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Dr. Michael Bouvet, a renowned expert in endocrine surgery, visited UAB to present at the UAB Grand Rounds. His lecture, titled “Impact of Intraoperative Fluorescence Imaging in Endocrine Surgery,” shed light on the transformative potential of fluorescence-guided techniques in surgical outcomes.

Dr. Bouvet serves as a professor of surgery and the director of endocrine surgery at the University of California, San Diego. He is an internationally recognized expert surgeon-scientist and collaborates extensively with the UAB research team.

We are honored to have hosted Dr. Bouvet and look forward to furthering this impactful partnership.

The North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) works to improve outcomes for patients with neuroendocrine tumors through multidisciplinary medical education, NET related medical research, publication of guidelines and the exchange of knowledge and innovation. UAB researchers presented at the NANETS annual symposium 2024 held in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Veronica Bijou presented her poster on “Interaction Between Race and Insurance for Gastropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Outcomes.”

Veronica Nkie is currently a research volunteer at the UAB Breast and Endocrine Research Laboratory. She is a Transitional Year Intern at Madigan Army Medical Center hoping to go into General Surgery.

Dr. Kerrick Akinola, a post-doctoral research fellow in the department on endocrine surgery, presented some of his most recent pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. His poster presentation, titled “Transcriptome Alteration in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Among Those Living with Adverse Social Determinants of Health (SDOH),” explored potential connections between adverse SDOH and tumor biology.

Jaida Bazemore, a summer RAMP-UP program participant from Tuskegee College, presented her study “Racial Disparities in Barriers to Healthcare by Older Patients with Pancreatic Neoplasms” at the UAB summer symposium 2024 under the mentorship or Dr. Andrea Gillis.

Research in Aging through Mentorship and Practice – Undergraduate Program (RAMP-UP) is a comprehensive program providing mentored research experiences and education in aging and health disparities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in MSTEM fields. It combines hands-on research, additional training, and structured career guidance to prepare participants for graduate studies and careers in the research workforce.

Find out more about RAMP-UP here.

Oakwood University student, Peris Murangiri, presented her study “Investigation of the use of Amphetamines Among Colorectal Cancer Patients in the Deep South of the US” at the UAB Summer Symposium 2024.

Endocrine surgery fellow Dr. Corbin Frye presented his paper “A Natural Language Processing-Informed Adrenal Gland Incidentaloma Clinic Improves Guideline-Based Care” at the 2024 International Association of Endocrine Surgeons Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr. Andrea Gillis attended and presented her work at NCI Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program Fall Symposium.

The NCI Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP) is a unique initiative to train and support early-career surgeon scientists in cancer research. This program provides three years of funding, fostering collaboration among cohorts across the U.S. to advance cancer-related basic and translational research.

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L – R Dr. Andrea Gillis, Dr. Jessica M. Fazendin, Dr. Jessica Liu McMullin (endocrine surgery fellow ’22 – ’23), Dr. Brenessa M. Lindeman, Dr. Herbert Chen

Our group had a strong showing at the 2023 Academic Surgical Congress in Houston TX! In addition to presenting our research and learning from other leaders in academic surgery, we love this meeting for getting to have a reunion with our former graduates! Fellows #1-6 were able to reunite and catch up at the UAB social at the Buffalo Bayou Brewing company (with photobombers Drs. Chen and Lindeman aka the fellows endocrine surgery “mom” and “dad”).