The New England Surgical Society is now accepting abstracts for the upcoming 22nd Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Presentation Day. This year programming will be held Friday, May 8th, at Waltham Woods Conference Center at the Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham, MA.
Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

Abstract Submission Form
Research Day Guidelines

2014 Award Winners

Basic Science

First Place:

Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Accelerate Diabetic Wound Healing in a Murine Model
Roland Assi, Katernia Stamati, Umber Cheema, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, Alan Dardik,
Yale University School of Medicine

Second Place:

Eradication of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas Biofilm from Infected Prolene Mesh with Pulsed Electric Fields
Saiqa I. Khan, Harry M. Salinas, Michael McCormack, Daniela Vecchio, Alexander Golberg, Martin Yarmush, Michael R. Hamblin, William G. Austen, Jr.
Massachusetts General Hospital

Clinical

First Place:

Serious Congenital Heart Disease and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates: A Prospective Cohort Analysis
Jeremy G. Fisher¹, Sigrid Bairdain¹, Eric A. Sparks¹, Faraz Khan¹, Jeremy Archer³, Michael Kenny², Erika Edwards², Roger Soll²,⁴, Biren P. Modi¹, Scott Yeager⁵, Jeffrey Horbar², Tom Jaksic^1
1Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, VT, ³Congenital Heart Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Billings Clinic, Billings, MT, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁵Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Second Place:

Is it Time to Stop Checking Frozen Section Neck Margins During Pancreaticoduodenectomy?
Neha L. Lad, Malcolm Hart Squires III, Shishir K. Maithel, Sarah B. Fisher, Vishes V. Mehta, Kenneth Cardona, Maria C. Russell, Charles A. Staley III, N. Volkan Adsay, David A. Kooby
Yale School of Medicine

Awards

Research Presentation Day award recipients will be selected in the categories of Clinical Research and Basic Science. The First Place recipients will be slated for automatic poster presentation at the NESS 95^th Annual Meeting. First Place recipients and runners-up will also have the option to have their abstracts reviewed by the NESS Program Committee for consideration of oral presentation (Podium, Brief, or Specialty Session) at the Annual Meeting. These authors will be notified of this option and will need to notify the NESS administrative offices of their willingness to have their work considered for NESS Annual Meeting oral presentation within two weeks of their selection as award recipients.

Past Winners	Past Programs
2013 Winners	2013 Program
2012 Winners	2012 Program
2011 Winners	2011 Program
2010 Winners	2010 Program
2009 Winners	2009 Program
2008 Winners
2007 Winners