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Quality and Safety Conference

Call for Abstracts

Submissions are now open

The American College of Surgeons has issued a call for abstracts to be presented at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 17-20 in San Diego, CA. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 3, 2025.

Healthcare professionals are encouraged to submit a 250-word abstract for presentation. Abstracts are accepted as an oral presentation, poster presentation, or both.

Abstract submissions should:

  • Relate to surgical quality improvement initiatives, including the development, implementation, or validation of best practices
  • Follow operational best practices relating to workflows around collecting data and reporting
  • Use data from a nationally recognized surgical quality registry sponsored by a surgical society

There is no limit on the number of abstracts per author.  

Please note that abstracts which have been submitted or recently presented at other meetings are eligible for presentation at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference. Previous presentation of a paper does not prohibit the presentation or publication of the material at the 2025 ACS Quality and Safety Conference.   

We welcome submissions from the following categories: 

  1. Bariatric
  2. Cancer
  3. Collaboratives
  4. Education
  5. Efficiency and Value
  6. Emergency General Surgery (EGS)
  7. Environmental Sustainability in Surgery
  8. Geriatric
  9. Health Equity and Access
  10. Healthcare Informatics for Quality
  11. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Surgery
  12. PROs /Patient Centeredness
  13. Pediatrics
  14. Policy
  15. Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
  16. Surgical Infection Control
  17. Surgical Technology and Innovation
  18. Surgical Potpourri
  19. Trauma/Acute Care
  20. Vascular
Submit Abstracts

Please note the following:

  • Posters will not be printed on an author's behalf. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be responsible for printing their own posters to bring onsite.

For assistance, please contact acsqsconference@facs.org.