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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ESS Webinars

Webinars will be held on the third Friday of the month from 1530 to 1700 Eastern US time. They will feature leadership updates, committee reports, question-and-answer sessions, and speakers who will tackle real-world topics of importance and relevance to Excelsior membership.

Where is the meeting link? The meeting link is the same for all webinars. You will need to log in to access the Adobe Connect and Zoom links for all the webinars.

How do I view a recording of the meeting? Recordings of the webinars will be added to this page as they are available. Some are password-protected – contact us at excelsior@facs.org to receive access.

2024–2025 Webinars

December 2024: Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS: From Rural Boyhood to Distinguished Surgeon

Speaker: Gordon Telford, MD, FACS, Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisonsin, Milwaukee, ACS History and Archives Committee.
Contributor: Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, ESS President 2024-2025

Recording Information: Zoom Link | Passcode: 92hb*Bvn

January 2025: Updates from the JTS

Speakers:

  • Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, General Surgery Specialty Leader to the Surgeon General, ESS President 2024–2025
  • Jennifer Gurney, MD, FACS, Chair, JTS, ESS President 2023–2024

Recording Information: Zoom Link | Passcode: 8t!C#c9p

February 2025: Military Surgery Program Director Meet-and-Greet

Keynote Speaker: LTC Jason Radowsky, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care, Walter Reed

Moderator: Lt Col James Wiseman, MD, FACS

Recording Information: Zoom Link | Passcode: T!j?5.gz

March 2025: USU Battlefield Shock and Organ Support Lab & Global Trauma Systems

Speakers:

  • Pat Walker, MD, FACS, USU Battlefield Shock and Organ Support Lab
  • John Maddox, MD, FACS, Global Trauma System Development

Moderator: Matt Nealeigh, DO, MHPE, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, ESS Research Committee Co-Chair

Recording Information: Zoom Link | Passcode: E^Z64zAj

April 2025: Subspecialty Surgical Emergencies for the Deployed General Surgeon

Speakers:

  • CDR Dan Hammer, DDS, FACS, Maxillofacial Surgery Pearls and Pitfalls for Role II Surgeons
  • CDR Katherine Wrenn-Maresh, MD, FACS, Urologic & Gynecologic Emergencies
  • CAPT (R) Tracy Thompson, MD,Urologic & Gynecologic Emergencies
  • CAPT (R) Robert Ricca, MD, FACS,Pediatric Surgery Pearls for the Deployed Surgeon

Moderator: Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, ESS President 2024–2025

Recording Information: Zoom Link | Passcode: $lQ3A=B7

2023–2024 Webinars

December 2023: Excelsior Surgical Society: Home for Military Surgeons in the ACS - Future Directions and Goals

Speakers:

  • Dr. Jennifer Gurney, the 2023–2024 ESS President
  • Dr. Gordon Wisbach, the ESS Representative to the ACS Board of Governors
  • Dr. Brian Eastridge, Medical Director, Military Health System Strategic Partnership ACS 

Recording

January 2024: ESS January Webinar: Burns & Disasters: What Every Military Surgeon Should Know

Speakers:

  • Jay Yelon, DO, FACS, USN – History of Halifax Harbor and Cocoanut Grove Disasters
  • David Harrington, MD, FACS – Station Night Club Fire
  • Leopoldo C. Cancio, MD, FACS, USA, ISR – What’s New in Burn Care for Military Surgeons

Moderated by ESS Executive Council

Recording

February 2024: Program Directors in the Hot Seat: Everything You Want to Know About GME in One Hour

Speaker: Dr Brian Gavitt, Colonel, USAF, MC, FS, Commander, 88th Surgical Operations Squadron, AF/SG Consultant for Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care 

Recording

March 2024: Preparing for the Next Fight: An Overview of the DoD Combat Casualty Care Research Program

Speaker: CAPT Travis Polk, MD, FACS

Recording

May 2024: Ensuring Surgeon Readiness: Establishing and Leveraging MOUs for Military Surgeons

Speakers:

  • CAPT Eamon O’Reilly, Plastic Surgeon, NMCSD Strategic Partnerships Chair
  • COL Shaun Brown, Colorectal Surgeon, Army War College Fellow
  • Mr. Robert Klant,  NMCSD Healthcare Attorney
  • Ms. Ginger Paad,  DHA OGC San Diego 

Recording

June 2024: Topic: Establishing an Integrated National Trauma System

Speaker: Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS, Professor and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Burns, and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Washington; Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center

Recording

July 2024: Hidden Figures: Minority Contributions to Military Medicine

Speakers:

  • COL Kenneth Wilson, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Trauma Medical Director, University of Chicago Medicine & Biologic Sciences
  • MAJ Elise Fannon, MD, MPP, ESS Executive Council liaison to the DEI Committee

Recording

2022–2023 Webinars

December 2022: Where have we been, where are we now, where are we going?

Speaker: Col Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, FACS, USAFR

Contributor: Gordon Wisbach, MD, FACS, ESS Rep to ACS Board of Governors

Recording

January 2023: DoD Research: From Funding to Academic Productivity

Speaker: CAPT Travis Polk, MD; Thomas Davis, PhD; LTC Timothy Vreeland, MD
Moderator: CDR Diego Vicente, MD

Recording

February 2023: Mentorship, USUHS/HPSP

Moderator: Lt Col James Wiseman and MAJ Maggie Gallagher

Airforce Recording
Army Recording

March 2023: Cultivating and Evaluating Military Surgeon Readiness: Past, Present, and Future

Moderator: Dan Hammer

Recording

April 2023: Impactful Military Contributions to Civilian Medicine and Surgery: Past, Present, and Future

Moderator: Dr. Omar Rokayak and Edward Coleman

Recording

May 2023: Diversity State of the Union for Military Surgery and Levers to Increase Productivity

Moderator: Chonna Kendrick and Dr. Abdullah Pratt

Recording

June 2023: The Recent History of Military Surgical Societies

Moderators: Dr. Jeremy Cannon and Dr. Juan Asensio

Recording

July 2023: Case Records of the Joint Trauma System

Moderators: COL Jennifer Gurney

Recording

August 2023: Transatlantic Journal Club

Moderators: Jennifer Gurney, Max Marsden

Recording

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