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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.
Register today for the ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit 2023, April 15–18 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, DC Hotel. The Summit offers comprehensive and specialized sessions to provide ACS members, leaders, and advocates with topics focused on effective surgeon leadership, as well as interactive advocacy training with coordinated visits to Congressional offices.
Leadership in Action: Making an Impact in the Media and on Social Workshop Saturday Afternoon, April 15
Are you interested in improving your public presence through media interviews and on social media? Surgeons have an important perspective to share with the public on many topics ranging from surgery to research to advocacy to quality patient care. Whether you’re active on social media, regularly participate in media interviews or are new to both, this session will give you the tools and skills to effectively communicate your message and leave a positive impression.
Join the ACS Division of Integrated Communications for an interactive media training and social media development workshop where you will practice real-world media scenarios and explore how to shape your narrative on social media. Pre-registration is required, and capacity is limited.
Negotiation Practice and Principles: Tips, Tactics and Traps Seminar Saturday Afternoon, April 15
This plenary session will provide an overview of advanced negotiation concepts, strategies, and tactics when negotiating with organizations in the context of medical employment. The first part will explore recognizing negotiation styles, choosing an approach, making offers and counteroffers, creating and claiming value, narrowing options, breaking impasse, and dealing with closure behaviors. The second part of the seminar will focus on specific value-creation methodologies, risk analysis, cognitive error, implications from neuroscience, and dealing with difficult conduct.
The Negotiations Seminar will be in-person only.
Leadership Summit Saturday Evening, April 15 & Sunday, April 16
The Leadership Summit will offer compelling speakers addressing key topics in surgical leadership.
The Leadership Summit is open to ACS members and non-members in the United States and internationally, and there are both in-person and virtual options to attend. The Leadership Summit will be live streamed for virtual registrants, and the sessions will also be recorded for future viewing opportunities for those who are registered.
Advocacy Summit Sunday Evening, April 16 & Monday, Tuesday, April 17-18
The Advocacy Summit will be an in-person event with some recorded sessions. There will be no virtual option to view the Advocacy Summit. Congressional meetings will also be in person this year. The Advocacy Summit is only open to ACS members in the United States since the content is not applicable to international members.
The Advocacy Summit provides ACS members with an update on the policy priorities the ACS is advocating for with federal lawmakers. Advocacy training and scheduled congressional visits will be provided as part of the event.
The Advocacy Summit is only open to ACS members in the United States.
Contact
For information on the Leadership & Advocacy Summit, please contact lasummit@facs.org.
