News from the 2010 Annual Meeting The SSAT’s 51st Annual Meeting took place from May 1-5, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during Digestive Disease Week.
		View the Complete Final Program with abstracts.
		Claim CME credits.
		Order Session Recordings through DDW on Demand. Select 15 sessions to build your own “Best of DDW”, choose a webcast library of all SSAT sessions, or buy individual sessions. Each session contains the live, digitally recorded audio fully synchronized with the speaker slides, animations, procedural videos, and speaker’s pointer movements. Session audio can be exported to a portable MP3 device. And, when available, download speaker PDF files and join conversations with the speaker and/or fellow colleagues in a virtual Greenroom. You may also order recordings from the previous four years of DDWs.
		View the DDW 2010 ePosters archive site, where you may access an electronic version of approximately 58% of all poster presentations.
		Download the abridged Program Book (1.0 MB), or log into the Members Only Area to download the complete Program Book, including Foundation donor listings.
		Download the Program Book Abstract Supplement (2.0 MB).
		Mark your calendars now for next year’s SSAT Annual Meeting, May 6 – 10, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois, and learn about changes to DDW Program for 2011.

	2010 Postgraduate Course: Multidisciplinary Management of Gastrointestinal Disease Syllabus Books from the 2010 Postgraduate Course are now available for $50 each. GI medicine and GI surgery have traditionally occupied mutually respected silos; however, the science of GI disease and rapid advances in technology will soon make these silos obsolete. The 2010 SSAT Postgraduate Course is structured to explore GI diseases that have traditionally been treated independently by surgeons or gastroenterologists, focusing on the multidisciplinary nature of modern treatment and exploring the evidence that supports these therapies.
		Order a copy of the 2010 PG Course Syllabus Book today!

SSAT Foundation Foundation Establishes the Kelly and Carlos Pellegrini SSAT/SAGES Joint Symposium Fund The Board of Trustees of the SSAT Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Kelly and Carlos Pellegrini SSAT/SAGES Joint Symposium Fund, to endow this Annual Meeting scientific offering at Digestive Disease Week. In making this announcement, the Foundation Board is asking the Society membership to consider a generous donation to the Pellegrini Fund at this time. Make a donation today! The Foundation welcomes secure online donations via credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express), as well as accepts contributions via checks and a variety of other planned giving vehicles. The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Foundation was founded in 2000 to support the mission, goals and objectives of the SSAT by serving as its fundraising arm. Since its inception the Foundation has received financial support from the Society and its members that vastly exceeded all expectations. That continuing commitment has advanced our efforts to build the base for extraordinary research and education opportunities that will go on in perpetuity. More...

JOGS Online Access and Manuscript Submission
The Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JOGS) articles are now published Online First in electronic form weeks before distribution of the print journal—even before the print issue and page numbers have been assigned. This is not a preprint service, but rather the publications in their final form. SSAT members in good standing are just two steps away from accessing their JOGS subscriptions and reading both Online First articles and those in print publication: 1) Log into the Members Only Area, then 2) click on the JOGS cover.

JOGS now offers its authors a web-based manuscript submission and review tracking system called Editorial Manager, which allows for quick and efficient processing of manuscripts. Read the revised Instructions to Authors, then log directly into Editorial Manager, where you may upload your manuscript files following the instructions provided on the screen.

International Congress of Endoscopy, September 10 – 14, 2011, Los Angeles, California
The SSAT is proud to be an official participating core society of the International Congress of Endoscopy (ICE 2011), a celebration of medical flexible endoscopy and surgical laparoscopic endoscopy, including diagnosis and therapy, NOTES, and emerging surgical and endoscopic procedures. Highlights will include: a scientific program with full representation of endoscopic topics several honorary lectures; live and video plenary sessions and postgraduate courses with an emphasis on new and advanced therapeutic techniques; a state-of-art medical and surgical endoscopic learning center with an interactive element; a young clinicians program offering an in-depth understanding of endoscopy through the association of contemporaries from around the world; and extensive high quality industry exhibitions and demonstrations to showcase the latest advances in rigid and flexible endoscopes and accessory equipment.