Introduction and Welcome Giles F. Whalen

Session I
(7-minute presentation/3-minute discussion)
Moderator: Jaswin Sawhney, MD, FACS

1. Transamniotic Fetal mRNA Therapy: a Potential Novel Strategy for Prenatal Protein Replacement in Select Genetic Diseases
Kamila Moskowitzova, Ashlyn Whitlock, Abbie Naus, Yash Shroff, Tanya Dang, David Zurakowski, Dario Fauza
Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

2. A Conduit for a Culturally Competent Consent: Medical Interpreters' Perspectives on Surgical Informed Consent Discussions
Benjamin G. Allar¹, Cristina Ponce¹, James Wallace¹, Gezzer Ortega², Amanda Reich², Shari Gold-Gomez³, Sidhu P. Gangadharan¹, Tara S. Kent^1
1. Surgery, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States. ². Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States. ³. Interpreter Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

3. Use of Fibrin Sealant for Split Thickness Skin Graft Fixation Decreases Post-Operative Pain when Compared to Staple Fixation
Mohamad Sharan, John Collar, Alisa Savetamal
Surgery, Bridgeport Hospital/Yale-New Haven Health, Bridgeport, CT, United States.

4. Assessing Time to Removal of Tunneled Dialysis Catheters After Arteriovenous Access Creation
Anna Kobzeva-Herzog, Scott Levin, Sara Young, Thomas McNamara, Andrea Alonso, Alik Farber, Elizabeth King, Jeffrey J. Siracuse
Vascular Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

5. Recurrence rates after nonoperative treatment of acute appendicitis in children: long-term follow-up
Emily Hensler, Debra Watson-Smith, Andrew McCarthy, Melissa Vanover, Francois Luks
Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI, United States.

6. Improved Engineered Stem Cell Transplantation along with Hydrogel as suitable platform to Repair and Regenerate Ischemic Tissue in Hind Limb Ischemia Model
Benjamin Dahlberg¹, Virginia Parker¹, Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu², Ajayan M. Supran², Andrew Kemerley², Alexander Palesty¹, Nilanjana Malik^2
1. Surgery, St. Mary's Hospital, West Hartford, CT, United States. ². Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States.

7. Sleeve Gastrectomy Is Associated With Longitudinal Improvements In Lung Function And Patient-Reported Respiratory Outcomes
Vasundhara Mathur, Mehran Karvar, Tammy Lo, Ali Tavakkoli, Eric Sheu
General/GI Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States.

8. Longer duration of loose setons increases the likelihood of fistulotomy over sphincter-preserving approaches.
Bachar N. Halimeh, Samuel Lajoie, Anna Booras, Jennifer Davids, Joanne Favuzza, Olga Beresneva
Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

9. Procedure Matters in Gender-Associated Outcomes following Bariatric Surgery: 5-year North American Matched Cohort Analysis
Tina Bharani, Eric Sheu, Malcolm K. Robinson
Department of Surgery , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

Break

Session II
(7-minute presentation/3-minute discussion)
Moderator: Daniel Solomon, MD

10. Educational Value of Surgical Residents Operating as Teaching Assistants
Nicole Heidt, Bridget Olsen, Carolyne Falank, Heidi Miller, James Whiting, Jaswin Sawhney
Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States.

11. Site-Specific Variations in Circulating Tumor DNA Levels and Kinetics in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Varun V. Bansal¹, Ankit Dhiman², Hunter D. Witmer³, Frederick Godley³, Shen Li³, Erika Belmont⁴, Cecilia T. Ong³, Blase Polite⁴, Oliver Eng⁵, Ardaman Shergill⁴, Kiran K. Turaga^1
1. Surgical Oncology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States. ². Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States. ³. Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States. ⁴. Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States. ⁵. Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange county, CA, United States.

12. Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) inhibits tumor growth in an orthotopic diabetic mouse model of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC)
Andrei Moscalu¹, Bixiao Zhao¹, Cullen Roberts¹, Justine Barletta², Ali Tavakkoli¹, Eric Sheu¹, Matthew Nehs^1
1. Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States. ². Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

13. Analysis of Demand for General Surgeons in Northern New England
Robin Cotter, Matthew Carrol, Brent White, Sean Bears,Kari Rosenkranz
General Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.

14. Does the Submucosa Play a Role in the Pathophysiology of Achalasia?
Timothy J. Morley¹, Matthew F. Mikulski¹, Alicja Zalewski¹, David J. Desilets², John R. Romanelli^1
1. Surgery, UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, MA, United States. ². Gastroenterology, UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, MA, United States.

15. Calpain inhibition decreases hepatic inflammation in a large-animal porcine model of metabolic syndrome and chronic myocardial ischemia
Debolina Banerjee, Dwight D. Harris, Sharif A. Sabe, Ashraf A. Sabe, Brittany Potz, Janelle Li, M. Ruhul Abid, Frank Sellke
Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

16. Diagnostic Accuracy of Laryngeal Ultrasound for Evaluating Vocal Fold Movement Impairment in Children
Shawn Izadi, Benjamin Zendejas, Jay Meisner, Ali Kamran, Somala Mohammed, Farokh R. Demehri, Steven Staffa, David Zurakowski, Anne Hseu, Carol Barnewolt, Sukgi Choi
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

17. Long-term immunosuppression-free heart allograft survival in non-human primates using mixed chimerism with IL-6 signaling blockade
Cynthia L. Miller, Jane M. O, Abbas Dehnadi, Dylan Muldoon, Samantha Landino, James Nawalaniec, Jayne Marie Muoio, Isabel M. Hanekamp¹, James S. Allan¹, Gilles Benichou¹, Joren C. Madsen^1
1. Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

18. Is palliative aortic dissection surgery a coherent concept?
Christopher Stone, Kelsey Muir, Thomas J. Miner, Daithi S. Heffernan
¹. Brown University / Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, United States.

19. Lung Cancer Outcomes in the Elderly: Potential Disparity in Screening
Anupama Singh¹, Emanuele Mazzola², Yue Xie², M B. Marshall¹, Michael Jaklitsch¹, Fatima Wilder^1
1. Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States. ². Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States.

Lunch

Session III
(7-minute presentation/3-minute discussion)
Moderator: Andrew Loehrer, MD, PhD

20. Breast Cancer Screening and BI-RADS Assessment Category Trends in a Safety Net Population Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anna Kobzeva-Herzog¹, Thomas O'Shea¹, Sara Young¹, Kelly Kenzie¹, Priscilla Slanetz², Jordana Phillips², Andrea Merrill¹, Michael Cassidy^1
1. General Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States. ². Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

21. Direct Thrombin Inhibitors Partially Reverse the Negative Effects of Heparin on Lung Growth after Murine Left Pneumonectomy
Savas T. Tsikis, Scott Fligor, Thomas Hirsch, Malachi Joiner, Amy Pan, Mikayla Quigley, Angela DeVietro, Paul Mitchell, Kathleen Gura, Mark Puder
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.

22. Gender Disparities in Surgical Resident Operative Performance Evaluations
Yao Liu, Jasmine Gibson, Kenneth Lynch, Ashlie Haas-Rodriguez, Carla Moreira, Rachel Beard, David Harrington, Thomas J. Miner
Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

23. Expression of contactin-1 as a potential mediator of melanoma brain metastasis
David G. Su¹, Veronica Chiang³, David Schoenfeld², Kelly Olino⁴, Harriet Kluger², Lucia Jilaveanu^2
1. General Surgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, Hamden, CT, United States. ². Medical Oncology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States. ³. Neurosurgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States. ⁴. Surgical Oncology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States.

24. Management and Long Term Functional Outcomes of Upper Extremity Civilian Vascular Trauma
Colten A. Yahn, Maha Haqqani, Andrea Alonso, Thomas Cheng, Alik Farber, Jeffrey J. Siracuse
Surgery, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.

25. Intramyocardial Injection of Hypoxia Conditioned Extracellular Vesicles Decreases Apoptosis in a Swine Model of Chronic Myocardial Ischemia
Dwight D. Harris, Sharif A. Sabe, Mohamed Sabra, Cynthia Xu1, Akshay Malhotra, Mark Broadwin, M. Ruhul Abid, Frank Sellke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

26. Outcomes of Laparoscopic Gastrostomy With and Without the Use of a Modified T-fastener Technique
Pamela N. Scalise, Jonathan M. Durgin, Donna C. Koo, Heung Bae Kim, Farokh R. Demehri
Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, United States.