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July 8, 2025
Dr. Giordano, a retired trauma surgeon at George Washington (GW) University Hospital in Washington, DC, died on June 24 at 84 years old. Dr. Leape, a retired pediatric surgeon from Tufts University School of Medicine and chief of pediatric surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, passed away on June 30 at 94 years old.
July 8, 2025
Participation in ACS committees is an inclusive opportunity open to members in good standing. Committees support the work of the ACS and provide meaningful professional development and networking opportunities for members. More than 30 ACS Committees are seeking members.
July 8, 2025
A new article from The Doctors Company, the longtime provider of ACS’s medical liability insurance program, provides tips on type of carrier, questions you should ask, types of coverage, types of policies, and how much insurance you should carry.
Read this week's entire issue for the latest news on the ACS and the field of surgery.
Go to your MyCME Portal today and verify your ABS ID and date of birth on the Board Certification Tab so you can have your CME data automatically transmitted to the ABS via ACCME.
Surgeons are in store for one of the most stimulating programs in Clinical Congress history, according to ACS leaders, including Drs. Ken Sharp, Beth Sutton, Fabrizio Michelassi, Lena Napolitano, and Ajit Sachdeva. cholecystectomy.
Sarcopenia is known to be a predictor of poorer outcomes in surgical patients—and for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer, it may be an even more serious concern. In this video, Dr. Arsalan Khan briefly summarizes his recent Journal of the American College of Surgeons article, “Postoperative Sarcopenia and Association with Recurrence in Resected Early Stage Non-Small Cell Cancer,” which found that loss of skeletal muscle volume on first surveillance CT scan after lung resection is associated with oncologic recurrence.