274. Near-infrared Needle-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (NIR-nCLE) May Identify Malignant Cells at Parenchymal Staple Lines in Real-time

Dr. Linden attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and trained in general surgery and cardiothroacic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  He was a staff surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School before starting the Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland.  He is currently Chief of Thoracic Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He started the cardiothoracic fellowship at Case Western Reserve University and is currently the Program Director.  He is the Surgical Director of the Seidman Comprehensive Cancer Center of Cleveland. 

Patrick Bou-Samra completed his third-year of general surgery resident at The Ohio State University. He was a merit scholar at the American University of Beirut where he received his BSc in Biology and graduated summa cum laude. He then completed medical school at the American University of Beirut Medical Center after which he pursued a post-doc research fellowship at The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. There, he studied frailty and oncologic outcomes in the hepatopancreaticobiliary cohort and psychosocial determinants of health. He then completed his first 2 years of general surgical residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital prior to joining The Ohio State University. He is currently in the Singhal lab at Penn interested in improving oncologic outcomes in thoracic malignancies and in intraoperative molecular imaging. He is involved in basic, clinical, and translational research. He also has an interest in surgical education. He plans to pursue a career in academic thoracic surgery.