Today’s episode features Dr. Shishir Maithel.  Dr. Maithel is a hepatobiliary surgeon, professor of surgery, and chief of the division of Surgical Oncology at a Northwestern University.  He holds multiple national leadership positions, including as chair of the gastrointestinal surgery working group of ECOG and a member of the scientific and medical advisory board of the international cholangiocarcinoma research network.  Dr. Maithel leads multiple clinical trials in the field of HPB and we are excited today to discuss his many national and international research efforts.  Enjoy!

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We are excited to welcome Dr. Guido Torzilli to the podcast! Dr. Torzilli is a world-renowned hepatobiliary surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University in Milan, Italy. In this episode, we have a fantastic conversation about his career, the concepts that have shaped his extraordinary and innovative approach to liver surgery, and much more!

We are excited to welcome Dr. David Iannitti to the podcast!  Dr. Iannitti is a hepatobiliary surgeon, professor of surgery, program director of the HPB fellowship, and the chief of the HPB Surgery Division at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina.  His clinical and research interests include the pathophysiology of hepatocellular carcinoma and other therapies for liver lesions.  We’re excited to share a fantastic conversation discussing history and innovations of electrosurgery, novel therapies for liver disease, and much more!

Papers Referenced in Episode:

1. Swan, R. Z., Tsirline, V., Sindram, D., Martinie, J. B., & Iannitti, D. A. (2012). Fundamentals of microwave physics: application to hepatic ablation. Journal of Microwave Surgery, 30, 25-40.

The early career group of IHPBA presents recording from discussions at the Early Career Retreat and ECG Lounge sessions from the 2024 IHPBA World Congress in Cape Town.

In this episode, we join the ECG Lounge where past and current presidents of HPB surgery societies talk with early career IHPBA attendees about how to get involved in surgical societies like the IHPBA. Listen to Drs. Marc Besselink (president of EAHPBA), Sean Cleary (immediate past president of AHPBA), Rebecca Minter (past president of AHPBA), and Shailesh Shrikhande (president of APHPBA) answer questions from early career surgeons and provide advice on how to engage in surgical societies. Discussions are moderated by Drs. Mary Dillhoff and Janet Kung.

Join us for another episode of our series ECG Overtime, hosted by the E-AHPBA/IHPBA Early Career Group!  This episode features Dr. Sanket Srinivasa, Dr. Tay Wee Ming, and Dr. Saneya Pandrowala.  Enjoy an episode in which we continue the conversation started during the Asia/Pacific Webinar about life beyond surgery as a new HPB surgeon!  

El Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro ha sido Jefe de la División de Trasplantes en la Universidad de Rochester desde agosto de 2016. Bajo su liderazgo, expandió las oportunidades de trasplante mediante el aumento del uso de órganos donados después de la muerte cardíaca. Recientemente, el Dr. Hernandez abrió un programa de trasplante hepático para metástasis hepáticas de cáncer colorrectal irresecable, siendo actualmente el centro líder en volumen y resultados en América del Norte. También tiene experiencia en resecciones hepáticas y es uno de los pocos cirujanos en Estados Unidos que realiza el procedimiento ALPPS.

The early career group of IHPBA presents recording from discussions at the Early Career Retreat and ECG Lounge sessions from the 2024 IHPBA World Congress in Cape Town.

In this episode, Drs. Ewen Harrison and Deirdre Kruger review opportunities and lessons learned from international collaborations in global surgical research, using the example of the GlobalSurg network and the GECKO study, along with moderators Drs. Timothy Newhook and Julia Menso.

The early career group of IHPBA presents recording from discussions at the Early Career Retreat and ECG Lounge sessions from the 2024 IHPBA World Congress in Cape Town.

In this episode, we discuss challenges and controversies in the editorial process, with a focus on the involvement of trainees and early career surgeons, with Drs. Giovanni Marchegiani, Rachel Guest, and David Cavalucci, along with moderators Drs. Timothy Newhook and Julia Menso. Hear about how to get started and get credit for peer-review, select a journal for publication, and controversies about sustainability of the current publishing model. Should peer-reviewers be compensated? Should we move towards fully open access publishing? Should we get rid of impact factors?

The early career group of IHPBA presents a recording from discussions at the Early Career Retreat and ECG Lounge sessions from the 2024 IHPBA World Congress in Cape Town.

In this episode, Dr. Stephen Wigmore, Editor-in-Chief of HPB, reviews tips to get a manuscript published, with moderators Drs. Timothy Newhook and Julia Menso.

Today’s episode features Dr. Anushi Shah and Dr. Michele Babicky, discussing the hot topic of training paradigms in HPB.  Dr. Babicky is a surgical oncologist and assistant professor of surgery at Providence Portland Medical Center.  She is the program director of the HPB fellowship at her institution, with a passion for surgical education. 

Dr. Babicky is accompanied by her HPB fellow, Dr. Anushi Shah.  Dr. Shah comes to us with a unique perspective in HPB training as a just recently graduated HPB fellow (after this episode was recorded) at Providence Portland Medical Center after graduating in 2022 from a transplant fellowship at MGH. 

We are very excited for an enthusiastic discussion about training pathways in HPB.  Enjoy!

References:

1. Miller P, Romero-Hernandez F, Mora RV, Hughes D, Babicky M, Warner S, Alseidi A, Visser B; AHPBA SWOT Taskforce. AHPBA senior leaders' assessments of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing fellowship training in HPB surgery: "We need to standardize our training experiences". HPB (Oxford). 2022 Dec;24(12):2054-2062. doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2022.09.014. Epub 2022 Oct 1. PMID: 36270938.