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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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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
Clinical Congress 2024

Named Lectures

Sunday, October 20

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NL01 - Martin Memorial Lecture

Combat Trauma: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges for Surgery

9:00–9:30 am

Presiding Officer: Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS, Wichita Falls, TX
Lecturer: Lester Martinez-Lopez, MD, MPH, Falls Church, VA

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NL02 - John H. Gibbon Jr. Lecture

Lung Cancer Revolution

9:45–10:45 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Richard I. Whyte, MD, FACS, Boston, MA
Lecturer: Jessica S. Donington, MD, MSCR, FACS, Chicago, IL

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NL03 - Charles G. Drake History of Surgery Lecture

Dr. Charles B. Wilson: Cherokee Neurosurgeon

2:30–3:30 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: James S. Harrop, MD, FACS, Philadelphia, PA
Lecturer: Brian T. Andrews, MD, FACS, FAANS, San Francisco, CA

Monday, October 21

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nl04 - Herand Abcarian Lecture

We Have Come a Long Way…Where Do We Go from Here?

8:00–9:00 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Eric G. Weiss, MD, FACS, FASCRS, FACG, Boca Raton, FL
Lecturer: Ann C. Lowry, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Minnetonka, MN

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nl05 - Scudder Oration on Trauma

Major Hepatic Injury: We Can Do Better

12:45–1:45 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS, Birmingham, AL
Lecturer: Andrew B. Peitzman, MD, FACS, Pittsburgh, PA

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nl06- Olga M. Jonasson Lecture

Not on My Watch

2:30–3:30 pm

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Sharon L. Stein, MD, FACS, Cleveland, OH
Lecturer: Jo Buyske, MD, FACS, Philadelphia, PA

Tuesday, October 22

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nl07 - Distinguished Lecture of the International Society of Surgery

Global Surgery—A Tale of Two Colleges

8:00–9:00 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Krista L. Kaups, MD, MSc, FACS, Fresno, CA
Lecturer: Declan Magee, MBBS, FRCSI, Dublin, Ireland

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nl08 - John J. Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture

Surgical Professionalism and Autonomy in the 21st Century

9:45–10:45 am

Presiding Officer and Introducer: Linda G. Phillips, MD, FACS, Galveston, TX
Lecturer: Mark C. Weissler, MD, FACS, Chapel Hill, NC