Top Honors for St. Luke’s Research at National Academic Surgical Congress

St. Luke’s University Health Network received top honors in research quality at the recently concluded Academic Surgical Congress.

The Congress, which is the largest academic surgical meeting of its kind, attracted nearly 2,000 participants from top hospitals and universities from the United States and abroad.

The meeting, in Jacksonville, Fla., featured more than 1,000 scientific abstract submissions. Although St. Luke’s contributed only four abstracts, the high quality of the projects earned the “Best Average Score of Accepted Abstracts” – an honor equaled only by University of Michigan, placing St. Luke’s ahead of all other TOP medical institutions in the country!

The St. Luke’s team featured the following presenters, projects and investigative teams:

•        Dr. Anthony Cipriano – “Less Telemetry, Better Outcomes: University Network Implementation of SafetyNet Monitoring System” – Team members included Dr. Christopher Roscher, Dr. Aldo Carmona and Ms. Jaclyn Rowbotham
•        Dr. Ashley Jordan – “Indicators of Shock in Trauma: Anything is Better than Nothing, but Lactate is Best” – Team members included Dr. Hillman Terzian, Dr. Thomas Wojda, Dr. Marissa Cohen, Joshua Luster and Jacqueline Seoane (both Temple/St. Luke’s), Dr. Philip Salen and Dr. Holly Stankewicz
•        Dr. Hillman Terzian – “Intravenous + Inhaled Colistin versus Intravenous Monotherapy for Multi-Resistant Gram-Negative Pneumonia” – Team members included Dr. Livia Bratis, Dr. Mohamed Turki, Dr. Neha Civic and Dr. Claire Murphy (Ohio State University)
•        Dr. Rodrigo Duarte-Chavez – “Fecal Microbiota Transplant Protocol Implementation: A Community-Based University Hospital Experience” – Team members included Dr. Thomas Wojda, Dr. Berhanu Geme and Dr. Gloria Fioravanti. (Dr. Duarte-Chavez will be a member of the inaugural class of the St. Luke’s Gastroenterology Fellowship.)