General Surgery Resident, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Program Manager, Data Augmented Research Technology in Surgery (DARTS) research group, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

I manage a multi-disciplinary team of 10 researchers, engineers and medical students to develop and deploy artificial intelligence, computer vision, and augmented reality technologies for surgical applications.

Surgeon Innovator-in-Residence, Activ Surgical Inc., Boston, MA

Two-year research and innovation fellowship where I study, develop, and deploy surgical near infrared advanced visualization, augmented reality, computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies.

Medical Student Researcher, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

I conducted research on outcomes after Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM).

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Pamela Geyer, PhD Lab, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

I studied and conducted experiments to investigate properties of the zinc-finger binding protein, Suppressor of Hair-wing, in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Ruby and Python programming languages, secure cloud infrastructure

DocWizard.io – A web application to create and share medical and surgical documentation templates.

Research – I wrote code to investigate laparoscopic instrument classification ability of GPT4 and quantify laser speckle contrast and indocyanine green fluorescence imaging.

Expert Surgical Video Narration – A web application to create surgical video narrations by expert surgeons to train multi-modal large language artificial intelligence models.

Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

International Society for Fluorescence Guided Surgery

Iowa Medical Society

Teaching Distinction Track, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA. Graduated with distinction in teaching.

Ob-Gyn Core Clerkship Review Student Committee Report, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA. I led a team of medical students through a formal review process of a core clerkship.

Clinical Case Conference, "Fundamentals of Minimally Invsaive Surgery"

Oral presentation to junior residents on fundamental knowledge and principles of minimally invasive surgery, helping them better prepare to take an active role in the operating room.

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Surgery Clerkship Orientation, "Drains, Wounds, and Dressings"

I lead a recurring workshop for medical students starting surgery clerkship in which students received hands on experience and education on management of surgical drains, wounds, and dressings.

[NEW] Real-time near infrared artificial intelligence using scalable non-expert crowdsourcing in colorectal surgery

Skinner GC, Chen T, Jentis G, Liu YZ, McCulloh CJ, Harzman AE, Huang ES, Kalady MF, Kim PC

npj Digital Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01095-8 (pdf)

Clinical utility of Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) and real-time quantification of bowel perfusion in minimally invasive left-sided colorectal resections

Skinner GC, Liu YZ, Harzman AE, Husain SG, Gasior AC, Cunningham LA, Traugott AL, McCulloh CJ, Kalady MF, Kim PC, Huang ES

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
https://doi:10.1097/DCR.0000000000003098 (pdf)

Real-time First-In-Human Comparison of Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging and ICG in Minimally Invasive Colorectal & Bariatric Surgery

Nwaiwu CA, McCulloh CJ, Skinner GC, Shah SK, Kim PC, Schwaitzberg SD, Wilson EB

Journal of Gastrointest Surgery. Published online October 17, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-023-05855-x (pdf)

[NEW] SAGES Meeting. Cleavland, OH.,"Quantification of Tissue Perfusion by Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging is Equivalent to Quantified Indocyanine Green in a Porcine Model".

Liu, YZ, Skinner GC, Marois M, Oberlin J, McCulloh CJ, Schwaitzberg SD, Kim PC

Podium presentation showing equivalence of quantification of laser speckle contrast imaging to indocyanine green fluorescence angiography in a porcine model.

[NEW] SAGES Meeting. Cleavland, OH., "Transferability of General Large Multimodal Model ChatGPT-4V to Surgical Video Domain with Minimal Training".

Skinner GC, Hannah EH, L'Huillier JL, McCulloh CJ, Schwaitzberg SD, Yang G, Kim PC

Poster presentation showing how general LMMs can be adapted to surgical video. I mentored Hannah EH (medical student) in this project.

EAES Congress. Roma, Italy., "Real-time Visualization and Quantification of Perfusion using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging in Minimally Invasive and Open Esophagectomies".

Liu, YZ, Skinner GC, Boris L, Dunn C, McCulloh CJ, Kim PC, Burnett A, Jobe B, Newhams K

Podium presentation on work investigating laser speckle and quantified laser speckle contrast imaging in esophagectomy.

ASCRS Meeting. Seattle, WA., "Comparison of Traditional White Light Imaging (WLI) Visual Assessment of Bowel Perfusion to Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) with Quantification and Indocyanine Green (ICG) in Minimally Invasive Left-sided Colorectal Resections".

Skinner GC, Liu YZ, Harzman A, et al.

doi:10.1097/DCR.0000000000001415

Poster presentation of a prospective study which compared perfusion assessment using ICG and laser speckle contrast imaging in minimally invasive colorectal resections.

SAGES Meeting. Montreal, Canada, "Looks can be deceiving: Detection of regional differences in physiologic perfusion levels in human esophagogastrointestinal tract using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging".

Skinner GC, Huang E, McCulloh CJ, Liu YZ, Harzman A, Kim PC

Poster presentation sharing investigations into regional differences in quantified laser speckle contrast imaging perfusion levels throughout the gastrointestinal tract.

SAGES Meeting. Montreal, Canada, "Real-time Intraoperative Comparison of Mucosal and Serosal Perfusion of Rectosigmoid Anastomosis using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) and Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Angiography (ICG-FA) in a Porcine Model".

Mehrotra S, Liu YZ, Buharin V, McCulloh CJ, Skinner GC, Nwaiwu CA, Oberlin J, Marois M, Schwaitzberg SD, Kalady MF, Kim PC

doi:10.1007/s00464-023-10072-3

Poster presentation at SAGES 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting.

Moments of Excellence in Education: Recognition and Inspiration Program, designee

William Steel M.D. Family Scholarship Fund award winner