Date of Annual Meeting: March 11 - 15, 2009 , Miami
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Content and Speakers
Postgraduate Course: Session II.
Geopolitics and Economics of HPB Surgery in America Moderators: C. Wright Pinson, MD, MBA, H. Wm. Scott Professor of Surgery, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Carols Chan, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion, Mexico
Quality, safety, and costs as the primary drivers for care from the patient, hospital and payer’s perspective. Speaker: Ravi Chari, M.D., MBA, Professor of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Chief Medical Officer, Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Division, HCA
Affordable care, not quality and outcomes will accelerate HPB Surgical tourism in the Americas.
Speaker: Scott Helton, M.D., Chair of Surgery,
Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT
Improving HPB Care in Rural America: From the Artic to Tierra del Fuego: The conundrum between Regionalized and Decentralized care. Moderators: Sean Mulvihill, M.D., Chair of Surgery, University of Utah Nèstor A. Gòmez, MD., FACS, Professor of Surgery, State University of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Canadian Perspective
Speaker: Elijah Dixon, MD. Assistant Professor of Surgery,
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada The U.S. Crisis in Access to Care
Speaker: Randal Zukerman, MD.
Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT The South American Perspective:
Speaker: Edmundo Machado Ferraz, M.D. PhD, FACS
Professor and Chairman, University Hospital Recife - Brazil
President, Brazilian College of Surgeons
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AHPBA 2009 DVD 2
Format: live documentary, color
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Region: PC worldwide, DVD player NTSC
Studio and DVD Release: Medical dTV - 2009
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Number of discs: 28
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Sean J. Mulvihill, MD
Senior Director of Clinical Affairs,
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Sean Mulvihill, MD, is senior director of clinical affairs at Huntsman Cancer Institute and professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He holds the Ross Anderson, MD, Presidential Endowed Chair in Surgery.
Dr. Sean Mulvihill is Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He holds the Ross Anderson Presidential Endowed Chair in Surgery and serves as Senior Director for Clinical Affairs, Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Prior to assuming the Chair at Utah in November of 2000, Dr. Mulvihill was Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of their Division of General Surgery.
Dr. Mulvihill is an editor of a major surgical textbook, Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence , and has authored over 130 scientific papers and book chapters. He is past-president of the American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association.
Dr. Mulvihill's clinical expertise relates to diseases of the liver, pancreas, and bile ducts. He has worked to improve surgical outcomes and to develop novel treatment strategies for patients with pancreatic cancer and islet cell tumors. He leads a multidisciplinary research program in pancreas cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and focuses his own research effort on identifying early diagnosis biomarkers in that disease.Dr. Mulvihill is particularly interested in utilizing a multidisciplinary approach for cancer patients and is realizing this goal in his role at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Mulvihill edited a major surgical textbook, Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence , and has authored more than 130 scientific papers, editorials, and book chapters. He is also an editor and co-author of a leading text for patients with cancer, Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy .
