2010
Columbia University Department of Surgery 2010 Blakemore Prizes/Awards
The Blakemore Prize recognizes the best body of research conducted by a 5th-year or chief resident during the training program at Columbia University Department of Surgery.
The recipient of this year's Blakemore Prize was Dr. Abbas Rana (Mark Hardy, Sponsor) for clinical and translational research focused primarily on liver and kidney transplantation.
Abbas has seven manuscripts as first author and three as coauthor.
He has two additional papers in press and has submitted three others.
The Blakemore Prize is $1000.
Recipients of the Blakemore Awards ($250) for 2009-2010 were:
About the Blakemore Prizes and Awards:
Drs. Arthur H. Blakemore and Arthur B. Voorhees, Jr., were distinguished vascular surgeons in the Department of Surgery. They described laboratory and clinical studies of vascular replacement using Vinyon N sail cloth in 1954.
Blakemore was a surgical innovator also well known for the Blakemore tube widely used in the past for treatment of bleeding esophageal varices.
As a resident working in Blakemore's laboratory, Voorhees appreciated the importance of laboratory research by house staff and later established a fund to support the Blakemore Prizes and Awards.
Dr. Roman Nowygrod has been a pivotal figure in maintaining the tradition of these research prizes, as well as the department's Startup Grant program.
2010 Resident Research Competition
Nineteenth Surgery Residents' Research Competition:
Daniel Y. Wang, MD, wins first prize in clinical research category, Joseph DiNorcia, MD, wins first prize in translational research.
The competition was held in the Daniels Auditorium of the new Heart Hospital on May 20, 2010. There were 12 six-minute presentations.
Members of the Department of Surgery Research Committee and Leadership group scored the presentations.
First- and second prize winners in the areas of clinical and translational research are as follows:
Clinical Research
- First Prize: Daniel Y. Wang, MD/Henry M. Spotnitz, MD —
Optimized Temporary Biventricular Pacing Acutely Improves Intraoperative Cardiac Output After Weaning From Cardiopulmonary Bypass - A Sub-study of a Randomized Clinical Trial
- Second Prize: Minna K. Lee, BA/John Allendorf, MD —
130 Resections for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: Evaluating the Impact of Minimally Invasive and Parenchymal-Sparing Surgical Techniques
Translational Research
- First Prize: Joseph DiNorcia, MD/John Allendorf, MD —
Inhibition of RAGE Signaling Reduces Tumorigenesis and Hepatic Tumor Growth in Murine Models of Colorectal Carcinoma Vasculature
- Second Prize: Jeffrey Gander, MD/Jessica Kandel, MD —
Blockade of VEGF Causes Early Loss of Vasculature with Concurrent Recruitment of Macrophages in a Ewing's Sarcoma Tumor Model
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