The time has arrived to renew (or begin) your membership in the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Surgeons for the year 2008. 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 2006 fall chapter meeting on disaster preparedness and hurricane Katrina featured
                presentations presentations by Bernard M. Jaffe, MD, FACS - Professor of Surgery, Tulane
                University and Irving "Jake" Jacoby, MD, FACP, FACEP, FAAEP - Commander, DMAT
                San Diego CA-4.
            b) Our 2007 Spring meeting featured the winners of our 2007 surgical residents paper
                competition.
            c) 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.
            d) 1.5 Category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (CME) were
                awarded for attendees to each of our recent meetings. Plans are currently under way to
                continue to award CME credits to our meeting attendees.
    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, and contains links to other
        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 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 $125.00.

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,

David W. Cloyd, M.D., 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 $125.00 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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