Photo By Marcy Sanchez | (From left) Lt. Col. Justin Orr, staff researcher of the year, Capt. Andrew Chan, best...... read more read more
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Medicine and medical procedures are always evolving. In the past year alone, William Beaumont Medical Center has introduced many new Food and Drug Administration-approved products to surgical procedures, implemented new screening techniques for early detection of cancers, and employed a state of the art robotic surgical system for precision, minimally-invasive surgery.
To showcase research by WBAMC personnel, the Department of Clinical Investigation (DCI) hosted WBAMC’s annual Research Day at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, May 10.
“It’s a means to display the research and hard work that goes on at WBAMC throughout the year. It’s a celebration of that hard work,” said Maj. Kelly Kilcoyne, chair, DCI, WBAMC. “I think we’re doing a great amount of research at WBAMC, but it doesn’t always get highlighted. Research day is a means to highlight the achievements of WBAMC staff.”
Kilcoyne also points out the event may initiate dialogue between different hospital specialties.
“General surgeons may not know what research orthopedic surgeons are doing until we get together in this kind of forum to discuss across the disciplines,” said Kilcoyne, an orthopedic surgeon and native of Germantown, Maryland. “Its’ the beauty of a day like today; it’s not an orthopaedic research day; it’s not a general surgery research day: It’s a hospital-wide research day. So it’s great to foster those relationships and hopefully get a collaboration of ideas across disciplines.”
More than 35 presentations, including podium and poster research completed over the past year, were presented. Recognition of researchers included: researcher of the year, Capt. John Dunn; best podium presentation, Capt. Andrew Chan; and best poster presentation, Rebecca Smiley.
A compilation of 25 ongoing projects and 14 peer-reviewed publications over the past year landed Lt. Col. Justin Orr the designation of staff researcher of the year at the event.
“I think research is very important. Not everybody is interested in research, which is understandable because it requires dedicated time, it’s important for residents to understand research methodologies because this understanding improves their ability to analyze evidence-based medicine,” said Orr, staff orthopedic surgeon and director of WBAMC’s Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program. “One of the reasons we’ve been so prolific (the department has had over 40 publications in the last year) is because we’ve had so many staff and residents involved. We’ve created a well-tuned research program.”
WBAMC’s Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program isn’t the only Graduate Medical Education program immersing in research. WBAMC’s six-year-long General Surgery Program residents spend a year dedicated to surgical research.
“We’re all colleagues; the more interactions we have the more we will improve relationships and patient care,” said Kilcoyne. “My idea is to continue to broaden the collaboration of medical research into the medical community throughout El Paso.”
The opportunity to share and highlight medical research has already spread outside WBAMC walls: this year’s event featured a research presentation from the El Paso VA Healthcare System. Also, WBAMC’s research day welcomed keynote speaker Dr. Brett Owens, an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon and orthopedic surgery professor at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School.
“Our speaker is one of those mentors who got me interested in research,” said Orr, who has conducted research since coming to WBAMC eight years ago. “He has been a mentor to young physicians like me, and I’m trying to pass that on to my residents.”
Orr urges other practitioners to get involved in research to expand the event and highlight medical initiatives at WBAMC.
“I hope to encourage folks to do more and better research every year ,” said Kilcoyne. “It will help further Army Research in general while improving the world-class care WBAMC provides patients every day.”
| Date Taken: | 05.19.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 05.19.2017 15:48 |
| Story ID: | 234520 |
| Location: | FORT BLISS, TX, US |
| Hometown: | GERMANTOWN, MD, US |
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