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.
Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, became Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) on January 1, 2022, and leads the world's largest surgical association after directing its Member Services Division for a decade.Before joining the ACS Executive Leadership team, Dr. Turner spent eight years in academic practice on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. In this role, she served as the surgery residency program director and medical director of the surgical acute care unit. Dr. Turner is currently on the faculty in the department of surgery at University of Chicago Medicine
While she served as Director of ACS Member Services, Dr. Turner successfully grew the College's membership every year by appealing to the diverse and evolving needs of surgeons across the country and around the world. She is also responsible for implementing or enhancing several programs to increase impact and streamline operations to better support surgeons in all practice settings, specialties, and stages of their careers. These programs include the annual ACS Leadership and Advocacy Summit, the Intimate Partner Violence Task Force, and Operation Giving Back, the College's signature volunteer initiative.
Dr. Turner is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Wake Forest University. She trained as a surgical intern and resident at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. At Howard, she also conducted two years of bench research for the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She completed her fellowship training in minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Weill-Cornell University School of Medicine, and Columbia University School of Medicine. Recently, she earned a Master of Business Administration at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business.
In addition to her work as a surgeon and with the College, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and OceanFirst Bank (OCFC). She chairs the ACS Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates and is past-chair of the AMA Council on Medical Education, past-chair of the Surgical Section of the National Medical Association, and past-president of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons.
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS, is professor and chair of the department of surgery at the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, San Antonio.
He is one of he most experienced trauma surgeons in southern Texas where he has cared for thousands of injured and critically ill patients from across the region for more than a quarter of a century. “I have worked with and learned from a truly amazing team of (mostly behind the scenes) paramedics, nurses, emergency physicians, medical specialists, surgeons and technical experts who collectively manage our emergency health care system,” Dr. Stewart told the Express News.
Dr. Stewart received his medical degree and completed his surgical residency at the UT Health Science Center. He completed a two-year trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and then served as the director of trauma at University Hospital, San Antonio.
Dr. Stewart has dedicated many years of service to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) leading as its Chair (2014-2018), and then Medical Director of ACS Trauma Programs (2018-2022). Prior to that, he served as Chair of the South Texas Chapter of the ACS COT and later as the ACS COT Region 6 Chief (Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas).
During his service with the ACS Committee on Trauma, the COT implemented the ACS STOP THE BLEED® educational program which has trained more than 2 million people on controlling life-threatening bleeding. The ACS COT has fostered and promoted an inclusive, collegial dialogue centered on how best to reduce firearm injury, death, and disability. This approach has led to a common narrative and strategy focused on understanding and addressing the root causes of violence while simultaneously making firearm ownership as safe as possible. This common narrative serves as a foundation for pragmatic steps to reduce the burden of firearm-related injury, death, and disability.
Eileen M. Bulger, MD, FACS, who is the current Medical Director of ACS Trauma Programs, is professor and Division chief, Division of trauma, burns, and critical care, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, and Chief of Trauma and Surgeon-in-Chief for Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
A diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Bulger also is board certified in surgical critical care. She earned a medical doctorate at Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY (1992). She completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle (1992–1999), where she concurrently completed a two-year National Institutes of Health Trauma Research Fellowship during her years of residency training (1995–1997), and then went on to complete a surgical critical care fellowship at UW in 2000.
Throughout her career, Dr. Bulger has mentored many surgical residents in paper and scholarship competitions. For nearly two decades, she has served as the co-principal or principal investigator of a variety of innovative, grant-funded research projects related to trauma care, some of which focus on improving outcomes for crash injury victims, pediatric patients, and older adults.
Since her initial involvement with the ACS COT in 2002, Dr. Bulger has contributed to many COT activities, often serving in a leadership role. She was the 20th Chair of the COT (2018-2022), a Course Instructor for the internationally recognized Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®) program, and she served as the COT Washington State Chair (2003–2006); Region X Chief (2006–2012); Chair of the Emergency Medical Services Committee (2011–2015) and Chair of the Membership Committee (2015-2018). Dr. Bulger also serves as the President-elect for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Chair of the Board for the Coalition for National Trauma Research.
Patrick V. Bailey, MD, MLS, FACS is Medical Director, Advocacy in the Division of Advocacy and Health Policy of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and a clinical professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences. Prior to assuming his position with the ACS in 2014, he was in clinical practice at Maricopa Medical Center (now Valley Wise Health) in Phoenix.
A graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, Dr. Bailey completed his general surgery internship at the George Washington University and his general surgery and surgical critical care residencies at St. Louis University. His pediatric surgery residency was completed at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He remains board certified in General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.
Following three years of active-duty service, he served on the faculty of the surgery departments at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the University of South Dakota and the University of Arizona, Phoenix. He was honorably discharged as a Captain from the Navy Reserve in 2020. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Bailey holds a Master of Legal Studies degree from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, and will complete work for his J.D. (Juris Doctor) degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in December of 2022.
Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS, is the Chair of the 100-year-old American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT). He serves as the Brigham Family Endowed Professor and director of the division of trauma and acute care surgery for the department of surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, as well as the state trauma consultant to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
A decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, Dr. Kerby was deployed as an active-duty combat trauma surgeon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (2002). He has served as a trauma and acute care surgeon at UAB since 2003 and was chief of general surgery at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (2009–2014). Dr. Kerby has established a military-civilian partnership between the UAB and U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command to support the ongoing training of Special Operations Surgical and Critical Care teams. This program hosts nearly 30 active-duty Air Force personnel and has also established trauma skills sustainment programs for Air Force Pararescue Jumpers.
Dr. Kerby's clinical expertise is in trauma, critical care, and emergency general surgery. He serves on the editorial board of Prehospital Emergency Care and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. His research interests focus on interventional trials and outcomes in the prehospital emergency care setting. He is part of a collaborative group of investigators that has published a large body of research in the medical literature on this topic. For 10 years (2005–2015), he was principal investigator of the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Center network, a multi-center trials network funded by the National Institutes of Health that focused on prehospital interventional trials in trauma and cardiac arrest.
