This annual program is designed for practicing surgeons involved in the care of patients. It is meant to provide Continuing Medical Education regarding treatment in general and sub-specialty surgical practice and to enhance the knowledge of participants in these areas.
Learn more about the invited speakers.
Vice President
American Board of Surgery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Invited Panel
Healing On a Budget: Margins, Missions, and the Cost of Care
Vice President
American Board of Surgery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
William P. Longmire, Jr., Chair in Surgery
University of California / Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
President & Chief Executive Officer
UCI Health
Irvine, California
Vice Chair
James and Eleanor Randall
Department of Surgery
Chair holder, Dolly Parton Chair in Surgical Innovation
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Karen Brasel, MD, MPH, FACS
Dr. Brasel is the Vice President of the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Brasel received her medical degree from the University of Iowa, completed her surgical residency and master’s degree in Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and went on to complete a surgical critical care fellowship at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Brasel is a nationally-renowned leader in many aspects of surgery. She has served on several committees for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma including Recorder and Program Chair. She served on the Executive Committee of the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors as the Vice-Chair, as a co-chair of SESAP and as the ACS Committee on Trauma ATLS Sub-Committee Chair and international director of ATLS®. She is also a founding ACS Master Educator and received the Association for Surgical Education Master Educator Award in 2020. She has served as the chair of the ACGME Review Committee for Surgery, the president of the Western Surgical Association and is currently the Vice President of the Western Trauma Association. She is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Surgical Education.
Dr. Brasel’s clinical practice is trauma/critical care and emergency general surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research focuses on surgical palliative care, education, and quality of life after trauma.