SAGES
Reimagining surgical care for a healthier world
“The world is getting smaller” and with that SAGES today is truly an international society more than ever. Though based in the United States, there are more than 1000 international members (from Europe, Asia, the Americas and even Africa), hundreds of international abstract submissions yearly and a dozen international outreach programs. I would like to …
Early in July, the 6th annual NOSCAR sponsored Conference on NOTES was held in Chicago near O’Hare airport. I thought now would be the perfect opportunity to update you on the current status of the journey – what’s been accomplished, where are we now, where might we be going. The Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for …
The next time you sit in an airplane you might spend a moment thinking about how the flight crew incorporates the new technology that is added to the aircraft from time to time. Certainly the advent of GPS occurred in the midst of the careers of many senior pilots as well as the evolution of …
This month I am writing to all current SAGES members and those of you in the general surgical community thinking about “how many societies do I need to belong to?” In this day and age of declining reimbursements and dramatic economic “belt-tightening”, this becomes an ever increasingly important question. In my mind a professional society has to …
Like many of you I recently returned from the SAGES annual meeting in San Antonio marking our 30th anniversary. More than 2000 surgeons and allied health professionals registered for this year’s meeting. I would like to personally congratulate Brian Dunkin, this year’s program chair and his whole team for an extraordinarily engaging series of post …
