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  • Dr. Julie A. Freischlag is 2020–2021 ACS President-Elect

    October 15, 2020
    Dr. Julie A. Freischlag is 2020–2021 ACS President-Elect

    A longtime leader within the American College of Surgeons, Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), DFSVS, has been elected to serve as the 2020–2021 President-Elect of the College. She was elected at the October 7, 2020, Annual Business Meeting of the Members.

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  • Dr. Levin is 2020-2021 ACS Board of Regents Chair; Dr. Wexner is Vice-Chair

    October 15, 2020
    Dr. Levin is 2020-2021 ACS Board of Regents Chair; Dr. Wexner is Vice-Chair

    Following their election at Clinical Congress, L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, is Chair of the ACS Board of Regents and Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, FRCSI(Hon), FRCSGlasg(Hon), is Vice-Chair.

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  • New Regents, Board of Governors Executive Committee members elected

    October 15, 2020
    New Regents, Board of Governors Executive Committee members elected

    Incoming ACS Regents Annesley (AJ) W. Copeland, David J. Welsh, Francoise P. Chagnon, and Sean C. Grondin are among new and returning leaders within the College.

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  • A public health crisis, not politics: ACS task force outlines steps to address gun violence

    October 15, 2020
    A public health crisis, not politics: ACS task force outlines steps to address gun violence

    Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE), a multidisciplinary task force, urges health care leaders to treat this violence as a public health crisis and understand its social causes.

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  • Planning, preparation, and practice are keys to mass casualty event readiness

    October 15, 2020
    Planning, preparation, and practice are keys to mass casualty event readiness

    Mass Casualty Preparedness featured a panel of experts who discussed the importance of integrated all-hazards disaster plans in the areas of mass shootings, preparedness in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the special challenges of rural preparedness.

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  • Resident Trauma Papers Competition announces winners

    October 15, 2020
    Resident Trauma Papers Competition announces winners

    The first-place winners of the 43rd Annual Resident Trauma Papers Competition were Julia R. Coleman in basic science and Alexandra Dixon in clinical research, as announced during the at the COT Business Session.

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  • Operation Giving Back and ACS Fellows make a difference at home and abroad

    October 15, 2020
    Operation Giving Back and ACS Fellows make a difference at home and abroad

    Operation Giving Back is just one of the ways ACS is working to encourage domestic and global volunteerism, as discussed the Tuesday panel session, Global Engagement.

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  • Jonasson Lecturer’s call to action: Let COVID-19 be a disruptive moment in professional development

    October 15, 2020
    Jonasson Lecturer’s call to action: Let COVID-19 be a disruptive moment in professional development

    Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, FACS, identified technology-based opportunities for engaging in lifelong learning—similar to the evolution of telehealth during the pandemic—in the Olga M. Jonasson Lecture.

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  • Panel on leadership grapples with cultural change

    October 15, 2020

    Tools of Leadership Success examines basic principles of leadership, including promoting diversity and leading in different environments.

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  • Turning stress into strength: Resilience training for surgeons

    October 15, 2020
    Turning stress into strength: Resilience training for surgeons

    Jennifer E. Rosen, MD, FACS, and Margo C. Shoup, MD, MBA, FACS, outline strategies for managing extreme incidents of stress.

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  • Surgeons share personal and professional experiences for transitioning back to clinical practices

    October 15, 2020
    Surgeons share personal and professional experiences for transitioning back to clinical practices

    Whether due to a personal orfamily health leave, burnout, impairment, or a career change, transitioning back to a clinical role after time away can be challenging, as John S. Minasi, MD, FACS, can attest.

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  • Jacobson Promising Investigator Award honoree focuses research on genetics of vascular disease

    October 15, 2020
    Jacobson Promising Investigator Award honoree focuses research on genetics of vascular disease

    Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Promising Investigator Award winner Scott Damrauer, MD, FACS, leverages his clinical vascular surgery experience to inform population scale genomic research.

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  • 2020 ACS COT award winners announced

    October 15, 2020
    2020 ACS COT award winners announced

    National Safety Council Award for Service to Safety awardee Rochelle Dicker, MD, FACS, lead the development of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs across the U.S.

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  • Two NEW ACS verification programs cast a wider net to ensure quality for all surgical patients

    October 15, 2020
    Two NEW ACS verification programs cast a wider net to ensure quality for all surgical patients

    The ACS Quality Verification Program and Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) Program aim to improve quality across house of surgery.

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  • A successful ACS Clinical Congress 2020 comes to a close

    October 15, 2020
    A successful ACS Clinical Congress 2020 comes to a close

    After welcoming a record 30,000 registrants from nearly 150 countries to the virtual Clinical Congress 2020, preparations are already underway for next year’s Congress.

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  • Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture to examine the importance of the microethics of physician-patient conversations

    October 7, 2020
    Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture to examine the importance of the microethics of physician-patient conversations

    Physicians make ethical decisions in every conversation they have with a patient, and this is the heart of microethics, says Robert D. Truog, MD, who will deliver this year’s John J. Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture.

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  • Commission on Cancer Lecture makes case that strong medicine relies on math

    October 7, 2020
    Commission on Cancer Lecture makes case that strong medicine relies on math

    Drawing from a lifelong interest in mathematics databases and prognostic outcome tools, Sir Murray F. Brennan, GNZM, MD, FACS, will assert there is a better way than the status quo in the Commission on Cancer Oncology Lecture, Cancer Care: Medicine Meet Math.

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  • Prescribing practices and lack of proper disposal knowledge contribute to opioid crisis

    October 7, 2020
    Prescribing practices and lack of proper disposal knowledge contribute to opioid crisis

    In The Opioid Problem: What a Surgeon Needs to Know, Kavita Babu, MD, and other panelists discuss the opioid addiction crisis in the U.S., mitigation strategies for outpatient prescribing, and public health approaches to the solution.

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  • ACS Task Force on Racial Issues provides overview of its initial recommendations

    October 7, 2020
    ACS Task Force on Racial Issues provides overview of its initial recommendations

    The ACS Task Force on Racial Issues was created to identify areas within the field of surgery and the College that need to improve to create substantive, lasting changes.

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  • Pandemic puts spotlight on importance of leadership, workforce, and communication in disaster response

    October 7, 2020
    Pandemic puts spotlight on importance of leadership, workforce, and communication in disaster response

    As one of the panelists for Leadership, Workforce, Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned, George Agriantonis, MD, FACS, describes how the largest municipal hospital system in the U.S. confronted the COVID-19 surge.

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  • Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Excellence in Research Awards 2020

    October 7, 2020
    Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Excellence in Research Awards 2020

    The Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Committee dedicated the abstract supplement to Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, at this year’s Clinical Congress, and 24 Excellence in Research Awards were distributed.

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  • 5th Annual Excelsior Surgical Society meeting offers two days dedicated to military surgical care

    October 7, 2020
    5th Annual Excelsior Surgical Society meeting offers two days dedicated to military surgical care

    With the theme “Enterprise-wide Military Surgical Care,” the 5th Annual Excelsior Surgical Society meeting will include six hours of progamming October 8–9.

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  • Dr. Fleshman speaks on intersection of Quality, Leadership, and Zero Harm in Abcarian Lecture

    October 7, 2020
    Dr. Fleshman speaks on intersection of Quality, Leadership, and Zero Harm in Abcarian Lecture

    James Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, outlines what it takes to become a true high-reliability organization in the 2020 Herand Abcarian Lecture.

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  • Dr. Ascher issues a call to action for the transplant community

    October 7, 2020
    Dr. Ascher issues a call to action for the transplant community

    Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD, FACS, identified two specific challenges for the transplantation community—donor shortage and unethical practices—in the Charles G. Drake History of Surgery Lecture.

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  • Scudder Oration challenges trauma surgeons to confront discomfort

    October 7, 2020
    Scudder Oration challenges trauma surgeons to confront discomfort

    Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS, dissects the meaning behind surgeons saying, “I’m not comfortable with this,” and the new implications COVID-19 brings to the phrase in the Scudder Oration on Trauma.

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  • Your Breast Cancer Surgery program joins patient education resources

    October 7, 2020

    With recent advances in breast cancer care, there is a need to help patients better understand their treatment decisions and survival benefits from a complex menu of choices. The ACS Division of Education has responded with Your Breast Cancer Surgery.

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  • Outpatient joint replacement requires a comprehensive approach

    October 7, 2020
    Outpatient joint replacement requires a comprehensive approach

    A panel of orthopaedic surgeons including a pioneer in minimally invasive joint replacement surgery, Richard A. Berger, MD, discusses a shift in joint replacement recovery for the surgical team and patients in the session Ambulatory Surgery: Transforming Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care across the Continuum.

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  • New CME opportunities launch on final day of Clinical Congress 2020

    October 7, 2020

    An additional 44 sessions offering AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ will launch throughout the day October 7, wrapping up the virtual Clinical Congress 2020.

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  • SESAP® 17 earns accolades for excellence and relevance to clinical practice

    October 7, 2020
    SESAP® 17 earns accolades for excellence and relevance to clinical practice

    Developed by the ACS Division of Education, SESAP 17 is a premier educational resource for practicing surgeons consiting of 650 newly constructed, multiple-choice, case-based questions.

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  • Tobacco, e-cigarette, and marijuana cessation reduces surgery risks

    October 7, 2020

    A variety of studies show long-term smoking cessation rates are higher in patients who quit in anticipation of an operation, as discussed in the session When and How to Quit Cigarettes, Vaping, and Marijuana Use Prior to Surgery.

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  • Abcarian Lecture to highlight pathways to zero harm

    October 6, 2020
    Abcarian Lecture to highlight pathways to zero harm

    James Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, will share strategies that further continuous surgical quality improvement in the Herand Abcarian Lecture: Quality, Leadership, and Zero Harm. “Quality is the bedrock, it requires leadership, and the result is zero harm,” he says.

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  • Excelsior/Churchill lecturer: COVID-19 underscores the need for a comprehensive digital strategy to improve access to care

    October 6, 2020
    Excelsior/Churchill lecturer: COVID-19 underscores the need for a comprehensive digital strategy to improve access to care

    Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Jonathan Woodson, MD, FACS, USAR, will discuss how technology has accelerated the pace of change for health care delivery in the Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture.

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  • Scudder Oration lecturer links changing training paradigms to growing discomfort outside of specialization

    October 6, 2020
    Scudder Oration lecturer links changing training paradigms to growing discomfort outside of specialization

    In this year’s Scudder Oration on Trauma: I’m Not Comfortable with This, Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS, explores the mindset behind a refrain that has become increasingly common as specialization grows in medicine.

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  • Jonasson lecturer encourages surgeons to leverage technology disruptions of pandemic for professional growth

    October 6, 2020
    Jonasson lecturer encourages surgeons to leverage technology disruptions of pandemic for professional growth

    Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, FACS, challenges the surgery community to find innovative ways to interact online in the Olga M. Jonasson Lecture: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Continuing Professional Development in COVID-19.

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