November 12, 2024
The latest episode of The House of Surgery podcast features Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez, a retired family medicine physician from Falls Church, Virginia, who gave the Martin Memorial Lecture at Clinical Congress 2024. Dr. Martinez-Lopez most recently worked as the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs at the US Department of Defense.
His lecture, “Lessons Learned and Future Challenges for Surgery,” examines the important role that the ACS has played in advancing surgery for military and civilian surgeons.