Available funding for residents (if any):

• none

Extramural funding obtained by lab residents within last 3 years:

• none

Available projects (one sentence per project):

• Mechanism of enhancement of melphalan isolated limb perfusion (ILP) with acidic perfusate
• Photodynamic therapy in an in-vivo rabbit ascites model
• Identification of factors to improve the accuracy of pre-operative evaluation of thyroid nodules
• Determining the role of intra-operative PTH and pre-operative imaging studies in the surgical management of hyperparathyroidism
• Identification of factors to predict outcome in patients with retroperitoneal sarcomas
• Correlation of pathologic, radiographic and clinical characteristics of patients with Pheochromocytomas and their symptomatology

Current lab residents (expected completion date):

• Robert Lewis (June 2010)
  Surgery Resident, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Past lab residents, within 3 years (completion date):

• Hasly Harsono (June 2009)
  Surgery Resident, Maimonides Medical Center
• Dale Han (June 2008)
  Surgery Resident, University of Pennsylvania Health System
• Giorgos Karakousis (June 2006)
  Surgery Resident, University of Pennsylvania Health System

National meetings where your residents have given oral presentations within last 3 years:

• Society of Surgical Oncology 2007
• American College of Surgeons 2008
• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons 2009

Resident publications (not abstracts) within last 3 years:

Fraker DL, Harsono H, Lewis R. Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy: benefits and requirements of localization, diagnosis, and intraoperative PTH monitoring, long term results. World J Surg. 2009 Nov;33(11):2256-65.

Murashima M, Trerotola SO, Fraker DL, Han D, Townsend RR, Cohen DL. Adrenal venous sampling for primary aldosteronism and clinical outcomes after unilateral adrenalectomy: a single-center experience. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2009 Jun;11(6):316-23.

Murashima M, Trerotola SO, Fraker DL, Han D, Townsend RR, Cohen DL. Change in the pattern of adrenal venous sampling over time in patients with primary aldosteronism. J Hum Hypertens. 2009 Apr;23(4):292-4. Epub 2008 Aug 28.

Karakousis GC, Han D, Kelz RR, Nemani D, Karamacharya J, Roses R, Gimotty PA, Fraker DL. Interpretation of intra-operative PTH changes in patients with multi-glandular primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). Surgery. 2007 Dec;142(6):845-50; discussion 850.e1-2. Erratum in: Surgery. 2008 Feb;143(2):302.

Giorgos C. Karakousis, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Jeffrey D. Botbyl, Susan B. Kesmodel, David E. Elder, Rosalie Elenitsas, Michael E. Ming, DuPont Guerry, Douglas L. Fraker, Brian J. Czerniecki, Francis R. Spitz. Predictors of Regional Nodal Disease in Patients with Thin Melanomas. Ann Surg Oncol. 2006 Apr;13(4):533-41. Epub 2006 Mar 7.