Overall Winner: Dariusz Patkowski, MD - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2024

So now what so we go to the next, uh, the next, now we have, uh, the last polling, um, so thank you, Doctor Grovsky, if you can, uh, stay with us a little bit, we are going now to, to have the 4. Candidates that uh do the last part. So we have 4 presentations from the first heat we have Doctor Darius Patkowski. He's representing IPEC with thoracoscopic approach for long gap esophageal attricia using the internal traction technique. Then we have Doctor Matthew Urik with individuals with thoraco abdominal congenital surgical anomalies are at increased risk of adverse mental health outcomes. Um, representing cups. Third, we have Doctor Shudri Srinivas representing babs with outcomes from colonic pull-through for cloacal atrophy differ by column length, a multi-institutional study, and last but not least, the recent winner Doctor David Gravski, representing ABSA with postoperative opioid reduction protocol reduce racial disparity of clinical outcome in children. So we will give our um Audience a couple of minutes to vote, and we will reach the final voting. Do you wanna say something and the What's that? Do you wanna let me, let me make a quick comment here that you know we do this fun little voting thing but it's kind of just more for fun. It's so incredible to have this opportunity to be able to see the best stuff that was presented all over the world that otherwise most of us would never have been able to see. Um, and now, I mean, this is just, this would have been never seen by most of us. This is incredible. These were the best papers around the world. And to, and to be in this group is, uh, pretty incredible, and I'm glad we get to compare them to each other. We'll do the vote, but I just wanna congratulate everybody on really making a huge impact in our field by advancing pediatric surgery and allowing us to share this all over the world so everyone can see it. Yeah, and for everyone who is, uh, in the audience and out there, remember that all the presentations and everything is being recorded and we will, uh, publish this. You can re-see everything on the Stay Current app, so please follow us and, and make sure to see this in a later time also. OK, so I think we have pretty much, um, stable chart right now and It is pretty tight, but we have a winner, and the winner is Doctor Darius Podkowski, representing IPEG with tauragoscopic approach for long gap esophageal attricia using the internal attraction technique. Congratulations. Doctor Patkowski, you're muted. If you wanna, um, OK. Thank you so much. Thank you, very, uh, really. Uh, I didn't suppose that it is possible. So, thank you, thank you very much. I'm very happy that this technique. Uh, was awarded with such a, a great audience. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me because in another way, I couldn't get this, uh, award. Thank you for um being here uh and thank you everyone to join us in this. I really like to see, uh, I think as many other pediatric surgeons are not able to go to all of the events that we have every year, so I think that. gathering everything that's out there is really impressive. So congratulations, Doctor Patkowski and everyone who participate in this because everyone who was in here was the best of the best of their own society. So congratulations. And I, I, we're gonna do our part over the course of the year to make sure everyone who wasn't here, we had about 1600 people register for this event. We're gonna be pushing this out through social media, through everywhere we can about these studies that you all have done. So that everyone who wasn't able to see it today will hear about it. Um, you'll be getting, uh, probably lots of emails. So, uh, congratulations to all of you on, uh, really pushing the, the envelope on pediatric knowledge. And, uh, thanks for taking the time to be with us here today. Thank you. Thank you so much once again so much. All right, have a great day. Thank you.