The ACS ITALY CHAPTER MEETING will be held in Rome (Italy) October 14-17, 2018, in conjunction with the Italian Surgical Congress (Congresso Congiunto). The following Italian Scientific Surgical Societies will have their own meeting during the same congress at the same location: Italian Society for Surgery (SIC), ACOI (Association of Italian Surgeons), AISP - ANISC - CHC - CRSA - CUDS - ICS Italy Chapter – IESIR - IHBPA Italy Chapter - ISHAWS – ISS/SIC - ISSE - SICADS - SICCR - SICE - SICG - SICO -SICOB - SICOP - SICT – SICU (Society of University Surgeons) - SICUT - SIFIPAC - SIPAD - SIRC - SIU - SIUCP - SIUEC – SPIGC). The fact that the ACS Italy Chapter Meeting is combined with the most important major annual national surgical meeting and is in a major city such as Rome will assure a very high attendance.
The ACS Italy Chapter will support the followimg activities:
1) Third Meeting of the ACS European Governors
2) ACS Case Study Contest / Best Resident Presentation
3) ACS GISE - ACS Gastrointestinal Surgical Emergencies Course (Subscribe to the waiting list and download the flyer: https://www.chirurgiaunita2018.it/acs-gise)
4) ACS Surgical Review Course
5) ACS International Exchange Program
6) Massachusetts and Italy Chapter Partnership Program
7) AAS Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course will be held in partnership with the ACS Italy Chapter and Sapienza University of Rome (Subscribe and download the flyer: https://www.chirurgiaunita2018.it/aas/)
The following International Faculty, invited in part thanks to ACS PON FUND, will be present the Meeting:
Barbara Bass, MD, FACS, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Paulo Matos da Costa (Portugal) - Governor
Salomone Di Saverio, MD, FACS, Cambridge University Hospitals, Babraham, UK
Alberto Ferreras, MD, FACS, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cristina Ferrone, MD, FACS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Marco Fisichella, MD, FACS, Harvard medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Michael Gnant (Austria-Hungary) - Governor
Dimitrios Linos, MD, FACS, Athens Medical School, Greece
Marco Melis, MD, FACS, New York University, NY, USA
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA
Daniela Molena, MD, FACS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Francesco Rubino, MD, FACS, King's College, London, UK
Francesco Serafini, MD, FACS, Montefiore Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital, USA
Norbert Senninger (Germany) - Governor
Richard Shulick, MD, FACS, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
Mark Talamini, MD, FACS, State University of New York, NY, USA
Antonio J. Torres (Spain) - Governor
George Tsoulfas, MD, FACS Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
George Velmahos, MD, FACS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
The activities will be held at the brand new “Cloud” Congress Building, in Rome, designed by the internationally renowned architect Massimiliano Fuksas. The complex has a total building area of 55,000 square meter. The complex is highly flexible, able to host congresses and exhibition events, with a capacity that can reach a total of nearly 8,000 seats, divided between the auditorium inside the Cloud, that can accommodate 1,800 people, and large conference rooms totaling 6,000 seats (https://www.archdaily.com/799235/the-cloud-studio-fuksas)