Military Health System Strategic Partnership Ameri-
can College of Surgeons (MHSSPACS)
–ACS-Military Health System Partnership focuses on
surgeon readiness and sustaining trauma systems,
101, 6: 66
–MHSSPACS and Excelsior Surgical Society issue call
for abstracts, 101, 4: 61
National Cancer Database (NCDB) (see also: AMERI-
CAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: Activities)
–ACS Clinical Research Program: Improving rectal
cancer outcomes through advocacy, education, and
research: The OSTRiCh Consortium and the new
NAPRC (Monson, Dietz, Boughey, You), 101, 11: 45
Officers and Staff
–ACS Officers, Regents, and Board of Governors’ Executive Committee, 101, 1: 39
–Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, is 2016–2017 ACS President-Elect, 101, 12: 76
–Call for nominations for the ACS Board of Regents and
ACS Officers-Elect, 101, 1: 81, 12: 84
–Courtney M. Townsend, Jr., MD, FACS, installed as 97th
President of the ACS, 101, 11: 57
–New Regents and Governors elected, 101, 12: 80
Operation Giving Back (see also: AMERI-
CAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: Awards and
VOLUNTEERISM)
–Your ACS benefits: Operation Giving Back and the ACS
Archives offer opportunities for engagement (Tefera,
Wilczak, Barber), 101, 12: 70
Patient education
–Optimal in-home postoperative care made possible
through new Patient Feeding Tube Home Skills Kit
(Heneghan, Klein, Strand, Daly), 101, 3: 30
Presidential Address
–Presidential Address: Do what’s right for the patient:
Franklin H. Martin and the American College of Surgeons (Townsend), 101, 12: 12
Regents, Board of
–Call for nominations for the ACS Board of Regents and
ACS Officers-Elect, 101, 1: 81, 12: 84
–Report from the Past-Chair of the Board of Regents:
Impressions on the relevance of a professional organization (Weissler), 101, 3: 37
Research and Optimal Patient Care (see also: AMERI-
CAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: American College
of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program
and QUALITY)
–ACS Clinical Scholars benefit from access to outcomes
measures and mentors (Bilimoria, Ko), 101, 1: 76
–Improving quality in geriatric surgery: A blueprint from
the American College of Surgeons (Russell, Berian,
Rosenthal, Ko), 101, 12: 22
Resident and Associate Society of the American Col-
lege of Surgeons (RAS-ACS) (see also: EDUCATION
AND TRAINING and YOUNG SURGEONS)
–The 2015 RAS-ACS annual Communications Committee
essay contest: An introduction (Sun), 101, 1: 37
–The ACS and advocacy: A tradition of protecting our
patients and advancing our profession (Koo, Sangji,
Kuy, Ogunleye), 101, 8: 30
–ACS Resident and Associate Society: Generations of surgeons: Honoring and modernizing tradition, 101, 8: 11
–Exploring the limits of surgeon disclosure: Where are
the boundaries? (Ginwalla, Reiss, Sangji, Ehlers, Ward),
101, 8: 43
–Exploring the limits of surgeon disclosure: Where are the
boundaries? First-place essay—Con (Mallick), 101, 11: 38
–Exploring the limits of surgeon disclosure: Where are the
boundaries? First-place essay—Pro (McNicoll), 101, 11: 35
–First-place essay: The things I carry (Terracina), 101, 1: 38
–Generations of surgeons: Honoring and modernizing
tradition (Babu), 101, 8: 12
–Not your father’s ACS: The view from the Chair of the
RAS-ACS (Babu), 101, 2: 27
–“Pimping”: Time-honored educational tradition or relic
of the past? (Burgess, Bailey, Busch, Hoffman, Selby),
101, 8: 24
–RAS-ACS Symposium essays: Residents debate the
boundaries of surgeon disclosure (Ward), 101, 11: 34
–Residents: Prepare to take your ACS membership to the
next level, 101, 3: 55
–Surgery comes of age: The ACS and the evolution of the
surgical profession (Terzian, Sun, Hon, Jadeja, Grant),
101, 8: 13
–Talking through time: Trends in communication and
the evolving patient-physician relationship (Shipper,
Hardaway, Garvey, Logghe), 101, 8: 19
–Technology for teaching: New tools for 21st century surgeons (Eskander, Neuwirth, Kuy, Keshava, Meizoso),
101, 8: 36
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