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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ESS Webinars

Webinars will be held on the third Friday of the month from 1530 to 1700 Eastern US time. They will feature leadership updates, committee reports, question-and-answer sessions, and speakers who will tackle real-world topics of importance and relevance to Excelsior membership.

Where is the meeting link? The meeting link is the same for all webinars. .

How do I view a recording of the meeting? Recordings of the webinars will be added to this page as they are available. Some are password-protected—contact us at excelsior@facs.org to receive access.

2025 Webinars

January 2025: Updates from the JTS

Speakers:

  • Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, General Surgery Specialty Leader to the Surgeon General, ESS President 2024–2025
  • Jennifer Gurney, MD, FACS, Chair, JTS, ESS President 2023–2024

Recording Information: | Passcode: 8t!C#c9p

February 2025: Military Surgery Program Director Meet-and-Greet

Keynote Speaker: LTC Jason Radowsky, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care, Walter Reed

Moderator: Lt Col James Wiseman, MD, FACS

Recording Information: | Passcode: T!j?5.gz

March 2025: USU Battlefield Shock and Organ Support Lab & Global Trauma Systems

Speakers:

  • Pat Walker, MD, FACS, USU Battlefield Shock and Organ Support Lab
  • John Maddox, MD, FACS, Global Trauma System Development

Moderator: Matt Nealeigh, DO, MHPE, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, ESS Research Committee Co-Chair

Recording Information: | Passcode: E^Z64zAj

April 2025: Subspecialty Surgical Emergencies for the Deployed General Surgeon

Speakers:

  • CDR Dan Hammer, DDS, FACS, Maxillofacial Surgery Pearls and Pitfalls for Role II Surgeons
  • CDR Katherine Wrenn-Maresh, MD, FACS, urologic & gynecologic emergencies
  • CAPT (R) Tracy Thompson, MD, urologic & gynecologic emergencies
  • CAPT (R) Robert Ricca, MD, FACS, Pediatric Surgery Pearls for the Deployed Surgeon

Moderator: Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, ESS President 2024–2025

Recording Information: | Passcode: $lQ3A=B7

May 2025: Far Forward - Surgeons Supporting Special Operations

Speakers

  • Richard Betzold, MD, FACS, associate professor of surgery, University of ArkansasÌý
  • CAPT Jack Brandau, DO, FACS, general surgeon, NMRTC San Diego

Moderator

  • Kal Gunasingha, MD, Chair, ESS Outreach Committee

Recording Information:Ìý | Passcode: 1%2#?3!q

June 2025: Readiness and Resilience are Shared Responsibilities - Strategic Role of MHSSPACS in Military Civilian Partnerships and Bridging Trauma System Preparedness

SpeakerÌý

  • COL (Ret.) Brian Eastridge, MD, FACS, USA,ÌýMedical Director, Military Health Systems Strategic Partnership ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ (MHSSPACS)

Moderator

  • MAJ Joshua Dilday, MD, Vice-Chair, ESS Membership Committee

Recording Information:Ìý | Passcode: Ee3iA.SBÌý

July 2025: Surgical Innovation at the Frontline: AI, Machine Learning, and Data-Driven Care

Speaker

  • Greg Beilman, MD, FACS, COL (Ret.),ÌýUS Army; Associate Dean of DoD Relationships, University of Minnesota Medical School

  • Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Stanford University; Founder, Surgical Safety Technologies

  • Tamir Wolf, MD, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, Theator; Former Head of Medical Branch, Shayetet 13, Navy, IDF

Moderator

  • Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, ESS President 2024-2025

Recording information: | Passcode: 72DHMlZ.

September 2025: Virtual Business Meeting

Topic: The ESS Virtual Business Meeting occurs each year, approximately one month before the Clinical Congress. This meeting contains annual updates from the ESS leadership and Committees, and provides members with an opportunity to share ideas and suggestions for the Society.

Recording information: |Passcode: p10#i%pL

2024 Webinars

January 2024: ESS January Webinar: Burns & Disasters: What Every Military Surgeon Should Know

Speakers:

  • Jay Yelon,ÌýDO, FACS, USN – History of Halifax Harbor and Cocoanut Grove Disasters
  • David Harrington,ÌýMD, FACS – Station Night Club Fire
  • Leopoldo C. Cancio,ÌýMD, FACS, USA, ISR – What’s New in Burn Care for Military Surgeons

Moderated by ESS Executive Council

February 2024: Program Directors in the Hot Seat: Everything You Want to Know About GME in One Hour

Speaker:ÌýDr Brian Gavitt, Colonel, USAF, MC, FS, Commander, 88thÌýSurgical Operations Squadron, AF/SG Consultant for Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical CareÌý

March 2024: Preparing for the Next Fight: An Overview of the DoD Combat Casualty Care Research Program

Speaker: CAPT Travis Polk, MD, FACS

May 2024: Ensuring Surgeon Readiness: Establishing and Leveraging MOUs for Military Surgeons

Speakers:

  • CAPT Eamon O’Reilly,ÌýPlastic Surgeon, NMCSD Strategic Partnerships Chair
  • COL Shaun Brown,ÌýColorectal Surgeon, Army War College Fellow
  • Mr. Robert Klant,ÌýÌýNMCSD Healthcare Attorney
  • Ms. Ginger Paad,ÌýÌýDHA OGC San DiegoÌý

June 2024: Topic: Establishing an Integrated National Trauma System

Speaker: Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS, Professor and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Burns, and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Washington; Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center

July 2024: Hidden Figures: Minority Contributions to Military Medicine

Speakers:

  • COL Kenneth Wilson, MD, FACS,ÌýProfessor of Surgery, Trauma Medical Director, University of Chicago Medicine & Biologic Sciences
  • MAJ Elise Fannon, MD, MPP,ÌýESS Executive Council liaison to the DEI Committee

December 2024: Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS: From Rural Boyhood to Distinguished Surgeon

Speaker

  • Gordon Telford, MD, FACS, professor emeritus, department of surgery, Medical College of Wisonsin, Milwaukee, ACS History and Archives Committee.

Contributor

  • Matt Tadlock, MD, FACS, ESS President 2024-2025

Recording Information: | Passcode: 92hb*Bvn

2022–2023 Webinars

December 2022: Where have we been, where are we now, where are we going?

Speaker: Col Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, FACS, USAFR

Contributor: Gordon Wisbach, MD, FACS, ESS Rep to ACS Board of Governors

January 2023: DoD Research: From Funding to Academic Productivity

Speaker: CAPT Travis Polk, MD; Thomas Davis, PhD; LTC Timothy Vreeland, MD
Moderator: CDR Diego Vicente, MD

February 2023: Mentorship, USUHS/HPSP

Moderator: Lt Col James Wiseman and MAJ Maggie Gallagher


March 2023: Cultivating and Evaluating Military Surgeon Readiness: Past, Present, and Future

Moderator: Dan Hammer

April 2023: Impactful Military Contributions to Civilian Medicine and Surgery: Past, Present, and Future

Moderator: Dr. Omar Rokayak and Edward Coleman

May 2023: Diversity State of the Union for Military Surgery and Levers to Increase Productivity

Moderator: Chonna Kendrick and Dr. Abdullah Pratt

June 2023: The Recent History of Military Surgical Societies

Moderators:ÌýDr. Jeremy Cannon and Dr. Juan Asensio

July 2023: Case Records of the Joint Trauma System

Moderators:ÌýCOL Jennifer Gurney

August 2023: Transatlantic Journal Club

Moderators: Jennifer Gurney, Max Marsden

December 2023: Excelsior Surgical Society: Home for Military Surgeons in the ACS - Future Directions and Goals

Speakers:

  • Dr. Jennifer Gurney, the 2023–2024 ESS President
  • Dr. Gordon Wisbach,Ìýthe ESS Representative to the ACS Board of Governors
  • Dr. Brian Eastridge,ÌýMedical Director,ÌýMilitary Health System Strategic Partnership ACSÌý

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