Local Event: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Health Care Quality Forum Northern California December 5, 2013 Educational Event, Local Events, UCSF ACS, American College of Surgeons, UCSF 0 Health care leaders from across the Bay Area will gather at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Health Care Quality Forum Northern California to discuss the lessons learned in the successful delivery of emergency and trauma care at multiple local hospitals after the Asiana Airlines accident this summer. Participants will share the challenges in trauma/critical care delivery in the days and weeks after the accident and will explore new solutions to advance emergency care through regionalization, coordination and collaboration. Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF January 14, 2014 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Hosted by ACS Chapter President and SFMS board member John Maa, MD, FACS, and President-elect Shelley Marks, MD, FACS, the forum will examine emergency medical response in California and delve into best practices on improving health care delivery and quality in the state, including the need to invest further resources to maintain the emergency care system. Confirmed forum speakers include: David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, Executive Director, ACS Michael C. Huang, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Neurological Surgery, UCSF M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS, Professor and Interim Chief of Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, UCSF Division of General Surgery Thomas G. Weiser, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center Randolph W.Y. Wong, MD, FACS, General and Thoracic Surgeon, Mills-Peninsula Health Services, Sutter Health Please follow this link to RSVP for this important discussion. Please email InspiringQualityTour@facs.org or visit http://inspiringquality.facs.org/national-tour/ for more information on the event. Comments are closed.
