Thursday, June 16, 2016
 

Keynote Opening Lecture Transhiatal vs Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy - Value Added? Mark B. Orringer, MD, Ann Arbor, MI Professor Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan

Mark B. Orringer, M.D. is the Cameron Haight Distinguished University Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Michigan. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pittsburgh undergraduate school in 1963 and an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in 1967. He completed his general surgery and thoracic surgery residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1973. During his surgery residency, while at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, England under the mentorship of Mr. Ronald Belsey, he gained additional exposure to the field of general thoracic surgery, particularly the surgical treatment of esophageal disease.

Dr. Orringer joined the faculty of the Section of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1973 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976 and to Professor of Surgery in 1980. He became Head of the Section in 1985 and served in this capacity until 2011. Dr. Orringer was the John Alexander Distinguished Professor of Thoracic Surgery from 1997 until 2011 and served as the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program Director for 21 years (1985-2006).

As one of the country's current leaders in the field of thoracic surgery, Dr. Orringer has focused much of his academic career on the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant esophageal disease. He has developed two leading esophageal operations: the transhiatal esophagectomy without thoracotomy and the combined Collis-Nissen hiatal hernia repair.

Friday, June 17, 2016
 

The Dr. Arno A. Roscher Endowed Lecture Regenerating the Broken Heart: Hope or Hype? Jonathan A. Epstein, MD, Philadelphia, PA Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer, William Wikoff Smith Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan A. Epstein, MD is a board-certified cardiologist. He graduated from Harvard College in 1983, Harvard Medical School in 1988, and completed his residency and fellowship in medicine and cardiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he also completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellowship in genetics. Epstein is a highly regarded physician-scientist whose work has played a major role in the understanding and treatment of congenital heart disease. He was recently named Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer for Penn Medicine.

Epstein has also served as chair of the Perelman School of Medicine’s department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Scientific Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, and the William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research. He also directed the research residency program in the department of Medicine and was founding co-director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Among his many institutional contributions, he co-led Penn Medicine’s five-year strategic planning process. He and his lab have identified several causes of and new therapies for congenital heart disease and heart failure, as well as basic signaling mechanisms that regulate quiescence and differentiation of stem cells.

Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Dr. Andre Crotti Lecture Reflections on Three and One Half Decades of Necrotizing Pancreatitis Michael G. Sarr, MD, Rochester, MN Professor Emeritus Mayo Clinic, Recipient of the Dr. Andre Crotti Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Surgery

Dr. Michael Gregory Sarr received his MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He did a research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic for two years and a further postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. At Hopkins he was mentored by Dr. John Cameron who was the 2015 Crotti Award Recipient. After his Fellowship he joined the staff at the Mayo Clinic on a permanent basis. Dr. Sarr's research interests include in vivo and in vitro control of smooth muscle contractile activity with a primary interest in extrinsic neural control. His research projects also investigate the enteric physiology of the transplanted gut using in vivo and in vitro animal models.

In addition to an extremely active surgical practice and academic responsibilities, Dr. Sarr has also been very active in organized medicine and publishing. He joined ICS in 2001 and was appointed to the Editorial Board of International Surgery. He has also been a Co Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious journal “Surgery” since 1998.

Dr. Sarr exemplifies the ideals identified by Dr. Crotti 80 years ago: he has made major research contributions; demonstrated surgical mastery, clinical excellence, administrative leadership, national and international visibility and; he has the promoted and cultivated the next generation of surgeons. For these reasons the US Section has selected Dr. Michael G. Sarr to receive the 2016 Dr. Andre Crotti Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Surgery.
 

THE DR. ANDRE CROTTI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION OF SURGERY

Dr. Andre J. Crotti was the first President of the US Section (1937) and the second ICS World President (1938). Dr Crotti was Medical Director of the Free Cancer Clinic in Columbus, Ohio, an institution he had founded in 1921. The Clinic was chiefly devoted to early detection and diagnosis of cancer. Recognizing the need for large sophisticated cancer centers where first-rate scientists would work together, Dr. Crotti, in later years, directed his energy to promoting a merger of the Clinic with the Health Center at Ohio State University. His vision became a reality in 1953 when the Clinic merged with the new Cancer Research Laboratories of the Health Center at Ohio State University.

Dr. Crotti, a founding member of the College is credited with the development of the College motto: Pro omni humanitate [for all humankind] and aphorism: La science n'a pas de patrie, parce que le savoir est le patrimoine de l'humanite, le flambeau qui eclaire le monde… [Science has no country, because knowledge is the patrimony of mankind, the torch that illuminates the world.] which is of course, a quote of Dr. Louis Pasteur. Finally, Dr. Crotti was also responsible for the conception and execution of the “French Certificate” Fellowship Diploma of ICS.

Dr. Crotti’s abundant contributions to the profession of surgery and the growth, success and prosperity of our United States Section are without question. He will serve as an admirable example for years to come to all those who are selected to receive The Dr. Andre Crotti Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Surgery.