Friday & Saturday, March 14 & 15, 2003
SAGES will offer educational lunches on Friday and on Saturday. Please register for these lunches using the registration form. Tickets will be required at the door to each lunch. Please note, the Educator’s Lunch has limited registration.
Friday, 12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch Fee: $25
Lunch Coordinator: Keith Apelgren, MD
This program will review developments and applications of simulators to the training of physicians, specifically surgeons. Current simulators for laparoscopy and gastrointestinal endoscopy training will be described and discussed. Use of the simulators for determining competence will be addressed. Both surgeons and trainees should attend in order to understand what the near future of surgical training looks like.
* limited registration available on a first come, first serve basis.
| 12:30 - 12:40 PM | Introduction | Keith Apelgren, MD |
| 12:40 - 1:00 PM | Current Simulators and Techniques | Brian Dunkin, MD |
| 1:00 - 1:20 PM | Certification and Re-certification using Simulators | Gerald Fried, MD |
| 1:20 - 1:40 PM | The Future of Simulators in Surgical Training | Mike Marohn, MD |
| 1:40 - 2:00 PM | Discussion | |
Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD, AMA President-Elect
Saturday, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Lunch Fee: $25
Few items have as far reaching an effect on both patients and physicians as the current unbridled professional liability system. Spiraling premiums are closing trauma centers, emergency rooms, and physician offices. More and more patients are being denied access to medical treatment because of non-availability of services. This crisis is why the AMA has made liability reform it’s number one legislative priority. It is the single issue that is most likely to adversely affect YOU in your practice as a surgeon.
SAGES is honored to host the AMA President-Elect, Dr. Donald J. Palmisano,
to address these issues. Dr. Palmisano is a surgeon and an attorney. Much of
his career has been devoted to improving patient care and his profession. He
once told a reporter, “If we as physicians don’t speak up for the
patient; if we as physicians don’t protect ethical science-based medicine,
then chances are we will lose (both) … Somebody has to be an activist.”
And that’s what he’s been for more than 30 years.
In 1975, as a young surgeon he played a key role in passage of the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act which capped damages for medical malpractice. Medical liability reform remains a passion for Dr. Palmisano. Since his election to the AMA Board of Trustees in 1996, he has testified to Congress and spoken to the national media. Dr. Palmisano sits on the Board of Directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), the Board of Commissioners of JCAHO, and is President of Intrepid Resources, a medical risk management company. He is clinical professor of surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine.
| 12:30 PM | Introduction | John Coller, MD |
| 12:45 PM | Keynote Lecture | Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD |
| 1:30 PM | Discussion | Aaron Fink, MD |
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