2018 Outstanding Surgery Residents’ Awards

The ACVS established the Outstanding Surgery Residents’ Awards competition to encourage the development of clinically important research and the dissemination of the results of these investigations, particularly those conducted by surgery residents. Congratulations to each of the award recipients.

Awards were presented in the following categories:

• Large Animal Residents’ Forum Presentation
  (Research and Clinical)
• Small Animal Residents’ Forum Presentation
  (Research and Clinical)
• Veterinary Surgery Publication
• Poster Presentation

Two posters were selected from those presented by residents at the 2017 ACVS Surgery Summit. Eight oral presentations (four from both large animal and small animal categories) were selected from those given in the Residents’ Forum at the ACVS Surgery Summit. Three manuscripts were selected from those published in Veterinary Surgery. Presentations, publications and posters must represent the original work of the resident. Studies may be prospective or retrospective clinical studies or controlled

Large Animal Residents’ Forum Presentation

Research

First Place

Louis Kamus (University of Montreal, Saint Hyacinthe, Canada), Christine Theoret, Marcio Costa. Use of Next Generation Sequencing to Investigate the Microbiota of Experimentally Induced Wounds & the Effect of Bandaging in Horses.

Second Place

Jesse F. Tyma (University of Georgia, Athens, GA), Maria Naskou, Alysha Berezny, John Peroni. Equine Platelet Lysate Gel: A Novel Matrix for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Delivery.

Clinical

First Place

Cole Sandow (Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA) Carlos Aguilar, Nathalie Rademacher, Laura Riggs. Effects of Screw Size & Approach in Simulated Medial Condylar Fractures.

Second Place

C. Jordan Kirkpatrick (University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Paul, MN) Nicolas Ernst, Troy Trumble, A Palmar/Plantar Approach to Radiographic-Guided Injection of the Insertion of the Collateral Ligament of the Distal Interphalangeal Joint in the Horse: A Cadaver Study.

Small Animal Residents’ Forum Presentation

Research

First Place

Callie LaMoin Blackford Winders (University of Georgia, Athens, GA), William Larson Vaughn, Kate Birdwhistell, Samuel Franklin, Ian Holsworth. Accuracy of Femoral Head and Neck Excision via a Craniolateral Approach or a Ventral Approach.

Second Place

Jesse F. Tyma (University of Georgia, Athens, GA), Maria Naskou, Alysha Berezny, John Peroni.  Equine Platelet Lysate Gel: A Novel Matrix for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Delivery.

Clinical

First Place

Erin Gibson (University of California, Davis, CA), Ingrid Balsa, Lynelle Johnson, William Culp, Michele Steffey, Philipp Mayhew, Michelle Giuffrida, Kathryn Phillips. Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes of Intrathoracic Disease Secondary to Grass Awn Migration in 37 Dogs.

Second Place

Mary Dell B. Deweese (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), Cara A. Blake, Elizabeth Anglin, Katherine Morris, Kei Hayashi, Dorothy Cimino Brown, Kimberly A. Agnello. Observer Reliability of Arthroscopic Cartilage Grading Using the Modified Outerbridge Classification System in the Dog.

Veterinary Surgery Publication

First Place

Brittany Ciepluch (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX), Removal of hemangiosarcoma cells from canine blood with a cell salvage system and leukocyte reduction filter. Heather Wilson‐Robles Gwendolyn Levine Roger Smith Gus A. Wright Tasha Miller Maureen T. O’Brien Kelley M. Thieman Mankin. Veterinary Surgery 47:  293-301

Second Place

Mona Hoerdemann (Murdoch University, Perth, Australia), Rachael L. Smith Giselle Hosgood. Duration of action of mepivacaine and lidocaine in equine palmar digital perineural blocks in an experimental lameness model. Veterinary Surgery 46:  986-993

Third Place

Daniel J. Nucci (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO), Eric Monnet. Tissue blood flow to a pedicled jejunal autograft in the dog: A pilot study. Veterinary Surgery 46: 839-842

Poster Presentation

First Place

Valentine Verpaalen (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL), J. Brad Case, Beau B. Toskich, Joel Cardenas-Goicoechea, Matt Winter, Sarah Boston4, Alice Rhoton-Vlasak, Michael Dark. Evaluation of a Laparoscopic Approach for Microwave Ablation of Canine Ovaries.

Second Place

Hadley Gleason (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL), Heidi Phillips, Daniel Duffy, Santiago Gutierrez-Nibeyro, Annette McCoy. Mechanical Comparison of Barbed and Smooth Suture in a Cadaveric Canine Staphylectomy Model.