Eight faculty from the UAB Department of Surgery were initiated into the American College of Surgeons as fellows at the ACS 2019 Clinical Congress in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 27. (Photo by Brenessa Lindeman)
UAB Department of Surgery faculty, staff and trainees traveled to San Francisco, California, last month for the American College of Surgeons 2019 Clinical Congress, as well as a number of other national society meetings.
Eight faculty were inducted into the ACS Fellowship program at the event’s convocation ceremony on Oct. 27:
- Robert Cannon, M.D.
- Britney Corey, M.D.
- Brad Denney, M.D.
- Parker Hu, M.D.
- Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP
- Erik Orozco-Hernandez, M.D.
- Abhisek Parmar, M.D.
- Lauren Tanner, M.D.
As a result of their induction into the fellowship, each of these faculty has now earned an “FACS” designation, which indicates that a surgeon’s education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence and ethical conduct have passed an evaluation from the ACS and that the surgeon has been found to be consistent with the standards established and required by the ACS. Department of Surgery Chair Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS, also served as a marshal for the ceremony.
On the second evening of the conference, the Department of Surgery co-hosted a reception with the University of South Alabama, the American Journal of Surgery and the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. All ACS Clinical Congress attendees from Alabama, as well as friends of the hosting departments, were invited to attend the event at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square on Oct. 28.
Several faculty, residents, fellows and students from the Department of Surgery presented in various sessions as part of the ACS Clinical Congress, as well as other national society meetings that were held that same week.
Corey and Lindeman each spoke on surgical education at the Association for Academic Surgery’s annual fall courses on Oct. 26, while the Division of Transplantation’s Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, FACS, delivered the first of the Association of Women Surgeons’ S.H.E. Talks with her discussion of the “power of altruism” with regard to living donor transplants.
Christal Moore, MBA, MHA, FACHE, the executive administrator of the Department of Surgery, also served as the chair of the education committee for the Association of Academic Surgical Administrators annual meeting, which was held Oct. 26-29 at the San Francisco InterContinental hotel in conjunction with the ACS Clinical Congress. On the third day of the AASA meeting, Chen gave a talk on how surgical departments can build a successful administrative structure and dynamic, “Creating the Culture of a Winning Team.”
A group of six students from the UAB School of Medicine attended the ACS Clinical Congress, as well. Led by UAB cardiothoracic surgeon Robert Dabal, M.D., and sponsored by the Department of Surgery, the students had the opportunity to attend sessions specific to their interests and to participate in the conference’s medical student program.
View our list of all the ACS Clinical Congress presenters from UAB.