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More than 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe surgical and anesthesia care, resulting in increased mortality rates and post-surgical complications. To meet the challenges posed by this critical global health issue, the ACS has partnered with three academic health systems to develop a new Academic Global Surgery Fellowship to address surgical disparities in underserved populations.
Read a preview of programming at Clinical Congress 2022, including a Sessions-at-a-Glance schedule of Named Lectures, Panel Sessions, and more.
ACS Executive Director Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, spoke today at a congressional event on Capitol Hill on the importance of safeguarding patient access to care and preventing Medicare payment cuts for surgeons.