The time has arrived to renew (or begin) your membership in the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Surgeons for the year 2009. We would like to list for you just a few of the benefits that you will enjoy as a member:
    1. Two excellent meetings and dinners annually (at a greatly discounted cost to
       members):
            a) Our 2007 Spring meeting featured the winners of our 2007 surgical
                residents paper competition.
            b) Our 2007 fall chapter meeting, rescheduled for January 29, 2008, featured
                a presentation on Maintenance of Certification, by Paul E. Collicott, MD,
                FACS, Director, Member Services, American College of Surgeons.
            c) Our spring 2008 Meeting featured, "An Update on NOTES," presented by,
                Mark A. Talamini, MD, FACS - Professor, Chairman, Department of
                Surgery, UCSD
            d) Our Fall 2008 Chapter Dinner Meeting on October 16, featured Christian
                Shalgian, Interim Director, Division of Advocacy and Health Policy
                American College of Surgeons presenting, "2009 - Medicare Reform and
                Health Care Reform."
            e) For our Spring 2009 Chapter Dinner Meeting, on Tuesday, May 19,
                David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS - Professor and Chairman,
                Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine will present,
                "Blood and War: The History of Resuscitation."
    2. An interactive Web-Site (http://www.sdcacs.org) which provides members with
        current Chapter and National ACS events, reviews current issues of importance
        to surgeons, provides an E-mail forum for members and interested parties
        world-wide, to other and contains links Web-Sites of importance to surgeons.
    3. Monthly Council meetings, where your Council representatives discuss the
        many issues affecting our surgical practices. These meetings are also open
        for any interested Chapter member to attend.
    4. Chapter representation to the American College of Surgeons Leadership
        Conference in Washington, DC and to the young physicians section and the
        specialty society delegation of the California Medical Association.
    5. The Council / Cancer Liaison meetings where representatives from
        local cancer committees and the American Cancer Society, through
        sponsorship of the ACS COC and Chapter Council, meet twice yearly to discuss         issues of concern.
    6. An amazingly low membership fee of $150.00.

We hope that you will choose to take advantages of these and more opportunities by (re)joining the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.

Thank you for your support,

Cheryl L. Olson, MD, FACS
Chapter President

To register as a member of the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, please fill out the information requested below and return this form along with a check for $150.00 payable to “San Diego Chapter ACS” for annual membership dues to:

San Diego Chapter ACS
P.O. Box 33116
San Diego, CA  92163-2116

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