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Contents:
• Evolution of trauma care in the U.S. should focus on inclusive systems
• Surgeon shortage one area that health care reform should address
• National Safety Council Surgeons’ Award for Service to Safety
• Distinguished Philanthropist Award
• Award-winning geneticist to participate in Surgical Forum
• Young Fellows Association debuts
• Bernard Fisher, MD, FACS, is recipient of 2009 Jacobson Innovation Award
• No easy answers to medical industry support for CME
• Commission on Cancer Paper Competition winners announced
• ACS-Emerson Scholar-in-Residence in Medical Ethics established

Award-winning geneticist to participate in Surgical Forum

Dr. Rowley

The Surgical Forum is honored to announce that Janet Davison Rowley, MD—the Blum Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago (IL)—will participate as a special invited commentator in the Genetic Determinants of Disease and Outcomes session of the Surgical Forum. The session will take place today between 2:30 and 5:45 pm in McCormick Place West, Room W187A. At the beginning of the session, Dr. Rowley, who recently was bestowed with the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom and selected for the 2009 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, will give a brief talk about her own work as it relates to understanding genetic changes in cancer.