2023 ACS Cancer Conference Recap

In this episode, Dr. Steven Wexner talks with three key leaders from the ACS Cancer Programs, which held their first-ever joint conference in early March in Atlanta for members of the cancer care team. The leaders—Drs. Laurie Kirstein, Timothy Mullett, and Katharine Yao—provide insights and highlights from the conference, including release of new Breast Center standards, exciting results of national quality improvement projects, and how to make good use of the National Cancer Database.

HOST

• Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, Colorectal Surgeon and Director of the Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston
   
  GUESTS
• Laurie Kirstein, MD, FACS, ACS Cancer Conference Chair; Breast Surgical Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY
• Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, Chair, ACS Commission on Cancer; Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Medical Director of the Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network in Lexington, KY
• Katharine Yao, MD, FACS, Chair of the ACS National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers; Breast Surgeon, Vice-Chair of Research and Development and Director of Breast Cancer Research in the Department of Surgery at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL

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The 2024 ACS Cancer Conference will be February 22-24 in Austin, Texas.