DDW® Council Chair Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF, FASGE, welcomes attendees to San Diego and #DDW19 — the 50th anniversary of the meeting. Find out what’s new this year and reflect on 50 years of excellence.
Diversity is a must-have tool to improve outcomes for patients, providers and all stakeholders in health care, says Marc A. Nivet, EdD, MBA, who will present the annual “SSAT Doris and John L. Cameron Guest Oration” on Sunday.
This year, the SSAT International Relations Committee has planned two international sessions, one devoted to a clinical conundrum and one devoted to medical and surgical education topics, says Alberto R. Ferreres, MD, PhD.
SSAT is offering a full slate of original research at DDW® across nine Quick Shot sessions. Each 90-minute session will showcase 10 to 15 unique studies — more than 100 presentations across all of the Quick Shot sessions, says Michael G. House, MD, FACS.
Whitney A. Goering, MD, was a server at restaurant for her first job. Find out how that helped her as a residency physician and other tidbits about this SSAT speaker at #DDW19.
“The wide range of topics this panel will address will be of interest to general surgeons and specialists alike,” says Sunday afternoon’s “SSAT PG and CME Committee Panel: Novel or Non-operative Management of Common General Surgery Problems” moderator Melanie Morris, MD.
Find out the pearls of advice from the DDW Twitter community.
Learn new endoscopic surgical techniques during two SSAT concurrent hands-on courses — “Small Bowel, Abdominal Wall, Hernia and Colorectal” and “Esophagus & Gastric” on Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19 — led by course directors Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS, and Michael B. Ujiki, MD.
Calling all SSAT trainees! Hear insider tips and advice about choosing a specialty and applying for fellowships from current fellows and representatives from several GI surgical societies during SSAT Residents and Fellows Workshop on Saturday afternoon, May 18, says Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD, chair of the SSAT Resident & Fellow Education Committee.
Witness scientific innovation in action during this new Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2019 session.
