Research Opportunities

At the end of the second clinical year the categorical general surgery resident enters the research fellowship. The purpose of this year is to allow the future surgeon to gain a critical eye upon the results of research in order to be an effective life-long learner. In addition, the productivity naturally engendered by this experience will lead to national presentations and publications that can improve the resident’s standing as a candidate for a future fellowship opportunity or for a position at an academic department of surgery.

Residents may use this time to enter basic science, as well as clinical and epidemiologic research fellowships.

Residents may choose to use this time for professional development. Many in the past have chosen to pursue additional graduate degrees including MPH and PhD. While there are opportunities for residents to remain within the Rutgers University system, there are no restrictions on where a resident may choose to spend this time. 

At the end of each year, residents present the work they have accomplished at our resident research day. 

Below you can find the link to the most recent “Resident Research Day” which has become an annual showcase for the wonderful research and scholarship that occurs in the program. Additionally, you can see where our residents have spent their research time over the past five years. Finally, current acceptances for this academic year are below.

2022 Resident Research Day 

2021 Resident Research Day

 Resident Research Time:  Past 5 Years

Accepted Presentations 2022-2023

Meeting: Annual Meeting of Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) 2023, Miami, FL

Title: “Demographic Inequities in Liver Transplantation for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis”

Authors: Ankur Choubey, MD, MPH; S.Samuel; N.Koizumi; O. Ekwenna; R. Malik; J.Ortiz

Presenting Author: Ankur Choubey, MD, MPH

Meeting: SAGES 2023, Montreal, Canada

Title: "Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass In Non-Bariatric Patients with Refractory Gerd"

Authors: Aidan Aicher, MD; N. Devas; K. Spaniolas, MD; A. Pryor, MD 

Presenting Author: Aidan Aicher, MD

Meeting: 18^th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Houston, TX

Title:     “Costs of Delayed Discharge after Nonoperative Management of Blunt Liver Injury in Low Risk Children”

Presenting Author: Paul Truche, MD, MPH

Meeting: American Association of Endocrine Surgeons 2023, Birmingham, AL

Title: "Association of Medicaid Expansion with Access to Thyroidectomy for Benign Disease at High Volume Centers"

Authors: Alexander Manzella, MD; Marin Kheng, MD,MPH; Joshua Chao, MD,JD; Amanda M. Laird, MD; Toni Beninato, MD, MS

Presenting Author: Alexander Manzella, MD

Meeting: SSO Advanced Cancer Therapies 2023, San Diego, CA

Title: "A Novel Ex-Vivo Human Tumor Model to Understand the Role of HIPEC in Peritoneal Malignancies"

Authors: Stephanie N. Gregory, MD; Marthe E. Teke, MD; Carrie E. Ryan, MS,MD; A.Leila Sarvestani,MD;
Tracey Pu, MD; Sarfraz R. Akman, BS; Stephanie C. Lux, BS; Jacob T.Lambdin, MD; Kenneth Luberice, MD;
Kirsten Remmert, PhD; Emily C. Smith, PhD; Surajit Sinha, PhD; Audra A. Satterwhite, RN; Cathleen Hannah, RN,BSN;
Jeremy L. Davis, MD; Jonathan M. Hernandez, MD; Andrew M.Blakely, MD

Presenting Author: Stephanie N. Gregory, MD

Meeting: SSO Advanced Cancer Therapies 2023, San Diego, CA

Title: "Stagnating Survival in Epithelioid Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: An Analysis of Current Incidence and Management of Disease"

Authors: Stephanie N. Gregory, MD; Paul H. McClelland, MD; Andrew M. Blakely, MD.

Presenting Author: Stephanie N. Gregory, MD

Meeting: ACS COT (Local) 2022, New Brunswick, NJ

Title: "UTILITY OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTED THORACOLUMBAR SPINAL IMAGING IN BLUNT TRAUMA"

Authors: Chris Amro, MD, Abhishek Swarup, MD, Alexander Cong, BS, John Park, BS, Rachel L. Choron, MD FACS, Christopher Butts, PhD DO FACOS FACS,
Julie Goswami, MD, Amanda L. Teichman, MD FACS                                                                                  

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Meeting: ACS COT (Regional) 2022, Buffalo, NY

Title: "UTILITY OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTED THORACOLUMBAR SPINAL IMAGING IN BLUNT TRAUMA"

Authors: Chris Amro, MD, Abhishek Swarup, MD, Alexander Cong, BS, John Park, BS, Rachel L. Choron, MD FACS, Christopher Butts, PhD DO FACOS FACS, Julie Goswami, MD, Amanda L. Teichman, MD FACS

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Meeting: SESC 2022, Atlanta GA

Title: “NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER CAUSING ATRAUMATIC SPLENIC RUPTURE WITHOUT SPLENIC METASTASIS”

Authors: Chris Amro MD, Russell Pepe MD, Akshat Parekh MD, Christopher Butts PhD/DO

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Meeting: SESC 2022, Atlanta GA

Title: “TRAUMATIC POPLITEAL ARTERY OCCLUSION FOLLOWING LOWER EXTREMITY CRUSH INJURY PRESENTING WITH ISOLATED PATELLAR DISLOCATION”

Authors: Chris Amro MD, Akshat Parekh MD, Keith Diamond MD, Matthew Lissauer MD, Christopher Butts PhD/DO

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Meeting: ACAPS 2023, New Orleans LA                                                                                     

Title: "An Update on the Independent Plastic Surgery Match: Recent Trends and Predictors of a Successful Match (2019-2022)"                                                                                                      

Authors: Chris Amro MD, J. Reed McGraw BS, Robyn Broach PhD, Stephen J. Kovach MD, Joseph M. Serletti MD, Jeffrey E. Janis MD, Saïd C. Azoury, MD                                              

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Meeting: PSRC 2023, Cleveland OH                                                                                                       
Title: "An Update on the Independent Plastic Surgery Match: Recent Trends and Predictors of a Successful Match (2019-2022)"                                                                                                   
Authors: Chris Amro MD, J. Reed McGraw BS, Robyn Broach PhD, Stephen J. Kovach MD, Joseph M. Serletti MD, Jeffrey E. Janis MD, Saïd C. Azoury, MD.                                                      

Presenting Author: Chris Amro, M.D.

Accepted Presentations 2021-2022 

Meeting: SESC 2021, Atlanta GA

Title: “Follicular Cholecystitis: What a General Surgeon Should Know”

Authors: Fernando D. Arias MD, Zachary J. Brown DO, Gina Prochilo DO, Christopher Butts PhD/DO, Jennifer To DO

Presenting Author: Fernando Arias, M.D.


Meeting: SAGES 2021, Las Vegas NV

Title: “Resident Caseload and Operative Volume in the Time of Coronavirus”

Authors: Stephen A. Iacono MD MPH, Rachel E. Nemoyer MD MPH, Michael T. Scott MD MPH, Nell Maloney Patel, MD, Stanley Trooskin MD

Presenting Author: Stephen Iacono, M.D.


Meeting: ECTSS 2021 Palm Beach FL

Title: “Rare Case of Survival after Left Ventricular Traumatic Laceration due to Pseudoaneurysm”

Authors: Krish C. Dewan, Lindsay Volk, Antonio Chiricolo, Mark Russo.

Presenting Author: Krish C. Dewan, M.D.


Meeting: 44th Annual Conference on Shock, Portland, OR

Title: “SIRT3 Deletion Increases Inflammation and Mortality in Sepsis"

Authors: Hanna E Labiner, Kelli M Sas, Joseph A Baur, Carrie A Sims

Presenting Author: Hanna E Labiner, M.D.


Meeting: Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society, Manalapan FL         

Title: “DNA methylation inhibitor reversed high fat diet-induced CREG1 downregulation in Adipose

Authors: Joshua Chao, M.D.

Presenting Author: Joshua Chao, M.D.


Meeting: SVS Vascular, San Diego CA

Titles: 

“Occurrence of dialysis, paralysis, stroke, or death following endovascular aortic intervention in the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative” 

“Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity effects outcomes following endovascular aortic repair”

“Sex based differences following thoracic endovascular aortic repair for penetrating aortic ulcer and intramural hematoma”

Authors:

Presenting Author: Priya Patel, M.D.


Meeting: Asian Academic Surgeons, Chicago IL (September)

Titles: 

“Cellular Repressor of E1A-Stimulated Genes 1 (CREG1) Expression in White Adipose and Liver Tissue is regulated by Food Intake” 

“Surgical Outcomes in Thoracic Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from an Epicenter”

Authors: Joshua C Chao MD JD, Jigesh Baxi MD, Alexis K Okoh MD, Marlena E Sabatino BA, Fady Soliman BS, Yanmei Qi MD PhD, Jie Liu MD, Leonard Y Lee MD, Shaohua Li MD PhD, Mark J Russo MD MS

Presenting Author: Joshua Chao, M.D.


Meeting: EAST 2022, Austin, TX

Title: "Give Me Sirtuins Or Give Me Death: SIRT1 Deletion Increases Mortality in Sepsis"

Authors: Hanna E Labiner, Kelli M Sas, Joseph A Baur, Carrie A Sims

Presenting Author: Hanna E Labiner, M.D,


Meeting: American Society of transplant surgeons, Venue Miami FL

Titles: “Comparison of early glycemic control between Type 1 and non-Type 1 diabetics after Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplant (SPKT)”

Authors: Olanrewaju Eletta, Vijay Putatunda, David Walls, Advaith Bongu, Ronald Pelletier.

Presenting Author: Olanrewaju Eletta, M.D.


Meeting: American Society of transplant surgeons, Venue Miami FL

Title: Development of imaging guided pancreas transplant anticoagulation protocol

Authors: Olanrewaju Eletta, Vijay Putatunda, David Walls, Melissa Chuang, Sonika Puri, John Nosher, Ronald Pelletier, Advaith Bongu.

Presenting Author: Olanrewaju Eletta, MD


Meeting: Academic Surgical Congress 2022, Orlando FL

Titles: 

"Applicability of ACR TI-RADS to Follicular Thyroid Cancer: A Single Site Retrospective Review"             
"The Impact of Surgical Boot Camp on Medical Student Confidence and Imposter Syndrome"
"National Trends of Endocrine Surgery Operations Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Wilfrido Castillo BE; Saloni Jain BA; Emma Idzikowsi MBS; Hannah Bava BS; Mahaksh Kotdawala MS; Alexander Manzella MD, Stanley Z. Trooskin MD, Amanda M Laird, MD, Toni Beninato MD MS, A.L. Teichman , J. Cai , M.E. Schroeder , M. Yao , P. Greenberg , R.L. Choron, Amanda M. Laird MD, Henry Pitt MD, Toni Beninato MD MS.
Presenting Author: Alexander Manzella MD


Meeting: 2022 APDS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

Title: Modified SafeZone Training: LGBT Patient Education for Surgical Residents and Faculty

Authors: Ramirez, Jr. T. Ray MD, Nell Maloney Patel, MD

Presenting Author: Ramirez, Jr. T. Ray M.D.


Meeting: Academic Surgical Congress 2022, Orlando FL

Title: “Clinical Risk Score For Sternal Wound Dehiscence Requiring Operative Debridement Following Sternotomy”

Authors: Brianna L. Slatnick MD; Paul Truche,MD, MPH; Sivana Barron BA; Christine Kang MD;

Presenting Author: Brianna L. Slatnick, MD


Meeting: AATS 2022, Boston MA

Titles:

“The Burden Of Lower Extremity Fasciotomies: An Indication For The Multidisciplinary Approach”

“Characterizing Morbidity And Mortality After Aesthetic Abdominal Surgery: A Nationwide Analysis”
“Breast Flap Neurotization After Autologous Free Flap Breast Reconstruction: A Prospective Trial”

“Artificially Intelligent Facial Feature Quantification After Facial Filler Injection”

Authors: Abhishek A. Desai, MD; Niv Milbar, MD; Sophia Hu, BA; Corey Bascone, MD; L. Scott  Levin, MD, FACS, FAOA; Stephen J. Kovach, MD.

Presenting Author: Abhishek A. Desai, MD


Meeting: Robert H. Ivy Pennsylvania Plastic Surgery Society Annual Meeting 2022

Title: "Evaluation of the immune microenvironment of esophageal adenocarcinoma following induction chemoradiotherapy with and without durvalumab"

Authors: Jennie K. Choe MD, Yan Li MD, Laura H. Tang MD PhD, Geoffrey Y. Ku MD, Prasad S. Adusumilli MD

Presenting Author: Jennie K. Choe MD

Meeting: AAST 2022, Chicago, Il

Title: “AAST Multicenter Study: Does angioembolization improve survival for severe hepatic injuries?"

Authors: Amanda Radisic, MD; Joseph Sakran, MD, MPA, MPH; Mariuxi Manukyan, MD; Bin Yu, BS; Fang Hu, BS; Meghan Wooster, DO; Kathy Noll, MSN, TCRN; David V. Feliciano, MD; Elliot Hout, MD, PhD; Grace F. Rozycki, MD, MBA

Presenting Author: Amanda Radisic, MD

Meeting: Academic Surgical Congress ASC 2022 San Diego, CA

TITLE:  "National Trends in Thyroid Operative Costs by Volume in the Inpatient and Outpatient Settings"

Authors: Alexander Manzella, MD, Marin Kheng, MD,MPH, Timothy Kravchenko, Amanda M. Laird, MD, Henry Pitt, MD, Toni Beninato, MD,MS

Presenting Author: Alexander Manzella, MD 


Meeting: Advanced Cancer Therapies 2023, San Diego, CA

Title: 3:A Novel Ex-Vivo Human Tumor Model to Understand the Role of HIPEC in Peritoneal Malignancies

Authors: Stephanie N. Gregory, Martha E. Teke, Carrie E. Ryan, A. Leila Sarvestani, Tracey Pu, Sarfraz R. Akmal, Jacob T. Lambdin, Kenneth Luberice, Stephanie Lux, Kirsten Remmert, Emily C. Smith, Surajit Sinha, Audra A. Satterwhite, Cathleen Hannah, Jeremy L. Davis, Jonathan M. Hernandez, Andrew M. Blakely

Presenting Author: Stephanie N. Gregory 

 Meeting: Advanced Cancer Therapies 2023, San Deigo, CA

Title: Stagnating Survival in Epithelioid Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: An Analysis of Current Incidence and Management of Disease

Authors: Stephanie N. Gregory, Paul H. McClelland, Andrew M. Blakely

Presenting Author: Stephanie N. Gregory