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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