Chiefs are Fellowship bound

Congratulations are in order...our very own Pippa Newell and Junko Ozao-Choy have been accepted into fellowships!! Pippa will going to the great state of Oregon at the Providence Portland Medical Center to do Hepatobiliary Surgery. And Junko will be heading to John Wayne Cancer Institute in Southern California for Surgical Oncology. HIP HIP !! HOORAY !! We would also like to give our Congratulations to Aaron Miller who will be doing a Colorectal Fellowship at The University of Chicago. Alexis Grucela will be doing a Colorectal Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and Elizabeth Honigsberg will be entering a Laparoscopic fellowship at Dartmouth Medical Center. Congratulations to all of them for a job well done

Congrats to the 2007-2008 Chief Residents

We would like to congratulate our 2008 Chief residents on a job well done!!!!!. Neil Cambronero will be doing his Fellowship at UCSF in Cardiothoracic. Yujin Guo will be doing her Fellowship at UMDNJ in Colorectal Surgery. Saber Ghiassi will be doing his Fellowship at Stanford University in Laparoscopic Surgery. Alexander Greenstein will be doing his fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University in Laparoscopic Surgery. Ray Wong will be doing his Fellowship in Surgical Oncology and finally Dong-Seok Lee will be staying at Mount Sinai and doing his Fellowship in Cardiothoracic. Let’s give them a round of applause.!!!!!.

Department of Surgery Grand Rounds

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY GRAND ROUNDS Hatch Auditorium, Guggenheim Pavilion 7:00am to 7:45am – Morbidity & Mortality Conference 7:45 to 8:45am – Grand Rounds APRIL 2009 Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10th Annual Ben F. Bryer Memorial Lecture “Focus – Finding a Niche in the World” PATRICIA J. NUMANN, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery Recipient of The 2006 American College of Surgeon’s Distinguished Service Award Wednesday, April 8, 2009 “Is Anesthesia to Blame if Grandma's a Banana?” JEFFREY H. SILVERSTEIN, MD Professor Vice Chair for Research Department of Anesthesiology Mount Sinai Medical Center Associate Dean for Research Director, Program for the Protection of Human Subjects Mount Sinai School of Medicine Wednesday, April 15, 2009 “Diverticulitis: Current Perspectives” SABER GHIASSI, MD Chief Resident Department of Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine Wednesday, April 22, 2009 “The Cellular Response to Stress: Safer Surgery Through Translational Research” GEORGE A. PERDRIZET, MD, PhD, FACS Director of Surgical Research Department of Surgery Morristown Memorial Hospital Wednesday, April 29, 2009 “Biologic Warfare in the Attack on Complex Ventral & Incisional Hernias” GEORGE DENOTO, III, MD, FACS Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship North Shore University Hospital

Congrats to the 2009-2010 House Staff !!!

Match Day was last week. Let's all welcome our new recruits!!! Melissa Chang Tufts University School of medicine melissa.chang@tufts.edu Laura Doyon Tufts Univerity School of Medicine laura.doyon@tufts.edu Patrick LeMasters University of Cincinnati College of Medicine lemstpe@email.uc.edu James lim Drexel University lim.james@gmail.com Alero Nanna Howard University College of Medicine atnanna@yahoo.com Anne Stey Mount Sinai School of Medicine as013j@gmail.com