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Current Committee Schedule

Spring 2023 Committee meetings will be held primarily as in-person meetings on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023, and will not have a virtual component similar to recent committee meetings.    Select Committees have chosen to hold their meetings virtually and are noted in the chart below.

Virtual meetings will be held from March 14th- March 24th, 2023, and are noted as “VIRTUAL” in the Location column of the chart below.  You will receive Zoom connection information in a forthcoming calendar invite from your committee staffer.   The calendar invite will be displayed in your local time zone, but meeting times below are displayed in Eastern Standard Time.

In-person meetings will be held in Montreal on Tuesday, March 28th prior to the kick-off of SAGES 2023.  All committee meetings will be held at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel (https://www.sages2023.org/hotel-reservations/.)  Meeting room locations at the hotel have been added below, but please plan to check back in advance of your meeting in the event any room assignments have changed.  In-person meetings will NOT have a Zoom video component but may have an option to participate via teleconference.  Please contact your committee staffer if you require teleconference access by March 1st, 2023.   All in-person meetings will be held in Montreal’s local time zone (Eastern Standard Time), as displayed in the chart below.

If you have any questions about your meetings or assignments, please contact Nathaniel Piha

All times are listed below in EASTERN STANDARD TIME.

Committee Schedule

Date Start Time (Eastern) End Time (Eastern) Committee Location Chair
Tue, Mar 28 2023 07:00 AM 08:30 AM Acute Care Surgery Task Force Av. Van-Horne Michael Cripps
Tue, Mar 28 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Advocacy and Health Policy Rue St Catherine Ross Goldberg
Tue, Mar 28 2023 01:00 PM 02:30 PM Artificial Intelligence Rue St Paul Ozanan Meireles
Tue, Mar 28 2023 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Colorectal Av. Viger Elizabeth McLemore
Tue, Mar 28 2023 09:00 AM 10:30 AM Communications Av. Van-Horne Kellie McFarlin
Thu, Mar 23 2023 07:00 PM 08:30 PM Community Practice VIRTUAL Caitlin Halbert
Wed, Mar 22 2023 07:00 PM 08:30 PM Conflict of Interest VIRTUAL Caroline Reinke
Tue, Mar 28 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Continuing Education Av. Duluth Yong Choi
Fri, Mar 24 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Development VIRTUAL Garth Jacobsen
Tue, Mar 28 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Diversity, Leadership and Professional Development Task Force Av. Van-Horne Alia Qureshi
Tue, Mar 28 2023 09:00 AM 10:30 AM Education Council Av. Viger E. Matthew Ritter
Tue, Mar 28 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Educational Resources Av. Duluth Michael Ujiki
Tue, Mar 28 2023 09:00 AM 10:30 AM Finance Rue St Catherine Christopher Schlachta
Tue, Mar 28 2023 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Flexible Endoscopy Av. Van-Horne James Ellsmere
Tue, Mar 28 2023 01:00 PM 02:30 PM Foregut Av. Viger Jon Gould
Tue, Mar 14 2023 07:00 PM 08:30 PM Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy VIRTUAL Thomas Robinson
Thu, Mar 16 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery VIRTUAL Eric Pauli
Tue, Mar 28 2023 07:00 AM 08:30 AM Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Rue St Catherine Melina Vassiliou
Tue, Mar 28 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Global Affairs Rue St Catherine Linda Zhang
Thu, Mar 23 2023 07:00 PM 08:30 PM Guidelines VIRTUAL Bethany Slater
Wed, Mar 22 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Hernia VIRTUAL Matthew Goldblatt
Tue, Mar 28 2023 05:00 PM 07:00 PM HPB/Solid Organ Av. Van-Horne (2 Hour Meeting) Adnan Alseidi
Tue, Mar 28 2023 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Membership Rue St Catherine Maria Altieri
Fri, Mar 17 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery VIRTUAL Matthew Kroh
Wed, Mar 22 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Military VIRTUAL Andrew Schlussel
Tue, Mar 28 2023 09:00 AM 10:30 AM Oncology Rue St Paul John Marks
Tue, Mar 21 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Pediatrics VIRTUAL Stefan Scholz
Tue, Mar 28 2023 01:00 PM 02:30 PM Program Av. Van-Horne Melissa Phillips
Fri, Mar 24 2023 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Publications VIRTUAL S. Scott Davis, Jr.
Tue, Mar 28 2023 09:00 AM 10:30 AM Quality, Outcomes, Safety Av. Duluth Jonathan Dort
Tue, Mar 28 2023 07:00 AM 08:30 AM Re-imagining the Practice of Surgery Task Force Rue St Paul Horacio Asbun
Tue, Mar 28 2023 01:00 PM 02:30 PM Research and Career Development Av. Duluth Chris DuCoin
Thu, Mar 16 2023 07:00 PM 08:30 PM Resident and Fellow Training VIRTUAL Michael Awad
Tue, Mar 28 2023 05:00 PM 06:30 PM Robotics Av. Viger Ankit Patel
Tue, Mar 28 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Safe Chole Task Force Av. Viger Federico Serrot
Tue, Mar 28 2023 01:00 PM 02:30 PM Surgical Data Science Task Force Rue St Catherine Amin Madani
Tue, Mar 28 2023 03:00 PM 04:30 PM Technology and Value Assessment Rue St Paul David Renton
Tue, Mar 28 2023 11:00 AM 12:30 PM Technology Council Av. Duluth Christopher Schlachta
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