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Meeting Information: Program

Spring Meeting

May 5th - 7th, 2011
Maywood, IL

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Thursday, May 5, 2011
6:30PM IL Chapter Dinner (ISS members welcome)
Friday, May 6, 2011
7:00-8:00AM Introduction/Breakfast/Change into scrubs in Classroom 160 in the Stritch School of Medicine Cuneo Center
7:00-7:45AM ISS Board of Governors Meeting in Classroom 150 in the Stritch School of Medicine Cuneo Center
8:00-10:45AM Operative Cases
  • Robert Love, MD - Robotic VATS
  • Gerald Aranha, MD - Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  • Margo Shoup, MD - Liver Resection
  • Marco Fisichella, MD - Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy
  • Steven DeJong, MD - Thyroidectomy
10:45-11:00AM Break/Change out of Scrubs
11:00-11:30AM Pegge Halandras, MD
"Vascular Access Surgery in the Dominican Republic"
11:30AM-12:00PM Amy Lu, MD
"Innovations in Liver Surgery"
12:30-1:30PM Lunch
Presentation by Paul K. Whelton, MB, MD, MSc
President and CEO, Loyola University Health System
1:30-2:00PM Hieu Ton-That, MD
"Trauma"
2:00-2:30PM Rick Hershberger, MD
"Endovascular Repair of Ruptured AAA"
2:30-3:00PM Darl Vandevender, MD
"Reconstruction of Traumatic and Surgical Defects"
3:00-4:00PM Honorary Guest Lecturer
Richard Finley, MD
First Vice President, American College of Surgeons
"Esophageal Diseases"
4:00-4:30PM Discussion/Wrap Up/End of Conference
6:30PM Tuscany Restaurant
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Hosted by Metropolitan Chicago Chapter and Illinois Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ISS members welcome)
@ Oak Brook Marriott Hotel
7:00AM Breakfast
Presentation by Guest Speaker – Richard Finley, MD, FACS
Resident Competition
Resident Jeopardy
12:00PM Lunch
Resident Awards

Fall Meeting

September 15-17, 2011
Makanda, IL

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Friday, September 16, 2011
7:00am Continental Breakfast for Members
7:50am Welcome, Announcements and Introductions
8:00am "Therapeutic Endoscopy and the Upper Digestive Tract: An Update"
John Mellinger, MD, General Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
8:30am "Thyroid Nodule Evaluation: Contemporary Methods and Concepts"
James Malone, MD, Otolaryngology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
9:00am "Cervical Spine Trauma"
Jarrod Wall, M.D., Trauma/General Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
9:30am BREAK
9:45am "Paraesophageal Hernias"
Sajida Ahad, M.D., General Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
10:15am "Update on Surgical Management of Emphysema"
Stephen Hazelrigg, M.D. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
10:45am "Islet Replacement Therapy for Type I Diabetes"
Marc Garfinkel, M.D., Transplant/General Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine–Springfield, IL
11:15am Wrap Up Session
Saturday, September 17, 2011
7:00am Continental Breakfast for Members
7-7:50am Board of Governors Meeting
7:50am Announcements and Introductions
8:00am "Development of a Wound Care Center in a Community Setting"
Thomas McGlone, M.D. – Sterling, IL
8:30am "Bot Fly Soft Tissue Infection – An Unusual Wound Problem"
Edwin Card, M.D. – Macomb, IL
9:00am "Single Surgeon Experience of Carotid Endartectomy 2004 – 2010"
Mark Schmelzel, M.D. – Sterling, IL
9:30am BREAK
9:45am "Head and Neck Melanoma: Surgical Management" Constantine V. Godellas, M.D. – Maywood, IL
10:15am "Surgeon Turned Administrator – Personal Observations"
Terence Wade, M.D. – Belleville, IL
10:45am "Unusual Etiologies of Small Bowel Surgical Problems in the Rural Community Hospitals"
Timothy Bailey, M.D. – Decatur, IL
11:15am Wrap Up Session