The ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit focuses this morning on sustainability in healthcare, quality and safety, and leaders as advocates for the profession and their patients. #ACSLAS24

An extraordinary panel of surgeon CEOs at today’s American College of Surgeons #ACSLAS24 . Drs. Julie Freischlag, MD Robert Higgins, MD, MSHA Selwyn M. Vickers Glenn Steele & Bert O’Malley, moderated by Dr. Tim Babineau

Inflation and a lack of updates to account for increased expenses means that it costs more to deliver care. We are going to the Hill on Tuesday to ask Congress to address these issues. #ACSLAS24

American Board of Thoracic Surgery 75th Anniversary in Chicago and great weather for a run along the Lake Michigan waterfront ⁦The Society of Thoracic Surgeons⁩ #ABTS

ACS Executive Director Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on fixing the broken Medicare physician payment system to help ensure high-quality care for surgical patients.

For more information and to watch Dr. Turner’s testimony: facs.org/for-medical-pr…

We work together to help patients overcome this disease, finding lung cancer early when it can be cured, and assuring that everyone has access to comprehensive cancer care, turning lung cancer victims into lung cancer survivors UW Department of Surgery Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ACS National Lung Cancer Roundtable The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Dr. Benjamin Starnes kicking off the last scientific session of #AmerSurg24 with 'Physician Modified Endografts for the Treatment of Elective, Symptomatic and Ruptured Juxtarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms' UW Vascular

Congratulations to Dr Niten Singh, elected to Fellowship of the American Surgical Association !!! #AmerSurg24 UW Department of Surgery

Dr. Ben Starnes presenting his innovative and ground-breaking clinical experience with physician modified endografts at the annual meeting of the American Surgical Association ⁦American Surgical⁩ ⁦UW Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦UW Vascular⁩ ⁦Benjamin Starnes⁩ ⁦Vascular SVS⁩

Dr. Davidson and colleagues share their work entitled: 'The Impact of a Shared Decision-Making Tool for Appendicitis Treatment on Decisional Conflict' 🥼Dave Flum UW Department of Surgery
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Getting the blood moving before the American Surgical Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC. It’s inspiring to be in our nation’s capitol ⁦American College of Surgeons⁩ ⁦UW Department of Surgery⁩

With UW Department of Surgery representing in the photo - Bryce Robinson Scott Brakenridge and UWBariatricSurgery

CEO Dr. Tim Dellit UW Medicine thanked Governor Jay Inslee for his support of our soon-to-be-opened Center for Behavioral Health and Learning. Inslee also signed the 2024 Operating and Capital State Budgets and other bills today.

Our ALCSI team just published a study in Journal of Clinical Oncology showing that using pack-years to determine #lungcancerscreening eligibility has major limitations. Using a duration cutoff probably is better: ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

Advocacy is so integral. Dr Chen is the WA chapter president American College of Surgeons and partnered with the COT to help STOP THE BLEED to be signed into WA state law. Bringing education and bleeding prevention equipment into schools. UW Department of Surgery UW Medicine Washington State ACS Jay Inslee

Today, Governor Jay Inslee signed Stop the Bleed ACS legislation sponsored by Sen. Manka Dhingra into law.

This bill will require schools in Washington to maintain and provide bleeding control equipment to help communities respond to bleeding emergencies.
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Bleeding control kits and education for WA State schools signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee today UW Medicine. Congrats to all for getting this grass roots movement empowering students and staff to save lives from severe injury across the finish line! Stop the Bleed ACS ACS COT

Dr. Jeff Yang and his research team continue to expand our knowledge of how to improve the inclusion criteria for lung cancer screening. This paper is another important advance, improving access and mitigating health care disparities. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons ACS National Lung Cancer Roundtable GO2 for Lung Cancer

Morning run on the new 2.4 km track in Kigali, Rwanda before a day in the operating room at King Faisal Hospital ⁦King Faisal Hospital Rwanda⁩

Wow! That’s great news for Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery and Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS Dr. Leah Backhus is an inspiring leader in cardiothoracic surgery.