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The American College of Surgeons SURGICAL FORUM 2013 PROCEEDINGS FOR THE 68 th ANNUAL OWEN H. WANGENSTEEN SURGICAL FORUM 2013 CLINICAL CONGRESS OCTOBER 6-10, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC COMMITTEE FOR THE FORUM ON FUNDAMENTAL SURGICAL PROBLEMS VOLUME LXIV O Joe Hines, MD, FACS, Chair Los Angeles, CA Mary T Hawn, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair Birmingham, AL Peter A Argenta, MD, FACS Minneapolis, MN Amelia M Bartholomew, MD, FACS Chicago, IL Karen R Borman, MD, FACS Abington, PA Frederick Y Chen, MD, FACS Boston, MA Timothy A Damron, MD, FACS Syracuse, NY Dev Desai, MD, FACS Dallas, TX Justin B Dimick, MD, FACS Ann Arbor, MI Geoffrey C Gurtner, MD, FACS Stanford, CA Peter K Henke, MD, FACS Ann Arbor, MI Kelly K Hunt, MD, FACS Houston, TX Ted A James, MD, FACS Burlington, VT Kimberly S Kirkwood, MD, FACS San Francisco, CA John C Marshall, MD, FACS Toronto, ON Jeffrey B Matthews, MD, FACS Chicago, IL Babak Mehrara, MD, FACS New York, NY Frederick A Moore, MD, FACS Gainesville, FL Michael S Mulligan, MD, FACS Seattle, WA Dennis P Orgill, MD, FACS Boston, MA Timothy M Pawlik, MD, MPH, FACS Baltimore, MD Raj S Pruthi, MD, FACS Chapel Hill, NC Robert G Sawyer, MD FACS Charlottesville, GA Edith Tzeng, MD, FACS Pittsburgh, PA Jeffrey S Upperman, MD, FACS Los Angeles, CA William C Welch, MD, FACS Philadelphia, PA Michael A Zenilman, MD, FACS Bethesda, MD The 338 presentations, dealing with original research conducted by scien- tific investigators in-training, are grouped into 36 topics and arranged chronologically in this section. Alphabetical Index to Sessions Alimentary Tract I Alimentary Tract II Alimentary Tract III Apoptosis/Cellular Injury Biomarkers and Genetic Determinants of Disease and Outcomes Cardiothoracic Surgery I Cardiothoracic Surgery II Critical Care I: Inflammation and Immunity Critical Care II: The Clinical Biology of Trauma Critical Care III: Mechanisms of Organ Dysfunction Geriatric Surgery Global Surgery Innovative Clinical Technology Neurosurgery Obstetrics and Gynecology Orthopaedic Surgery Patient Safety Pediatric Surgery I Pediatric Surgery II Plastic Surgery I Plastic Surgery II Plastic Surgery III Progenitor Cells and Cell-Based Therapies Quality, Outcomes and Costs I Quality, Outcomes and Costs II Quality, Outcomes and Costs III Surgical Education I Surgical Education II Surgical Oncology/Endocrine I Surgical Oncology/Endocrine II Targeted Therapies Transplantation and Tissue Engineering Urology and Reproductive Surgery I Urology and Reproductive Surgery II: Robotics Vascular Surgery I Vascular Surgery II
