Presentations

We have linked the abstract or poster to some, but not all, of the presentation titles. Click on the slide to see the poster. Abstracts are available by clicking on the Presentation titile, below.

Please check this page often, as we will add new information regularly.

Conferences are a fun time to meet up with our collaborators - see our Funtime slide show for examples!

• April was also busy! 

• 6 of our team member presented posters at the Health Sciences Student Research Summit held April 4th, 2025, in Kansas City, MO. This year's event was held at Union Station. This year, Sarah George and Vagmi Kantheti co-authored, "Silencing Success: Operating Room Noise Impacts Medical Student Learning and Participation" won 2nd place at the event!
• Other posters presented at HSSRS
  • Noelle Matese, (PY4) presented, "Postoperative Complications following Hysterectomy: Comparing Novel versus Traditional Hemoglobin A1c Cut-offs"
  • Alleana Corpin presented Arjun Gampala's (PY4) poster on his behalf, titled, "Navigating Endotracheal Intubation: Exploring Tacit Teaching knowledge in Anesthesia Education"
  • Anushka Kanga (PY3) and Vagmi Kantheti (PY3) co-presented their work, "Navigating Endotracheal Intubation: Exploring Tacit Teaching knowledge in Anesthesia Education"
  • Lily Van Biljon (PY3) presented the Phase 1 results of her project "The Soundtrack of Surgery: How Role and Age Influence Music Selection in the Operating Room"
  • Ashlesha Bhojane (PY2) presented, "Three-Dimensional Characterization of the Retropubic Space"
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• Arjun Gampala, PY 6, presented his research titled, "Critical Coaching: Guided Reflection in Action in Terms of Endotracheal Intubation" at AAMC's 2025 CGEA (Central Group on Educational Affairs) meeting April 9-11, 2025 in Detroit MI. 
• Dr. Sutkin presented a virtual Grand Rounds Lecture titled, "Miscommunication in the OR: How to Improve your Teaching and Reduce Surgical Errors" to the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on April 17th, 2025

• March will see our research being presented in Chicago, IL, Rancho Mirage, CA, and Toronto, Ontario, CA

  October was busy for us! We presented a total of four abstracts accepted for presentation at two national meetings in October:

  We went to Basel!! Basel is lovely this time of year! We had a great response to our presentations at AMEE, Aug 24-28, 2024. See our "Funtime" page for some photos.

  We have started out 2024 with a bang, having already presented either orally or by poster at the following:

  Dr Sutkin presented twice at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2024 Annual Meeting.

  5 medical students from our lab presented their research at the 2024 University of Missouri Health Sciences Student Research Summit on March 20th, 2024 held at Children's Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City.

  Dr. Casey Rose presented his poster at the Association for Surgical Education 2024 Surgical Education week in Orlando, FL April 22-27, 2024:

  "Non-Verbal Patterns of Communication in the OR"

   

  Finally for 2023, we presented research findings at the 2023 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, held Oct 22 - 26, 2023 in Boston, MA

     Medical Student Imaima Casubhoy presented a Quickshot presentation:

     Dr. Sutkin presented

  Dr. Sutkin presented a Scientific Table Talk presentation at the American Urogynecologic Society PFD week 2023 meeting Oct 4 - 6, 2023 in Portland OR

  Several of our team members presented research findings at the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) 2023 meeting held in Glasgow, UK, August 26-30, 2023.

  Our collaborator, Dr. Emily Huang (OSU) presented our Scoping Review research:

  UMKC Medical Student Tanvi Karmarkar presented her research from our Deixis Study:

  UMKC Medical Student Kashif Javid presented his research on Speaking up:

  Dr. Antonis Stylianou (UMKC) presented his poster at the 2023 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB³C 2023) June 4-8, 2023, Vail, CO.

  Ashna Mahadev and Faith Mueller each presented their abstracts at podium presentations during the 2023 Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 13-15, 2023!

  Further Congratulations to Aarya Ramprasad, who presented in the new category, “Quick Shot Presentation” at the 2023 Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 13-15, 2023!

  Da Yeon Roo's poster was presented by Dr Emily Huang at the 2023 Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 13-15, 2023!

  Faith Mueller presented her poster, and Dr Sutkin presented Dr Stylianou’s poster at the 2023 Surgeons & Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation in Chicago, IL, March 1, 2023.

  “Estimating Surgical Instrument Position in Blind 3D Space during Simulated Retropubic Trocar Passage” – Faith Mueller

  “Kinematic Differences between Novice and Expert Surgeons during Simulated Midurethral Sling Surgery” – Antonis Stylianou

  Tara Krishnan’s poster was presented by Dr Sutkin, while Kiersten (Kay) Herzog presented her poster at the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons 2023 in Tucson, AZ, March 19-22, 2023.

  Dr. Andrew McKenzie presented our research at the Linguistic Society of America 97th Annual Meeting 2023, Denver CO, January 5-8, 2023.

  • Dr Sutkin presented our research, "Using Motion Capture to Analyze Surgeon Upper Extremity Kinematics" at the 2025 ACS Surgeons & Engineers Conference, March 22-23, 2025 in Chicago.
  • We will have 3 presentations at the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Conference March 31 - April 2, 2025 in Rancho Mirage, CA.
    • Dr. Sutkin demonstrated our model used for "Retropubic Trocar Passage and Surgeon Kinematics" at the Simulation Lounge.
    • Noelle Matese, PY4 Medical Student, gave an Oral Poster Presentation titled, "The impact of HbA_1c on post-hysterectomy complications as a continuous variable vs. dichotomous using traditional (HbA_1c <8) and novel cut-points"
    • Dr. Sutkin gave an Oral presentation titled, "Miscommunication Associated with Flow Disruptions in the Robotic OR"
    • Carsen Steele gave Oral Presentation titled, "Human Factors Approach to Improving Communication in the Robotic Operating Room" at the 2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, March 30-APril 2, 2025, Toronto, Ontario, CA. from all reports, she nailed it!
  • Dr Sutkin presented, "Speech Communication Interference" at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, held in San Francisco, Oct 18-23, 2024
  • Dr. Jada Ohene-Agyei presented her research, "Prophylactic Vancomycin Leads to Fewer Device Removals in Sacral Neuromodulation"at the American Urogynecologic Society Pelvic Floor Disorders Week, Oct 23-26, 2024 in Washington, DC.
  • Dr Sutkin presented Miscommunication in Robotic Sacrocolpopexy: Causes and Mitigation Strategies and "Verification of Motion Capture Software for Simulated Retropubic Trocar Passage" at the American Urogynecologic Society Pelvic Floor Disorders Week, Oct 23-26, 2024 in Washington, DC.
    •  “Take a bit off the top here”:Ambiguity and vagueness in the operating room – Ashna Mahadev, Austin Bachar, Andrew McKenzie, Gary Sutkin
  • Dr Huang presented her short communication:
    • Huang E, Yanamala S, Steele S, Bacon D, McKenzie A, Sutkin G. “Follow it up until you come to the nose of the thing!” Ambiguous verbal instruction in robotic surgery.
  • Dr Sutkin presented Dr Rose's poster:
    • Sutkin G. Rose C, Cheng AL, Martin J.  Nonverbal Communication in the Operating Room and Resident Surgical Autonomy

  • An Oral presentation at the Robotics Summit on March 24th Summit titled, "Human factors Approach to Improving Communication between Console Surgeon and Bedside Assistant" 

  • A poster presentation at the main meeting titled, "Understanding Causes of Miscommunication in the Operating Room" 

  • Jada Ohene-Agyei presented Effect of Perioperative Antibiotic Selection in Sacral Neurostimulator Removal: A Case Control Study
  • Sandeep Yanamala presented Semantic Analysis of Ambiguous Verbal Instruction in Robotic Surgery
  • Alex Teano and Mohamed Refaat co-presented Speech Communication Interference in the Operating room
  • Kiersten (Kay to us) Herzog presented The Impact of Preoperative AbA1c on reoperation rates in Women Undergoing Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse
  • How Surgeons Communicate and Teach: An Analysis of Intraoperative Agentic and Communal Language
  • Speech Communication Interference: Surgical Team Requests and Impact on Patient Safety
  • Surgeon Upper Extremity Kinematics During Error and Error-Free Retropubic Trocar Passage
  • Abstract for Intraoperative video recording: capturing opportunities to advance health professions education research
  • “Go Up Under There”: a Semantic Analysis of Direction in Operating Room Instruction
  • To Speak or Not to Speak: Factors Influencing Medical Students’ Speech and Silence in the Operating Room
  • Retropubic Trocar Temporal Characteristics Between Expert and Novice Surgeons
  • Implicit Communication and Miscommunication in Surgical Instruction – Ashna Mahadev
  • Cognitive Models for Mentally Visualizing a Sharp Instrument in a Blind procedure – Faith Mueller
  • Language in the Teaching OR: Expressing Confidence versus Community – Aarya Ramprasad
  • Seeing the big picture: full-scene intraoperative videography in surgical education research
  • “The Impact of Facial Personal Protective Equipment on Speech Intensity” – Tara Krishnan
  • “The Impact of Preoperative HbA1c on Reoperation Rates in Women Undergoing Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse” – Kay Herzog