Award Winners

Basic Science

First Place:

Prenatal Tracheal Reconstruction with a Hybrid aMSC-Engineered Construct Derived from Decellularized Airway
Fabienne L Gray, MD, Christopher G Turner, MD, MPH, Azra Ahmed, BS, Catherine E Calvert, BS, David Zurakowski, PhD, Dario O Fauza, MD
Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Surgery, Boston, MA

Second Place:

EphB4 Mediated Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Activation Regulates Vein Graft Adaptation
Michael J. Collins MD, Akihito Muto MD PhD, Amanda Feigel MD, Clinton D. Protack MD, Caroline C. Jadlowiec MD, David Yuh MD, Alan Dardik MD PhD
Yale University, Department of Surgery, New Haven, CT

Clinical

First Place:

A National Survey of Surgical Residents’ Perception of 2011 ACGME Duty Hours Regulations
Brian C. Drolet, MD, Suma Sangisetty, MD
Rhode Island Hospital, Department of Surgery, Providence, RI

Second Place:

Neonates with Short Bowel Syndrome: An Optimistic Future for Parenteral Nutrition Independence
Erica M. Fallon, MD, Deepika Nehra, MD, Paul D. Mitchell, MS, Alexis K. Potemkin, RN, BSN, Alison A. O’Loughlin, BA, MEd, Elizabeth M. Robinson, BA, Kathleen M. Gura, PharmD, Mark Puder, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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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 93rd 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
2012 Winners	2012 Program
2011 Winners	2011 Program
2010 Winners	2010 Program
2009 Winners	2009 Program
2008 Winners
2007 Winners