November 17, 2023

Award Announcement!

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• Student/Resident Research Mentorship Database: The Division of Research is implementing initiatives to organize the process of matching research residents and medical students with faculty members for research opportunities. These opportunities are to be strictly for volunteer work done by the student. Specifics on task work is completely up to the faculty member’s discretion. If you are interested in mentoring, please fill out this Qualtrics survey.
• NIH Scientific Data Sharing Website: Whether you are involved in an NIH-funded project and want to understand which sharing policies apply to your research and how to comply, or you are a researcher looking to access scientific data from NIH-affiliated repositories, this site is for you. | More information
• Grant Writing Club: Designed for anyone in the grant writing process, provides peer feedback on grants prior to or after to submission. Participants should send a draft of their grant 1-2 weeks prior to the meeting for dissemination to peer reviewers. The club is highly interactive and participants are required to review and/or submit. Please email Rachel Morris, MD if you are interested in participating.
• Department of Surgery Intranet Site: Cultural Complications/Grand Rounds/Quality Minute presentations, Surgery Sparks of Gratitude, Global Surgical Programs, Finance/Reimbursement links, DOS Phone list, and resources for logos/fonts/templates. | More Information
• Abstract Deadlines and Meeting List: List will be updated each week.| More Information

GRANT$ Alert

ACS 2024-2026 Faculty Research Fellowship
$40,000/year for 2 years
GCO deadline: November 22, 2023
Application due: December 1, 2023

For Fellows or Associate Fellows who have completed chief residency year or fellowship training within the preceding 5 years and have a faculty appointment. Minimum 50% effort toward research project.

AST Career Development Grant
$75,000/year for 2 years
GCO deadline: November 24, 2023
Application due: December 1, 2023

Foster the training of early career investigators who have the potential to contribute to transplant science. Must be within the first 5 years of first faculty appointment.

CTSI Translational Science Ensemble Award 2024
$50,000 for 1 year
LOI due: November 27, 2023
GCO deadline: N/A (submit via REDCap)
Application deadline: March 11, 2024

Teams will form around an identified translational barrier and create solutions that accelerate the translational process. 

AHA 2024 Career Development Award
$77,000/year for 3 years
GCO deadline: November 29, 2023
Application due: December 6, 2023

Must be within 5 years and nine months of first faculty appointment and commit 10% effort to the award. 

CTSI Translational Research and Translational Science “Dual-Focus” Ensemble Awards 2024
$50,000 (2 possible awards)
LOI due: December 11, 2023
Application due: March 25, 2024

Ensembles will integrate experts and stakeholders to address a specific unmet patient medical need(s) and translational science barrier.

AHW MCW-Led Learning Event Support Funding
$5,000 per learning event
Application accepted until December 31, 2023 as long as funding remains available

Rolling first-come, first serve basis.

Abstracts Alert

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024
May 18-21, 2024 | Washington, D.C.
Abstract deadline: November 30, 2023

Presentation Formats:
In-Person Options: Oral and Poster Submissions; ASGE and SSAT Video Abstract Submissions 
Online Presentation Option: ePoster Submissions

Abstract Categories: https://bit.ly/4747GaW

The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) 2024 Annual Meeting
May 18-21, 2024 | Washington, D.C.
Abstract deadline: November 30, 2023

Please see DDW Submission Guidelines: https://bit.ly/3ucWXw2

Surgical Infection Society (SIS) Annual Meeting
June 5-7, 2024 | Miami, FL
Abstract deadline: December 1, 2023

Visit the SIS website for more information.

Endocrine Society (ENDO) 2024
June 1-4, 2024 | Boston, MA
Abstract deadline: December 6, 2023

Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Rapid Fire Poster Presentation, or Traditional Poster Presentation

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) 2024 Annual Meeting
April 17-20, 2024 | Cleveland, OH
Emerging Technology abstract deadline: December 6, 2023

This session is open to submissions from physicians, industry engineers, scientists, researchers. Presentations will be 5 to 10 minutes in length.

The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Annual Meeting
June 9-13, 2024 | San Diego, CA
Abstract deadline: December 15, 2023

Categories: Oral Presentations; Integrated Health (IH) Presentations; Behavioral Health Presentations; Presidential Grand Round (Oral Quick Shot) Presentations; E-Poster Presentations; Video Presentations

American Transplant Congress (ATC) 2024
June 1-5, 2024 | Philadelphia, PA
Abstract deadline: December 18, 2023

• Review and evaluate the latest clinical and basic science advances in transplantation science, medicine and surgery;
• Investigate recent developments in transplant biology, immunology and organ preservation;
• Examine the broad but critical issues in transplantation, including social and policy issues.

Submitting an abstract to the American Transplant Congress means that it may be accepted for either an oral or a poster presentation.

MCW Office of Research Research Day
March 14, 2023
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2023

All participants will have the opportunity to share their text abstract via the digital Event Catalog and will choose other ways they wish to particpate:

• Submit an abstract for our digital Event Catalog
• Optional: Submit a poster file (PDF/image of your poster) for Catalog*
• Optional: Provide audio/video recording of your presentation for Catalog*
• Optional: Schedule a live, in-person poster presentation during Research Day

Department of Surgery Recent Publications

Beyond structural bioinformatics for genomics with dynamics characterization of an expanded KRAS mutational landscape. Computational And Structural Biotechnology Journal. (Ratnasinghe BD, Haque N, Wagenknecht JB, Jensen DR, Valdivia Esparza GK, Leverence EN, Milech De Assuncao T, Mathison AJ, Lomberk G, Smith BC, Volkman BF, Urrutia R, Zimmermann MT)

Understanding Delayed Graft Function to Improve Organ Utilization and Patient Outcomes: Report of a Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. (Cooper M, Wiseman AC, Doshi MD, Hall IE, Parsons RF, Pastan S, Reddy KS, Schold JD, Mohan S, Hippen BE)

Impact of Intraoperative Blood Products, Fluid Administration, and Persistent Hypothermia on Bleeding Leading to Reexploration After Cardiac Surgery. Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery. (Shou BL, Zhou AL, Ong CS, Alejo DE, DiNatale JM, Larson EL, Lawton JS, Schena S)

A Prescribing Guideline Decreases Postoperative Opioid Prescribing in Emergency General Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research. (Biesboer EA, Al Tannir AH, Karam BS, Tyson K, Peppard WJ, Morris R, Murphy P, Elegbede A, de Moya MA, Trevino C)

Sigh Ventilation in Patients With Trauma: The SiVent Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. (Albert RK, Jurkovich GJ, Connett J, Helgeson ES, Keniston A, Voelker H, Lindberg S, Proper JL, Bochicchio G, Stein DM, Cain C, Tesoriero R, Brown CVR, Davis J, Napolitano L, Carver T, Cipolle M, Cardenas L, Minei J, Nirula R, Doucet J, Miller PR, Johnson J, Inaba K, Kao L)

Getting out of the bay faster: assessing trauma team performance using trauma video review. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. (Maiga AW, Vella MA, Appelbaum RD, Irlmeier R, Ye F, Holena DN, Dumas RP)

Cellular Senescence Contributes to the Progression of Hyperoxic Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. American Journal of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology. (Jing X, Jia S, Teng M, Day BW, Afolayan AJ, Jarzembowski JA, Lin CW, Hessner MJ, Pritchard KA Jr, Naylor S, Konduri GG, Teng RJ)

When Is It Safe to Start VTE Prophylaxis after Blunt Solid Organ Injury? A Prospective AAST Multi-Institutional Trial. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. (Schellenberg M, Owattanapanich N, Emigh B, Van Gent JM, Egodage T, Murphy PB, Ball CG, Spencer AL, Vogt KN, Keeley JA, Doris S, Beiling M, Donnelly M, Ghneim M, Schroeppel T, Bradford J, Breinholt CS, Coimbra R, Berndtson AE, Anding C, Charles MS, Rieger W, Inaba K)

Banff 2022 pancreas transplantation multidisciplinary report: Refinement of guidelines for T cell–mediated rejection, antibody-mediated rejection, islet, and nonrejection pathologies. Assessment of duodenal cuff biopsies and noninvasive diagnostic methods. American Journal of Transplantation. (Drachenberg CB, Buettner-Herold M, Aguiar PV, Horsfield C, Mikhailov AV, Papadimitriou JC, Seshan SV, Perosa M, Boggi U, Uva P, Rickels M, Grzyb K, Arend L, Cuatrecasas M, Toniolo MF, Farris AB, Renaudin K, Zhang L, Roufousse C, Gruessner A, Gruessner R, Kandaswamy R, White S, Burke G, Cantarovich D, Parsons RF, Cooper M, Kudva YC, Kukla A, Haririan A, Parajuli S, Merino-Torres JF, Argente-Pla M, Meier R, Dunn T, Ugarte R, Rao JS, Vistoli F, Stratta R, Odorico J)

The dichotomy of threat and deprivation as subtypes of childhood maltreatment: Differential functional connectivity patterns of threat and reward circuits in an adult trauma sample. Biological Psychiatry : Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. (Liuzzi MT, Harb F, Petranu K, Huggins AA, Webb EK, Fitzgerald JM, Krukowski JL, Miskovich TA, deRoon-Cassini TA, Larson CL)

Acceptability of Anal Human Papillomavirus Home Self-Sampling and Clinician Sampling Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals In Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Prevent Anal Cancer Self-Swab Study. LGBT Health. (Nitkowski J, Giuliano AR, Ridolfi T, Chiao E, Fernandez ME, Schick V, Swartz MD, Smith JS, Nyitray AG)

Lending a hand: The utility of hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery in diverticulitis with fistula. Surgery. (Drezdzon MK, Calata JF, Peterson CY, Otterson MF, Ludwig KA, Ridolfi TJ)

The Association of Preoperative Food Insecurity With Early Postoperative Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research. (Mathson LR, Lak KL, Gould JC, Higgins RM, Kindel TL)

National trends in neoadjuvant chemotherapy utilization in patients with early-stage node-negative triple-negative breast cancer: the impact of the CREATE-X trial. Breast Cancer Research & Treatment. (Rogers C, Cobb AN, Lloren JIC, Chaudhary LN, Johnson MK, Huang CC, Teshome M, Kong AL, Singh P, Cortina CS)

Writers and readers of H3K9me2 form distinct protein networks during the cell cycle that include candidates for H3K9 mimicry. Bioscience Reports. (Pollin G, De Assuncao TM, Doria Jorge S, Chi YI, Charlesworth MC, Madden B, Iovanna J, Zimmermann MT, Urrutia R, Lomberk G)

Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection. American Journal of Medical Quality. (Peterson KJ, O'Donnell CM, Eastwood DC, Szabo A, Hu KY, Ridolfi TJ, Ludwig KA, Peterson CY)

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