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Inaugural Research Retreat Is Great Success<br />

About forty Department of <strong>Surgery</strong> faculty, residents, staff, and students attended a research retreat on May 31, 2003 at the Mill Race Lodge<br />

<strong>in</strong> W<strong>in</strong>ton Woods. The retreat was comprised of morn<strong>in</strong>g and afternoon sessions with slide and poster presentations of ongo<strong>in</strong>g departmental<br />

research efforts. The ma<strong>in</strong> objective of the retreat was to exchange ideas and <strong>in</strong>itiate collaborations <strong>in</strong> a very <strong>in</strong>formal, comfortable sett<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Dr. Kathleen H. Goss served as program director, and responses from attendees <strong>in</strong>dicated that the event was a great success. The<br />

Department looks forward to mak<strong>in</strong>g this an annual event to foster <strong>in</strong>teractions among basic and cl<strong>in</strong>ical researchers.<br />

Cardiothoracic <strong>Surgery</strong> News<br />

Shahab Akhter, M.D., and Michael F. Reed, M.D., recently passed<br />

the American Board of Thoracic <strong>Surgery</strong> Certify<strong>in</strong>g Exam<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

and are now fully Board Certified <strong>in</strong> Thoracic <strong>Surgery</strong>.<br />

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Michael F. Reed, M.D., presented a paper entitled “The Impact of<br />

Barrett’s Esophagus on Outcomes for Adenocarc<strong>in</strong>oma” at the<br />

Western Thoracic Surgical Association annual meet<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Carlsbad,<br />

California, on June 20, 2003.<br />

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Walter H. Merrill, M.D., Chief of the Section of Cardiothoracic<br />

<strong>Surgery</strong>, has been chair<strong>in</strong>g the UC Anesthesia Search Committee for<br />

the new Chairman of Anesthesia.<br />

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Robert Osterday, PA-C, has jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Section of Cardiothoracic<br />

<strong>Surgery</strong> as a Physician Assistant. Bob received a B.S. Degree <strong>in</strong><br />

Biology from Wright State <strong>University</strong> and an AS-Physician<br />

Assistant degree from Ketter<strong>in</strong>g College of Medical Arts <strong>in</strong> Dayton,<br />

Ohio. He most recently served as a Physician Assistant at The<br />

Jewish Hospital of C<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>nati.<br />

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The Lung Cancer Screen<strong>in</strong>g Trial (John How<strong>in</strong>gton, M.D.,<br />

Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator) has enrolled more than 100 patients, well on<br />

the way to an ultimate goal of 500 patients. <strong>To</strong> refer a patient, call<br />

<strong>To</strong>nya Mohn at (513) 584-7698. For more <strong>in</strong>formation on the trial,<br />

call Brandon Kleykamp at (513) 584-3183.<br />

Shahab Akhter, M.D. Michael F. Reed, M.D.<br />

Walter H. Merrill, M.D.<br />

Robert Osterday, PA-C

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