Date: July 28, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Host: Alessandro Fichera, MD
Moderators: Michelle Cowan, MD; Jean H. Ashburn, MD
CME Credit Hours Available: 0
The ASCRS Video Mentorship Series is a series of intraoperative video-based coaching sessions, presented in the webinar format, with the goal of sharing operative techniques and improving procedural confidence. During this webinar the moderators will review videos of creation of IPAA and lengthening maneuvers.
Call for Videos Open Now - Submit your video files for review and possible presentation during the series.
Host
Alessandro Fichera, MD
Dr. Fichera earned his M.D. from the Catholic University of Rome, completed General Surgery Residency at the University of Chicago and two-year fellowship in laparoscopic and colorectal surgery at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He returned to the University of Chicago where he started and became the first Program Director of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Training Program. He moved to the University of Washington in July 2012 as chief of colorectal surgery and was appointed chief of the section of Gastrointestinal Surgery in 2014 and in 2016 the clinical director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. In November 2017 he moved to University of North Carolina as the Division Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery. In September 2019 he became the Division Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and the Surgery Safety and Quality Officer since July 2020. His clinical and research interests include colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.
Moderators
Michelle Cowan, MD
Dr. Cowan received her BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MD from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals and a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at Washington University, St. Louis. She previously worked as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado as well as the VA and now is an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
-(15).png "Untitled-(150-×-150-px)-(15).png")
Jean H. Ashburn, MD
Dr. Jean H. Ashburn is an associate professor of Colorectal Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a staff surgeon at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and finished her residency in General Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She then completed a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was a staff surgeon prior to joining the Department of Surgery at Wake Forest University. She has clinical and research interests in complex inflammatory bowel disease, reoperative pelvic surgery, and corrective/restorative surgery of the lower gastrointestinal tract.
Registration is free to ASCRS members and a $50 flat-fee for non-members, which includes live and on-demand access to all webinars in the series. This is a one-time registration for enrollment in the full 2023 series. You do not need to register more than once.