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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Jennifer E. Rosen, MD, FACS, and Margo C. Shoup, MD, MBA, FACS, outline strategies for managing extreme incidents of stress. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
The ACS Quality Verification Program and Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) Program aim to improve quality across house of surgery. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
With the theme "Enterprise-wide Military Surgical Care," the 5th Annual Excelsior Surgical Society meeting will include six hours of progamming October 8–9. Read more
James Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, outlines what it takes to become a true high-reliability organization in the 2020 Herand Abcarian Lecture. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more