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Save the date for the American
College of Surgeons (ACS)
Surgeons as Leaders: From
Operating Room to Boardroom
course, June 5–8 in Durham,
NC. Surgeons who aspire
to meet the challenges of
exemplary leadership across
all settings are encouraged
to join senior surgical leaders
in the three-day course.
Faculty will include
the following:
•Course Chair Andrew L. Warshaw,
MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), senior
consultant, international and
regional clinical relations,
Massachusetts General Hospital
and Partners HealthCare,
Boston, MA, and Immediate
Past-President of the ACS
•Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS, vice-chancellor, human health sciences,
and dean, school of medicine;
University of California-Davis
Health System, and Past-Chair
of the ACS Board of Regents
•Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH,
FACS, director, Codman Center for
Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
and associate professor of surgery,
Harvard Medical School, Boston
•Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS,
president and chief executive
officer, Temple University Health
System, and dean, Lewis Katz
School of Medicine, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
•Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS,
Lewis Atterbury Stimson
Professor and chairman,
department of surgery, Weill
Cornell Medical College; surgeon-in-chief, New York-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell Medical Center,
New York, NY; and Chair,
ACS Board of Governors
•Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD,
FACS, FRCSI(Hon), FRCS(Hon),
FRCSEd(Hon), chief medical
officer, UW Medicine; vice-president for medical affairs,
University of Washington,
Seattle; and ACS Past-President
•Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS,
Loyal and Edith Davis Professor
and chair, department of
surgery, and surgeon-in-chief,
Northwestern Medicine,
Chicago, IL, and a Past-Governor of the ACS
•Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS,
general surgeon, Wichita
Falls, TX; clinical professor of
surgery, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School,
Dallas; and ACS Regent
•Michael Useem, PhD, William
and Jacalyn Egan Professor
of Management and director,
Center for Leadership and
Change Management, Wharton
School of University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• The keynote speaker will
be David F. Torchiana, MD,
FACS, president and chief
executive officer, Partners
HealthCare System, Boston
Organized by the ACS
Division of Education, the
course will help surgeons
exhibit leadership attributes;
use consensus development and
vision to set, align, and achieve
goals; build and maintain
effective teams; identify factors
that hamper the ability to
lead; change culture, resolve
conflict, and balance demands
within the larger environment;
and translate the principles
of leadership into action.
For additional information,
e-mail ulangenscheidt@facs.
org, or call 312-202-5018. ♦
Save the date for the
ACS Surgeons as Leaders Course in June