The 2011 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons—one of the largest international meetings of surgeons in the world—will convene October 23-27, 2011, in San Francisco, CA. The San Francisco Hilton will serve as the headquarters hotel for the meeting, and the Moscone Convention Center will house the scientific panel sessions and courses, as well as all scientific and technical exhibits.
The Clinical Congress program includes guest lectures by prominent leaders in surgery; panel sessions in theme- and discipline-based tracks; dozens of video-based education selections; a selection of didactic postgraduate courses and hands-on skills courses; leading-edge, research-in-progress papers in all surgical specialties for presentation during the Surgical Forum and Papers Sessions; daily town-hall meetings and "Meet the Experts Luncheons"; a series of press conferences; and a peer-reviewed poster session. Additionally, more than 200 companies will display products or services that improve the quality of surgical patient care or enhance management practices within the surgical profession.
This year's meeting will feature hundreds of timely educational panel sessions including:
•Advanced Emergency General Surgery: How to Stay Out of Trouble in the OR
•Early Diagnosis of Surgical Infection: The Next Frontier
•How Did That Sponge Get Left Behind?: Avoiding Mistakes in Our Complex OR Environment
•Duty Hour Restrictions for Surgical Residents: Impact on Patients, Residents, and Faculty
A slate of new postgraduate didactic and skills courses include:
•Humanitarian Surgery: Surgical Skills Training for the International Volunteer Surgeon
•Creation and Maintenance of High Performance Teams in Surgery: An Educational and
•Operational Strategy
•"Meaningful Use" of Electronic Health Records
•Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Disasters for the GI Surgeon
•Modern Evidence-Based Management of Thyroid Cancer
•Employing Allied Health Professionals in a Surgical Practice
•Update on Surgical Critical Care
•Breast Cancer: Current Treatment Paradigms
•Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
•Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Update
•Intra-Operative Decisions in Laparoscopic Inguinal and Ventral Hernia Repair
•Introduction to Robotic Surgery
•Advanced Colonoscopy Skills Course: Polypectomy and Beyond
•Thyroid and Parathyroid Ultrasound
Additional preliminary program information can be viewed online at: http://www.facs.org/clincon2011/index.html(.)
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