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The intersection of climate change and surgery(0)
Climate change’s role in expanding existing racial and economic disparities in health care are described as is the surgeon’s role in leading sustainability efforts in the operating room.
Lessons from COVID-19: Why adaptation is needed for surgical climate readiness
Strategies for managing the COVID-19 pandemic response, such as increasing energy and resource efficiency, could inform the surgeon’s role in climate change mitigation.
Surgeon asked colleagues why they chose the profession: Giants of the era responded
This article describes how some trailblazing surgeons were inspired to pursue the surgical profession and highlights the multiple personal and professional factors that may influence a career in surgery.
Tips for turning a strategic plan into active advocacy
Summarizes the differences between passive and active advocacy and identifies the importance of strategic planning for developing policy solutions.
Profiles in ACS leadership: A few questions for Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, FRCSI(Hon), FRCSGlasg(Hon)
This profile provides a look into the professional accomplishments and personal interests of Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair, ACS Board of Regents, and Director, Digestive Disease Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston.
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- The surgeon’s role in health policy: An introduction
- Getting started in advocacy and health policy: The ACS can help
- The teaching prerogative and the role of surgeons in educational health care policy
- Surgical societies: Their impact on health policy
- Surgeon advocacy in action: Challenges, accomplishments, and future direction
- This is our lane: Advocating for firearm injury prevention as surgeons
- Leveraging the surgeon’s role in health policy to address global road traffic injury
- RAS-ACS Symposium: Competency-based training: A gateway to efficiency or a hurried sprint to the finish line
- 2021 state legislative session wrap-up: Advancing surgical priorities in a time of uncertainty
- COVID-19’s impact on advocacy: Virtual versus in-person meetings
- Profiles in ACS leadership: A few questions for Beth Sutton, MD, FACS
- Revised Statement on the Importance of Workplace Accommodations for Pregnancy, Parental Leave, and Lactation Support for Practicing Surgeons
- Statement on Resident Access to Personal Protective Equipment
- Empowering patients through education: ACS launches Your Breast Cancer Surgery Program
- Opportunities for global volunteerism: How two practices in Michigan make it work
