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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.

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.

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Events

SSC 2020 Annual Meeting

SSC Mentor Program – Communication Strategies in Bad Times

September 27, 2020

Presenter

Erin Donovan, PhD, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication Director, Interdisciplinary Education, Center for Health Communication, Moody College & Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelists

Gerard M. Doherty, MD, FACS, Moseley Professor and Surgeon in Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Douglas S. Tyler, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FACS, William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor, Chair of Surgery, and Senior Vice President Surgical Service Line, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

Watch the video Mentor Program Agenda

Leadership Under Review – Critical Success Factors in the Modern Era

October 1, 2020

  • Why do people leave their jobs?
  • How to be successful through mergers and acquisitions
  • Health system dynamics

Moderator

Robert S. D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, FACS, The William Stewart Halsted Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Panelists

Gerard M. Doherty, MD, FACS, Moseley Professor & Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Jeffrey Banks Matthews, MD FACS, Dallas B. Phemister Professor & Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rebecca Manget Minter, MD, FACS, A.R. Curreri Professor & Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine, Madison, WI

Steven Charles Stain, MD, FACS, Henry & Sally Schaffer Chair & Professor, Department of Surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FACS, William N. & Bessie Allyn Professor, chair & Senior VP Surgical Service Line, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

Watch the video Meeting Agenda

How to Prepare for the Next Crisis–Lessons Learned from the Past and Present

October 8, 2020

In partnership with the Association of Academic Surgical Administrators (AASA)

Moderators

Robert S. D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, FACS, SSC President 2020, The William Stewart Halsted Professor, Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Lonn D. McDowell, MHA, FACHE, FACMPE, AASA President 2020, Vice Chair and Director of Administration, University of Florida, Department of Surgery, Gainesville, FL

Panelists

Mary T. Hawn, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Susan M. Marx, MBA, PMP, CPC, AASA Vice President 2020, Director, Finance and Administration, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS, Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Surgeon-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital at WCM, New York, NY

Redonda G. Miller, MD, MBA, President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Sherri Novitsky, MMA, MA, Administrative Director, University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, Minneapolis, MN

Watch the video Joint Program Agenda and Bios