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.
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.
Thank you for joining us in Boston (and virtually) for Clinical Congress 2023. I am honored to welcome you to this prestigious gathering of surgeons.
This is our first in-person Clinical Congress on the East Coast since 2018, when we also held the meeting in Boston. Please take time this week to enjoy the city, which is preparing to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in December.
Please experience all that Clinical Congress has to offer: 4 days packed with excellent education, research, and technological innovations, as well as important opportunities to network, socialize, and meet new people who may one day become your partner, research collaborator, or coworker.
Coming together and learning from each other is an essential way to sustain our professional well-being.
Let’s take full advantage of our time together this week. Spending a few days surrounded by our colleagues in surgery will help us return home and be better surgeons. We will be fulfilled professionally and personally, and we all will feel a renewed commitment to the highest quality care for the patients we serve.
Clinical Congress offers something at every stage in your career, whether you are a seasoned surgeon or at the beginning of your career. Please take time to meet someone new, rekindle friendships, make connections that will fulfill you and enhance your career for years to come.
Every surgeon who participates in Clinical Congress—and in the House of Surgery—makes each of us better, wiser, and more skilled.
Convocation Tonight
Please join us tonight at 6:00 pm for Convocation, where we will proudly confer Fellowship on 1,674 new Initiates. During this ceremony, we also will recognize Honorary Fellows, present several important awards, welcome our new ACS President Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, and hear his Presidential Address.
Opening Ceremony Tomorrow
Tomorrow, I hope you can join us for the Opening Ceremony at 8:00 am, where Dr. Ford will preside, and I will provide the annual State of the ACS overview. The Martin Memorial Lecture will follow at 9:00 am and will be delivered by Gordon L. Telford, MD, FACS.
Exhibit Hall Tomorrow through Wednesday
Make time to visit the Exhibit Hall Monday through Wednesday to examine the latest equipment and devices, check out the Career Fair, and stop by ACS Central to learn more about everything the College has to offer. Importantly, the Update Your Profile section of ACS Central will give you a chance to add details to your member record that will allow us to better serve you with more personalized content based on your career stage, surgical discipline, practice type, and interests. While there, a professional photographer will provide you with a free digital headshot that you can add to your online member profile.
Annual Business Meeting, Taste of the City Wednesday
All ACS members are encouraged to attend the Annual Business Meeting of Members on Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 pm in Room 104ABC. You’ll hear reports from College leadership, presentation of several awards, and remarks from the newly installed President-Elect.
Following the Business Meeting will be a perennial favorite—Taste of the City—a festive event that closes Clinical Congress. All attendees and their family members are invited to this complimentary celebration that begins at 5:30 pm in Exhibit Hall B2. Food, drinks, entertainment, and camaraderie are on the menu. No advance registration is needed.
Attendees are encouraged to wear casual dress all day on Wednesday.
On-Demand Content
We have packed a lot of content into 4 short days, so please note that on-demand session access is included with your registration and available through May 1, 2024. Most sessions will be made available for on-demand viewing on the meeting platform soon after the live presentations. The program guide available at registration features a full list of sessions that will be available on demand.
Once again, welcome to Clinical Congress 2023!
Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS Executive Director & CEO
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