Presented by: Todd Wagner, PhD, Professor of Surgery
Talk title: “The Changing Face of Veterans and Implications for Policy: Insurance Coverage for US Veterans from 2010-2021”
Bio: Todd Wagner is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. He studies health information, efficiency and value, and health care access. He is particularly interested in developing learning health care systems that provide high value care. In addition to his role at Stanford, he Directs the Health Economics Resource Center at the Palo Alto VA, where he is a VA Research Career Scientist and he co-directs the VA/NCI Big Data Fellowship.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Due to President’s Holiday, the Work In Progress session has been cancelled.
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.
Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.
Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu
Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery
QUALITY AND SAFETY CONFERENCE
Call for Abstracts
Submission Criteria Now Include More Surgical Quality Data Registries
Abstract submission is now open for the 2024 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 18–22 in Denver, CO. The deadline for submission is February 29, 2024.
Authors are encouraged to submit a 250-word abstract for poster and/or podium presentation. The abstract should relate to surgical quality improvement initiatives, including the development, implementation, or validation of best practices. We are also interested in operational best practices relating to data collection and reporting. Abstracts may use data from a nationally recognized surgical quality data registry sponsored by a surgical society. The requirement data come from only the ACS Quality Programs has been lifted. There is no limit on the number of abstracts per author.
Please note: Abstracts that have been submitted or recently presented at other meetings are eligible for presentation at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference. Previous presentation of a paper does not prohibit the presentation or publication of the material at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference.
We welcome submissions from the following categories:
- Bariatric
- Cancer
- Collaboratives
- Education
- Efficiency and Value
- Emergency General Surgery (EGS)
- Environmental Sustainability in Surgery
- Geriatric
- Health Equity and Access
- Healthcare Informatics for Quality
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Surgery
- Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs)/Patient Centeredness
- Pediatrics
- Policy
- Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Surgical Infection Control
- Surgical Technology and Innovation
- Surgical Potpourri
- Trauma/Acute Care
- Vascular
If you have questions, email acsqsconference@facs.org or call 312-202-5319.