Department of Surgery

Simmons Research Conferences

Promoting Immune Tolerance through Regulatory DCreg Infusion in Living Donor Liver Transplantation / Failure to Rescue in Emergency General Surgery

Promoting Immune Tolerance through Regulatory Dendritic Cell (DCreg) Infusion in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Presenter: Cindy Teng (Advisors: Drs. Matthew Rosengart / Jeremy Kahn)

Calcium/CaMK IV & Inflammatory Bowel Disease/Ruptured AAA: Protocol & Exploration of Prehospital Care

“Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase (CaMK) IV and Inflammatory Bowel Disease”

Presenter: Sidrah Khan (Advisor: Dr. Kevin Mollen) 

Inflammatory bowel disease is currently perceived as a chronic, relapsing idiopathic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract with a multfactorial pathogenesis. Our lab is beginning to elucidate the role the epithelial cell, rather than immune cell, plays in initiating and propagating this spectrum of diseases.

Pancreas Cancer and More!: A Decision Analysis Driven Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

Presenter: Caroline Rieser (Advisor: Dr. David Bartlett)

The numbers of 'zeros and ones' recorded by any institution, let alone UPMC, is mind boggling. And yet, little if any determination was made a priori of how to record or use these data so as to improve health and disease. Dr. Rieser will highlight the profound improvements in patient care and facilitation of decision-making that can be yielded when we learn how to use this wealth of data.