Panelists including Heather L. Evans, MD, MS, FACS, offer insight into Hot Topics in Surgical Patient Safety such as protocols for personal protective equipment in the operating room during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategies to prevent surgical site infections, and more. Read more

Disruptive, unprofessional behavior in the OR has real consequences. Nicolas C. Restrepo, MD, and Larry Harmon, PhD, discussed the PULSE 360 feedback tool in a panel session addressing this pervasive problem. Read more

John Chuck, MD, PhD, FACS, and other panelists address methods to promote surgeon wellness and prevent burnout. Read more

Drs. Rebecca W. Schroll, Keith Delman, and Mary Klingensmith discuss the critical need for academic surgeons to spend time teaching trainees amid all the other demands placed on these surgeons. Read more

Brooke Bredbeck, MD, and Sriram Rangarajan, MD, join the debate Resident Unionization: Future of Resident Advocacy or Deterioration of Our Profession? in the RAS-ACS Symposium. Read more

Eugene Cone, MD, and Xiang Gao, MD, MPH, share first-place honors in the Commission on Cancer’s annual Cancer Research Paper Competition. They were selected from a field of 97 submitted papers. Read more

The Surgical Education and Self-Assessment Program (SESAP®) 17 Advanced content builds on the same educational foundations as SESAP 17. Both provide the highest caliber surgical education content for practicing surgeons. Read more

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. Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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. Read more

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 Car... Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

The virtual Clinical Congress is underway with an impressive program, and registration is still open. At this evening’s Convocation, President Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, will pass the Presidential Medallion and Gavel to J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS. Incoming officers of the College, new Initiates into ACS Fellowship, nine H... Read more

The ACS Board of Regents will present its highest honor accorded annually—the Distinguished Service Award—to Dr. Hilary A. Sanfey at Convocation. She is being honored "for high standards of professionalism in patient care and toward colleagues, for attention to surgeon well-being and resilience and for development of equity... Read more

This year’s Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Inspiring Women in Surgery Award will be given to Dr. Susan Miller Briggs. This honor from the ACS Women in Surgery Committee recognizes an individual's significant contributions to the advancement of women surgeons. Read more

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of surgery during his military service, Dr. Frank K. Butler, Jr., a retired U.S. Navy captain, will receive the ACS Distinguished Lifetime Military Contribution Award. Read more

Dr. Ned Z. Carp is being recognized by the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons as the Outstanding Mentor of the Year for his support in building a strong foundation for a resident’s surgical career. Read more

The Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons (RAS-ACS) Symposium will address the complex stressors faced by surgical residents and the controversy surrounding one mechanism for resident advocacy. Resident Unionization: Future of Resident Advocacy or Deterioration of Our Profession? will feature a... Read more

The Young Fellows Association (YFA) Annual Meeting on October 5 is an opportunity to meet the YFA leadership, discover ways to get involved in the College, and learn from veteran ACS members. Read more

An exciting virtual conference is planned to commemorate the Trauma Quality Improvement Program's 10th anniversary with a range of content focusing on performance improvement, best practices, new trauma standards, team building, and more. Read more

Since the program’s inception, more than 1.5 million individuals have been trained around the world. An updated STOP THE BLEED® portal provides quicker instructor approval and class administration. Read more