A native of Minnesota, Mary Anne graduated as a nurse in 1987. She has extensive experience in ICU nursing and also spent many years as a flight nurse. Mary Anne’s experience at Regions Hospital includes staff nurse on the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Trauma Nurse Clinician, Neurosurgical Nurse Clinician, and FCCS(Fundamentals of Critical Care Support) coordinator. Mary Anne helped establish clinical research efforts for the Department of Surgery and has coordinated multiple research studies. Mary Anne and her team have established the Complex Abdominal Reconstruction Service (CARS) at Regions Hospital. The CARS team has developed novel and structured approaches for managing complex abdominal wounds and enteric fistulae. The CARS team focuses on the best possible patient outcomes and a good quality of life on the “journey to surgical repair”. The CARS team currently services over two hundred patients with all aspects of patient care; nutrition, conditioning, surgery and wound care. Mary Anne speaks nationally and internationally about the challenges of fistula care and complex wounds. She is the creator of Fistula Solution products and holds three patents. She has published articles in Journal of American College of Surgeons, Wounds, Surgical Technology International, Clinical Nutrition, Current Dialogues in Wound Management and The Clinics of North America: Emergency Nursing.
Dr. Jennifer Davids is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Massachusetts, where she completed her fellowship training in 2013. Prior to fellowship, she completed her general surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Davids’ clinical practice is focused entirely on colorectal surgery, and runs the full gamut of benign and malignant diseases, with a focus on minimally invasive techniques including laparoscopy, robotic surgery, endoscopy, and transanal approaches. She served as the Associate Program Director of the UMASS General Surgery residency for 5 years, and now is the colorectal fellowship program director. Dr. Davids’ major longitudinal research focus is on the experience of female physicians, particularly surgeons, and is committed to breaking barriers to equity and career advancement at every stage. Her work ranges from evaluating the impact of pregnancy, maternity, and lactation on early- career physicians, to identifying and addressing implicit bias in professional settings. She is on the Editorial Board for Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, and Techniques in Coloproctology, and is an Associate Examiner for the ABCRS and ASCRS Executive Council Member. A Massachusetts native, Dr. Davids is married to an academic oncologist and has two children, aged 8 and 13. In March, Dr. Davids will head to Boston Medical Center to become Chief of Colorectal Surgery.
Dr. Alessandra C. Gasior, DO, FACS is a board-certified colon and rectal surgeon in Columbus, OH. She earned her medical degree at KCUMB in Kansas City, Missouri followed by Residency training at Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. She subsequently completed a Surgical Scholar fellowship and Pediatric Trauma/Critical Care fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship and Pediatric Colorectal Fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gasior completed an Adult Colorectal Surgery Fellowship at The Ohio State University. Dr. Gasior is board certified in general surgery, critical care surgery and colorectal surgery. She practices pediatric and adult colorectal surgery at OSU and NCH. Career interests are congenital colorectal transitional programs for pediatric and adult patients particularly in anorectal malformations, Hirschsprung disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
