ACS Bulletin - October 2017

•Presented a Chapter Officer Leadership Program in conjunction with the 2017 Leadership

& Advocacy Summit

Chapter Activities International Workgroup Jamal Hoballah, MD, FACS, Chair (Jorge) Esteban Foianini, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair

The Chapter Activities International Workgroup has established communities for four international regions to increase communication and as a first step toward creating individual International Chapter Communities.

The international chapters conducted valuable educational events at regional meetings in Munich, Germany; Lima, Peru; and Beirut, Lebanon, with College leadership participation. In addition, data collected from international chapters in the Annual Report/Survey was reviewed to identify next steps to strengthen and grow chapters.

•A list of interested International Governors has been provided to the Program Committee to increase their participation as moderators and/or speakers at Clinical Congress.

•A new process was implemented
this year to get Governor
feedback on applicants
for Fellowship from their
respective countries. Plans
are under way for Governors
to begin participating in
interviews of applicants for
Fellowship beginning in 2018.

• Work is in progress to increase collaboration between the international chapters and their respective regional Committees on Trauma.

•Regional meetings are planned for 2018 in Rome, Italy, and Sydney, Australia.

Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards Workgroup Frank Sellke, MD, FACS, Chair David Spain, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair

The members of the Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards Workgroup released a new nominations website in January

2016 and have fine-tuned the nomination fields and criteria.

Outreach through the ACS Communities, the Bulletin, military Governors, and Advisory Councils was aimed at increasing awareness of these awards, which resulted in a historically high number of nominations: 54 in 2017 versus 44 in 2016.

• The workgroup has selected
five recipients, which
were presented to the B/G
Executive Committee at the
June retreat. The awardees
will be honored at the Board
of Governors Dinner at
Clinical Congress 2017.

• The workgroup will continue to collaborate with the military Governors and the Military Health Services Strategic Partnership ACS to better define the criteria for the military award and to reach out to the Excelsior Surgical Society for nominations.

•Board of Governors
Committee seats:
Ȗ ACS Committee on
Diversity Issues: Kenneth
Simon, MD, FACS
Ȗ ACS Women in Surgery
Committee: Annesley
Copeland, MD, FACS
Ȗ YFA: Shoaib Sheikh,
MB, BS, FACS
Ȗ RAS: Glen Franklin,
MD, FACS
Ȗ International Relations
Committee: Katsuhiko
Yanaga, MD, PhD, FACS