Surgery News- July 2008

8 SURGERY NEWS • J U LY 2 0 0 8 NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE Dr. Morton Wins Jacobson Innovation Award D onald L. Morton, M.D., FACS, a surgical oncologist and clinical scientist at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., is the recipient of the 2008 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons. Established in 1994, the award honors living surgeons or surgical teams who have been innovative in the development of a new technique in any surgical field. The award is made possible through a donation from Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D., FACS, a general vascular surgeon who is director emeritus and the Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. Dr. Morton is being recognized for his pioneering research efforts toward the development and clinical application of sentinel lymph node biopsy, which has transformed the surgical management of solid tumors, particu- tumor status of the entire lymphatic larly breast cancer and melanoma. basin, so patients with tumor-negative A medical school graduate of the sentinel nodes would not need to unUniversity of California–San Francisco (UCSF) in 1958, Dr. Morton completed dergo radical lymphadenectomy. This minimally invasive procea medical internship and dure has been applied to surgical residency at UCSF, neoplasms including breast, followed by a clinical associcolon, and thyroid cancers. ate appointment in the Dr. Morton has been at surgery branch of the Nathe Saint John’s Medical tional Cancer Institute in Center in Santa Monica Bethesda, Md., and another since 1991. He has also surgical residency and felserved as chief of the lowship at the Cancer Remelanoma program and disearch Institute at the UCSF rector of the fellowship proMedical Center. From 1960 DONALD L. MORTON, gram (2006 to present) as to 1969, he served in the M.D., FACS well as medical director and Public Health Service of the surgeon-in-chief (1991–2006) at the U.S. military. He became a Fellow in John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint 1973. Dr. Morton introduced his lymphatic John’s. He has been emeritus professor at the University of California–Los Anmapping technique—a surgical procegeles School of Medicine since 1991, dure that identifies the sentinel lymph after serving as professor of surgery nodes in the regional lymphatic basin—in 1990. Histopathologic exami- and chief of the division of surgical oncology from 1971 to 1991. nation of the sentinel node reveals the Dr. Morton has published close to 700 research papers and more than 100 book chapters. He has received the 2005 National Cancer Fighter Award and the 2003 Heritage Award of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and is an honorary member of multiple international medical associations, such as the Polish Society of Surgical Oncology, the Japanese Cancer Association, and the H. William Scott Jr., Society. He has served as president of the International Sentinel Node Society (2003), the World Federation of Surgical Oncology Societies (1995), and the Society of Surgical Oncology (1992). The Jacobson Innovation Award is administered by the Honors Committee of the American College of Surgeons. Original thought combined with first presentation of work that has led to a milestone in the advancement of surgical care is the main criterion for selecting a Jacobson Innovation Award recipient. ■ he Committee on Trauma (COT) has announced the winners of this year’s Resident Trauma Papers Competition for papers describing original research in the area of trauma care and/or prevention in basic laboratory research or clinical investigaL-R: Dr. Fildes, COT Chair; Dr. Golob; Maj. Seery; Dr. tion. Shalhub; Dr. Sailhamer; Dr. Knudson, COT Vice-Chair. Funded by the for Intensive Care Unit Research, Eastern and Western States COTs, Quality of Care Improvement, and Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Daily Patient Care: The Validation of and Nebraska), Wyeth PharmaceutiSIC-IR. cals, and the ACS, the competition is Second Place, Basic Laboratory Reopen to surgical residents and trauma fellows. Papers are first submitted for search: Elizabeth A. Sailhamer, M.D., Boston—Acetylation: A Novel state or provincial competitions. Method for Modulation of the ImThose winners are then judged at a mune Response Following Trauregional level. ma/Hemorrhage and Inflammatory Winning papers from 15 regions Second Hit in Animals and Humans. were presented at the scientific sesSecond Place, Clinical Investigasion of the COT meeting, and the tion: Sherene Shalhub, M.D., MPH, four final winners listed below were Seattle—Variant IL-1 Receptor-Associannounced on March 14. ated-Kinase-1 Haplotype Is Associated First Place, Basic Laboratory Rewith Worse Clinical Outcomes in search: Maj. Jason M. Seery, M.D., Trauma Patients and Affects Human Fort Gordon, Ga.—The Effect of Metal Fragments on Nerve Healing in In Vitro Response to Endotoxin. Each regional winner received a Extremity Injuries Using a Rat Perprize of $500; the two second-place oneal Nerve Model. winners received an additional $500; First Place, Clinical Investigation: and an extra $1,000 was awarded to Joseph F. Golob, Jr., M.D., Cleveland, the two first-place winners. Ohio—Modern Medical Informatics ■ Sleeve Gastrectomy OK’d as Trauma Paper Competition Standard Bariatric Procedure Winners Announced T T he Advisory Committee of the ACS Bariatric Surgery Center Network (ACS BSCN) Accreditation Program recently voted to approve adding sleeve gastrectomy and revisional surgery to its list of standard bariatric surgery procedures. Committee members also clarified that the only gastric bypass procedure (open or laparoscopic) that is acceptable as a standard procedure is the Roux-en-Y. For the purposes of obtaining and maintaining status as an Accredited Bariatric Center in the ACS BSCN, the following operations are defined as ACS BSCN standard surgical procedures when performed by an open or laparoscopic approach: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band Vertical banded gastroplasty Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch AMERICAN COLLEGE OF Biliopancreatic diversion without duodenal switch Sleeve gastrectomy Revisional surgery The advisory committee also approved a new criterion that non standard surgical procedures may be considered toward determining a center’s annual volume requirements. Nonstandard surgical procedures will be recognized if a center receives and presents IRB approval for each type of non standard procedure that will be included in the count toward its annual volume requirement. This decision was made in an effort to support, strengthen, and expand the evidence base of new and emerging surgical procedures, while ensuring the delivery of highquality patient care. For more information about the ACS BSCN Accreditation Program, visit www.acsbscn.org. ■ SURGEONS Tenn. Gets Grant for Consortium he Tennessee Chapter of the ACS and the Tennessee Hospital Association, through the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety, have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a surgical quality consortium aimed at evaluating and improving surgical care delivered by general and vascular surgeons in the state. The 3-year grant from the BlueCross-BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation will be used to support the use of the ACS National Surgical Qual- T ity Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) in eight hospitals. Surgeon champions at the current ACS NSQIP participating hospitals will work as mentors for the new participating hospitals and physicians. Hospitals will use aggregate reports to identify improvement opportunities, identify differences in practice between hospitals, and disseminate best practices. To learn more, visit https:// acsnsqip.org/login/default.aspx. ■ http://www.acsbscn.org http://acsnsqip.org/login/default.aspx http://acsnsqip.org/login/default.aspx

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