Scrubcast

On this episode of Scrubcast, Dr. Elsie Ross discusses artificial intelligence in vascular surgery. Dr. Ross is now an assistant professor but started her work with bioinformatics during her residency professional development years. We take a deep dive into one of her papers published in The Journal of The American Heart Association titled “Unsupervised Learning for Automated Detection of Coronary...

In this special edition of Scrubcast, we interview two of our winners from our annual Holman Day celebration. Dr. Jeff Choi, a general surgery resident just finishing his professional development years, won the award for best podium presentation in the clinical and health services research category. His abstract was titled “Tackling the Bedside Artificial Intelligence Barrier: Natural Language Pro...

Drs. Liam Rose and Todd Wagner join this episode to talk about their paper published in JAMA Network Open: "Association of Expanded Health Care Networks With Utilization Among Veterans Affairs Enrollees.” The two authors describe the process of taking a project from idea to award-winning research. Dr. Rose is a Health Economist who works at the VA Palo Alto’s Health Economics Resource Center and o...

In this episode, we focus on a paper published in the journal Anesthesiology titled "Labeled Surgical Caps: A Tool to Improve Perioperative Communication.” I'm joined by one of the authors, Dr. Ausama Nassar. Originally known as the #theatrecapchallenge in Australia, Dr. Nassar talks about how the idea of scrub caps with names and positions took off at Stanford. Dr. Nassar is a Clinical Assistant...

The topic of Episode 2 spans surgical oncology, reconstructive surgery, and innovation as we look at a recent paper published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery titled "Creating a Biological Breast Implant with an Omental Fat-Augmented Free Flap." Dr. Dung Nguyen describes how she and her team faced a unique breast cancer and reconstruction challenge that led to an innovative new te...

This episode focused on an original investigation published in JAMA Network Open titled "Trends in US Surgical Procedures and Health Care System Response to Policies Curtailing Elective Surgical Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Wren tells the story of how she arrived at this topic from the POV of a global surgeon and assembled a varied team of specialists. She also talks about what sh...