CME Information
The 2025 Leadership Summit, held on April 6, 2025, is designated for 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
The Sustaining Lifelong Surgeon Competency Workshop and The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust Workshop, held on April 5, 2025, are both designated for 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
CME credits can be claimed by accessing the links below and filling out the respective forms.
Sustaining Lifelong Surgeon Competency Workshop
The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust Workshop
An evaluation needs to be completed in order to obtain CME credits for the sessions attended.
The deadline to claim CME credits for all three events is June 5, 2025.
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Program Objectives
The 2025 Leadership Summit provides the opportunity for you to invest in yourself through the following program objectives:
- Lead in big environments
- Recognize the impact of uniting surgical disciplines
- Know your worth as a surgical leader and how to negotiate accordingly
- Learn how to lead at every level
- Understand the value of advanced degrees
- Examine the key element of succession planning for organizational success
- Utilize emotional intelligence as a leadership tool
- Gain insight on the current and future state of ACS from its executive director and CEO
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
- Ineligible Company: The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.
- Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.
- Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
Speakers/Moderators/Discussants/Authors
Eric Elster - Nothing to disclose
Anthony Atala - Nothing to disclose
Joshua Mammen - Nothing to disclose
Kimberly Lumpkins - Nothing to disclose
Jack Flowers - Nothing to disclose
Paula Ferrada - Nothing to disclose
Rachel Kelz - Nothing to disclose
Deanna Sasaki-Adams - Nothing to disclose
KMarie King - Nothing to disclose
E. Christopher Ellison - Nothing to disclose
Sharon Stein - Nothing to disclose
Carlos Pellegrini - Nothing to disclose
Mary Killackey - Nothing to disclose
Harry Papaconstantinou - Nothing to disclose
Patricia Turner - Nothing to disclose
Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose
Planning Committee
Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose
Ulli Langenscheidt - Nothing to disclose
Brian Frankel - Nothing to disclose
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Program Objectives
The Sustaining Lifelong Surgeon Competency Workshop provides the opportunity for you to invest in yourself through the following program objectives:
Prepare for life after the operating room, learn tools for maintaining clinical and non-clinical competencies, implement best practices into your daily practice, extend the professional life cycle of surgeons, debate the pros and cons around surgeon competency, and explore the viability of cognitive, eye-hand motor, and other behavioral testing.
The workshop format is a good mix of expert presentations, debates, and panel sessions, along with hands-on workstations to apply lessons learned.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
- Ineligible Company: The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.
- Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.
- Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
Speakers/Moderators/Discussants/Authors
Todd Rosengart - Nothing to disclose
Peter Angelos - Nothing to disclose
Jennifer Rosen - Nothing to disclose
E. Christopher Ellison - Nothing to disclose
Jennifer Chen - Nothing to disclose
Mark Katlic - Nothing to disclose
Carla Pugh - Nothing to disclose
Eric Storch - Nothing to disclose
Nancy Perrier - Nothing to disclose
Planning Committee
Emily Kalata - Nothing to disclose
Todd Rosengart - Nothing to disclose
Peter Angelos - Nothing to disclose
Jennifer Rosen - Nothing to disclose
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Program Objectives
The The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust Workshop provides the opportunity for you to invest in yourself through the following program objectives:
- Understand what is really driving turnover and retention
- Demonstrate why trust is the key to retention, how to rebuild it, and what doesn't work
- Implement new rules of transparency and communication
- Learn free solutions to address burnout, without more staff
- Examine the myths of recognition
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
- Ineligible Company: The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.
- Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.
- Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
Speakers/Moderators/Discussants/Authors
Katherine Meese - Nothing to disclose
Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose
Planning Committee
Katherine Meese - Nothing to disclose
Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose
Brian Frankel - Nothing to disclose
Successful completion of CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
Diplomates of the American Board of Surgery
By attending an ACS-accredited activity, you may choose to participate in the automatic transfer of your CME credits to the ABS via the ACCME. If you are a physician and Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery (ABS), this is a free offering.
Opt in to Automatically Send your CME Data to the ABS
The direct automatic transfer applies to all learners who have an ACS profile, are Diplomates of the ABS, and have provided their ABS ID and date of birth in the ACS MyCME Portal on the Board Certification page.
Instructions to Access MyCME and Opt in to Transmit Your CME Data
- Log in to your MyCME Portal
- Select the Board Certification tab
- Enter the American Board of Surgery
- Enter your ABS ID
- Enter your Day and Month of birth
- Next go to the Send CME Data tab
- Toggle to Opt In (green) “Yes! I choose to opt in and permit the ACS to automatically transfer all my ACS-accredited CME data to my chosen specialty board earned March 1, 2021, and forward.”
Please note if you have successfully transmitted your ACS-accredited CME credits to the ABS via ACCME, then you can skip steps 2-6, and go directly to the "Send CME Data tab," and "Toggle to Opt In (green)."
Once you have opted to automatically transfer your CME credits to the ABS, please allow 24 hours after transferring your CME credits before you log into your ABS account to confirm the credits are in your ABS CME Repository.
You may opt out at any time.
For more information or to request assistance, contact mycme@facs.org
For questions regarding claiming CME, please contact lasummit@facs.org.