Past Meetings
2016
2015
2014

Award Winners
Best Paper – Overall
5. DOES THE COST OF AIR TRANSFER AND INCIDENCE OF OVERTRIAGE JUSTIFY A MODIFICATION IN THE CRITERIA FOR ABA BURN CENTER TRANSFER GUIDELINES?
Presenter: Natalie Kashefi, MS
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
Best Paper – Oncology
3. IMPACT OF WEIGHT CHANGE DURING NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY ON PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE IN TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER
Presenter: Jean Bao, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Trauma
8. DOES PRIMARY ENDOSCOPIC REALIGNMENT PROMOTE TREATMENT DELAY FOR PELVIC FRACTURE URETHRAL DISTRACTION DEFECTS?
Presenter: J. Francis Scott, BA, EMT
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Sub Specialty
26. AXILLARY-AXILLARY ARTERIOVENOUS PTFE GRAFTS FOR HEMODIALYSIS IN DIFFICULT ACCESS PATIENTS
Presenter: Joseph Liechty, MD
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
2013

Award Winners
Best Paper – Overall
38. CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRIC APPENDICITIS: PENDULUM SWINGS IN THE DECISION TO IMAGE
Presenter: Erica Hodgeman, MD
Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Oncology
13. LONG TERM EFFECT OF THE BETHESDA SYSTEM FOR REPORTING THYROID CYTOPATHOLOGY ON THYROIDECTOMY RATES AND MALIGNANCY RISK IN CYTOLOGICALLY INDETERMINATE LESIONS
Presenter: Jacqueline Lee, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Trauma
29. DETERMINANTS AND TIMING OF RADIOGRAPHIC STABILIZATION OF INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE AFTER NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES FOR TBI
Presenter: Kareem Abdel Fattah, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Poster / Mini Talk
24. AGGRESSIVE SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF DIFFUSE GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOID TUMORS IS NOT WARRANTED
Presenter: Brittney Culp, MD
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Winner of the iPad Raffle
Paul Critelli, MD
Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Resident Jeopardy
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2012

Award Winners
Best Paper – Overall
AXL RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE IS CRITICAL TO PANCREATIC CANCER PROGRESSION AND METASTASES
Amanda Kirane, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Oncology
BREAST MASTECTOMY: IS THERE OCCULT CANCER WITHIN THE NIPPLE?
Veronica Jones, MD
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Trauma
CAN ACUTE CARE SURGEONS PLACE PEG TUBES SAFELY?
Christopher Mitchell, MD
Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Poster / Mini Talk
PG545, A HEPARANASE INHIBITOR, INHIBITS PANCREATIC CANCER METASTASIS AND GROWTH IN VITRO AND INVIVO
Katherine Ostapoff, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Resident Jeopardy
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2011

Award Winners
Best Paper – Overall
WHO WILL COVER THE COST OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT TRAUMA CARE?
Christopher Mitchell
Dallas Methodist Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Oncology
LONG-TERM OUTCOME ANALYSYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER AND A POSITIVE AXILLARYRY MICROMETASTASES WHO DID NOT UNDERGO AXILLARY DISSECTION
Elise Roe
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Trauma
CHILD ABUSE: A SIGNIFICANT ETIOLOGY OF MORTALITY IN PEDIATRIC TRAUMA PATIENTS
Jordan Estroff
Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
Best Poster / Mini Talk
PERICAVAL MASS: A TIME TO REFLECT ON VENA CAVA ANEURYSMS
Jenna Wishnew
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2010

Award Winners
Best Paper – General Surgery
Localizing The Elusive Parathyroid Adenoma
Katie Fritz, MD
Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Oncology
Delays In Time To Treatment And Survival Impact For Breast Cancer Patients
Amy Brazda, MD
UT Southwestern – Dallas, TX
Best Paper – Trauma
Trauma Activation: Are We Making The Right Call? A Three Year Experience At A Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
David Williams, MD
UT Southwestern – Dallas, TX
Resident Jeopardy
Steven Brooks, MD and Ben Hirsch, MD
Texas Tech University
2009

Award Winners
Best Paper – Trauma & Critical Care
Christina Roland, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Best Paper – Oncology
Matthew Cusick, MD
Baylor University Medical Center
Best Paper – Trauma
Colin Sharp, MD
Methodist Health System
Best Poster
Pavlos Papavasiliou, MD
Baylor University Medical Center
Resident Jeopardy
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2008

Award Winners
Best Paper – Trauma & Critical Care
Clark Mooty, MD
Methodist Health Systems
Best Paper – Cancer
ST Steen, MD
Baylor University Medical Center
Best Paper – General Surgery
Sheila Reddy, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Best Poster
Sean Dineen, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Resident Jeopardy
Pavlos Papavasiliou and Shawn Steen
Baylor University Medical Center