Additional Resources:
- Suggestions for prioritizing your backlog of cases - NET categories (January 4, 2022)
- Suggestions for prioritizing your backlog of cases (May 7, 2020)
- Press release: American College of Surgeons scoring system to prioritize medically necessary operations (April 14, 2020)
- FNA triage model from Drs. Jenn Kuo and James Lee, Columbia University
- Thoughts on elective endocrine surgery from AAES members (March 23, 2020)
AAES Virtual Surgeons' Lounges
The second AAES Virtual Surgeons' Lounge took place on Tuesday, May 9, 2020 via zoom. AAES leaders and members discussed what wellness and productivity look like in our current times of the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of the recent civil unrest in many cities across the country.
Panel:
Electron Kebebew, Stanford University
Shalini Arora, Kings County Hospital
Rachel Kelz, University of Pennsylvania
Allan Siperstein, Cleveland Clinic
Antonia Stephen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderators:
Geeta Lal, University of Iowa
Christiana Shaw, University of Florida
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The first AAES Virtual Surgeons' Lounge took place on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 via zoom. AAES leaders discussed different perspectives on topics including guidelines for endocrine surgery prioritizations during COVID-19, lessons learned from the front lines, ethics of decision-making in the pandemic, and exploring new roles for endocrine surgeons in both academic and private practice settings.
Panel:
Allan Siperstein, MD, FACS, Cleveland Clinic
James, Lee, MD, FACS, Columbia University
Carmen Solórzano, MD, FACS, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS, University of Chicago
Julie McGill, MD, FACS, Emory at Decatur
Moderators:
Geeta Lal, MD, FACS, University of Iowa
Rohit Ranganath, MD, FACS, LSU Health, Shreveport
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