SSO 2023 Awards

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The Charles M. Balch, MD, Distinguished Service Award Recipient

Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD

James Ewing Harvey Baker Traveling Fellow Award

Charity Glass, MD, MPP

2: Racial disparities in locoregional recurrence in patients with stage I-III, hormone receptor positive breast cancer enrolled in the NSABP B-42 trial

Dr. Thomas K. Weber Colorectal Cancer Research Scholar Award

Sponsorship from The Colon Cancer Foundation and Society of Surgical Oncology

Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, MD

24: Sufficient Regional Lymph Node Examination for Staging High-Grade Appendix Cancer

Dale Han Award

Sponsorship from the Sentinel Node Oncology Foundation and Society of Surgical Oncology

Katherine M. Jackson, MD

61: Smoking Imparts Shorter Disease Specific Survival in Patients with Primary Cutaneous Melanoma

Kristen Rhodin, MD 

58: Timing of Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Stage III Melanoma, Does it Matter?

Clinical Investigator Award

Heather Wachtel, MD
Supported by a grant from the SSO Research and Education Fund

Young Investigator Award

Philip Spanheimer, MD
Supported by a grant from the SSO Research and Education Fund

Young Investigator Award-Appendix Cancer, Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (PMP) and Related Cancers

Thinzar Lwin, MD, MS
Supported by a grant from ACPMP

SSO 2023 ANNUAL RESIDENT/FELLOW ESSAY AWARDS

BEST ESSAY IN BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH

Yi Song, MD, MS

35: Genetic Heterogeneity of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Implications for Outcome

BEST ESSAY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

Lily Saadat, MD

37: Hepatic Artery Infusion Chemotherapy Compared to Y90 for Treatment of Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: A Multi-Institutional Comparative Study

SSO 2023 TOP-RATED ORAL ABSTRACT AWARDS

BREAST TRACK

Kari Rosenkranz, MD

1: Impact of Breast Conservation Therapy on Local Recurrence in Patients with Multiple Ipsilateral Breast Cancer – Results from ACOSOG Z11102 (Alliance)

COLORECTAL TRACK

Floris Verheij

21: Organ Preservation, Compliance and Toxicity in Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Total Neoadjuvant Therapy: A Post Hoc Analysis of the of the OPRA Phase II Trial

DISPARITIES IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY CARE

Laura Fluke, DO, FACS

81: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in colorectal cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic

ENDOCRINE/HEAD & NECK

Jace Landry, MD

30: Cytoreduction in Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors and the Clinical Factors Driving Outcomes

HPB

Yi Song, MD, MS

35: Genetic Heterogeneity of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Implications for Outcome

MELANOMA

Kristen E. Rhodin, MD

58: Timing of Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Stage III Melanoma, Does it Matter?

PSM

Richard Erali, MD, MPH

66: Utilizing Organoids to Study Perfusate Selection in Appendiceal Cancer Patients Undergoing Repeat HIPEC

SARCOMA

Katherine Tardy, MD

75: T cell Inducible Costimulator (ICOS) blockade increases the efficacy of imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)

UPPER GI

Shelly Loewenstein, PhD
90: Obesity and Gastric Cancer Aggressiveness – a New Link

SSO 2023 TOP-RATED POSTER ABSTRACT AWARDS

BREAST

Anita Mamtani, MD

P1: Axillary dissection is avoidable in the majority of cT1N0 triple negative and HER2+ breast cancers having upfront surgery with adjuvant radiation

COLORECTAL

Rami James Aoun, MD, MPH

P13: Multiomic Profile of Colorectal Cancer Cell Line Radiosensitivity

DISPARITIES IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY CARE

Thuy Tran, MD

P65: A National Assessment of Differences in Gastric Cancer Outcomes Among Asian Ethnic Subgroups

ENDOCRINE/HEAD & NECK

Reagan Collins

P22: Adoption of Robotic Adrenalectomy is Associated with a Short Learning Curve and Improved Outcomes

HPB

Robin Schmitz, MD

P29: Hepatic resection for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma – a prospective single institution pilot study

MELANOMA

Angela Zaladonis, MD

P41: A Multi-Institution Observational Analysis of the Theory of the Immunization Effect in Patients with Multiple Primary Melanomas

PSM

Arsha Ostowari, MD

P49: Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Risk in Gastric Cancer

SARCOMA

Amblessed Onuma, MD, MS

P59: Comparing complete compartmental resection with tumor only resection of retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma using the win ratio

UPPER GI

Christina Stuart, MD

P77: Prospective Evaluation of a Universally Applied Laparoscopic Gastric Ischemic Preconditioning Protocol Prior to Esophagectomy with Comparison to Historical Controls