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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.
Sherif Emil, MD, CM, FACS, FRCSC, is the new international chief medical officer (ICMO) for Mercy Ships. He also will continue as pediatric surgery specialty consultant and pediatric surgeon on the Ships during field services. Dr. Emil is based in Montreal, Canada, where he is a professor of pediatric surgery at McGill University and a pediatric surgeon at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre. Mercy Ships is an international charity-based nongovernmental organization that operates a fleet of hospital ships, providing surgical care and free healthcare services to people in more than 70 countries.
Kimberly M. Lumpkins, MD, MBA, FACS
Lumpkins Receives Inaugural Endowed Professorship
Kimberly M. Lumpkins, MD, MBA, FACS, was named the inaugural Dr. J. Laurance Hill Professor in Pediatric Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) in Baltimore. Dr. Lumpkins serves as chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at UMSOM, surgeon-in-chief at the University of Maryland Children's Hospital, and chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and Urology. J. Laurance Hill, MD, FACS, was a longtime UMSOM faculty member who provided surgical interventions for generations of children and mentored countless surgeons.
Joseph F. Sabik III, MD, FACS
Sabik Is Elected STS President
Joseph F. Sabik III, MD, FACS, is the new president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Dr. Sabik—a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute—also is chair of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, surgeon-in-chief at University Hospitals Health System, the Oliver H. Payne Professor and Chair in the Department of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and the Sally and Bob Gries Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospitals, all in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Dingeldein, MD, FACS
Dingeldein Takes Over as Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Michael Dingeldein, MD, FACS, has been named chief of pediatric surgery at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Dingeldein, who has served as a pediatric surgeon and director of trauma at UH Rainbow for 10 years, has held the chief role on an interim basis since June 2024.
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