Department of Surgery

General Surgery Grand Rounds

2019 Donald Blechman Lecture in Surgical Oncology: The Evolving Understanding of Regional Lymph Nodes in Surgical Oncology

Resident Presentations, 7- 8:00 am

  • “Systemic Therapy for High-Risk Cutaneous Melanoma: Progress and Future Directions,” Stacy Kowalsky, MD
  • “Seeing is Believing: The Emerging Promise of TIL Therapy in Uveal Melanoma," Caroline Rieser, MD

Main Lecture, 8- 9:00 am

Guest Lecturer: Daniel G. Coit, MD, Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

For more information, contact: Maureen Hewko, MBA, 412-623-5993

Hacking Healthcare with Sensors: Unfolding the Metrics of Physician Expertise

Resident Presentations, 7:00-8:00 AM

Main Lecture, 8:00 - 9:00 AM

"Hacking Healthcare with Sensors: Unfolding the Metrics of Physician Expertise"
Presenter: Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Stanford University

Third UPMC HPB Lecture: Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Genomics, Radiomics, and Novel Treatment Strategies

Resident Presentations

  • Samer Tohme, MD: “Gallbladder Cancer”
  • Gregory Wilson, MD: “Cholangiocarcinoma”

Main Lecture
Presenter: William Jarnagin, MD, Leslie H. Blumgart Chair in Surgery; Chief, Hepatopancreatobiliary Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Professor of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Response and Resistance to Direct KRAS Inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer

Resident Presentations, 7 - 8:00 AM
Presenters: Dirk van der Windt, MD & Andrew Yeh, MD

Main Lecture, 8 - 9:00AM
"Response and Resistance to Direct KRAS Inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer”
Presenter: Timothy R. Donahue, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Molecular & Medical Pharmacology; Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology; Vice Chair, Surgical Cancer Care; Residency Program Director, UCLA General Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA