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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Full Schedule
  • A Surgical ICU in Queens New York that was converted to an COVID-19 ICU during the Pandemic
  • Building a Quality Improvement Program
  • Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Podium Presentations

    Primary Presenter: Jane Ohde, DO – AHN Esophageal Institute

    Co-Presenter: Vilok G. Vijayanagar, DO – St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital

    Author: James Martin, MD – Ascension Macomb-Oakland

    Author: David Siegel, DO – Ascension Macomb-Oakland

    Author: Neil Kleman, DO – Ascension Macomb-Oakland

    Author: Rachel Cohen, DO – Ascension Macomb-Oakland

  • COVID-19 Pandemic: Surgery Response from Queens, NY
  • Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery
  • General Surgery Podium Presentations

    Primary Presenter: Pete Foster, DO – Berkshire Medical Center

  • How to Effectively Manage Your Student Debt: Best Practices for Osteopathic Surgeons
  • Improved Patient Care through Lawsuit Protection and Prevention for Osteopathic Physicians
  • Intravenous Pyruvate to Protect Organs During Closed-Chest Resuscitation and Recovery from Cardiac Arrest
  • Neurological Surgery Podium Presentation

    Primary Presenter: Dario A. Marotta, BS – Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM)

    Author: Larry G. Armstrong, DO, FACOS, FACS – Northwest Arkansas Neuroscience Institute

    Author: Matthew Heard, MSc

    Author: Sara Buckley, BS

    Author: Telyn Peterson, BS

    Author: Andrew Nam, BS

    Author: Abigail Jackovic, BS

    Author: Brittany Cuff, BS

    Author: Mackenzie Fowler, BS

    Author: Stephen Aita, PhD

    Author: Victor A. Del Bene, PhD

  • Nipple Sparing Mastectomies: Contemporary Indications, Patient Selection, Technical Aspects
  • Pain control in the geriatric surgical patient.
  • Physician Burn Out. Causation, Realization, Eradication. "Putting Out the Fire!"
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Podium Presentations

    Primary Presenter: Makayla J. Gologram, OMS-II – Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

    Author: Christine Lomiguen, MD – Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

    Author: Justin Chin, DO – Lifelong Medical Care

  • Robotic assisted beating heart coronary bypass changes the paradigm in
  • Role of Amniotic Placental Allograft In Reducing Colonic Anastomotic Leak Rates
  • Safe Acid Technology ... The End of Surgical Infections?
  • Stone Disease
  • Surgery for Aortic Stenosis: When and Why?
  • Surgical updates for breast cancer (including oncoplastics, hidden scar technique and reverse axillary mapping)
  • Total Practice Robotic Surgeon
  • Trauma and Critical Care Papers That Should Change Your Practice 2020
  • Trauma Surgery: An Osteopathic Approach
  • Urological Surgery Podium Presentations

    Primary Presenter: Matthew A. Rohloff, DO – Metro Health: University of Michigan Health

  • Use of frailty as a preoperative component of informed consent
  • 2020 ACOS Resident Scientific Research Presentations & Awards
  • 2020 Neurosurgery Resident Annual Paper Award Presentations
    Neurological Surgery
     CME Credit .5
  • AI for Neurosurgery
  • BBL Techniques and Safety
  • Breast Reduction Techniques
  • Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Podium Presentations
    Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
     CME Credit .75
  • Colon Polyp Overview: Screening and Surveillance Updates
  • Composite BBL and ‘Arabia arch suspension suture’ Technique
  • Contemporary Management of Advanced Endourologic Surgery
  • COVID19 Stroke and Racial Disparities
  • Diet and IBS, IBD
  • Ethics 101
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Hand, Wrist and Thumb Arthritis
  • Evidence-Based Treatment of Lateral Epicondylitis
  • Facial Fat Grafting
  • Fecal Incontinence
  • Female and Male Stress Urinary Incontinence
  • Finding the Right Practice and Signing the Right Contract
  • Frailty and Emergency General Surgery
  • General Surgery Podium Presentations
    General Surgery
     CME Credit 1.0
  • Hyper-Realistic® Open Surgery Simulator
  • Importance of AOBS Board Certification
  • Importance of Communication in Discussions, Patient Interactions and Before a Crowd
  • International Neurosurgery: Lessons Learned from Kenya and Tanzania to the West Indies and Future Direction
  • Just How Crazy Can We Get?: Damage Control Surgery
  • Laparoscopic CBD exploration for the community general surgeon
  • Lessons from traumatic decompressive craniectomy, pentobarbital coma, and hypothermia
  • National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer
  • Occipital Cervical Junction Trauma
  • Oral Board Exam Pearls
  • Pain Pumps Today, When and Where to Implement
  • Panel Discussion
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Podium Presentations
    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
     CME Credit .25
  • Revenue Cycle
  • Techniques in Facelifting
  • Telemedicine and hands-on digital technology to enhance patient physician relationship and improve communication
  • The Effect of Single Accreditation on Medical Student Match Rates in Surgical Subspecialties: Outcomes from the ACOS Board of Governors GME Subcommittee
  • Tips and Tricks for difficult gallbladders
  • To Be Determined - Urological Surgery
  • To Be Determined
  • Transradial Approach for Neuro-endovascular Techniques
  • Treating Pediatric Epilepsy
  • Urological Surgery Podium Presentations
    Urological Surgery
     CME Credit .25
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2020
  • 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Annual Membership Update
  • 9:00 AM – 9:35 AM East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address | Dr. Nassif
  • 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Theodore F. Classen Memorial Lecture
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Welcome and Update
  • 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Personal Statement Development
  • 7:00 PM – 7:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: A Beginner's Guide to Clinical Case Reports
  • 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Women Surgeons Forum
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2020
  • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address | Dr. LaPorta
  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Welcome and Inspire
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Resident Panel
  • 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Dine and Discover with a PD
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    ACOS Ceremonial Conclave
  • 7:00 PM – 7:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Student Case Presentations
  • Thursday, October 22, 2020
  • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Biodesign. How to pay off your student loans really fast
  • 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: White Coat Investor
  • 6:00 PM – 7:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Resident Case Instruction
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Military Surgeons Member Forum
  • 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Rural Surgeons Member Forum
  • Friday, October 23, 2020
  • 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Specialties
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: Interview: Networking your way into residency
  • 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Student Section: 4th Year Panel & Happy Hour