The American College of Surgeons/Florida Committee on Trauma selected one surgical critical care Jacksonville fellow and three general surgery Jacksonville residents to present their papers at its annual meeting held on Nov. 4, 2005 in Tampa, Fla.
Joanne Lee, M.D., a PGY VI critical care fellow, presented a paper titled, “Administrative Databases Can Not Be Used For Trauma Center Performance Assessment.”
Michael Nawalany, M.D., a PGY IV general surgery resident, presented a paper titled, “Statistical Assessment of Trauma Center Performance.”
Victor Hassid, M.D., a PGY II general surgery resident, presented a paper titled, “Early Intubation is Mandatory in Lower Complete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Patients.”
Garret Chumney, M.D., a PGY I general surgery resident, presented a paper titled, “Should Age 65 or Older Be Criteria to Triage a Patient to a Trauma Center?”
In addition to presenting her paper, Lee earned second place and will present her paper again in May of 2006 at the Florida Chapter of the American College of Surgeons annual meeting.