INSIDE: Holman26

June 10, 2026

This past Friday, hundreds of people turned out for Stanford Surgery’s annual celebration of science: Holman Day.  

“It’s great to hear so much chatter with everybody connecting and catching up,” said Department Chair Dr. Mary Hawn. “I think this is the best day of the year, when we get to hear of the amazing science and scholarship happening in the department by our trainees, our future leaders.”  

More than 90 abstracts were submitted to the Department’s Research Oversight Committee for consideration. This year’s winners were:   

Clinical Poster 
Andrea Fisher, MD
Characterizing lymphedema etiology, treatment, and progression in a large cohort using LLM variable extraction from clinical notes

Basic Poster 
Cecilia Ledezma-Soto
Early Immune Signatures of Graft Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation

Clinical Podium 
Sue Fu, MD, MS
The Benefit of Sequential Normothermic Regional Perfusion and Hypothermic Machine Perfusion in Kidney Transplantation from Donation after Circulatory Death Donors

Basic Podium - TIE
Maria Korah, MD
Transcriptomic Atlas of Uterine Leiomyosarcomas Uncovers Tumor States with Unique Drug Sensitivities and Clinical Outcomes

Rosyli Reveron-Thorton, MD, MS
CXCL13 expression dynamics amongst B cells and CAFs define TLS-like microenvironments in cholangiocarcinoma

While LIVE podium and poster presentations all took place on June 6, ePosters went live on Monday, June 1st. For the first time this year, members of the Stanford Surgery community and the public were invited to vote for their favorite ePoster. General Surgery Resident Dr. Maddy Adams was the recipient of the inaugural Holman People’s Choice Award for her ePoster: Beyond Lockdown Drills: A Qualitative Study of Parents and Teachers’ Perspectives on Firearm Safety Education in Schools.

Dr. Ginny Bumgardner was the 27th annual Holman Lecturer. Bumgardner is a tenured professor and transplant surgeon-scientist at The Ohio State University. She is also a former president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

“Dr. Bumgardner has made an impact nationally but also at the local level,” said Abdominal Transplantation Division Chief Dr. Marc Melcher. “A number of years ago a young undergraduate walked into her lab and wanted to learn more about immunology research. She did not just teach him. I think it’s fair to say she inspired him to pursue medicine and surgery.”

That student was Dr. Tom Pham, who today serves as a Clinical Associate Professor and Fellowship Program Director in our Division of Abdominal Transplantation. 

Bumgardner's keynote lecture was titled "Surgeon Scientist Training:  A Foundation for Innovation and Leadership in Academic Surgery.” 

“I would say that the tri-part mission of education, research and patient care should not be segmented – but rather that they all play together,” said Bumgardner. She spoke of General Surgery Resident Dr. Chuner Guo, whose research project was motivated by eight patients she cared for on the floor. “This is fundamentally what we are trying to inspire in our students is to be observant of their patients and to make clinical observations that can lead to important questions that will help with optimal patient care.”

The 28th annual Holman Day will take place on Friday, April 30, 2027. 

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As the Director of Communications for Stanford Surgery, Rachel Baker tells the stories of her department's faculty, staff, and trainees. With the help of an amazing team of content creators, she produces and curates original articles, photos, videos, graphics, and podcasts. She works with each division, center, program, and lab within her purview to define their audience and reach their goals while maintaining a consistent brand voice. She also offers both 1:1 and group education on a variety of topics including media training, using social media to advantage, and presentation refinement. Rachel holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism with a focus on photography from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Strategic Communications from the University of Maryland.

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