July 24, 2026

Award Announcements

Congratulations!

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma - Sprint Grant

Work-to-Faculty Ratios and Patient Outcomes: A Multi-Institutional Quasi-Experimental Study

Patrick Murphy, MD, MPH, MSc
Associate Professor
Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

In Case You Missed It

• Faculty Mentorship/Student Help: The Division of Research has an established process for 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
• Department of Surgery Intranet Site: Funding Opportunities, 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 is updated weekly. | More Information

Upcoming Events

• Cosmos Datathon 2026
  • Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | In-person
• HRPP Research Connection Series | 12:00-1:00pm via Zoom
  • Beginner Series:
    • Thursday, August 13 | IRB Submissions Part 2
    • Thursday, September 10 | OCRICC
  • Intermediate/Advanced Series:
    • Thursday, August 13 | Hot Topics
    • Thursday, September 10 | IRB Reliance Part 1
• CTSI Research Coordinator Enrichment Series | 12:00-1:00pm
  • Thursday, July 23 | Clinical Trial Activation Best Practices
  • Thursday, August 27 | I Just Took Over a Trial: Transfer of a Study to a Different Study Team Member
• CTSI Bootcamp - Clinical Research Basics | 8:00am-12:45pm
  • Day 1 - August 5, 2026
  • Day 2 - August 11, 2026

Please note: Kristen Osinski, MS, FAMIA (CTSI) will be presenting on the Clinical Research Data Warehouse, related tools, and will be giving a TriNetX walkthrough.

GRANT$ Alert

AHW Seed Grants
$50,000 for 1 year
GCO deadline: N/A
Application due: August 3, 2026

Health improvement projects addressing Wisconsin's leading health challenges. MCW faculty and post-docs may apply. Project begins January 1, 2027.

NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 – Clinical Trial Optional)
$475,000 for 5 years
GCO deadline: August 12, 2026
Application due: August 17, 2026

Must be an Early Stage Investigator, single PI only, and requires at least 25% research effort.

NIH Director's Transformative Research Award (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
Flexible budget for 5 years
GCO deadline: August 29, 2026
Application due: September 3, 2026

Open to all career stages, open to individuals or teams, research effort commensurate to project needs.

Joel J. Roslyn Faculty Research Award
$50,000 for 1 year
GCO deadline: August 28, 2026
Application due: September 4, 2026

Must be full-time faculty with rank of Assistant Professor, active member of AAS, cannot hold an R01 or K (or similar career development) award.

NIH Director's Pioneer Award (DP1- Clinical Trial Optional)
$700,000 for 5 years
GCO deadline: September 4, 2026
Application due: September 9, 2026

Open to all career stages, single PI only, must be new research direction, and requires at least 51% research effort.

NIH Director's Early Independence Award (DP5 – Clinical Trial Optional)
$350,000 for 5 years
GCO deadline: September 5, 2026
Application due: September 10, 2026

For exceptional junior scientists bypassing postdoctoral training to launch independent research careers.

Single-PI applications only, complete doctoral degree or clinical training between May 1, 2025, and September 30, 2027, in non-independent research position at time of application, cannot have served in a postdoctoral position for more than 12 months before completion of terminal doctoral degree or clinical training, requires significant institutional commitment, limited to two applications per institution, no preliminary data required 

Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC) Seed Grants
$25,000 for 1 year
No GCO
Application due: October 1, 2026

Funding for an injury-related seed project that focuses on a topic across the T0-T5 continuum of research and must focus on injury disparities.

Abstracts Alert

The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)/The Society of University Surgeons (SUS) Annual Academic Surgical Congress
February 9-11, 2027 | Washington, D.C.
Abstract deadline: August 7, 2026

Abstract Types: Basic/Translational Research; Clinical/Outcomes Research; Education Research

Wisconsin Surgical Society (WSS) Annual Conference
November 6-7, 2026 | Kohler, WI
Abstract deadline: August 14, 2026

More information can be found here.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) 2027 Annual Winter Meeting
January 21-24, 2027 | Steamboat Springs, CO
Abstract deadline: August 31, 2026

Submission Categories: Standard Papers (a select group of papers will be chosen for Rapid-Fire Presentations); Case Reports; Video Case Reports

The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) Annual Meeting
January 14-17, 2027 | Naples, FL
Abstract deadline: September 1, 2026

Submission Types: Case Reports; Free Papers; Videos; Founders' Award

Department of Surgery Recent Publications

National Mentorship Network for Support of Minoritized General Surgery Residents in the US. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. (Silver CM, Amortegui D, Colin Escobar J, Mackiewicz NI, Gaffley M, Arora TK, Bilimoria KY, Clarke CN, Hu YY)

Individual and combined effects of wheel running and ischemic preconditioning in protecting the rat heart from reperfusion injury. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. (Mishra J, Krier C, Cavanaugh M, Asija A, Baker JE, Kwok WM, Camara AKS, Fitts RH)

Advancing Organ Preservation and Perfusion: Introducing the International Society of Organ Preservation and Perfusion Therapy (ISOPPT). Artificial Organs. (Battula NR, Romagnoli R, Patrono D, Keshavjee S, Ghinolfi D, Tullius S, Hessheimer A, Guarrera J, Mas V, Oniscu G, Oltean M, Tchantchaleishvili V, Tang Q, Clavien PA, Martins PN)

Beyond Work Relative Value Unit: Rationale for Strategic Partnership Between Health Systems and Departments of Surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. (Alam HB, Ghaferi AA, Kasirajan V, Minter RM, Upchurch GR Jr)

More proximal lumbar source of type II endoleak is associated with worse outcomes after infrarenal endovascular aortic repair. Journal of Vascular Surgery. (Butak W, Bien B, Nguyen T, Jiang A, Dyer MR, Jammeh M, Kugler NW, Kostenko Y, Rossi PJ)

Donor-Recipient Size Mismatch by Body Surface Area and Risk of Graft Failure in Kidney Transplantation. Clinical Transplantation. (Asassfeh A, Kimura J, Arpali E, Dunn TB, Cooper M, Rawashdeh B)

SORTing out gene editing therapies for neuromuscular disorders. Molecular Therapy: the Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy. (Ferraresso F, Skaer CW, Kastrup CJ)

Precipitation-Based Encapsulation of Fibrinogen in Calcium Carbonate for Non-Compressible Hemorrhage Control. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland). (Peng HT, Bonnici T, Tenn C, Kastrup CJ, Beckett A)

Identifying facilitators and barriers to using trauma-informed care at a level 1 trauma center. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. (Timmer-Murillo SC, Pace SN, Gundacker C, Barry C)

GDAP1 orchestrates redox signaling at membrane contact sites to preserve axonal integrity in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Neurobiology of Disease. (Cantarero L, Roldan M, Rodriguez-Sanz M, Mathison AJ, Olivares-Fuentes M, Diaz-Osorio Y, Pijuan J, Frias M, Urrutia R, Hoenicka J, Palau F)

Pressure points: A pilot study using the NASA-TLX tool to measure the intensity of Acute care surgery work. American Journal of Surgery. (Hartwell JL, Rose JH, Berry S, Wessel E, McCoy CC, Turner S, Guidry C, Eaton S, Follette C, Murphy PB, Broski J, Hill T, Chalise P, Ratnayake I, Winfield R)

Immature teratoma of the ovary in children and adolescents: A multi-institutional study of characteristics and management. Gynecologic Oncology. (Rich BS, Fishbein JS, Purcell LN, Murphy JT, Castle SL, Ghanbari N, Zohrabian A, Lautz TB, Kacey W, Post G, Thangarajah H, West E, Roach JP, Corkum KS, Perry T, Piche N, Roy M, Stafman LL, Dixon SM, Glithero KJ, Pittman ME, Celiker MY, Grant CN, Sharf T, Tracy ET, Wachsmuth LP, Rustad A, Newman EA, Williams K, Wunker CM, Glick RD, Dasgupta R, Wilson S, Vore E, Cromeens BP, Turk F, Shaffiey SA, Alkhoury F, Goyal J, Brown EG, Seemann NM, Wilson CA, Davidson J, Polites SF, Parrish MT, Cameron DB, Stetson A, Gold RM, Aldrink JH, Mansfield SA, Srivatsa S, Christison-Lagay E, Rehman SU, Fialkowski EA, Selesner L, Larsen A, Le HD, Tracy SA, Ahmed T, Dimmer A, Malek MM, Campwala I, Colangelo A, Rothstein DH, Nchinda NN, Mattei P, Jain S, Hwang R, Craig BT, Lal DR, Abrebese E, Rhee DS, Chidiac C, Peters M, Boehmer C, Billmire DF)

Urban caregiver experiences with pediatric surgical care: A qualitative study. Surgery. (Close B, Feltracco H, Lara ST, Van Arendonk K, Flynn-O'Brien K, Nataliansyah MM)

Mixed Signals: General Surgery Residency Applicant Attitudes Toward Preference Signaling. Journal of Surgical Education. (Santucci NM, Woodward JM, Hunt ML, Gan CY, Hight R, Naaseh A, Rodriguez JZ, Hendershot K, Luo X, Khan S, Silvestri C, Calata J, Jindani R, Hudson J, Wang ML, Alseidi A, Williams-Perez S, Foster T, Lund S)

Current outcomes of interventions to treat mixed arterial-venous ulcers. Phlebology. (Hart JP, Li M, Davies MG)

Clot contraction of whole blood diminishes during storage and can be restored by adding platelets. Transfusion. (Turner H, Seadler M, Zhang Y, Ferraresso M, Kastrup C)

Streamlining the Abstract Selection Process for the American Society of Breast Surgeons' Annual Meeting by Utilizing Large Language Models. Annals of Surgical Oncology. (Cohen LN, Seibert D, Kosten T, Wolfrath N, Al-Hilli Z, Kantor O, Singh P, Teshome M, Blair S, Hieken TJ, Wilke LG, Kothari A, Cortina CS)

The Use of Directed Ablative Techniques for Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodules: A Statement from the North American Society for Interventional Thyroidology. [Review]. Endocrine Practice. (McManus C, Douek ML, Dream SY, Graves CE, Schmeltz LR, Sinclair C, Stan M, Papaleontiou M)

Management of Concomitant Traumatic Abdominal Vascular and Gastrointestinal Injuries: A Descriptive Study. Journal of Surgical Research. (Haslam M, Parikh M, Menzer J, Le Guen C, Anderson J)

Shared and specific associations of amygdala nuclei volumes with PTSD symptom domains and childhood trauma: An ENIGMA-PGC PTSD mega-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. (Mufford MS, van der Meer D, Baird CL, Sun D, LaBar KS, Ramesar R, Hussain A, Abdallah CG, Andrew E, Averill CL, Baker JT, Baugh LA, Blackford JU, Bomyea J, Bryant RA, Ching CRK, Choi K, Cotton AS, Daniels JK, Davenport ND, Davidson RJ, De Bellis MD, Dennis EL, Densmore M, deRoon-Cassini TA, Disner SG, du Plessis S, Etkin A, Fani N, Fercho KA, Fitzgerald J, Geuze E, Gordon EM, Grupe DW, Harpaz-Rotem I, Russel CC, Herzog JI, Hofmann D, Hudson AR, Ipser J, Jahanshad N, Jovanovic T, Kaufman ML, Koch SBJ, Koerte IK, Korgaonkar MS, Krystal JH, Lanius R, Larson C, Lebois LAM, Levy I, Li G, Liberzon I, Logue MW, Magnotta VA, Manthey A, Maron-Katz A, May G, McLaughlin KA, Mueller SC, Nawijn L, Nelson SM, Neria Y, Neufeld RWJ, Nitschke JB, O'Leary EN, Olatunji BO, Olff M, Olson EA, Peverill M, Phan KL, Pineda E, Ressler KJ, Rosso IM, Salminen LE, Meltzer K, Schmahl C, Seedat S, Sharp CA, Shenton ME, Sierk A, Simons RM, Simons JS, Sponheim SR, Stein MB, Stevens JS, Straube T, Suarez-Jimenez B, Theberge J, Thomopolous SI, van der Wee NJA, van der Werff SJA, van Erp TGM, van Rooij SJH, van Zuiden M, Veltman DJ, Vermeiren RRJM, Walter H, Wang X, Wang L, Xie H, Zhu X, Zhu Y, Thompson PM, Andreassen OA, Stein DJ, Morey RA, Dalvie S)

Adopting common data elements (CDEs) for the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR): the results of a social determinants of health Delphi survey. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. (Heavner SF, Medrano NW, West MA, Herrera-Escobar JP, Nelson LD, Lutrick K, deRoon-Cassini T, Zhang XT, Colosimo C, Hall GD, Pappadis M, Rhodes-Lyons HX, Green C)

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