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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
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Excelsior Surgical Society

As the Military Chapter of the ACS, the Excelsior Surgical Society (ESS) provides a voice and a home for all military surgeons within the largest surgical organization in the world. The ESS serves as both an on-ramp to membership in the College as well as an off-ramp for surgeons as they separate from the military and transition to civilian practice. In the Military Health System of the 21st Century, this Military-Civilian Partnership is vitally important to preserving the lessons of the past, improving care in the present, and anticipating challenges in the future.

The ESS exists for Military Surgeons. It also exists because of Military Surgeons. Join us! Let your voices and concerns be heard. Use your experience to guide the next generation of surgeons or to assist line commanders with the battlefield utilization of medical assets. Take advantage of the opportunities of the Military Health System Strategic Partnership of the ACS.

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Want to learn more about becoming a member or holding office? Visit the ESS Membership page.

Grand Rounds at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, October 2022
Grand Rounds at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, October 2022

From left to right:
Dr. Rocco Armondo
COL. Dr. Benjamin Kyle Potter, Chair, Uniformed Services University Surgery Department
Dr. Hnat Herych, Chief of Surgery, Lviv Emergency Hospital
Dr. Eric Elster, Dean, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University 
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

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Dawn Coleman, MD, FACS, USAR, LTC
Outreach Chair
Daniel Hammer, DDS, FACD, FACS, CDR, DC, USN
Outreach Co-chair

Questions

For general questions please write to excelsior@facs.org.