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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1988

Alan G. Thorson, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Southwestern Surg Cong

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Colon-Rectal Surgery

Biography

I am a colon and Rectal surgeon from Omaha, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine, who has retired from clinical practice but I remain active in advocating for quality surgical care as Chair of SurgeonsPAC for the American College of Surgeons, President of the Nebraska Cancer Coalition, Member of the Omaha Board and Volunteer Cabinet of the North Region of the American Cancer Society.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

Anorectal Physiology

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

Bowel Control

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Laparoscopy (Min. Acc. Surg.)

Hospital Appointments

Alegant Immanuel and Bergan Mercy Med Ctr

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

Alegent Lakeside Hospital

Alegent Midlands

Creighton University Medical Center

NHS Clarkson/University Hosps.

Nebraska Methodist Hosp.

Academic Appointments

Surgery, Creighton University

Clinical Professor

Surgery, University of Nebraska

Clinical Professor