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Dr. J. Wayne Meredith’s Presidential Address urges Initiates to strive for excellence by fostering a diverse, collaborative approach to patient care
In Sunday night’s Convocation, 2020-2021 ACS President J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, MCCM, compelled more than 2,200 Initiates and other participants to embrace diversity to move the surgical profession forward. “It is not enough to be color-blind; we must be color bold,” he said.
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Martin Memorial lecturer to share how COVID-19’s effects on cancer research, mortality rates will continue to reverberate into the future
The director of the National Cancer Institute, Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD, will address the NCI’s current fiscal situation, activities the NCI has taken in response to COVID-19, and how the pandemic is affecting people with cancer when he delivers the Martin Memorial Lecture following the Opening Ceremony of the Clinical Congress.
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Gibbon lecturer traces path from research to guidelines to policy
World-renowned thoracic oncology surgeon Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRSCEd, will walk through his own experience with research into the benefits of lung cancer screening, the development of guidelines for screening, and the subsequent policy work that culminated with lung cancer screening becoming a newly covered benefit in United States health care in the John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture.
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Drake Lecture to address 21st century controversies in transplantation
Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD, will address some of the social and ethical issues surrounding resources and disease burden as they relate to modern transplantation in the Charles G. Drake History of Surgery Lecture entitled, Transplantation in the 21st Century.
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Ravdin lecturer values bold questions, calls for greater gender and racial diversity
Surgeon and clinical epidemiologist Nancy Baxter, MD, PhD, will explain how to use pre-existing data to address important questions that can have an impact on patient care, the practice and culture of surgery, or both in the I. S. Ravdin Lecture in the Basic and Surgical Sciences: Using Yesterday’s Data Today to Improve Care and Outcomes Tomorrow.
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Symposium of ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators highlights impact of pandemic on surgical training
Transformation of Residency Training in Surgery: COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond is the focus of this year’s Symposium of the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.
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Trauma special session puts data into action for firearm injury prevention
Five members of the Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE) work group will share how they are working to address structural racism and the social determinants of health that contribute to violence and firearm injury in the session Putting Data into Action: Updates on Firearm Injury Prevention Strategies and Initiatives.
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Commission on Cancer honors two State Chairs for outstanding performance
The Commission on Cancer is honoring a pair of State Chairs for their leadership, innovation, and contributions to the improvement of cancer care in 2019: Louisiana’s Quyen Chu, MD, FACS, and Pennsylvania’s James McCormick, DO, FACS.
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Claim Clinical Congress CME Credit through January 2021
Practicing physicians are eligible to claim Continuing Medical Education Credit for sessions they attend during the five-day meeting as well as sessions they complete following the meeting. c
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ACSPA-SurgeonsPAC hosts virtual engagement opportunities at Clinical Congress
The ACS Professional Association Political Action Committee will engage with members and contributors through a variety of activities and offer a chance to win a prize through a virtual drawing each day.