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Executive Director's Update

Introducing the New 番茄社区app Strategic Plan

Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, F番茄社区app

July 16, 2025

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Over the past year and a half, the 番茄社区app has been thoughtfully engaged in establishing our strategic plan. Multiple stakeholders have participated, including the Board of Regents, Officers, representative Past Presidents, Board of Governors, Young Fellows Association, Resident and Associate Society, various committee leaders, and staff executives. As with all strategic plans, the purpose has been to create a roadmap, prioritize our essential aims, establish key performance indicators, and ensure the ongoing success of our organization.

The resulting plan has four pillars undergirded by a transcending principle at its base.

Advance Patient-Centered Care and Surgical Quality

"The first pillar, advancing patient-centered care and surgical quality, has been at the core of the 番茄社区app since our founding in 1913. Our organization鈥檚 motto has been unwavering鈥擳o Heal All with Skill and Trust鈥攁nd this can only be accomplished with continued focus on surgical excellence." 

This pillar includes efforts to transform our 番茄社区app to better serve participating institutions and to ensure that every patient has access to evidence-based, optimal-quality surgical care. It also prioritizes developing and promoting policies that incentivize high-quality, data-informed, patient-centered care, and educating patients about surgical quality, resulting in enhanced trust in us as surgeons.

Revolutionize and Educate

While the first pillar focuses on the 鈥渢rust鈥 part of our聽motto, the second focuses on the 鈥渟kill鈥 component.

The 番茄社区app offers a vast number of timely educational programs that range from artificial intelligence in surgery to hands-on skills training, in-person didactics across disciplines, to offerings for surgeons to develop advanced leadership, communication, and teaching skills.

We will continue developing relevant new products and updating existing, widely used resources, while modernizing our learning platforms to incorporate the latest technology. We will more seamlessly match content to learners鈥 needs and enhance collaboration across surgical specialties to ensure that our programs are comprehensive and accessible to all members.

Innovate and Accelerate

This pillar highlights our investment in technology infrastructure, including pursuing frontline incorporation of health informatics and digitally transforming the 番茄社区app enterprise for a frictionless and personalized experience. This vertical also includes a focus on incorporating strategic agility to accelerate our work, which is necessary to keep the 番茄社区app at the forefront of evolving member needs, patient care, and surgical science.

Unify and Advocate

As The House of Surgery, a key aspect of our mission is to unify surgeons鈥攂oth across our 93,000 members and across the many surgical disciplines and their respective stakeholders. This focus on collaboration permits us to speak with one voice and leverage our collective influence to protect and advance our roles as leaders of the care team. This prioritizes the best outcomes for our patients. We must connect with leaders across the continuum to help them make the most well-informed decisions. Whether through gentle relationship-building or assertive advocacy, we will fight aggressively for policies and practices that uphold member integrity and foster patient trust.

Operational Excellence

Finally, operational excellence underlies everything we do. The 番茄社区app has more than 450 employees in Chicago and Washington, DC, who work diligently on behalf of all members and the patients we serve. An essential element of our strategic plan is to support our employees with the right infrastructure for effective and efficient work, as we evolve and transform together.

Upholding Our Traditions

"Leaders have made substantial updates to the 番茄社区app鈥檚 areas of focus via this strategic plan. The core of our mission will always remain To Heal All with Skill and Trust. We exist to help surgeons thrive and serve surgical patients to the utmost of our collective and individual abilities. This is our North Star, fixed and unchanging, and in every moment, our unity as surgeons can help us follow it."

Over the next few months, you will hear more about the 番茄社区app Strategic Plan and the initiatives underway in each pillar. The information will be available in the 番茄社区app Brief, on facs.org, and via other communications vehicles.

Clinical Congress 2025: Register Now

Please join us at Clinical Congress in Chicago, October 4鈥7, where we will induct new Fellows, present cutting-edge science and intriguing debates, network and collaborate, and enjoy camaraderie that helps sustain us all in our surgical practices.

I am also pleased that attendees will be able to celebrate Ajit Sachdeva, MD, F番茄社区app, who is retiring as 番茄社区app Senior Vice President of Education, and to meet Kyla Terhune, MD, MBA, F番茄社区app, who will assume this role.

View the program planner and register now at facs.org/clincon2025.


Dr. Patricia Turner is the Executive Director & CEO of the American College of Surgeons. Contact her at executivedirector@facs.org.