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  2. Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

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    It held its first Scientific Session, in tandem with Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia in September, 1983 as part of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, and held its first independent meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1986.

  3. American College of Surgeons - Wikipedia

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    The ACS was founded in 1913 as an outgrowth of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America that had existed since 1910 as an outgrowth of the journal Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, an initiative of ACS Founder Dr. Franklin H. Martin.

  4. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network - Wikipedia

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    On November 6, 2011, ACS CAN premiered its second-ever national television ad on Meet the Press to ask Congress to remember the lives lost to cancer and the 12 million cancer survivors living in America at the time. ACS CAN produced the ad to push to Congress to make cancer a national priority when addressing the country’s budget deficit.

  5. Strong for Surgery - Wikipedia

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    Strong for Surgery (S4S) is a public health campaign and quality improvement (QI) initiative developed and launched by the University of Washington in Washington State in 2012. [1] Strong for Surgery was developed by the Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTAIN) and informed by data from the Surgical Care and Outcomes ...

  6. American Cancer Society - Wikipedia

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    The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 250 Regional offices throughout the United States. [ 1 ]

  7. Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience - HuffPost

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    information, mimicking the proposed legislature, and another that makes healthier meal choices marginally more convenient. Raising questions about existing proposed policies, providing information had little net effect in our sample, while the subtle manipulation of convenience had a large effect on calorie intake.

  8. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Wikipedia

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    To that end, Congress passed Public Law 99-166 in December 1985 which mandated the VHA to report their outcomes in comparison to national averages and the information must be risk-adjusted to account for the severity of illness of the VHA surgical patient population. In 1991 the National VA Surgical Risk Study (NVASRS) began in 44 Veteran's ...

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