Annual Business Meeting of Members

Learn more about ACS members who have been recognized for noteworthy achievements.

Read capsule summaries of articles appearing in the September 2025 of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Turner describes the educational and networking opportunities at the 2025 Clinical Congress, as well as the vital work of the ACS Foundation.

Learn more about the evolving role of ECMO in managing critically ill patients in general surgery and trauma settings.

To reduce or prevent trauma injuries in patients under the age of 45 requires surgeons to venture beyond the OR.

What is the surgeons’ role in protecting patient rights, including privacy and autonomy, in the emergency department?

Three distinct categories of AI application are emerging in the healthcare setting that will transform patient care and workflow.

Discover key considerations for managing emergency conversions during robotic-assisted thoracic surgery.

Researchers examine trends in academic surgeon compensation and offer strategies to mitigate disparities in payment.

Meet Dr. Margo Shoup, an ACS Fellow who, with quiet determination and skill, is making the world a better place.

Learn how a hospital’s QI project increased the percentage of open fracture patients receiving antibiotics within 90 minutes.

Learn how the Beyond ASK QI initiative increased smoking cessation assistance for newly diagnosed patients with cancer.

Review top insights and core findings discussed at the 2025 Quality and Safety Conference.

Dr. Staudenmayer assumes leadership of the ACS COT in March 2026.

The largest individual gift in the ACS Foundation’s 20-year history—$2 million—was contributed by Pon Satitpunwaycha, MD, FACS, earlier this year.

The first grantees from the ACS Surgical Adhesions Improvement Project will receive awards of $100,000 each over 2 years to study adhesive disease.