With a new meeting footprint and revitalized discipline-focused content, Clinical Congress 2024 in San Francisco, California, promises to be one of the world’s premier surgical education events. Now is the time to secure your registration.
Addressing longtime feedback regarding the timeline for Clinical Congress, this year’s new Saturday-through-Tuesday meeting will provide the high-quality, innovative content attendees have come to expect—all while spending fewer days away from hospitals, clinics, and patients.
This hybrid event will again offer select content in a virtual, on-demand format, which will remain available for access through February 24, 2025.
New: Early Specialty and Multidisciplinary Sessions, Focus on AI
An exciting, significant change includes additional thematic and specialty content during the conference’s first 2 days.
“The ACS, as the House of Surgery, brings all surgeons together and provides the opportunity to create these multidisciplinary panels, which are of interest to a wide range of surgeons,” said Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS, Vice-Chair of the ACS Board of Regents and Chair of the Clinical Congress Program Committee.
Specialty sessions on cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and more will be available on Sunday and Monday, further allowing surgeons across the disciplines to conveniently attend the sessions that matter to them.
In addition, there will be an even greater emphasis on multidisciplinary panels, which this year include sessions on Fournier Gangrene and renal hyperparathyroidism.
Artificial intelligence (AI) also will be a focus, beginning with the special session, “Generative AI Tools for Surgery: Will AI Change My Practice?,” immediately following the Martin Memorial Lecture.
New Fellows
A highlight of Clinical Congress is the Convocation Ceremony, which confers Fellowship upon surgeons who have successfully met the College’s requirements and standards and who are committed to the ACS mission and values. This year, reflecting the new conference timeline, the ceremony will take place on Saturday evening and will include recognition of Honorary Fellows, presentation of the Distinguished Service Award, installation of ACS Officers and Officers-Elect, and the Presidential Address.
The Convocation Ceremony will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.
Prominent Named Lecturers
Renowned surgeons and healthcare experts will deliver this year’s always-popular Named Lectures.
Broad-Based Content for All Surgeons
Popular broad-based content relevant to all surgeons will return with more than 100 Panel Sessions covering both clinical and non-clinical topics, ranging from appendicitis to the role of surgeons in promoting sustainability in their practice, in addition to the return of perennial conference favorite “Ten Hot Topics in General Surgery.”
In addition, after a successful debut in 2023, the Great Debate session type will again be a part of the Clinical Congress program—but now expanded into two offerings to provide extended presentation and discussion opportunities for expert panelists. Topics this year are whole blood transfusion and angioembolization, as well as managing rib fracture fixation.
The expansive Scientific Forum offers the opportunity to learn about the latest high-quality, in-progress scientific and academic surgery reports, including updates on High-Impact Clinical Trials and Studies.
Networking and Social Events
Attendees also will have unparalleled access to their peers.
“As a community surgeon, I get to interact with surgeons who are academic surgeons, who are professors and deans, who are on the cutting edge of research and everything that’s making our specialty move into the future. On the other side, I get to interact with surgeons from rural and small city practices,” said Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS, ACS President-Elect.
The capstone event for Clinical Congress is Taste of the City on Tuesday evening, which will showcase San Francisco’s world-class cuisine and provide impressive entertainment.
Exhibit Hall Opportunities
Throughout the conference, attendees will be able to visit ACS Central and the Technical Exhibition, where more than 125 companies will display their products, innovations, and services. In addition, the popular ACS Surgical Metrics Project and Surgical Ergonomics Hands-On Clinic also will return.
