Welcome to the SAGES Speaker Catalog, a listing of SAGES members willing to give talks on various subjects. Please use the search bar below to find members who can speak on your desired topic and click their names to get their full information, contact information, and sample talks when available.
SAGES Members: Please go to the signup page to create your listing or edit an existing listing.
Steven Schwaitzberg
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery
UBMD – Surgery
Buffalo, New York
With more than 35 years of experience in surgical care and technology development, I've had the opportunity to witness small and large changes in our healthcare environment. In the last 20 years I've had the privilege of chairing two different departments and of learned many of the leadership lessons the hard way
Some of my most favorite topics would include
Clinical:
Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy
Minor Common Bile Leaks Are Not so Minor
Do We Really Need to Know How to Do in Inguinal Hernia Five Different Ways?
Economic
Robotic technology in nonhospital or ambulatory settings
Compensation Programs in Surgery - more transparency is needed
Are Surgeons Ready for Value based Care ?
Career Development
Perils and pitfalls of job hunting and hiring
Preparing for 21st Century Jobs -
Malpractice and Liability in Surgery
Leadership
Top 10 leadership lessons after more than two decades as the chair
Building, inspiring, and maintaining programs that support social equity
Technology
The intended and unintended consequences of the artificial intelligence revolution
Lessons learned from the use of ambient technology in surgical clinic
History
Blood in the Moving Wheels of History
Sir Zachary Cope - 100 years of the most useful book in surgery
- Foregut
- Robotics
- Professionalism
- Career Development
- Business of Surgery
- Diversity/Inclusion
- Other
Endocrine, the impact of artificial intelligence
How to get Advanced Endoscopy Training – Targeted Towards Residents & Fellows
Third Space Intraluminal Endoscopy Webinar
SAGES Foregut Webinar Foregut Surgery – Keys to Success
Blood and the Moving Wheels of History
A Universal Translator for Surgeons
SAGES Presidential Address : You Must Be the Change You Was to See in the World