<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/education-training/fellowship-residency-programs/surgery/blog/2025/dr_kougias_asa.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>03/02/2025 03:37:49 PM</pubDate><title>Dr. Panos Kougias to Present at the American Surgical Association</title><sub-title/><description>The SUNY Downstate Department of Surgery congratulates Dr. Panos Kougias and the iNSPIRe team Dr. Sherene Sharath, Dr. Sundar Natarajan, Dr. David Berger, Dr. Claire Ferguson, Steven Medvedovsky, and Danylo Orlov for the acceptance of the abstract titled, “Turning Tides: Evolving Comorbidity Profiles, Demographic Shift, and the Unexpected Rise of Major Lower Extremity Amputations.”  </description><author/><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/faculty/surgery/_images/kougias.png" alt="Dr. Panos Kougias"/></image><categories/></item>