CME Information

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

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.

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

Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose

Ulli Langenscheidt - Nothing to disclose

Brian Frankel - Nothing to disclose

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.

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.

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

Emily Kalata - Nothing to disclose

Todd Rosengart - Nothing to disclose

Peter Angelos - Nothing to disclose

Jennifer Rosen - Nothing to disclose

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

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.

Katherine Meese - Nothing to disclose

Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose

Katherine Meese - Nothing to disclose

Michael Sutherland - Nothing to disclose

Brian Frankel - Nothing to disclose