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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.

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ACS
Clinical Congress 2023

Named Lectures

Monday, October 23

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Martin Memorial Lecture

Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS: From Rural Boyhood to Distinguished Surgeon (NL01)

9:00–9:30 am

Presiding Officer: Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), MAMSE, Miami, FL
Introducer: Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, MAMSE, Winston-Salem, NC
Lecturer: Gordon L. Telford, MD, FACS, MAMSE, Oconomowoc, WI

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John H. Gibbon Jr. Lecture in Cardiothoracic Surgery

What’s New May Be Old: Xenotransplantation (NL02)

9:45–10:45 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Joseph F. Sabik, MD, FACS, Cleveland, OH

Lecturer: Bartley P. Griffith, MD, FACS, FRCS, Baltimore, MD

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Charles G. Drake History of Surgery Lecture

Pathologies of the Surgical Image in Modern American Popular Culture (NL03)

2:30–3:30 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: James S. Harrop, MD, FACS, Philadelphia, PA

Lecturer: Frederick G. Barker, II, MD, FACS, FAANS, Boston, MA

Tuesday, October 24

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Herand Abcarian Lecture

Things I Wish I Had Known at the Start of My Journey as a Colorectal Surgeon (NL05)

8:00–9:00 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Eric G. Weiss, MD, FACS, Boca Raton, FL

Lecturer: Tracy L. Hull, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Cleveland, OH

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Excelsior Surgical Society/Edward D. Churchill Lecture

Service, Synergy, and Surgical Mythology (NL06)

9:45–10:45 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, FACS, Philadelphia, PA

Lecturer: M. Margaret (Peggy) Knudson, MD, FACS, Los Altos, CA

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Scudder Oration on Trauma

Trauma Care: The Vehicle, the Barometer, the Original Yardstick for Equal Care in America (NL07)

12:45–1:45pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS, Vestavia, AL

Lecturer: Edward E. Cornwell, MD, FACS, FCCM, Washington, DC

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Olga M. Jonasson Lecture

Phoenix Rising: The Culture of Surgery—A Paradigm Shift (NL08) 

2:30–3:30 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Sharon L. Stein, MD, FACS, Cleveland, OH

Lecturer: Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, FACS, St. Louis, MO

Wednesday, October 25

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Distinguished Lecture of the International Society of Surgery

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Global Surgery (NL09)

8:00–9:00 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Krista L. Kaups, MD, MSc, FACS, Fresno, CA

Lecturer: Ewen M. Harrison, MB, ChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, FRSE, OBE, Edinburgh, Scotland

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John J. Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture

America’s Opioid Dilemma: Ethical Prescribing during an Overdose Epidemic (NL10)

9:45–10:45 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Linda G. Phillips, MD, FACS, Galveston, TX

Lecturer: Travis N. Rieder, PhD, Baltimore, MD

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Commission on Cancer Oncology Lecture

Breaking the Mold: Chartering a New Roadmap to Impact Care through Science (NL11)

12:45–1:45 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, Lexington, KY

Lecturer: Jennifer A. Wargo, MD, MMSc, Newton, TX

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Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Lecture

Metabolic Surgery: Bariatrics and Beyond (NL12)

2:30–3:30 pm

Presiding Officer & Introducer: Shanu N. Kothari, MD, FACS, ASBMS

Lecturer: Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSEng(Hon), Minneapolis, MN