Stanford Surgery at #ACSCC17:

General Surgery’s Dr. Sherry Wren will be honors with the International Award
Session Code: PS103
Title: Humanitarian Surgical Outreach at Home and Abroad: Reports of the 2017 Volunteerism and Humanitarian Award Recipients
Date and Time of Session: Monday, October 23: 9:45 am – 11:15 am
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 1AB

General Surgery Resident Jared Forrester will present “Developing Operating System Process Maps for Surgical Infection Prevention: A Tool to Improve Perioperative Standards in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)”
Session Code: PS103
Title: Global Surgery/Humanitarian Outreach I
Date and Time of Session: Monday, October 23: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 6D

Cocktail Reception
Date and Time: Monday, October 23 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, 1 Market Pl., San Diego, CA, Regatta A-B
Who: All Stanford Surgery current residents, faculty, and staff as well as program alumni are invited to attend!

Associate Professor of Surgery Dr. Frederick Dirbas will present “Breast Ultrasound as an Adjunct to the Application of Radiotherapy in Malignant Disease”
Title: Interventional and Intraoperative Breast Ultrasound for the General Surgeon
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 24 from 9:00 am – 4:30pm
Location: San Diego Convention Center – Room: 15AB
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General Surgery Resident Kimberly Kopecky will present
Title: Surgery Hurts, ACS Surgical Palliative Care Academic Symposium
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 24 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: San Diego Marriott Marquis

Abstracts for the 9th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons must be submitted by Monday, October 30, 2016 at 11:59 pm EST.

Abstracts for the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Plastic Surgery Research Council must be submitted by Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 11:59 EST.

Abstracts must be submitted by February 13, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.

Adjunct Professor of Surgery (vascular surgery) Christopher Cheng will be chairing the Innovation & Investment Summit. where more than a dozen startups related to the field of vascular surgery will pitch using a “Shark Tank” format. 

Abstracts for the 27th International Congress of The Transplantation Society must be submitted by November 15, 2017.