Recently, several Cooper surgeons attended the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), in Boston with over 12,000 attendees. Maureen Moore, MD, and Teralyn Carter, MD, were inducted as new fellows of the ACS.
Amit Joshi, MD, was re-elected for a one-year term to the six-person executive committee of the Board of Governors. The ACS has 207 governors from around the world and 89 represent specialty societies. Dr. Joshi is a specialty governor in his last year of a six-year term from the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS). As current APDS president, he moderated an APDS-sponsored panel session at the Congress.
Yong Ki Hong, MD, PhD, was appointed to the Young Fellows Association of ACS executive governing council for a three-year term. He is also newly chair-elect of Education Committee of Young Fellows Association of ACS for three-year term.
Other Cooper attendees included Francis Spitz, MD; Lisa Reid, MD; Nicole Fox, MD; and Robert Simons, MD, along with all the general surgery program’s chief residents. Dr. Spitz hosted a dinner for Cooper attendees on Tuesday evening.
Additionally, Kristi Knapp, MD, a general surgery PGY-3 resident, had a podium presentation under the mentorship of Dr. Moore on the surgical treatment of octogenarians with adrenal cortical carcinoma. It was very well-received.