ACS Bulletin - December 2016

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France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland, who lectured on several topics, including The Value of Membership for the ACS European Surgeons; Strategies to Enlarge the Recruitment for FACS, RAS, and Students Among European Chapters;

ACS Quality Programs and Fellowship Opportunities;

[Continuing Medical Education] for Senior Trainees: What Can the European Chapters Do?; Research Fellowship in the USA: Implications for the European Surgical Trainee and the ACS; and Leaping Forward: A Network among European Chapters.

The European chapter leaders also discussed their vision to consolidate and to move their common organizational structure forward. This inaugural regional meeting of the European ACS chapters will open up a new trend of regional meetings and will strengthen networking among the ACS European chapters.

Dr. Townsend speaks at ACS
Korea Chapter meeting

ACS President Courtney M.

Townsend Jr., MD, FACS, was the guest speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Korean Surgical Society, November 3–5, in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Townsend, who gave a presentation on Education and the Quality Programs of the ACS, also attended the ACS Korea Chapter Meeting November

3. He offered an update on
ACS activities in a session
moderated by Choong Bai
Kim, MD, FACS, President of
the ACS Korea Chapter. Other
topics presented at the meeting
included Impressions of a New
FACS by H.S. Chang, MD,
PhD, FACS, Chapter Secretary
General; Quality Improvement
Projects by Sun Whe Kim, MD,
FACS, Governor; Academic-
Society Based Surgical
Quality Improvement Project
Cholecystectomy and Surgical
Quality Improvement Project
Thyroidectomy by H.K. Lee,
MD, FACS; and a course on
off-the-job training in trauma
during general surgery residency
by C. Y. Park, MD, FACS.

Dr. Richardson participates in
Saudi Arabia Chapter’s 25th
anniversary celebration

The Saudi Arabia Chapter of the ACS held its annual meeting September 28 and celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Dr. Richardson attended the meeting, which took place at the Amwaj Rotana Hotel, Dubai, UAE. A total of 60 surgeons representing a variety of specialties and nations attended.

The meeting was divided into a scientific program, during which several surgeons presented their research and scientific projects, followed by a special business session that included presentations of chapter member activities, including College programs such as the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, as well as quality programs in bariatric surgery, organ transplantation, and trauma.