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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Webinars & Videos

Below you can watch verified ACS QVP hospitals share their experience, register for featured monthly live webinars, watch past webinar series, and view brief Quick Takes to get started with the ACS QVP process. This page is updated regularly with new webinar content.

Webinars & Videos

Introduction to the ACS Quality Verification Program

ACS QVP Webinar Series

This live webinar series shares key insights when developing a data-driven, hospital-wide surgical quality infrastructure using the ACS QVP. Each live webinar is a 30-minute presentation with Q&A, featuring quality leaders across ACS QVP-participating hospitals. Live webinars are recorded and posted on-demand below.

Past Webinars

2022 ACS Q&S Conference General Session

Surgical Quality: Fact vs. Fiction | 01:13:00
Friday, November 4, 2022
Speakers: Kirsten Edmiston, MD, MPH, FACS, Robert Winchell, MD, FACS, Caroline Reinke, MD, MSPH, FACS, Rachel Kelz, MD, MBA, MSCE, FACS

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The ACS QVP Standards Overview Series

The ACS QVP hosted a four-part webinar series reviewing the 12 ACS QVP Standards. The series discusses the standards related to leadership, care, evaluation, and improvement. 

Part I: Leadership | 01:03:00
June 3, 2022
Speaker: Peter Learn, MD, FACS, Col, USAF, Surgical Quality Officer Emeritus, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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Part II: Care | 00:48:10
July 1, 2022
Speaker: Kirsten Edmiston, MD, MPH, FACS, Director of Clinical Excellence, Surgery Service Line, Inova Health System

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Part III: Evaluation | 00:46:47
August 5, 2022
Speaker: Michael Chang, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, USA Health

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Part IV: Improvement | 00:39:40
September 2, 2022
Speaker: Lillian Kao, MD, MS, FACS, Vice Chair of Quality, Surgery, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School

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The ACS QVP Experience

Using the ACS QVP to Support Rural Hospitals | 01:00:30
February 3, 2023
Speakers: Brian Watkins, MD, FACS, Site Program Director of Surgical Residency, Eastern Region & Matthew Schiralli, MD, FACS, Chair of Surgery, Eastern Region, Rochester Regional Health System 

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Atrium Health Carolina's Medical Center, Charlotte, NC | 01:01:53
May 6, 2022
Speakers: Caroline Reinke, MD, MSHP, FACS, Surgical Quality Officer; Lori Lovelace Elks, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ, Outcomes Specialist, Women's Health and General Surgery Service Lines; Jessica Moore, RN, Performance Improvement Coordinator; Whitney White, Performance Improvement Coordinator; Tina Schoen, MBA, BSN, RN NEA-BC, CPHQ, FACHE, Director of Performance Improvement, & John Schooley, RN, Enterprise Group Vice President Quality at Atrium Health

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UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA | 00:55:29
April 1, 2022
Speakers: Elizabeth Wick, MD, FACS, Surgical Quality Officer, Andrew Murr, MD, FACS, Chart Otolaryngology and Interim Surgical Executive & Amy Lu, MD, MPH, Chief Quality Officer, UCSF Health System

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Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX | 01:02:00
March 4, 2022
Speakers: Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Surgical Quality Officer, and James Fleshman, MD, FASCRS, FACS, Chair of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center

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Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA | 01:01:00
February 4, 2022
Speakers: Kirsten Edmiston, MD, MPH, FACS, Surgical Quality Officer, and Jennifer Ditto Kocis, MSN, RN, Director of Quality, Inova Health System

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ASC QVP Hot Topics

Case Review: Going Beyond Traditional M&M and Peer Review to Drive a Generative Quality Culture

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
Speakers: Peter Learn, MD, FACS

ACS QVP Quick Takes

Getting Started with QVP

ACS QVP Focused Participation for NSQIP Hospital

ACS QVP Pre-Review Questionnaire (PRQ)

ACS QVP Verification Process in 5 Steps

ACS QVP Site Visit