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Victory in The Tri-Surgeon Tournament
"Association of state-level intoxicated driving laws with firearm homicide and suicide" by Robert Tessler in Injury Prevention
Steve Evans, MD speaks on "Faith on the frontline: Healthcare workers share stories of spiritual strength amid COVID-19"
Khan, Hrebinko, Kaltenmeier, Nassour, Hoehn, Medich, Zureikat, and Tohme in The American Surgeon! "Readmission After Surgical Resection for Colon and Rectal Cancers: A Retrospective Cohort Study"
NIH R01 Grant Outcomes of T32 Postdoctoral Participants
How to Write an Effective K Award, By the NIH
Graduate John Griepentrog publishes in iScience: "Association between conventional or blue-light-filtering intraocular lenses and survival in bilateral cataract surgery patients"
Rob Tessler co-authors paper in American Journal of Public Health determining differences among US states in how driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) laws activate federal firearm possession and purchase prohibitions
Dr. Hossam Abdelsamed from the Starzl Institute awarded foundation grant to study epigenetic programming in liver transplant patients from the Community Liver Alliance (CLA).
Dr. Cindy Teng, along with co-authors Dr. Sara Myers and Holder-Murray, publish on preoperative predictors of ileus after Colorectal Surgery
Heather Phelos and Caroline Rieser highlight in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) the associaton between medicaid expansion and earlier diagnosis, access and improved outcome of patients with colon cancer
Dr. Christine Leeper publishes in JAMA Surgery on "Whole Blood is Superior to Component Transfusion for Injured Children: A Propensity Matched Analysis"
Insiya Campwala, Pitt Medical Student, publishes "Impact of a Surgical Subspecialty Roundtable on Career Perception for Preclerkship Medical Students" in the Journal of Surgical Research
Leah Furman, MS4 publishes in the American Journal of Surgery on "Learning to teach: A novel method for assessing surgical trainees’ teaching and operative knowledge"
Exercise training decreases hepatic injury via changes in immune response to liver ischemia/reperfusion in mice.