Task Force on Systems-Based Practice

Goals:

To comprehensively address the competency of Systems-Based Practice across the continuum of professional development, with special emphasis on practicing surgeons and surgery residents; to use contemporary educational principles and state-of-the-art technology to achieve optimum outcomes; and to share recommendations and information with the Committee on Education to facilitate the achievement of the overall educational agenda of the American College of Surgeons.

Chair:

Gerald B. Healy, MD, FACS, Boston, MA

Members:

James P. Bagian, MD, Ann Arbor, MI
Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, Boston, MA
Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS, Boston, MA
Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD
David M. Gaba, MD, Palo Alto, CA
Leo Gordon, MD, FACS, Los Angeles, CA
Richard J. Gusberg, MD, FACS, New Haven, CT
Matina Horner, PhD, New York, NY
Thomas M. Krummel, MD, FACS, Stanford, CA
Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH, FACS, San Francisco, CA
J. Donald Monan, SJ, Chestnut Hill, MA
J. Patrick O'Leary, MD, FACS, New Orleans, LA
Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS, Seattle, WA
David W. Roberson, MD, Boston, MA
Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, FACS, Danville, PA
Maurice J. Webb, MD, FACS, Rochester, MN

Staff:

Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC
Patrice Gabler Blair, MPH
Emily Bakken

The Task Force on Systems-Based Practice welcomes your comments. Please write to the Task Force's staff liaison, Emily Bakken, at ebakken@facs.org.

Revised September 27, 2007

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