Feb
28
Fri
2025
Stanford Transplantation Surgical Fellowship Application Deadline
Feb 28 all-day
Mar
3
Mon
2025
ACS Quality and Safety Annual Meeting Abstract Submission
Mar 3 all-day

Call for Abstracts

Submissions are now open

The American College of Surgeons has issued a call for abstracts to be presented at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 17-20 in San Diego, CA. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 3, 2025.

Healthcare professionals are encouraged to submit a 250-word abstract for presentation. Abstracts are accepted as an oral presentation, poster presentation, or both.

Abstract submissions should:

  • Relate to surgical quality improvement initiatives, including the development, implementation, or validation of best practices
  • Follow operational best practices relating to workflows around collecting data and reporting
  • Use data from a nationally recognized surgical quality registry sponsored by a surgical society

There is no limit on the number of abstracts per author.  

Please note that abstracts which have been submitted or recently presented at other meetings are eligible for presentation at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference. Previous presentation of a paper does not prohibit the presentation or publication of the material at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference.

We welcome submissions from the following categories:

  1. Bariatric
  2. Cancer
  3. Collaboratives
  4. Education
  5. Efficiency and Value
  6. Emergency General Surgery (EGS)
  7. Environmental Sustainability in Surgery
  8. Geriatric
  9. Health Equity and Access
  10. Healthcare Informatics for Quality
  11. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Surgery
  12. PROs /Patient Centeredness
  13. Pediatrics
  14. Policy
  15. Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
  16. Surgical Infection Control
  17. Surgical Technology and Innovation
  18. Surgical Potpourri
  19. Trauma/Acute Care
  20. Vascular

Submit Abstracts

Please note the following:

  • Posters will not be printed on an author’s behalf. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be responsible for printing their own posters to bring onsite.

For assistance, please contact acsqsconference@facs.org.

Work In Progress Session
Mar 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by: Leon Naar, MD, General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Beyond the Diagnosis: The Role of Persistent Poverty in Colon and Rectal Cancer Care.”

Bio: Leon Naar is a fourth year General Surgery resident at Stanford, currently conducting research under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron Dawes. His work focuses on health services research in Colon and Rectal Cancer patients. After residency, Leon’s goal is to pursue fellowship training in the field of Colon and Rectal Surgery.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Mar
10
Mon
2025
Work In Progress Session
Mar 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by: Shipra Arya, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Shipra Arya, MD, SM, FACS, is a Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and section chief of vascular surgery at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She has a Master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health with focus on research methodology and cardiovascular epidemiology. She completed her General Surgery Residency at Creighton University Medical Center followed by a Vascular Surgery Fellowship at University of Michigan. She has been funded by American Heart Association (AHA), NIH/NIA GEMSSTAR grant, VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i), and is currently funded by VA HSR&D for a multicenter stepped wedge cluster randomized clinical trial called “PAtient-centered mUltidiSciplinary Care for vEterans Undergoing Surgery (PAUSE) trial”. Her current work focuses on streamlining frailty evaluation, as well as implementation of patient and system level interventions to improve surgical quality and to provide high-value and patient centered care.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Mar
17
Mon
2025
Work In Progress Session
Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

 

Presented by: Elizabeth George, MD, Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Bio: Dr. George is a board-eligible vascular surgeon and health services researcher at Stanford. She earned her B.A., M.D., and M.S. in Health Policy from Stanford, where she also completed her residency. She specializes in complex vascular procedures and improving high-value surgical care for vulnerable, understudied patient populations.

Talk Title: “Financial toxicity in peripheral arterial disease: more than the metaphorical arm and a leg”

Presented by: Josh Grab
Bio: Joshua Grab is a Biostatistician at the S-SPIRE Center in the Department of Surgery. He has Masters’ degrees in Biostatistics and Mathematics. Josh has 12 years of experience as a biostatistician and data analyst. As a data analyst at UCSF, he worked primarily for the Liver Transplant Center doing survival analyses. At Wake Forest University, he worked on genome-wide association studies for various disease conditions. Before that, he worked at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), building logistic models for mortality within the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ National Cardiac Database.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Mar
24
Mon
2025
Work In Progress Session
Mar 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by: David Lim, Researcher in Computer Science.
Talk Title: “Leveraging Language Models for Automated Detection and Characterization of Adrenal Nodules in MRI Radiology Reports”

Bio: David Lim is a researcher in Computer Science who has been working on using large language models to enable research on electronic medical records at the VA and Stanford.

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.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Mar
25
Tue
2025
Al-Khatib Lecture
Mar 25 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Mar
31
Mon
2025
Work In Progress Session
Mar 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by: Eric Sun, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD), Stanford University
Talk Title: TBD

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.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Apr
1
Tue
2025
Chest Wall Injury Society (CWIS) Abstract Deadline
Apr 1 all-day

2025 CWIS International Meeting

September 1 – 2, 2025 

The Chest Wall Injury Summit Program Committee encourages you to submit an abstract for oral presentation at the 2025 CWIS International meeting in Brussels, Belgium, which will be held on 1-2 September 2025. The goal of the meeting is to exchange ideas about best practices in the daily delivery of excellent patient care.

There may be areas of controversy, where your research and experience can help participants choose the best practice for their individual patients. The abstracts may be research-focused, clinical-focused, or program-focused. The abstract must describe work that is evidence-based and can be early implementation or brainstorming stage.

Click on link below for further details:

 

Apr
7
Mon
2025
Work In Progress Session
Apr 7 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>