SAGES Special Projects and Initiatives
This Zone features the current SAGES projects and initiatives. We will have information on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery products as well as information on SAGES Research Grants, the SAGES Outcomes Project, and the SAGES Go Global Project.
Please go to the FLS Web Site for more information.
Please go to the FES Web Site for more information.
Flexible endoscopy is increasingly central to the practice of general surgery. As many as 50% of practicing surgeons depend on colonoscopy and upper endoscopy for a substantial portion of their practice; conversely, many communities in the US and Canada rely on their general surgeon to provide access to essential endoscopic procedures. Finally, there is a natural evolution of surgical disease treatments towards less invasive alternatives which increasingly includes interventional flexible endoscopic alternatives to surgical approaches. Procedures such as common bile duct exploration, pancreatic pseudocyst drainage, colectomy for benign neoplasm, esophagectomy for Barretts disease and many others are no longer approached in a traditional surgical manner. As this list grows, surgeons will find themselves increasingly cut out of the treatment of these diseases unless they adopt interventional endoscopic approaches.
Information on SAGES Research Grants and Career Development Awards is available on the SAGES Research Committee Page
Over the years, SAGES has grown from a society of 50 members to a society of over 6,000 members worldwide. Now that SAGES is a mature society, we would like to give back to the worldwide surgical community.
