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Learn to Lead at 2023 ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit

February 28, 2023

Register today for the ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit, April 15–18 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, DC. The Summit offers comprehensive and specialized sessions providing ACS members, leaders, and advocates with topics focused on effective surgeon leadership, as well as interactive advocacy training with coordinated visits to Congressional offices.

Focus on the Leadership Summit

The Leadership Summit, Saturday evening, April 15–Sunday, April 16, will offer compelling speakers addressing key topics in surgical leadership, including:

  • Defining a personal mission statement
  • Leadership in times of change
  • Negotiation strategies
  • Chapter success stories from:
    • ACS San Diego Chapter
    • ACS New York Chapter
    • ACS Bolivia Chapter
  • Effective performance-based teaching
  • Equity in graduate medical education

In addition, there is a pre-conference seminar this year with the Negotiation Practice and Principles: Tips, Tactics and Traps Seminar.

This in-person only plenary session will provide an overview of advanced negotiation concepts, strategies, and tactics when negotiating with organizations in the context of medical employment. The first part will explore recognizing negotiation styles, choosing an approach, making offers and counteroffers, creating and claiming value, narrowing options, breaking impasse, and dealing with closure behaviors. The second part of the seminar will focus on specific value-creation methodologies, risk analysis, cognitive error, implications from neuroscience, and dealing with difficult conduct.

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Download New Breast Care Standards
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Download New Breast Care Standards

The ACS has long advocated for the creation of a US National Trauma System to improve quality of care, decrease inequities, and save lives as one of its top legislative priorities, part of which involves the creation of a trauma research plan.
Surgeons Value APPs but Say They Would Benefit from Clinical Internship
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Surgeons Value APPs but Say They Would Benefit from Clinical Internship

High satisfaction rates among surgeons illustrate the value of advanced practice providers (APPs), but opportunities exist to improve APPs’ broad surgical patient management skills, according to an ACS leader survey.
Trauma Teams Prepare for 2023 Meetings in Chicago, March 8–12
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Trauma Teams Prepare for 2023 Meetings in Chicago, March 8–12

The 2023 ACS Committee on Trauma Annual Meeting and ATLS Global Symposium begin next week, and there’s still time for members of the trauma team to register.

Submit Abstracts for Clinical Congress by Tomorrow
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Submit Abstracts for Clinical Congress by Tomorrow

Make your mark in Boston this October—submit abstracts, videos, and surgical history posters by Wednesday, March 1, for Clinical Congress 2023.

Current Literature
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Current Literature

Commentaries summarizing important new scientific literature pertinent to surgeons and care teams.
Pediatric Cardiac Surgeons Discuss Changes in Heart Transplantation Outcomes
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Pediatric Cardiac Surgeons Discuss Changes in Heart Transplantation Outcomes

A recently published study in JACS found that while pediatric patients undergoing cardiac transplantation from 2011 to 2022 were generally sicker and at higher risk of complications than patients 1986–2010, they had better outcomes.

Submit Nominations by Friday for Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards
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Submit Nominations by Friday for Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards

The ACS, in association with Pfizer, Inc., is accepting nominations for the 2023 Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards. All nominations must be submitted through the ACS nominations page by March 3, 2023.

Honors Committee Invites Submissions for Four Awards by March 15
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Honors Committee Invites Submissions for Four Awards by March 15

The ACS Honors Committee invites members to submit nominations for prestigious ACS awards.

Residents: Take a Deep Dive on Surgical Teaching and Leadership at High-Impact ACS Course
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Residents: Take a Deep Dive on Surgical Teaching and Leadership at High-Impact ACS Course

Registration is open for the annual ACS Residents as Teachers and Leaders Course.

Clinical Congress Lecturer Discusses Academic Surgery’s “Second Renaissance”
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Clinical Congress Lecturer Discusses Academic Surgery’s “Second Renaissance”

Dr. Omaida Velazquez believes academic surgery is entering a “second renaissance”. Learn why in this new episode of House of Surgery.