Discover More than 100 Clinical and Nonclinical Panel Sessions at Clinical Congress 2024

The annual ACS Clinical Congress is anchored with an outstanding academic and scientific surgical education program, and Clinical Congress 2024, October 19 -22 in San Francisco, California, will offer more than 100 expert-led Panel Sessions to share the latest in broad-based surgical education.

This year’s offerings will cover a wide range of clinical content that includes core general surgery topic, including:

• “Appendicitis: What’s Old, What’s New?”
• “The Ever-Shifting Paradigm in the Treatment of Diverticulitis”
• “Ventral Hernias in Obese Patients: How Should We Do It?”
• “The Ugly Truth Behind the Concept of Subtotal Cholecystectomy”

Many nonclinical but notable topics also will be represented, including:

• “Surgery and Parenthood”
• “Climate Change Begins at 7:15: Our Unsustainable Future in the OR”
• “Addressing Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide Among Surgeons”
• “Distinguishing Medical Students in a Pass-Fail World”

In addition, a returning conference favorite is the “10 Hot Topics in General Surgery” session, during which Past-President E. Christopher Ellison, MD, FACS, and Regent Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, will moderate a wide-ranging, rapid-fire event that highlights important topics for general surgeons, including ultrasound diagnosis of inguinal hernia, endoscopic retrograde treatment for appendicitis, telesurgery, and more.

Learn more about these sessions and many more with the interactive Clinical Congress Program Planner.