2024 Annual Meeting

Special Note to Yale Faculty, Residents, Students and Staff: Yale IT has blocked access to JOTFORM, the vendor we and many other Chapters use for abstract submission. Please use a computer that is not attached to a Yale network to submit your abstract. We have not been successful with our appeal to Yale IT.

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7:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

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7:45 AM Committee on Trauma Meeting

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8:30 AM Opening Session & Welcoming Remarks

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8:45 AM Resident Paper Competitions

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10:15 AM Morning Break in Exhibit Area

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10:45 AM Foster Lecture

Advancing Change with Evidence, Courage and Compassion

Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS

Dr. Sosa is the Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine and affiliated faculty for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Dr. Sosa’s clinical interest is in endocrine surgery, with a focus in thyroid cancer. She is an NIH and FDA funded investigator and author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 80 book chapters and reviews, all largely focused on outcomes research, health care delivery, hyperparathyroidism, and thyroid cancer, with a focus on clinical trials. She has authored or edited 7 books. Dr. Sosa is President of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) and serves on the Board of Directors/Executive Council of the ATA and International Thyroid Oncology Group; for the ATA, she is chairing the committee responsible for writing the next iteration of differentiated thyroid cancer guidelines. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Surgery and an editor of Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice. She has mentored more than 90 students, residents, and fellows, for which she was recognized with induction as a full member to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Educators in 2020, and by the ATA with the Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Lectureship Award in 2017 and its Distinguished Service Award in 2022. She received the Chancellor’s Diversity Award in 2022 for the Advancement of Women at UCSF. Dr Sosa was born in Montreal and raised in upstate New York. She received her AB at Princeton, MA at Oxford, and MD at Johns Hopkins, where she completed the Halsted residency and a fellowship.

Learning Objectives:

1. Raise and discuss issues related to LGBTQ+ persons in surgery
2. Developing communities in surgical training and work
3. Building belonging in surgery

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12:15 PM Fellowship Luncheon in Exhibit Hall

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1:15  PM Chapter Awards Presentations, Annual Meeting & Recognition of New Fellows

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2:00 PM Surgical Quality Lecture

Revisiting Pearls That Epitomize the Principles of Surgery

Alan Meinke, MD FACS Department of Surgery, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut and Walter Longo, MD FACS Department of Surgery Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 

Alan Meinke MD FACS is currently our second term Governor at Large representing Connecticut for the American College of Surgeons He has served as President of both our CTACS and our Surgical Quality Collaborative. He is an Associate Clinical Professor for the University of Vermont School of Medicine and Vice President of the Department of Surgery at Norwalk Hospital.

 

Walter E Longo, MD, MBA , FACS, FASCRS, is one of five Yale surgeons who is board-certified specifically in colorectal cancer. He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College. He is fellowship trained and is a Board Certified General Surgeon and a Board Certified Colon and Rectal Surgeon.

Dr. Longo is committed to providing patients with the highest standards for the diagnosis and medical and surgical management of the diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus using minimally invasive techniques. He specializes in screening and management of colon cancer; rectal cancer; anal cancer; sphincter preserving surgery; transanal removal of cancer; diverticulitis; inflammatory bowel disease; stricturoplasty; bowel resection; ostomy; polyposis syndromes and adenomatous polyps; hemorrhoids; fissures; fistulas; anal abscesses; disorders of continence; and pelvic floor disorders.

Please review the paper that was recently published by The Journal of the American College of Surgeons prior to the lecture to help prepare for this interactive discussion.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of patient-centered decision making by ensuring all surgical decisions prioritize patient welfare and incorporate their goals and expectations
• Recognize the essential role of teaching and mentorship in surgical practice, and apply strategies for effective knowledge transfer and guidance to surgical trainees.
• Illustrate the principles of effective teamwork and communication in the operating theater to ensure patient safety and enhance surgical outcomes.
• Participants will be able to evaluate and implement advancements in surgical procedures and technologies, balancing innovation with established best practices to improve patient care.

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3:30 PM    Combined Women in Surgery, Resident, Medical Student, and Young Surgeon Lecture

Coding: It’s NOT Just for Private Practice

Philip R. Corvo, MD FACS, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut

Dr. Corvo is the Chairman of Surgery at Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk Connecticut, part of the Nuvance Health System. He is an award winning, nationally recognized surgeon and leader with over twenty-five years of experience. He has pioneered the use of opioid free surgery, 3D printing of anatomic models to improve surgery, and robotic surgery. He has instructed numerous generations of surgical residents and Physician Assistants.

Richard Weiss, MD, FACS, Pediatric Surgeon, Connecticut Children’s, Hartford, CT

Dr. Weiss is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine UConn School of Medicine and Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University. He also is an advisor to the to the RUC and GSCRC.

 

Learning objectives:

1) Understanding Fundamentals of Coding
2) Comparing Business Structures
3) Maximizing EMRs for Efficiency and Coding

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4:15 PM    16th Annual Surgical Skills Competition

The meeting has been approved for 7.0 CME credits by the ACS. 

We have changed our CME procedures slightly this year. Please use the link or QR Code to claim CME within 30 days of the meeting. After you hit submit a CME certificate will be emailed to you. Please print and keep this Certificate. If you do not see it, please check your spam.

You will receive a secondary survey 60 days from the meeting date which is optional to return.

We will report your CME information to the College. They will post it to your MyCME portal 3-4 mos after the end of the meeting.

To claim your CME credits scan the QR code below. You will need your ACS Membership number to complete the survey.

Alternatively, you can click on this link 

due by midnight Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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