Dear Colleague:
We are excited to share the agenda for the upcoming combined ACS Chapters meeting which we are hosting in Utah. Be sure to reserve your stay, register, and secure your lift tickets. The three links you will need are below.
Please reserve your room here https://resort.to/PC-2025-Combined-Meeting-of-MT-WY-ID-UT
Please register here https://www.thinkreg.com/reg/site/8a94a8b491de221c01920bbe0ad167f4/
Please get ski lift tickets here https://groups.vailresorts.com/parkcity/packages/park-city-social-group-link/50006738?code=PCFY25
Friday, March 21
6:30am - 7:00am Breakfast in Exhibition Hall
7:00am - 7:30am Updates in Pediatric Opioid Stewardship and Adult Applications
Dr. Katherine Gonzalez
7:30am - 8:00am Inferior Vena Cava Injuries
Dr. Ernest Moore
8:00am - 8:30am Updates on Treatment of Venous Stasis Ulcers
Dr. Lorena De Marco Garcia
8:30am - 8:50am Break with Exhibitors
8:50am - 9:50am Panel Session and Case Discussion: How I Use My Robot on Call
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Etter
Panelists: Dr. Mark Mawhinney, Dr. R. Richard Rasmussen, Dr. Cabot Murdock
9:50am - 3:30pm Break with Exhibitors
3:30pm - 4:00pm Competence: You Know It When You See It
Dr. Cindy Downard
4:00pm - 4:30pm Promoting Resilience Among Healthcare Workers in Diverse Practice Settings in the Intermountain West
Dr. Ellen Morrow
4:30pm - 4:50pm Break with Exhibitors
4:50pm - 5:20pm ACS Updates
Dr. Dennis Kraus
5:20pm - 5:50pm Resident and Medical Student Research Quickshots
5:50pm - 7:00pm Speed Mentoring
Dr. Jennifer Rosen
Saturday, March 22
6:30am - 7:00am Breakfast in Exhibition Hall
7:00am - 7:30am Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Dr. Nathan Richards
7:30am - 8:00am Parastomal Hernias - Retromuscular Repair
Dr. David Morrell
8:00am - 8:30am Groin Pain Without Hernia, What are the Options?
Dr. Daniel Vargo
8:30am - 8:50am Break with Exhibitors
8:50am - 9:50am Panel Session: A Small Hernia in a Large Diastasis
Moderator: Dr. Alice Chung
Panelists: Dr. Nathan Richards, Dr. David Morrell, Dr. Daniel Vargo
9:50am - 3:30pm Break with Exhibitors
3:30pm - 4:00pm Update on Prostate Cancer
Dr. Daniel Simon
4:00pm - 4:30pm What's New? Top Breast Cancer Advances in 2025
Dr. Kelly Hewitt
4:30pm - 4:50pm Break with Exhibitors
4:50pm - 5:20pm Coagulopathy: Why Timing Matters
Dr. Ernest Moore
5:20pm - 5:50pm Genetics and Genomics for the General Surgeon
Dr. Jennifer Rosen
5:50pm - 7:00pm Exhibitor Reception
Sunday, March 23
6:30am - 7:00am Breakfast in Exhibition Hall
7:00am - 7:30am Operative Management of Adrenal Disease
Dr. Jessica McMullin
7:30am - 8:00am Management of Cutaneous Melanoma of the Head and Neck
Dr. Dennis Kraus
8:00am - 8:30am Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: Frailty as a Predictor in Surgery and Trauma
Dr. Marta McCrum
8:30am - 8:50am Break with Exhibitors
8:50am - 9:20am Foregut Surgery: GERD, Obesity, and the Hiatus
Dr. Ciara Huntington
9:20am - 9:50am It's More Than Just Your Diet: Diverticulitis as a Familial Disease
Dr. Jessica Cohan
9:50am - 10:20am Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Surgery
Laura Marquez, MHS, CHCIO, CDH-E
10:20am - 10:35am Opportunities in the American College of Surgeons for Trainees and New Career Faculty
Dr. Rachael Essig
Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting. 13.25 CME credits!
Sincerely,
Alice Faith Yuo Chung, MD, FACS
Utah Chapter President