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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.

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CME Information

Continuing Medical Education Credit Information

Accreditation

The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 14.25 hours meet the requirements for Patient Safety. *

The content of this activity may meet certain mandates of regulatory bodies. Please note that ACS has not and does not verify the content for such mandates with any regulatory body. Individuals physicians are responsible for verifying the content satisfies such requirements.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.

Certificate of Completion

Attendees who are not eligible for CME can claim a Certificate of Completion for their participation in the 2024 ACS Surgical Simulation Summit. Hours will be awarded to attendees based on the extent of their participation in the activity.  Many credentialing boards for healthcare professionals will accept a Certificate of Completion for conversion of hours to the specific type of credit required.

Program Objectives

At the end of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

  • Apply new knowledge and ideas to improve the simulation-based surgical education and training provided to learners at their institutions.
  • Implement innovative teaching techniques at their institutions.
  • Discuss and apply the most recent research advancements in the field of simulation education.
  • Examine how surgeons, anesthesiologists, and members of the quality, safety, and risk management departments can work together to improve quality and safety at their institutes using simulation.
  • Enhance the quality of patient care.

Target Audience

  • Practicing surgeons
  • Physicians (MD/DOs)
  • Residents
  • Medical Students
  • Allied health professionals
  • Educators
  • Simulation center directors, managers, technicians, and staff

Disclosure Information

In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.

Ineligible Company

The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.

Financial Relationships

Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit.  Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. 

 

Conflict of Interest

Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.

Speakers/Moderators/Discussants/Authors

Roudha Alhabtoor - (Nothing to Disclose)

Cristina Alvarado - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mowafak Alzoebie - (Nothing to Disclose)

Elena An - (Nothing to Disclose)

Ananya Anand - (Nothing to Disclose)

Nathan Dean Anonuevo - (Nothing to Disclose)

Rebecca Barnes - (Nothing to Disclose)

Shannon Barter - (Nothing to Disclose)

German Berbel - (Nothing to Disclose)

Benoit Blondeau - (Nothing to Disclose)

Riley Brian - Intuitive Surgical; Research Resident Funding; Research Grant

Tiffany Brocke - (Nothing to Disclose)

Nicole Brooks - (Nothing to Disclose)

Gladys Bruyninx - (Nothing to Disclose)

Lainey Bukowiec - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jennifer Calzada - (Nothing to Disclose)

Melissa Cappaert - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jeanne Carey - (Nothing to Disclose)

Susan Carter - (Nothing to Disclose)

Samantha Cervantes - (Nothing to Disclose)

Majid Chammas - (Nothing to Disclose)

Renuka Chepuru - (Nothing to Disclose)

Rosa Anna Chorro - (Nothing to Disclose)

Andrés Climent - (Nothing to Disclose)

Alex Contreras - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jeffrey Cooper - (Nothing to Disclose)

Stacy Cooper - (Nothing to Disclose)

Joseph Crutcher - (Nothing to Disclose)

William DeVoe - Acumed; Consultant, speaker; Consulting/speaking
fee

Jason DeWitt - (Nothing to Disclose)

Shannon DiMarco - (Nothing to Disclose)

Nikunj Donde - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jeremy Dressler - (Nothing to Disclose)

Eric Elster - (Nothing to Disclose)

Lars Enochsson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Federico Espinola Schulze - (Nothing to Disclose)

Rebecca Evangelista - (Nothing to Disclose)

Brad Gable - (Nothing to Disclose)

Connie Gan - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jenny Garnett - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jessica Gerard - (Nothing to Disclose)

Will Gerull - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mishal Gillani - Intuitive Surgical; Research; Research Foundation
Grant

Kim Gilmore - (Nothing to Disclose)

Frederick Godley IV - (Nothing to Disclose)

Paras Gupta - (Nothing to Disclose)

Amy Halverson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Dallas Hansen - (Nothing to Disclose)

Megan Happ - (Nothing to Disclose)

Julie Hartman - (Nothing to Disclose)

Susan Haynes - (Nothing to Disclose)

Darian Hoagland - (Nothing to Disclose)

Emily Huang - (Nothing to Disclose)

Maya Hunt - (Nothing to Disclose)

Christopher Ibarra - (Nothing to Disclose)

Priti Jani - (Nothing to Disclose)

James Johnson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Stacy Joo - (Nothing to Disclose)

Danielle Julian - (Nothing to Disclose)

Esther Kim - (Nothing to Disclose)

Melinda Klar - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jimmie Knight - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jacquelyn Knox - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jim Korndorffer - (Nothing to Disclose)

Madeline Krusing - (Nothing to Disclose)

KiBeom Kwon - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jacky Kwong - (Nothing to Disclose)

Patty Lange - (Nothing to Disclose)

Susan Leong-Kee - (Nothing to Disclose)

Zexuan Liu - (Nothing to Disclose)

Luis Llerena - (Nothing to Disclose)

Amy Lu - (Nothing to Disclose)

Rebecca Lyon - (Nothing to Disclose)

Marilee McBoyle - (Nothing to Disclose)

Payton Miller - (Nothing to Disclose)

Alyssa Murillo - Intuitive Surgical; Surgical Education Research Fellow; Salary

Rebecca Murphy Lonergan - (Nothing to Disclose)

Sergio Navarro - (Nothing to Disclose)

Abdourahmane Ndong - (Nothing to Disclose)

Dmitry Nepomnayshy - Microline; Consultant; Salary

Anna Newcomb - (Nothing to Disclose)

Christine Nguyen-Buckley - (Nothing to Disclose)

John Nida - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mohammad Nizamuddin - (Nothing to Disclose)

Olufemi Oladokun - (Nothing to Disclose)

Peter Osztrogonacz - (Nothing to Disclose)

John Paige - Oxford University Press, Springer Nature / Avita
Medical; Co-editor books / research on hernia; Royalties / Research
grant

Ritika Pansare - (Nothing to Disclose)

Charle Parsons - Intuitive Surgical; Consultant - User Factors, Study Participant; Consulting Fee

Raj Patel - (Nothing to Disclose)

Fatima Qamar - (Nothing to Disclose)

Robert Rege - (Nothing to Disclose)

Craig Reickert - (Nothing to Disclose)

Homero Rivas - (Nothing to Disclose)

Alondra Rivera - (Nothing to Disclose)

Victoria Roach - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jamie Robertson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Priscila Rodrigues Armijo - (Nothing to Disclose)

Deborah Rooney - Intuitive Foundation/Fundamentals of Vaginal
Surgery, LLC;  Consulting/ founder; Salary/nothing to date

Kathryn Rooney - (Nothing to Disclose)

Joshua Roshal - (Nothing to Disclose)

Deanna Rothman - (Nothing to Disclose)

Tannaz Safari Vejin - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mary Catherine Santos - (Nothing to Disclose)

Lisa Satterthwaite - (Nothing to Disclose)

Alan Schurle - (Nothing to Disclose)

Michelle Sergel - (Nothing to Disclose)

Austin Shaffer - (Nothing to Disclose)

Bradley Simon - (Nothing to Disclose)

Lauren Smith - (Nothing to Disclose)

Randolph Steadman - (Nothing to Disclose)

Brian Stein - (Nothing to Disclose)

Harrison Steins - (Nothing to Disclose)

Liza Stone - (Nothing to Disclose)

John Stowers - Intuitive Surgical Inc.; Consultant; Consulting fees

Mikenzie Sturdevant - (Nothing to Disclose)

Ranjan Sudan - Medtronic/Ethicon; Speaking at Duke course/consulting;
honorarium

Robert Sweet - Elsevier/Boston Scientific/SIMagine;  Editor/Consultant/Patent Owner, Consultant; Editorial fee/Consulting Fee/ownership

Mame Sylla - (Nothing to Disclose)

Zachary Taylor - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mary Thompson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Daniel Tomey - (Nothing to Disclose)

Abhinay Tumati - (Nothing to Disclose)

Santiago Uribe-Marquez - (Nothing to Disclose)

Kevin Varner - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jose Velasco - (Nothing to Disclose)

Songnan Wang - (Nothing to Disclose)

Lauren Weaver - (Nothing to Disclose)

Kevin Weiss - (Nothing to Disclose)

Alice Whyte - (Nothing to Disclose)

Ama Winland - (Nothing to Disclose)

Amy Wolverton - (Nothing to Disclose)

Wenjia Xu - (Nothing to Disclose)

John Yosaitis - (Nothing to Disclose)

Nyera Youssef - (Nothing to Disclose)

Planning Committee

Amanda Burden - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jeffrey Cooper - (Nothing to Disclose)

Susan Carter - (Nothing to Disclose)

Gladys Fernandez - (Nothing to Disclose)

Sally Fortner - (Nothing to Disclose)

Steven Houg - (Nothing to Disclose)

Kathleen Johnson - (Nothing to Disclose)

Tamara Owens - (Nothing to Disclose)

Mary Catherine Santos - (Nothing to Disclose)

Robert Rege - (Nothing to Disclose)

Ajit K. Sachdeva - (Nothing to Disclose)

Cathy Sormalis -(Nothing to Disclose)

R.H. “Randolph” Steadman - (Nothing to Disclose)

Jose Velasco - (Nothing to Disclose)

How to Claim Credit

View credit-claiming instructions

Credit claiming will not be available until after the activity ends.

The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity.  Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.