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Selected Clinical Congress 2007 and 2008 Sessions available as Webcasts and Audio CD / MP3 downloads through ACS Live Learning Center
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Wednesday October 15, 2008
GS59 | Stents in GI Surgical Practice: New Trials for Tough Problems
GS60 | Acute Care Surgery (Trauma, Critical Care, Emergency Surgery): The New Paradigm?
GS61 | High-End Imaging: What Is Proven, What Is Not?
GS62 | Spectacular Cases from Residents
GS63 | Surgical Decision Making in the Elderly: Emergency Surgery
GS64 | The College’s International Travelers 2008: International Perspectives on Surgery
GS65 | Diverticulitis: Selecting the Right Treatment at the Right Time
GS66 | Papers Session: Surgical Oncology II
GS67 | Papers Session: The Surgical Workforce: Challenges for Now and the Future
GS68 | Competency-Based Education: How Allied Health Professionals Do It
GS69 | Papers Session: Surgical Education
GS70 | Papers Session: Colon and Rectal Surgery
GS71 | Papers Session: Trauma and Critical Care II
GS72 | Preparing Your Students for Surgical Residency
GS73 | Surgical Innovators
GS74 | The International Perspective on Surgical Work Hour Restrictions
GS75 | Papers Session: General Surgery II
GS76 | Preparing for International Humanitarian Outreach
GS77 | Surgical Heroes: Influence of Role Models on Career Selection and Practice
GS78 | Trauma and Emergency Surgery Cases: Experts on the Hot Seat
GS79 | Familial Breast Cancer: Evidence-Based Practices to Optimize Each Patient’s Care
GS81 | Sepsis: Strategies for Early Detection and Effective Intervention
GS59 8:00-9:30 am
Track: GEN
Stents in GI Surgical Practice: New Trials for Tough Problems
Moderator: Brian J. Dunkin, MD, FACS, Houston, TX
This session will focus on the role of endoscopy and luminal stents to treat difficult problems in the GI surgical patient, including benign and malignant strictures, anastomatosis leaks, fistulae, and other challenging problems.
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GS60 8:00-11:15 am
Track: TRAUMA-CRIT CARE
Acute Care Surgery (Trauma, Critical Care, Emergency Surgery): The New Paradigm?
Co-Moderators: Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS, Seattle, WA
Lena M. Napolitano, MD, FACS, Ann Arbor, MI
Acute care surgery (trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency surgery) is emerging as the specialty of emergency surgical diseases of traumatic and nontraumatic nature. It has emerged as a viable practice model. A new fellowship training paradigm has been developed. A graduate of this proposed fellowship training program would be responsible for managing acute general surgical problems, covering general surgical and specialty services, providing surgical critical care, and managing acute trauma. Ready availability of an acute care surgery specialist will be of benefit to patients. Issues to be discussed include: Will it work? What will it include? What is the fellowship training model? How will we recruit trainees? What will faculty schedules look like?
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GS61 8:00-11:15 am
Track: GEN
High-End Imaging: What Is Proven, What Is Not?
Moderator: Jeffrey A. Norton, MD, FACS, Stanford, CA
This session will explore the rapid growth and use of high-end digital imaging technologies, such as use of dynamic CT, MRI, molecular imaging, and endoscopic ultrasound for tumors of the pancreas. Talks will give patient examples and describe state of the art imaging techniques and indicate what is proven and what is not proven for these tumors. We have elected to focus on the pancreas because previously it was difficult to image and now new technical advances have changed the way we image and manage pancreatic tumors.
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GS62 8:00-11:15 am
Track: RES-MED
Spectacular Cases from Residents
Co-Moderators: Juan C. Paramo, MD, FACS, Miami Beach, FL
A. Frederick Schild, MD, FACS, Miami, FL
Residents try to stump the panel with these unique experiences. Spectacular cases are presented by residents to a panel of experts. The session provides an interactive discussion between the presenter, the expert panel, and the audience.
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GS63 8:00-11:15 am
Track: GER
Surgical Decision Making in the Elderly: Emergency Surgery
Co-Moderators: L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, Norfolk, VA
Ronnie A. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, West Haven, CT
This session will address the special issues that must be considered when providing emergency surgical care to older persons. The discussion will cover the full spectrum of surgcial emergencies including, gastrointestinal, vascular, and traumatic injury. Each panelist will direct his or her discussion toward defining the critical differences in presentation, management, and expected outcomes of surgical emergencies in the older patient. The session will be designed to allow ample time for audience questions.
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GS64 8:00-11:15 am
Track: INTL
The College’s International Travelers 2008: International Perspectives on Surgery
Moderator: Stephen A. Deane, MB, BS, FACS, Fennell Bay, NSW, Australia
Since the 1960s, the College has supported more than 200 International Guest Scholars and other international travelers. The year 2008 International Guest Scholars, promising young surgeons from 10 countries, will offer brief presentations on the surgical experience in their homelands and their own research pursuits. The Australia New Zealand Traveler (a North American Fellow) and the Japan and Germany Exchange Fellows (pairs of North American and Japanese or German surgeons) will comment on their work and their visits to one another’s annual surgical congresses and surgical centers.
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GS65 9:45-11:15 am
Track: GEN
Diverticulitis: Selecting the Right Treatment at the Right Time
Moderator: Michael J. Snyder, MD, FACS, Houston, TX
Diverticulitis encompasses a spectrum of disease. This session will define the disease and optimal integration of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
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GS66: 9:45 - 11:15 am
Track: ONC
Papers Session: Surgical Oncology II
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GS67 9:45 am-11:15 am
Track: CRS
Papers Session: The Surgical Workforce: Challenges for Now and the Future
Moderator: Amy B. Reed, MD, FACS, Cincinnati, OH
Co-Moderator: Amalia L. Cochran, MD, FACS, Salt Lake City, UT
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GS68 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Track: EDU-OUTCOMES-SAFETY
Competency-Based Education: How Allied Health Professionals Do It
Co-Moderators: Peter J. Fabri, MD, FACS, Tampa, FL
Constantine V. Godellas, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL
Allied health care providers are an increasingly important component of the surgical team. Each of these disciplines has introduced competency-based learning and evaluation into its curriculum. This panel will review the scope of competency expected of graduates entering practice and of established providers through continuing education and recertification.
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GS69 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Track: EDU-OUTCOMES-SAFETY
Papers Session: Surgical Education
Moderator: Karen R. Borman, MD, FACS, Jackson, MS
Co-Moderator: Andrew S. Resnick, MD, Philadelphia, PA
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GS70: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Track: CRS
Papers Session: Colon and Rectal Surgery
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GS71: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Track: TRAUMA-CRIT CARE
Papers Session: Trauma and Critical Care II
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GS72 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Track: RES-MED
Preparing Your Students for Surgical Residency
Co-Moderators: James F. McKinsey, MD, FACS, New York, NY
Rebecca M. Minter, MD, FACS, Ann Arbor, MI
Despite established common standards, there is often significant variability in the knowledge base and clinical experience students and residents bring to their postgraduate training experiences. In an attempt to address this variability and to level the playing field for incoming trainees, the thoracic surgery community has developed a required prerequisite curriculum for all entering residents. Concurrently, several institutions have developed an “M4 readiness elective” to prepare fourth year medical students for surgical internship. Programs such as these should potentially facilitate the transition to postgraduate surgical training and may allow for earlier and faster acquisition of skills and knowledge in the first year of training. Panelists will discuss the resources required for establishing these preparatory curricula and the relative successes and challenges associated with their implementation.
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GS73 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Track: SCI
Surgical Innovators
Co-Moderators: Dixon B. Kaufman, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL
Robert W. Thompson, MD, FACS, St. Louis, MO
This session will focus on developments in surgical scientific research that have translated into new operative methodologies and the surgical innovators who translate scientific research into the operating room. Included will be experiences of select innovators themselves (such as past winners of the ACS Jacobson Innovation Award), including presentations by individuals who have taken basic science research findings from the laboratory to the bedside, developed new devices and surgical techniques for direct application to surgical care, and created novel approaches to improving patient safety. The process of innovation and the hurdles that must be overcome to bring an idea through the process of “translation,” how surgeons have embraced this process in solving practical clinical problems, and the experiences resulting in breakthroughs will be highlighted.
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GS74 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Track: INTL
The International Perspective on Surgical Work Hour Restrictions
Moderator: Jonathan R. Hiatt, MD, FACS, Los Angeles, CA
There is growing international experience with restriction of the hours that surgeons may work. In June 2008, the first group of U.S. general surgery residents trained entirely with an 80-hour/week restriction will complete training. In France and elsewhere in the European Union, as well as in Australia, there has been experience with restriction of work hours for practicing surgeons as well as trainees. Has the effect of work hour restrictions upon education and patient care been good or bad? A panel of international experts will present representative data and consider arguments for and against work hour restrictions.
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GS75 2:30-4:00 pm
Track: GEN
Papers Session: General Surgery II
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GS76 2:30-4:00 pm
Track: ETHICS-VOL
Preparing for International Humanitarian Outreach
Moderator: Kathleen M. Casey, MD, FACS, Newport, RI
Perhaps you’re considering traveling to another country in a humanitarian capacity to share your surgical skills and knowledge. This panel will address how to prepare, cultural influences to consider, and how to maximize the impact of your trip and the ongoing relationships with surgeons in other communities.
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GS77 2:30-5:45 pm
Track: RES-MED
Surgical Heroes: Influence of Role Models on Career Selection and Practice
Moderator: James F. McKinsey, MD, FACS, New York, NY
The impact of surgical leaders as role models for medical students and residents as well as for practicing surgeons is critical to the future development of surgery. Surgical heroes influence medical students’ decision to enter surgical fields and dramatically guide the decisions of surgical residents regarding which specialty field to enter. The influence of surgical leaders extends beyond career selection to serving as crucial role models for other surgeons, particularly early in their careers. They inspire, they teach values as well as methods, and they demonstrate the best of our field. This panel will include surgical heroes from the areas of innovation in health care, health care research, and educational
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GS78 2:30-5:45 pm
Track: TRAUMA-CRIT CARE
Trauma and Emergency Surgery Cases: Experts on the Hot Seat
Co-Moderators: David A. Spain, MD, FACS, Palo Alto, CA
George Velmahos, MD, FACS, Boston, MA
This course will be case-based, with no lectures. There will be four sessions during which cases will be presented to experts. Two sessions will be dedicated to trauma, one to emergency nontrauma surgery, and one to surgical critical care. The moderators will promote a lively debate as they explore different diagnostic and therapeutic strategies based on opinions by the experts. Audience participation will be encouraged via floor microphones and an audience response system. The course aims to focus on real-life cases and avoid general thematic descriptions.
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GS79 4:15-5:45 pm
Track: GEN, ONC
Familial Breast Cancer: Evidence-Based Practices to Optimize Each Patient’s Care
Moderator: Monica Morrow, MD, FACS, New York, NY
This session will address the genetic counseling, testing, surveillance, and medical and surgical options for patients with familial breast cancer.
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GS81 4:15-5:45 pm
Track: GEN
Sepsis: Strategies for Early Detection and Effective Intervention
Moderator: Frederick A. Moore, MD, FACS, Houston, TX
This session will address systems-based practices to enhance detection and management of patients with sepsis and implementation of early intervention strategies to improve patient outcomes.
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