American College of Surgeons 92nd Annual Clinical Congress: General Sessions

Clinical Congress Working Together Toward Humanitarian Ideals

Sunday, October 8, 2006

| Fundamentals of Prudent Investing - Sold Out

Monday, October 9, 2006

GS01	\| Inguinal Hernia Repair: An Evidence-Based Approach
GS02	\| Cultural Competency: Does it Facilitate Better Delivery of Health Care?
GS03	\| Information Systems:How the Information Explosion Will Change How We Educate Surgeons and Treat Patients
GS04	\| Update on Blood Transfusion
GS05	\| Breast Cancer Update: What Every Surgeon Needs to Know
GS06	\| Evidence-Based Perioperative Risk Reduction
GS07	\| Laparoscopic Colectomy: Beyond the Basics
GS08	\| Postoperative Pneumonia: Strategies for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment
GS09	\| Pancreatic Pseudocysts and Chronic Pancreatitis: Evidence-Based Management
GS10	\| 2006 Initiates Program—Achieving Balance
GS11	\| Surgical Care in Challenging Environments
GS12	\| Marketing Your Surgical Practice: Would You? Could You? Should You?
GS13	\| The Financial and Fiscal Balance Sheet for Residency Training: Outcomes Versus Incomes
GS14	\| Effective Communication: An Essential Competency to Enhance Surgical Care, Promote Safety, and Reduce Liability
GS15	\| Image-Guided Surgery
GS16	\| Perioperative Management of the Obese Surgical Patient
GS17	\| Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolic Disorders
GS18	\| Esophageal-Gastric Junction Carcinoma
GS19	\| Laparoscopic Colectomy: How, Who, Why?
GS20	\| Latest Advances in Surgical Adhesives and Sealants
GS21	\| Accreditation of Surgery Centers to Optimize Patient Care
GS22	\| Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Diagnostic and Management Strategies
GS23	\| Management of the Elderly Surgical Patient
GS24	\| Disaster Planning in the Modern Era of Terrorism
GS25	\| Focused Whole-Body Radiosurgery: Concepts and Surgical Applications
GS26	\| Surgical Errors and Adverse Outcomes: Impact on Surgical Residents
GS27	\| Management of Complications of Portal Hypertension
GS28	\| Ventral Hernia Repair: Selecting the Right Operation for the Right Patient
GS29	\| Capsule Endoscopy for Surgical Disordersof the Gastrointestinal Tract
GS30	\| Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
GS113	\| Fundamentals of Prudent Investing - Sold Out

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

GS31	\| Staying on Top of Your Game
GS32	\| Evolving Strategies for Patient Safety in the Operating Room: Time-Out and the Debriefing
GS33	\| Recognition and Treatment of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
GS34	\| Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies to Optimize Outcomes
GS35	\| Those Problematic Competencies: Evaluation of Medical Students
GS36	\| Neoadjuvant Therapy for Thoracic Cancer
GS37	\| Practicing Surgeons and Work-Hour Restrictions
GS38	\| Rectal Prolapse: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options
GS39	\| Gastroesophageal Reflux: Selecting the Correct Procedure to Optimize Outcomes
GS40	\| Intestinal Failure: Management Strategies
GS41	\| Grant-Writing Symposium for New Investigators
GS42	\| Acquisition and Validation of New Surgical Skills
GS43	\| Current Management of Thyroid Cancer
GS44	\| Acute Pancreatitis: Evidence-Based Management
APDS	\| Preparing the Surgeons of Tomorrow
GS45	\| Surgical Innovators
GS46	\| Surgical Simulators and Continued Learning in Surgery
GS47	\| Evaluation and Management of Incidental Findings
GS48	\| Neoplasms of the Adrenal Gland
GS49	\| Prevention of Nosocomial Infections on the Surgery Service
GS50	\| The On-Call Specialist Crisis: A Moral Dilemma
GS51	\| Papers Session I
GS52	\| Designing Your Operating Room: What You Need to Know
GS53	\| Latin American Day: Education of Laparoscopic Surgery and Prevention of Complications
GS54	\| Current Topics in Health Care Policy
GS55	\| The Role of the Surgeon in International Disaster Assistance: Special Opportunities and Special Challenges
GS56	\| Comorbid Conditions and the Trauma Patient
GS57	\| Evolving options in Breast-Preserving Treatment of Breast Cancer
GS58	\| The Special Challenges of Multispecialty Surgical Teams
GS59	\| Multidisciplinary Management of Gastrointestinal Malignancies
GS60	\| Surgical Decision Making in the Elderly: Breast Cancer
GS61	\| Hazard Reduction in the Operating Room
GS62	\| Operation Giving Back and Surgical Volunteerism
GS63	\| Advances in Critical Care for Surgeons
GS64	\| Thoracic Trauma for the General Surgeon
GS114	\| Equity Investments versus Fixed Income Investments - Sold Out
GS115	\| An Open Discussion of Investment Experiences - Sold Out

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

GS65	\| How Practicing Surgeons Can use the ACS Web Portal to Enhance their Practice
GS66	\| Colorectal Hepatic Metastases: Evidence-Based Treatment Protocols
GS67	\| Choledocholithiasis: Diagnostic and Management Strategies
GS68	\| Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: An Essential Component of MOC
GS69	\| The College’s International Travelers, 2006: International Perspectives on Surgery
GS70	\| Reducing Surgical Delay: Improving Efficiency—What Works?
GS71	\| Establishing an Office-Based Ultrasound Practice
GS72	\| What's New in Wound Healing
GS73	\| Advances in Therapeutic Endoscopy
GS74	\| Tight Glucose Control: Impact on Outcomes
GS75	\| E-Learning
GS76	\| Crohn's disease: Evolving Therapeutics
GS77	\| Intraabdominal Catastrophies: Timely Diagnosis and Emergency Treatment
GS78	\| The Volume and Quality Conundrum: What Are the Data?
GS79	\| Management of Uncommon Cancers
GS80	\| Finding Clinical Perspective When No One Wants to Quit: Who is Needed, What is Needed?
GS81	\| Running an Academic Division or Department of Surgery
GS82	\| International Panel 2006: English by Nonnative Speakers in Surgical Publications
GS83	\| Less is More: Short-Stay Endocrine Surgery
GS84	\| Image-Detected Breast Cancer: State-of-the-Art Diagnosis and Treatment
GS85	\| Pediatric Tumors: Common and Uncommon Challenges
GS86	\| General Surgery Problems in Transplantation Patients
GS87	\| Trauma—Emergency Care Management Scenarios
GS88	\| Trends in the U.S. and U.K. Surgical Education: A Case for Collaboration?
GS89	\| Modeling, Simulation, and Virtual Reality: What’s Proven, What’s Not
GS90	\| Papers Session II
GS91	\| Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Making: Making the Most of Your PDA
GS92	\| Molecular Fingerprints: Targeted Therapeutics for Solid Tumors
GS93	\| Emerging Technologies in Surgical Education
GS116	\| Global Challenge of Health Workforce Shortage

Thursday, October 12, 2006

GS94	\| Use of Hypothermia in Critical Illness
GS95	\| Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Children for the General Surgeon
GS96	\| The Pathophysiology of Obesity
GS97	\| Advances in Thyroid Surgery
GS98	\| Pay for Performance: The Future Is Now
GS99	\| Anal Disease: Fistula to Fissure
GS100	\| Monitoring and Computerization in the ICU: What Is Available, What Do You Need, and What Is The Future?
GS101	\| Line Sepsis Liability: Defense and Prevention
GS102	\| Body Contouring: Postbariatric Surgery
GS103	\| The Surgeon and the Law
GS104	\| The Disruptive Professional
GS105	\| Perioperative Management of the Bariatric Surgery Patient
GS106	\| Systemic and Local Hemostatic Agents
GS107	\| Extreme Ultrasound: Pushing the Frontier
GS108	\| Pregnancy During a Surgical Career: Strategies for Making it Work in Residency, Academics, and Private Practice
GS109	\| Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room
GS110	\| Understanding and Reducing Disparities in Surgical Care
GS111	\| How ACS and the Military Can Cooperate in the Future Training of Surgeons
GS117	\| American College of Surgeons Oncology Group: Raising Quality of Care Through Prospective Clinical Trials

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