Center for Surgery and Public Health

July/August 2009

In the News

• Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, was quoted in the Boston Globe in regards to safety with fireworks in Massachusetts.
  
  
• On July 21st, the Center for Surgery and Public Health, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and the Brookings Institute co-sponsored a forum in Washington, DC entitled “How Do They Do That? Low-Cost, High-Quality Care in America." Health care leaders from ten high performing regions across the country came together to share successful models for delivering high quality care at reduced costs. The forum provided the opportunity to share best practices. You can read about it here or listen to Atul Gawande, MD, MPH speak on NPR about the forum. Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Mark McClellan of the Brookings Institute, offered their reflections in an op-ed piece published in the New York Times this August.

Current Publications

• Selwyn Rogers, MD, MPH, was the primary author on the paper, “Tight glycemic control using an artificial pancreas to control perioperative hyperglycemia decreases surgical site infection in pancreatectomized or hepatectomized patients” featured in Annals of Surgery.
  
  
• Doug Smink, MD, and Selwyn Rogers, MD, MPH, were both co-authors on the paper, “Access to emergency operative care: a comparative study between the Canadian and American health care systems” featured in Surgery.
  
  
• Louis Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH, was a co-author on the paper, “Under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials” in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
  
  
• A former CSPH research fellow, Scott Regenbogen, MD, MPH, was a co-author on the paper, "Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-Extremity Vascular Amputations?” along with Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Stuart Lipsitz, ScD, and Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, in Annals of Surgery.
  
  
• Stanley Ashley, MD, was a co-author on the paper, “Doctors in acute and longitudinal care specialties emphasise different professional attributes: implications for training programmes” in Medical Education.
  
  
• Jonathan Spector, MD, MPH, a neonatologist from the MGH and member of the CSPH had two papers published in public health research including being the first author on the paper, “Improving outcomes of transported newborns in Panama: impact of a nationwide neonatal provider education program” in the Journal of Perinatology.
  
  
• Dennis Orgill, MD, PhD, published several papers this month including "Escharotomy and Decompressive Therapies in Burns" in the Journal of Burn Care and Research.

John Ayanian, MD had an impressive four papers published in surgical health services research including:

• John Ayanian, MD, was a co-author on the paper entitled, “A multilevel intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening among community health center patients: results of a pilot study” in BMC Family Practice.
  
  
• John Ayanian, MD, was a co-author on the paper, “Racial and ethnic disparities in access to higher and lower quality cardiac surgeons for coronary artery bypass grafting” in the American Journal of Cardiology.
  
  
• John Ayanian, MD, was a co-author on the paper, “Treatment and outcomes of gastric cancer among United States-born and foreign-born Asians and Pacific Islanders” included in the July edition of Cancer.
  
  
• John Ayanian, MD, was the senior author on the paper, “Indigenous people in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States are less likely to receive renal transplantation” in Kidney International.

Abstract Deadlines

Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons – September 8

Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery – September 8

American Association for Thoracic Surgery – October 5

Society of Surgical Oncology – October 15

Association for Surgical Education – October 23

American Urological Association – November 16

American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons – November 20

American Surgical Association – November 25

For a complete list of all abstract deadlines, please go to our website.