{"id":234,"date":"2023-04-20T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T11:52:55","slug":"learning-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/learning-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Learning Resource Center is dedicated to promoting investigative projects among residents, research fellows and faculty members.\u00a0 A full time bio-statistician, Elvis Santiago Rodr\u00edguez, collaborates with this effort.\u00a0 Below you will find the titles of the papers and abstracts that resulted from the work provided by this facility.<\/p>\n

Publicatons<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Cruz NI, Santiago E, Alers RI. The COVID-19 pandemic and the surgical workload of the UPR-affiliated hospitals. PR Health Sci J (accepted for publication 3\/21\/2023).<\/li>\n
  2. Cruz NI, Santiago E, Cabrera V. Increasing Proportion of Elderly Patients That Make Use of the Surgery Services of the UPR-affiliated Hospitals.\u00a0 PR Health Sci J 41(4):243-246, 2022.<\/li>\n
  3. Cruz, NI. Symptomatic Macromastia and Days Lost from Work. PR Health Sci J 41 (3):157-169, Cruz, N. Are Complication Rates of Breast Reduction Similar in Former Smokers and Never Smokers?, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Glob Open. 9 (10S), 149, 2021.<\/li>\n
  4. L\u00f3pez-Enr\u00edquez R, Cruz NI, Santiago-Delp\u00edn EA. ACS Puerto Rico Chapter: Four decades of the Surgical Research Forum and Memorial Lecture.\u00a0 Bull Am Coll Surg 106 (11):32-36, 2021.<\/li>\n
  5. Truche P, Moeller E, Wurdeman T, Zimmerman K, Cruz N, Nakarmi K, Rai S,\u00a0 Eado Y,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pompermaier L, Meara JG, Corlew DS.\u00a0 The Plastic Surgery Workforce and Its Role in Low-income Countries. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Glob Open. \u00a09(4):e3428; 2021.<\/li>\n
  6. Cruz NI. Are reduction mammaplasty complications in obese women decreased by preoperative weight loss? Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 8 (9 Suppl):109, 2020.<\/li>\n
  7. Cruz NI, Santiago E, Figueroa BC. Insurance type and surgical-patient characteristics in the UPR-affiliated hospitals. PR Health Sci J 39:270-274, 2020.<\/li>\n
  8. Cruz NI, Santiago E, Rodr\u00edguez K. The effect of hurricane Maria on the surgical workload of the UPR-affiliated hospitals.\u00a0 PR Health Sci J 39:195-199, 2020.<\/li>\n
  9. Cooter RD, Brightman LA, Clarke HM, Cruz NI, Evans GRD, Koh KS, Murphy RX Jr, Perks GAB, Rakhorst HA. Establishing Priorities for the International Confederation of Plastic Surgery Societies.\u00a0 Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open.\u00a0 6:e1878, 2018.<\/li>\n
  10. Cruz NI. Breast Asymmetry in Women Requesting Plastic Surgery of the Breast.\u00a0 PR Health Sci J 37:230-238, 2018.<\/li>\n
  11. Cruz NI, L\u00f3pez LA, Santiago E. Body Mass Index and Surgical Outcome in a Puerto Rican Population.\u00a0 PR Health Sci J 37:165-169, 2018.<\/li>\n
  12. Cruz NI, Santiago E, Luque C. Assessing the decrease in the surgical population of the University of Puerto Rico-Affiliated Hospitals.\u00a0 PR Health Sci J 36:232-236, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Learning Resource Center is dedicated to promoting investigative projects among residents, research fellows and faculty members.\u00a0 A full time bio-statistician, Elvis Santiago Rodr\u00edguez, collaborates with this effort.\u00a0 Below you will find the titles of the papers and abstracts that resulted from the work provided by this facility. Publicatons Cruz NI, Santiago E, Alers RI.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery-tmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}