136th Annual Meeting
 Local Arrangements Chair Dr. John H. Armstrong Ocala, FL |
The 136th Annual Meeting of the Southern Surgical Association will be held December 8-11, 2024, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, FL.
Registration for the 2024 Annual Meeting will open on/about April 15th. The opening date is slightly later this year due to the transition of SSA management.
We encourage members to register and invite their guests through the member portal online beginning in April. If you prefer to register by paper, the 2024 meeting registration form will be linked here and available to download in April. Paper registration forms should be completed with form of payment and returned to the SSA offices.
Non-member guests interested in attending the annual meeting must be invited by a current SSA member who also plans to attend the meeting.
Now accepting Abstract Submissions
Submission Deadline July 8, 2024 11:59pm CST
VISIT ABSTRACT/PROGRAM SECTION BELOW FOR DETAILS AND LINK FOR SUBMISSION
Presented by: Arden Morris, MD, Robert L. and Mary Ellenburg Professor of Surgery, and Professor, by Courtesy, of Health Policy.
Director and Vice Chair of Clinical Research, S-SPIRE Center.
BIo: Arden M. Morris, MD, MPH is Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chair for Research in the Stanford Department of Surgery. She is Director of the S-SPIRE Center, a health services research collaborative to study patient-centered care, clinical optimization, and health care economics. In her own work, Dr. Morris uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to focus on quality of and equity in cancer care. She serves as vice-chair of the Commission on Cancer’s National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer Quality Committee, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons’ representative to the American Joint Commission on Cancer, and Chair of the ACS Cancer Surgery Standards Program Implementation and Integration Committee.
Presented by: Clifford Sheckter, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University.
Bio: Dr. Cliff Sheckter is a California native, growing up in the rural Eastern Sierra. He graduated from UCLA with a BS in Anthropology and earned summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He attended USC (Keck) for medical school on an academic scholarship and graduated valedictorian with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He fell in love with burn care while at USC/LA General Medical Center and completed his surgical training at Stanford. While in residency, he pursued a fellowship/postdoc in Health Systems Design at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC). He earned an MS in Health Policy from Stanford, focusing on health economics. He received additional training in Surgical Critical Care and Burn Surgery at the University of Washington.