Stanford hosts Society of Clinical Surgery’s 177th Annual Meeting

by Roxanna Van Norman
November 15, 2021

The Departments of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford School of Medicine recently hosted the 177th Annual Meeting of the Society of Clinical Surgery (SCS) on November 4-6, 2021, welcoming more than 40 distinguished surgeons from around the world to share ideas, insights, and inspiration on the future of surgical care.

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SCS has a long-standing history of convening nationally recognized surgeons to a stimulating forum and provides members the opportunities to learn about innovative surgical techniques and processes at the host institution.  

Joseph Woo, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Mary Hawn, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, led the planning of the annual meeting, which was held in person with main activities hosted at the new Stanford Hospital. 

The three-day-long program included opportunities to explore the campus, meet with surgeons and scientists from various specialties, discuss the latest work and advancements in surgery, observe live operations, and attend research talks on novel research being conducted at Stanford.

The future of surgical care

Essential to the meeting was demonstrating Stanford's innovation in surgical practices, health technology advancements, diverse and multidisciplinary collaborations, and the future of clinical care.  

Following Dean Minor’s remarks, Quinn McKenna, Stanford Health Care COO, and Paul King, Stanford Children's Health President and CEO, shared their opening comments on Stanford Medicine’s commitment to ensuring the highest standard of excellence across general, plastic reconstructive, vascular, and cardiac surgical programs.

The opening remarks featured welcome presentations from Drs. Hawn and Woo, who highlighted recent accomplishments in the Departments of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, current advances in clinical and translational research, and the growing diversity of faculty and trainees at Stanford.

“The Society of Clinical Surgery provides a unique opportunity for brilliant surgeons to come together to exchange ideas and reimagine the future of surgery. At Stanford, we embody that same spirit as we think about new approaches in our field to improve patient outcomes,” said Dr. Woo. “Dr. Hawn and I were thrilled to welcome our esteemed SCS members and friends to Stanford and share with them the diverse collaboration, technology innovation, and high-quality patient care at our campus." 

Drs. Woo and Hawn are members of SCS. Joseph Shrager, MD, Professor and Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Michael Longaker, MD, Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), are also members of SCS. 

D. Craig Miller, MD, and Bruce A. Reitz, MD, Emeritus Professors of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Thomas M. Krummel, MD, FACS/FAA, Emeritus Profesor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery), are SCS members. Drs. Krummel and Reitz are former chairs of the Departments of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, respectively.  

OR observations, scientific sessions, and keynote presentation 

·       Shipra Arya, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery); Improving Outcomes for Frail Surgical Patients: From Bench to Bedside

·       William Hiesinger, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery); Supercomputing Artificial Intelligence Radiomic Prediction of LVAD Outcomes

·       Jeong S. Hyun, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery); Characterization of Fibrosis in Crohn's Disease through Mesenteric Adipose Tissue

·       Amanda Kirane, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery (General Surgery); Biomarker Analysis of Intralesional Immunotherapy in High-Risk Melanoma

·       Lisa Marie Knowlton, MD, MPH, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery (General Surgery); Acquisition of Medicaid at the Time of Hospitalization: An Opportunity for Sustainable Insurance Coverage

·       Anson Lee, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery); Electrical Engineering Design, Translation, and Clinical Investigation of Minimally Invasive Surgical Arrhythmia Devices

·       Natalie Lui, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery); Intraoperative molecular imaging of lung cancer using systemic panitumumab-IRDye800

·       Michael Ma, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Pediatric Cardiac Surgery); Mechanical Engineering Modeling of Novel Congenital Heart Disease Operations

·       Carolyn Dacey Seib, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor of Surgery (General Surgery); Updates on the Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Older Adults: Improving Decision Making for Low-Risk Operations to Prevent Long-Term Morbidity

·       Derrick C. Wan, MD, Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery); Promoting Skin Regeneration for Radiation-Induced Fibrosis using Topical Deferoxamine

The meeting included keynote speaker Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist, with faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and a Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division of Cardiology.  

She presented her talk, “3.6 Billion Years of Biomedical Innovation: Insights from Evolved Adaptations Across the Tree of Life.”

The next SCS annual meeting will be held in 2022 at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.