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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
Events

Agendas

Times indicated are ET in the United States.

Development Workshop

Saturday, April 15

12:00-2:30 pm    

 

Leadership in Action: Making an Impact in the Media and on Social

Negotiation Practice and Principles: Tips, Tactics and Traps Seminar

Saturday, April 15

3:00–5:00 pm

Negotiation Practice and Principles: Tips, Tactics and Traps

Speaker - Cathy A. Costantino

Leadership Summit

Saturday, April 15

7:00 am-6:00 pm

On-site Registration

5B Registration – across from Independence Ballroom

5:30–7:00 pm

Networking Event

Declaration AB & Grand Foyer

Sunday, April 16

7:00 am-6:00 pm

On-site Registration

5B Registration – across from Independence Ballroom

7:30-8:45 am

Breakfast

Independence East FGHI

General Session

Independence West BCDE

8:45-8:55 am

Welcome and Agenda for the Day

Michael Sutherland, MD, FACS, Director, Division of Member Services, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

8:55-9:40 am

Defining Your Path: Your Personal Mission Statement 
Kimberly M. Lumpkins, MD, MBA, FRCS(Eng), FACS, Surgeon in Chief, University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, Baltimore, MD

9:40-10:25 am

Can We Find a Silver Lining? The Role of Leadership in Times of Challenge
Robert S. D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, FACS, President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA

10:25-10:45 am

BREAK Independence Foyer

10:45-11:15 am

Strategies To Get What You Deserve    
Paula Ferrada, MD, FCCM, MAMSE, FACS, Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia, Division and System Chief, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Inova Healthcare System, Falls Church, VA   

Sponsored by the ACS Young Fellows Association  

11:15 am-12:00 pm

A Novel Approach to Understanding Surgeon Burnout and Operationalizing Solutions at Individual Institutions
Carter K. Lebares, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Director, Center for Mindfulness in Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Sandhya Kumar, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA

12:00-1:00 pm

Lunch - Independence East FGHI

1:00-1:30 pm

Chapter Success Stories  

ACS San Diego Chapter
Jay Doucet, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery, Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA;
Amy E. Liepert, MD, FACS, Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

ACS New York Chapter
Danielle A. Katz, MD, FAAOS, FACS, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY   

ACS Bolivia Chapter
José Manuel Arrieta Cornejo, MD, FACS, Chief of Surgery, Belga Hospital Surgical Center, Professor of Surgery, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia

1:30-2:00 pm

Effective Performance Based Teaching: Lessons from Aviation

Max R. Langham, Jr., MD, CFI, FACS, Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, CEO, Tio Companies, Inc., Memphis, TN  

2:00-2:30 pm 

The Equity Imperative of Graduate Medical Education

Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD, FAAOS, Medical Director, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

2:30-3:00 pm

Executive Director’s Update

Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, Executive Director & CEO, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

3:00-3:15 pm

Closing Comments/Adjourn

Michael Sutherland, MD, FACS, Director, Division of Member Services, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

3:15-4:30 pm

Advocacy and Health Policy Abstract Competition  
Independence Foyer

Advocacy Summit

Sunday, April 16

6:00–8:30 pm

Advocacy Summit Welcome Reception and Keynote Dinner

Monday, April 17

7:00–8:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am–5:00 pm

Advocacy Summit Panels, Training, and Programming

7:00–9:00 pm

ACSPA-SurgeonsPAC Reception

Tuesday, April 18

8:00–9:00 am

Congressional Visit Day Breakfast

9:00 am—4:00 pm

Congressional Visits on Capitol Hill

A full Advocacy Summit Agenda with session titles and speakers will be posted soon.

Note: Only active U.S./domestic ACS members are eligible to participate in the congressional visits to Capitol Hill.