J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, MCCM, has been elected to serve as the 2019–2020 President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons. The First and Second Vice-Presidents-Elect also were elected at Wednesday’s Annual Business Meeting of the Members. Read more

The Board of Governors (B/G) of the ACS has elected two new members of the Board of Regents—Diana L. Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS, and Steven C. Stain, MD, FACS. In addition, new B/G Executive Committee members have been elected. Read more

The ACS Committee on Trauma (COT) in 2018 commissioned a survey of approximately 55,000 ACS members to gauge their demographic status and attitudes on a variety of issues related to firearm violence and control measures. During a Tuesday morning Special Session, leaders from the ACS COT and ACS Trauma Programs detailed the... Read more

Two new Officers of the ACS were elected at Wednesday’s Annual Meeting of the Members. Tyler G. Hughes, MD, FACS (left), is the new ACS Secretary and Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA, FACS, is the new ACS Treasurer. Read more

Sam C. Wang, MD, FACS, received the Jacobson Promising Investigator Award on Wednesday at Clinical Congress. The award recognizes outstanding surgeons who are engaged in research to advance the art and science of surgery and who demonstrate early promise of significant contribution to the practice of surgery and the safety... Read more

If you have not yet had a chance to review the new edition of the Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP® 17), test your knowledge and try the innovative program features at the SESAP 17 booth in the Moscone Center South Upper Lobby. Read more

An international panel of experts, including Hilary A. Sanfey, MB, BCh, FACS, discussed strategies to address and improve gender equity worldwide and, thereby, the pipeline for women into surgical fields during the Clinical Congress session, No Woman No Care: The Case to Incorporate Women into the Global Surgery Workforce. Read more

The new edition of the Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP® 17), developed by the American College of Surgeons Division of Education, debuted this week at Clinical Congress. SESAP 17 Advanced, which will feature additional in-depth content for surgeons seeking knowledge in specific areas, will be released... Read more

In keeping with the theme “Putting Our Patients First,” the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Patient Education Program has developed an extensive collection of evidence-based patient education resources to help ACS members assure patient-centered care. Read more

Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) 17 Advanced—which will feature in-depth content for surgeons seeking knowledge in specific topic areas—was the focus of a Clinical Congress 2019 Panel Session on Tuesday, October 29. Building on the new edition of SESAP 17 released at Clinical Congress, SESAP 17 Advanc... Read more

Nina Totenberg, award-winning legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, delivered the Martin Memorial Lecture, The Health of the Supreme Court, on Monday, October 28, at Clinical Congress. Ms. Totenberg’s husband, H. David Reines, MD, FACS, is a trauma surgeon and Past-Governor of the ACS. Read more

Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, the 100th President of the American College of Surgeons, urged the nearly 1,000 Initiates at Convocation during Clinical Congress to uphold the values passed on for generations of surgeons—to commit to lifelong learning, to collaborating, and to giving back. Read more

Representatives of the U.S. military health system met Sunday at Clinical Congress for the Excelsior Surgical Society meeting, and a highlight of the daylong session was the fifth annual Army Major John P. Pryor Lecture by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Mark W. Bowyer, MD, FACS. Read more

The Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons (RAS-ACS) presented the inaugural Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award to Danielle Saunders Walsh, MD, FACS, FAAP, on Sunday, October 27, during Convocation at Clinical Congress 2019. Read more

Each year, the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) Foundation presents awards to outstanding individuals who are supportive of the AWS mission to inspire, encourage, and enable women surgeons to meet their professional and personal goals. The AWS Foundation proudly honored the 2019 Award recipients at the AWS Foundation Awa... Read more

The recently unveiled edition of the Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP® 17) provides the same high-caliber, rigorously peer-reviewed content as past editions, as well as many new features that allow surgeons to tailor their learning experience to address individual needs and preferences. Read more

The American College of Surgeons’ members-only networking platform, ACS Communities, has been in place for five years and continues to be a popular member benefit. Since its launch in 2014, the platform has received nearly 4.2 million pageviews, and more than 35,000 members of the College have agreed to the site’s terms of... Read more

During a Clinical Congress 2019 Special Session, Women Pioneers in Surgery, a distinguished panel of women surgeons, including Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH, FACS, celebrated the stories of the first five women Fellows of the American College of Surgeons, as well as the stories of some of the other women whose dedication and dri... Read more