Department of Surgery

Simmons Research Conferences

Dr. Daryl Fields "Cerebral spinal fluids serotonin is immediately diagnostic and prognostic for spinal cord injury outcomes." and Dr. Andrew Sayce "The Unfolded Protein Response in Trauma and Sepsis"

Dr. Daryl Fields, MD PhD
Title: Cerebral spinal fluids serotonin is immediately diagnostic and prognostic for spinal cord injury outcomes. 

"Transcriptomic-Guided Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy for Immune-Resistant Cancers"

Abstract: Most patients with metastatic cancer do not respond to immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibition, and thus alternative treatments are necessary. Metastatic uveal melanoma is a prototypic solid tumor with resistance to checkpoint inhibition. Our group has previously shown that a subset of uveal melanoma patients harbor tumor-reactive tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in their metastases and that adoptive cell transfer (ACT) of these TIL could mediate a 35% objective response rate.

Dr. Bowen Xie: Inflammasome-Mediated Effects of SARS-related proteins on Muscle Satellite Cells in Peripheral Arterial Disease" and Yekaterina Khamzina "Hospital Free Days - a Patient-Centered Outcome for Surgical Patients"

Presenter: Dr. Bowen Xie / Dr. Yekaterina "Katya" Khamzina

Infrainguinal Stent Thrombosis Case Control Study/Handheld PET Probe for Pediatric Cancer Surgery

"Infrainguinal Stent Thrombosis Case Control Study"

Presenter: Marissa Jarosinsk, MD (mentors: Drs. Edith Tzeng and Natalie Sridharan)

Medical management of post stenting patients has been thoroughly studied in the cardiac literature, but there is a paucity of data in the vascular literature on the ideal management. This presentation will discuss the existing literature and a proposal for a case control study to look at risk factors for infrainguinal stent thrombosis. 

"Handheld PET Probe for Pediatric Cancer Surgery