Anchoring each Clinical Congress is an outstanding academic and scientific education program, and this year’s conference offered more than 100 expert-led Panel Sessions to share the latest in surgical education. These Panel Sessions remain available online through the Clinical Congress 2022 on-demand platform, which is open to all in-person and virtual attendees, as well as new registrants. Check out some of these popular sessions from Clinical Congress 2022.
Ten Hot Topics in General Surgery
This popular annual session provides 6-minute presentations by experts in general surgery who discuss a specific topic in a rapid-fire format. ACS President E. Christopher Ellison, MD, FACS, MAMSE, and Regent Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, MAMSE, moderated the wide-ranging session, which included presentations on:
- Pancreatic Incidentalomas: Observe or Operate by Fabian M. Johnston, MD, FACS
- “I Hit the Aorta”—The Surgeon as Victim by Daniel S. Eiferman MD, FACS
- New Frontiers in Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring for Thyroid/Parathyroid Operations by Quan-Yang Duh, MD, FACS
- Is there an Optimal Treatment for Parastomal Hernia? by Arielle Perez, MD, FACS
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Use: When and Why by Mark D. Iafrati, MD, FACS
- Current Controversies in Clostridium Difficile Colitis by Emily S. Huang, MD, FACS
- Gallbladder Polyps—Operate or Observe? by Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS
- Inguinal Hernias in Females: Laparoscopic Repair or Open? by William W. Hope, MD, FACS
- Ventral Hernia Repair in a Contaminated Field by Ajita S. Prabhu, MD, FACS
- Whole Blood Use in Trauma by Richard S. Miller, MD, FACS
Diverticulitis is one of the most common conditions surgeons are asked to manage. Many new ideas regarding diverticulitis management both medically and operatively have occurred over the years. In this session, moderated by Paula I. Denoya, MD, FACS, and Maher A. Abbas, MD, FACS, FASCRS, surgeons learn the most up to date patient management, operative management, indications for surgery, timing of surgery and special considerations based on other patient medical conditions.
Structural racism is the creation and perpetuation of racial inequities across generations because of public policies, institutional practices, and systemic deference majority cultural imperatives. The resulting sociopolitical inequities related to this intentional exclusion and oppression of minority groups have a profound impact on the lived experiences of our patients in the present day. The accumulation of adverse social determinants of health among non-white populations affect our patients by way of disparities in disease incidence, health-seeking behaviors, access to care, and surgical outcomes.
This Panel Session, moderated by Heena P. Santry, MD, MS, FACS, and Alonso Andrade, MD, FACS, helps surgeons become aware of pervasive presence of structural racism in our society, how it affects our patients, and what we can do to mitigate the barriers to health surgical equity posed by it.
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