The AHPBA Podcast

For this episode, we had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mary Dillhoff from OSU, HPBHeroine extraordinaire. We had a great discussion, starting with her work on women in HPB surgery, and the pipeline of future female surgeons in this field. We discussed her career specifically, and challenges she faced as a young HPBHeroine. Finally, we discussed her journey starting a robotic Whipple program at Ohio State. This was a great conversation and we hope you all enjoy it!

En este episodio de la serie de América Latina en el AHPBA podcast nos transportamosal maravilloso país de México para conocer uno de los centros de pancreatectomías más importante del Mundo. Nuestro anfitrión, el Dr. Carlos Chan entrego consejos, sugerencias y mucho más para todos los interesados en el páncreasy la formación en cirugía HPB.

In this episode, we had the pleasure of talking with some of the APP leadership of the AHPBA. We discussed issues that are important to both APPs and surgeons alike. A must listen for any APP interested in HPB surgery or any surgeon who currently works with, or would like to work with, APPs. Enjoy!

En este segundo episodio de la serie de América Latina en el AHPBA podcast tuve el privilegio de conversar con una persona que no necesita mayor introducción en el mundo HPB de las Américas, el Dr. Javier Lendoire (@lendoire). Nos hablo de su formación, de Thomas Starlz, de sus Amigos, y de su tiempo como presidente de AHPBA. @lendoire, entrego grandes consejos y anécdotas que espero disfruten.

Javier C Lendoire, MD, Ph.D - Bio

Javier C Lendoire graduated with the Honor Degree at the University of Buenos Aires. His general surgical training was completed at the Hospital Español of Buenos Aires. In 1989 he was awarded with the Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding and began his training in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the Transplant Division of the University of Pittsburgh in charge of Thomas Starzl. 

In 1993 Javier Lendoire as Vice Chairman opened with Oscar Imventarza the first Public Adult Liver Transplant Program of Argentina in the Hospital Dr C Argerich of Buenos Aires. Also, they developed the first Liver Transplant Program of the Litoral Region located in Formosa City and the Liver Tx and HPB Unit in Sanatorio Trinidad Mitre of Buenos Aires. Dr Lendoire became Chairman of Liver Transplantation at ITAC, Buenos Aires in 2019.

In 2003 he received his Ph.D from the University of Buenos Aires and in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the same University.

Dr Lendoire is founding member and Past-President of the Argentine Society of Transplantation, Council Member since 2003 and Past President of the Argentine Chapter of the IHPBA (CA-IHPBA). He served as President of the AHPBA (2015-2016), member of the Scientific Committee of the IHPBA since 2008 and was recipient of the 2019 AHPBA Nonie Lowry Distinguished Service Award.

In this episode, we had the honor of interviewing Dr. Mike D’Angelica, program director of both the HPB and Surgical Onocology fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He is the Enid A Haupt Chair in Surgery at MSK and the current president of the AHPBA.

We are excited to present the first episode in a new series of episodes hosted by our good friend, Dr. Eduardo Vega, which will be conducted in Spanish. Introduction of this episode from Dr. Vega: 

Damos la bienvenida al primer episodio de la serie de América Latina en el AHPBA podcast. Es esta oportunidad entrevistamos a Martin Dib, cirujano de HPB y trasplante con extensa formación en Chile y el extranjero. Conversaremos con él los desafíos de realizar la residencia y especialización en la Universidad de Harvard y Toronto, de su vuelta a Chile y los desafíos de un programa de trasplante con donante vivo en Chile. ¡Esperamos que lo disfruten!

In this episode, we discussed a recent article in HPB entitled, "Patients’ treatment preferences for potentially resectable tumors of the head of the pancreas." We discussed this interesting paper (link to paper below), which centered around patient decision making when faced with a difficult decision of which therapy to receive in the setting of resectable pancreas cancer. This paper contained some very surprising insights into the thought process of patients, and we had a very interesting discussion around this topic. Enjoy!

https://www.hpbonline.org/article/S1365-182X(19)30602-1/pdf

For this episode, we had the honor of sitting down with Dr. Steven Strasberg, who is a living legend in the HPB Surgery. We discussed the history behind laparoscopic cholecystectomy, bile duct injuries and the development of the critical view of safety. We also discussed repair of bile duct injuries with the master himself. We really enjoyed this interview and we hope you do too!

Strasberg et al.

https://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(00)00717-1/fulltext

Strasberg et al. An analysis of the problem of biliary injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8000648/

In this interview, we had a chance to sit down with the former AHPBA President, Dr. Felipe Coimbra and discuss his career, his service to the AHPBA, and his contributions to the expansion of the AHPBA within South America. 

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Tim Pawlik and discussed his path to chair and general career path, his amazing academic productivity, and asked for some advice on how to build a successful academic career. Enjoy!