The Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course was a hit! Over 150 participants with faculty from 24 institutions came together in D.C. for a day of lectures, panels, break-out sessions, and networking. The day began with an inspiring kickoff lecture from Dr. Julie Ann Sosa touting the rewards of a career in academic surgery, and ended with the Keynote lecture by Dr. Herb Chen sharing his path to a successful surgical research career (while also becoming a surgical chairman!).
Wisdom was shared, tweets were tweeted, and all were inspired!
That being said…WE HEAR YOU! Some things we plan to change/add for next year:
- Panels. Panels. Panels.
- Access to speakers/experts.
- Global surgery content. Global Surgery content. Global surgery content.
- Basic scientist panelist.
- Basic and translational science content to be more in depth and practical.
- Less talking at you and more talking with you.
- Overall, digging deeper.
And my favorite…
“A more constant supply of coffee.” – Anonymous.
Carrie Cunningham
Dr. Lubitz is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Section head of the Massachusetts General Hospital Endocrine Surgery Unit, and Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment. She is an Association of Endocrine Surgeons executive council member and the President of the Association for Academic Surgery. Her overarching research mission has been to improve the health and well-being of patients with benign and malignant endocrine-related diseases and to mentor young academic surgeons. She is the principal investigator of an NIH/NCI R-37 (R01-type merit award) award to examine the potential impact of new diagnostic technologies and personalized management strategies in patients with thyroid cancer using mathematical disease simulation modeling and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award to develop a patient-reported instrument to assess thyroid-cancer specific quality of life.
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