The Margin VSSO Podcast

Today we are joined by Dr. Chris Thomson highlighting two clinical trials, MIMIC- Minimally invasive metastasectomy in canines and PUSH- Precision Medicine Umbrella Study for Hemangiosarcoma.

Dr. Thomson is a board certified veterinary surgeon with a focus on surgical oncology, currently at VSH North County. 


For more information on these clinical trials, please visit www.ethisdiscovery.org.

Today we are joined by Dr. Stephanie Goldschmidt highlighting her clinical trial titled: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging with Protoporphyrin IX for Intraoperative Margin Evaluation.

Dr. Goldschmidt is an assistant tenure track professor in Dentistry and Oral surgery at the University of California- Davis.

For more information regarding the study: https://studypages.com/s/help-investigators-improve-surgical-precision-for-oral-cancer-surgery-in-dogs-200605/?ref=gallery

On today's Pubsession, Dr. William Culp joins us on a deep dive of treatment approaches to liver tumors. Dr. Culp graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine. After graduation from veterinary school, he remained at the University of Pennsylvania to complete a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery followed by a surgical residency. Dr. Culp is board-certified as a Diplomate of the American College ofVeterinary Surgeons, and he has pursued additional training in cancer surgery at the Colorado State University Animal Cancer Center, during which he completed a Surgical Oncology Fellowship. Additionally, he has completed an Interventional Radiology/Endoscopy Fellowship at the Animal Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Culp was selected as an ACVS Founding Fellow of Surgical Oncology in 2012, an ACVS Founding Fellow of Minimally Invasive Surgery in 2017 and an ACVS Founding Fellow of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2021. Dr. Culp is currently a member of the Soft Tissue Surgery service at the University of California - Davis.

On today's podcast we take a deep dive into a clinical trials resources with Dr. Kim Selting and discuss the mindfulness of including clinical trials in your repertoire of treatment options for your cancer patients.

On this pub session, Dr. Phillipp Mayhew shares his tips and tricks for adrenal surgeries. Dr. Mayhew is a professor of soft tissue surgery at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Mayhew is an ACVS founding fellow of minimally invasive surgery and has extensive experience in open and laparoscopic adrenalectomies.

Want to learn more about genomics and personalized, precision medicine? In today’s podcast, we discuss this and more with Vidium’s Dr. Esther Chon, and FidoCure’s Dr. Gerry Post. Special thanks to my co-host Dr. Paulo Vilar for joining me for this hot topic!

On this episode of The Margin VSSO podcast we will be doing Journal Club with Dr. Eugenio Faroni. "Timely adjuvant chemo therapy improves outcome in dogs with non-metastatic splenic hemangiosarcoma undergoing splenectomy"

Today we are speaking with Dr. Pamela Jones of Qbiotics about Stelfonta, a novel intratumoral injection for mast cell tumors in dogs. This is NOT an endorsement by the VSSO, and serves as an informative discussion.

On this episode of The Margin Podcast, we are hosting a Pub Session Fundementals night with Dr. Jolle Kirpensteijn. Join us for an hour while he presents reconstruction with local flaps.

Today we are having journal club with Dr. Brad Matz and Dr. Kaleigh Bush discussing their recent publication "Outcomes and clinical features associated with surgically excised canine salivary gland carcinoma: A multi-institutional, retrospective, Veterinary Society of Surgical Oncology study".