General news 
TQIP annual meeting identifies new approaches to trauma care(0)
A recap of the 2019 TQIP meeting—including lessons learned from a live trauma simulation, TQIP and COT progress reports, applying high-reliability concepts in trauma, and strategies for implementing hospital-based injury prevention programs—is provided.
Participate in the 2020 Leadership & Advocacy Summit
Registration is open for the 2020 Leadership & Advocacy Summit, March 28–31, at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.
ACS and MacLean Center offer fellowships in surgical ethics
The ACS Division of Education and the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago, IL, are offering two fellowships in surgical ethics.
AMA House of Delegates interim meeting tackles health care issues
This report summarizes the topics that the College’s delegation addressed at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in November 2019.
Disciplinary actions taken in 2019
The disciplinary actions taken by the ACS Board of Regents in 2019 are summarized.
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- Coming next month in JACS, and online now: Statewide prehabilitation program and episode payment in Medicare beneficiaries
- ACS in the news
- Register now to participate in 2020 annual ACS Surgical Simulation Summit
- Report on ACSPA/ACS activities, October 2019
- J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, MCCM, is 2019-2020 ACS President-Elect
- New ACS Secretary and Treasurer elected
- New Regents, Board of Governors Executive Committee members elected
- Call for nominations for ACS Officers-Elect and ACS Board of Regents
- Nominations for 2020 ACS/Pfizer Volunteerism and Humanitarian awards to open December 16
- Heller School Executive Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management 2020 scholarships available
- Coming next month in JACS and online now: Enhancing the American College of Surgeons NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator to predict geriatric outcomes
- 2019 Author index
- 2019 Subject index
- Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, installed as 2019–2020 ACS President
- Patricia J. Numann, MD, FACS, receives ACS Lifetime Achievement Award
