2024 Annual Meeting Recap:
Video Highlights & Key Moments

Join us as we recap the 2024 Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Annual Meeting! This year’s event brought together surgeons and healthcare professionals from across the state for an inspiring day of education, collaboration, and professional development.

Watch the highlights below to catch the keynote presentations, panel discussions, and insights into the latest advancements in surgical care. Whether you were unable to attend or want to relive the key moments, this video covers the essential takeaways from the meeting.

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Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Discuss and analyze trends in general surgery scope of practice. Discuss and identify the challenges of rural surgeons:  work force shortages, transfer agreements, unexpected options in Management based on patient needs. Apply knowledge of advocacy efforts pertaining to surgical specialties. Analyze perspectives on early adjustments regarding building a robotic practice. Discuss hospital leadership challengers and financial implications for a robotic transition. Analyze pearls regarding robotics from private, community employed and academic practice patterns. Demonstrate advocacy efforts in our state and ways in which to advocate for surgical specialties. Learner will be able to assess professional advantages of ACS membership and engagement. 

DISCLOSURE INFORMATION

In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.

Ineligible Company:   The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.

Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit.  Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.

Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.

The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity.  Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.

Friday, September 6, 2024 Agenda
The Campbell House

7:00AM-8:00AM   Executive Council Meeting

8:00AM Welcome and Overview
Chapter President, Murielle Brohez, MD, FACS, Winchester 

8:00AM  - 8:45AM  Tyler G. Hughes, MD, FACS (title and objective)
First Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons
Salina, KS

8:45AM-9:30AM     Rural Surgeons - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Panel Session:   

Johongir Muradov, MDPhD, FACS, Greenville
Alexander Hou, MD, FACS, EdgewoodLucas Wright, MD, Winchester
Murielle Brohez, Winchester - Moderator

9:30AM - 10:15AM  Pearls and Pitfalls of Building a Robotic Practice 

Byron Gabbard, MBA, CFO at Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Jahan Miremani, MD, London
Mansi M. Shah-Jadeja, MD, University of Kentucky, Thoracic/Moderator
Crystal Totten, MD, University of Kentucky, academic perspective/ Moderator

10:15AM - 10:30AM  Break

10:30AM       Leadership Conference and ACS Advocacy Summit 2024
Alexis Nickols, MD, FACS

10:40AM      Kentucky Medical Association advocacy efforts as they pertain to surgical  specialties
Cory W. Meadows, Kentucky Medical Association
Deputy Executive Vice President/Director of Advocacy

11:15AM      Cancer update from the national level
Tim Mullett, MD, University of Kentucky,

12:00PM      Lunch - Visit with Commercial Supporters - Medical Student Poster Presentations

1:00PM        Cases that will blow your mind!
Murielle Brohez, MD, FACS, Winchester
Mansi Shah, MD, FACS, University of Kentucky
Crystal Totten, MD, FACS, University of Kentucky
Alexis Nickols, MD, FACS, University of Kentucky

1:30PM        Trends in the General Surgery Scope of Practice - Lack of Rural Surgeons
Matthew V. Benns, M.D., FACS, University of Louisville     

2:00PM        Kentucky Trauma Care Update
Andrew Bernard, MD, FACS, University of Kentucky

2:15PM      State Cancer Liaison Report
Alan Mullins, MD, FACS, Owensboro

2:30PM     Chapter Business Meeting  
Murielle Brohez, MD, Winchester
President of the Kentucky Chapter of the ACS

2:45PM        Break

3:00PM        Resident Paper Competition and Jeopardy

-Investigating Generational Differences in the Workplace Among Transplant Surgeons, Anika Yadav, BS
-Diagnosis of Urothelial Carcinoma of the Primary Kidney Allograft Using a Fluorescence-Tagged Red Blood Cell Scan: A Case Report, Anika Yadav, BS
-Comparison of Radiofrequency Identification (RFID),Radioactive Seed (RSL) and Wire Localization (WL)Techniques for Non-Palpable Breast Lesions, Kyle Stephens, MD
-Surgical Curriculum By and For Medical Students, Hannah Cleary, BS
-Management of Actinomyces Species Isolated from Infected Pilonidal Cysts, Talia D. Wooodruff, BS
- Identifying Patients with Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia Eligible for Active Surveillance: External Validation of a Pragmatic Risk Calculator for Predict, Walter Donica, MD
-A Technique to Reduce Wound Size: The Double-Opposing Purse-String and Horizontal Continuous Closure Algorithm, Quinton L. Carr, BA
-Characteristics of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer in Kentucky, Allie Jin, BA
-Controversy Regarding Reduction Mammaplasty in Young Patients: Breast Reduction in a 19-Year-Old, Shirya Dodwani, BA
-Nebulized Heparin and N-Acetylcysteine do not Improve Outcomes of Intubated Burn, Brittany Sims, MD
-Single-Stage Breast Reconstruction: The Application of Free Nipple Grafting in Goldilocks Mastectomy, Colton Connor
-Fucosyltransferase Inhibition Impedes MYCN-amplified Neuroblastoma Tumorigenesis, Michael Buoncristiani, BS
-Changes In Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Utilization Due To AJCC Staging Changes: Improved Selection Efficiency, Walter Donica, MD
-Surgical Management of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Single Center Experience, Omkar More
-The Use of Pyloric Exclusion in Non-Traumatic Surgery - A NSQIP-based Study, Mohammed I. Ranavaya, MD
-Additional of Antibiotic Impregnated Bone Cement Discs, Lucas Niebrugge, BS
-Resuscitation with Fresh Frozen Plasma Attenuates Glomerular Damage, William B. Risinger, MD
-Descriptive Analysis of Residential Firearm Injury in Jefferson County, Victoria Hammond, MD
-Analysis of a Novel Teleconsultation Program at a Level 1 Burn Center, Victoria Hammond, MD
-Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Without Mechanical Ventilation for Recovery From Tracheal Repair, Daniel Mohammadi
-A Critical Analysis of Healthcare Utilization in Recommended Blunt Aortic Injury Treatment Algorithms, Brittany Levy, MD
-Open Surgical Repair of Traumatic Profunda Femoral Artery Femoral Vein Fistula with Superficial Femoral To Profunda Femoral Byass, Nikhil Palem

5:00PM        Announce Award Winners, Pass the Gavel and Adjournment

5:00PM – 6:00PM Happy Hour