CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

 

NAME:                                                   Susan E. O’Connor, M.D., F.A.C.S.

 

 

OFFICE ADDRESS:                           Northeast Surgery, P.A.                                                                                      1994-

                                                                417 State Street, Suite 330                                                                                   Present

                                                                Bangor, Maine  04401

                                                                (207)947-5241

 

DATE AND PLACE

OF BIRTH:                                           October 5, 1960, Burlington, VT

 

EDUCATION:                                      Colgate University                                                                                               1982

                                                                Hamilton, NY                                                                                                        A.B.

                                                                Neuroscience/Nature Sciences

 

                                                                University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine                                                 1988

                                                                Pittsburgh, PA                                                                                                      M.D.

               

GRADUATE TRAINING:                   Internship                                                                                                              1988-

                                                                General Surgery                                                                                                    1989

                                                                Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

                                                                Hanover, NH

 

                                                                Residency                                                                                                             1989-

                                                                General Surgery                                                                                                    1994

                                                                Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center             

                                                                Lebanon, NH

 

STATE LICENSURE:                         Maine                     #013812

                                                                Vermont                 #042-0008202

 

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:       Chief, Surgical Service                                                                                        1/2004-

                                                                St. Joseph Hospital                                                                                              present

 

 

BOARD CERTIFICATION:              American Board of Surgery  #41610                                                                 10/96

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:              Research Fellow                                                                                                   1990-

                                                                Section of Vascular Surgery                                                                               1991

                                                                Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

                                                               

                                                                Research Assistant                                                                                             1982-

                                                                Department of Pathology                                                                                   1984

                                                                Vascular Pathophysiology Laboratory

                                                                Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

                                                                Boston, MA

 

ASSOCIATIONS:                               Fellow, American College of Surgeons

                                                                Member, American Society of Breast Surgeons

                                                                Member, Maine Medical Association

                                                                Member, New England Surgical Society

                               

PRESENTATIONS:                            Breast Cancer Recognition and Treatment.  Boone Lecture Series for Physicians

                                                                at The Aroostook Medical Center.  05/05/01

 

                                                                Evaluation of the Breast – Benign and Malignant Conditions.  University of

                                                                Maine School of Nursing, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program. 

                                                                04/24/01.

 

                                                                Current Trends in Surgery.  Tuesday Forum, Bangor.  8/15/95

 

                                                                Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Aortic Injury.  Maine Committee

                                                                on Trauma Conference.  5/17/95

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Abstracts

 

1.                    Warren HB, O’Connor SE, Eisenhaure BM, Davies PF.  Coculture of Vascular endothelium and

smooth muscle cells:  effects of heparin on smooth muscle proliferation.  J Cell Biol 97 (abstract335) :87a, 1983.

 

2.                    Davies PF, O’Connor SE.  Methods of culturing vascular smooth muscle cells on microcarriers. 

In:  HM Piper, ed.  Cell Culture Techniques in Heart and Vessel Research.  Springer-Verlag:

Berlin, pp. 334-342, 1990.

 

3.                    Walsh DB, O’Connor, SE.  Mesenteric venous occlusion.  In:  CB Ernst and JC Stanley, eds. 

Current Therapy in Vascular Surgery –II, BC Decker, Inc.:  Toronto, pp.  754-757, 1990.

 

 

Journal Articles:

 

1.                    Davies PF, Truskey GA, Warren HB, O’Connor SE, Eisenhaure BH.  Metabolic cooperation

between vascular endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells in coculture:  changes in low density

lipoprotein metabolism.  J Cell Biol  101:871-879, 1985.

 

2.                    O’Connor SE,  Lobombard E, Musson AM, Zwolak RM.  Duplex imaging of distal splenorenal

 shunts.  J Vasc Tech  15(1) :28-31, 1991.

 

3.                    O’Connor SE, Walsh DB, Zwolak RM, Schneider JR, Cronenwett JL.  Pelvic blood flow

following aortobifemoral bypass with proximal end-to-side anastamosis.  Ann Vasc Surg 

6 (6) :493-498, 1992.