Surgeons, cancer care providers, and administrators: Don't forget to register for the 2025 ACS Cancer Conference. This year's theme is “Harnessing the Power of Collaboration,” highlighting the essential connections among national organizations, physicians, advanced practice providers, and allied health professionals. View more information about the agenda and available workshops. 🗓️: March 12–14, 2025 📍: Phoenix, Arizona
American College of Surgeons
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Highest standards, better outcomes. We are the largest professional organization of surgeons in the world.
About us
The American College of Surgeons has been dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and safeguarding standards of care for more than 110 years. With more than 90,000 members worldwide, 2,500 participating hospitals in our quality programs, and 50 million+ patient records tracked through our surgical registries, healing all with skill and trust remains our #1 focus. Membership opportunities are available for anyone in any stage of their surgical career. To be a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, or FACS, signifies that a surgeon’s education, training, professional competencies, qualifications, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation consistent with the high standards established and required by the College. In addition to Fellows in all surgical specialties and in all practice settings, residents, medical students, and surgical team members all have a place within the ACS, the House of Surgery™. Our robust quality improvement and surgical education programs can lead to greater access for patients, fewer complications, lower cost of care, and better outcomes. Our quality accreditation and verification programs, products, guidelines, and tools improve quality in trauma, cancer, breast disease, bariatrics, children's surgery, geriatric surgery, and overall surgical care. For more about the ACS, visit www.facs.org.
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http://www.facs.org/
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- 201-500 employees
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- Chicago, IL
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- 1913
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Employees at American College of Surgeons
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Jack King, MBA
Chief Information Officer @ American College of Surgeons | MIT Executive Program Certified in Strategy/Innovation/Digital Business
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Mary McFarlin
♦📈♦ IT Project Manager | Technical Project Manager | Driving Success through Project Management, Business Acumen, and Lean Process Excellence ♦📈♦
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Ryan McCabe
Senior Manager, National Cancer Database (NCDB) at American College of Surgeons
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Updates
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2,000+ electrical power-line installers and repairers are injured on the job every year. That's why Alabama high school students trained in ACS Stop the Bleed techniques brought their knowledge of life-saving skills to line workers at Joe Wheeler EMC, helping to enhance their safety in case of bleeding emergencies, whether from falls, equipment mishaps, or vehicle accidents.
Stop the Bleed Instructors Bring Life-Saving Skills to Electrical Line Workers
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ACS Fellow Dr. Vinay Badhwar and his team at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute WVU Medicine have performed the world’s first combined robotic aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting procedure. Learn more about the innovative robotics-guided cardiac surgery.
Fellow Leads World's First in Robotic Cardiac Surgery
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Some great year-end thoughts and important info from Dr. Sutherland ⬇️⬇️⬇️
With 2024 coming to a close, the ACS is reflecting on the successes we’ve experienced over the past year for our profession and for our patients. Bringing high-quality surgical care to all who need it and our commitment to the surgical patient is still our #1 priority. Around the world, our members are the best equipped to turn our vision into action.
Thinking Back and Looking Ahead
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📢 Submit your abstracts and videos for Clinical Congress 2025! We are seeking submissions for the Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum, Video-Based Education Sessions, and the History of Surgery Poster Session. Be a part of the world’s premier surgical annual meeting and submit your abstract by March 3, 2025. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eJzJKwMh
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Calling all Surgical QI Teams: we have issued a call for abstracts to be presented at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 17-20 in San Diego, CA. Abstract submissions should relate to surgical quality improvement initiatives, including the development, implementation, or validation of best practices. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 3, 2025. View the submission categories and visit our website for more information! 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eSBYn7Ft
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With increasing corporatization of healthcare, decision-making has moved farther away for the individual clinical practitioner. Studies show that peer-to-peer coaching can help surgeons adapt to this changing healthcare environment. Investing in peer-to-peer coaching could reduce the stress and burnout among surgeons and improve surgeons’ ability to navigate an increasingly complex bureaucratic structure in order to successfully advocate for their patients. Learn more about how we can find long-term solutions for the challenges related to physician and surgeon well-being.
Peer Coaching May Be “Prescription” to Solve Side Effects of Healthcare Corporatization
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The ACS National Cancer Database (NCDB) recently released its first annual report, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). Key among the findings was that before surgery is pursued, more cancer patients are being treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy, such as hormone therapy and immunotherapy, in addition to chemotherapy. “This report is our approach to making NCDB data more broadly available to others who may benefit from understanding this large source of cancer data and what it’s telling us about the current state of cancer diagnoses and treatments in the United States,” said first author Elizabeth Habermann, chair of the ACS Cancer Data Modeling Committee.
First NCDB Annual Report Reveals More Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy before Surgery
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In the final Executive Director's Update of 2024, Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS reflects on the year's standout activities and successes, including Clinical Congress, the ACS-developed Age Friendly Hospital Measure, and the Surgical Adhesion Improvement Project Summit. “While we highlight the high-impact successes that improve surgical care, public health, and surgical workforce conditions here, please know that we also focus on helping ensure surgeons attain professional fulfillment and lifelong camaraderie,” she says. Read more on the important advancements our community made in 2024.
The ACS’s Year in Notable Numbers
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We recently released the first-ever annual cancer report from the National Cancer Database (NCDB). The NCDB, a clinical oncology database jointly operated by the ACS and the American Cancer Society, captures hospital-based data on approximately 74% of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. View the report for in-depth data on adult cancer diagnoses and treatment trends in breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancers. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gEYpdkrK
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