NESS Intellectual Happy Hour Journal Club

On Thursday, October 17, 2024, The New England Surgical Society held an evening of camaraderie, intellectual curiosity, and academic collaboration as a part of its ongoing Intellectual Happy Hour series.

Topic for Discussion:
“Safety of Same-Day Discharge after Bariatric Surgery"

Published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons 238(6):p 1023-1034, June 2024.

The authors of this significant work, Drs. Tina Bharani, Ali Tavakkoli, Thomas Tsai, Malcolm Robinson, and Eric Sheu, will present the conceptual build up to the same-day approach and outcomes with insight into the future of early discharge following surgical procedures.
We are also honored to have one of the pre-eminent authorities in Bariatric Surgery and Immediate Past-President of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons, Dr. Eric DeMaria, provide an open forum discussion on the safety of same-day discharge following bariatric surgery.

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On Thursday, June 20, 2024, The New England Surgical Society held an evening of camaraderie, intellectual curiosity, and academic collaboration as a part of its ongoing Intellectual Happy Hour series.

Topic for Discussion:
“Making Frailty Assessment and Prehabilitation a Standard to Improve Surgical Outcomes”

Presenter Dr. Daniel E. Hall is Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Medical Director, High Risk Populations and Outcomes, Wolff Center at UPMC; Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh; Staff Surgeon, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System; and Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.

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On Thursday, December 14th, 2023, The New England Surgical Society held an evening of camaraderie, intellectual curiosity, and academic collaboration as a part of its ongoing Intellectual Happy Hour series.

Topic for Discussion:
"Organ Preservation in Patients With Rectal Adenocarcinoma Treated With Total Neoadjuvant Therapy"

Dr. Tess Aulet from The UMass Memorial Health will be presenting "Organ Preservation in Patients With Rectal Adenocarcinoma Treated With Total Neoadjuvant Therapy," published in J Clin Oncol. 2022 Aug 10;40 (23): 2546–2556. Recording below:

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On Thursday, September 14th, 2023, The New England Surgical Society held an evening of camaraderie, intellectual curiosity, and academic collaboration as a part of its ongoing Intellectual Happy Hour series.

Topic for discussion:
Using livers from live donors to transplant recipients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer: Are we pushing the treatment boundaries?

Dr. Oscar Serrano from the Hartford Hospital Transplant Program presented "Recipient and Donor Outcomes After Living-Donor Liver Transplant for Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases," published in JAMA Surg. 2022;157(6):524–530.

There was a thought-provoking PRO and CON debate following the presentation of the journal article.

The author of the paper, Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, Chief of Transplantation at the University of Rochester, presented the PRO argument, and Dr. Devin Eckhoff, Chief of Transplantation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, presented the CON argument.

Also joining were Dr. James Lindberg, Surgical Oncologist at UMass Memorial Health, and Dr. Bert O'Neil, Medical Oncologist at Indiana University Health Medical Center and Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, to bring the discussion full circle and provide a balanced discussion on the topic of management of patients with CRLM and expected outcomes and survivals.

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On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the New Members Committee held its inaugural Intellectual Happy Hour Journal Club, an evening of camaraderie, intellectual growth, and academic collaboration, during which the article The Management of Regional Nodal Melanoma, published in Surg Oncol Clin N Am 29 (2020) 415–431, was discussed.

Program
Primary article for discussion:
The Management of Regional Nodal Melanoma
Published in Surg Oncol Clin N Am 29 (2020) 415–431

Two supplemental articles to enhance your review:

1. Use and Costs of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Non-Ulcerated T1b Melanoma: Analysis of a Population-Based Registry
   Published in Ann Surg Oncol (2021) 28:3470–3478
   
   
2. Personalized Response-Directed Surgery and Adjuvant Therapy after Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in High-Risk Stage III Melanoma: The PRADO Trial
   Published in Nature Medicine | VOL 28 | June 2022 | 1178–1188

Dr. Conor O'Neill from the University of Vermont will present the primary article, The Management of Regional Nodal Melanoma.

Dr. Sandra Wong, Chair of Surgery at Dartmouth Hitchcock, Immediate Past President of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and senior author of The Management of Regional Nodal Melanoma will be moderating the inaugural Intellectual Happy Hour.