inform physicians of medical knowledge, clinical procedures, and experiences of physicians willing to share such information with colleagues. It is recognized that a diversity of professional opinions exists in the contemporary practice of medicine which influence the selection of methods and procedures. The SUNY Department of Surgery makes no representation of the information presented. The SUNY Department of Surgery disclaims any and all liability for injury or other damages which may result from the use of techniques and/or procedures discussed in this activity.

Information provided on this website should not be considered medical advice or a substitute for a consultation with a licensed physician.

Program Evaluation:
Participants may evaluate this program by rating statements located on the CME Credit form.

Post-Test:
A REQUIRED multiple choice self-testing post-test with answers is provided at the end of the activity.

CME Office:
Continuing Medical Education
750 East Adams Street
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Syracuse, New York 13210
315-464-4606 or 800-283-4606
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