Links to Internet Resources in Gastrointestinal Surgery

Meetings

• Digestive Disease Week
• Other Meetings of Interest

Organizations

• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
• American Board of Surgery (ABS)
• American College of Surgeons (ACS)
  • Statement on the physician acting as an expert witness
  • Statement on the Prevention of Retained Foreign Bodies after Surgery
• American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG)
• American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
• American Hepato-Biliary Association (AHBPA)
• American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS)
• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS)
• American Society of Geriatric Surgeons (ASGS)
• American Surgical Association
• Associate of Academic Surgeons
• Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
• International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)
• International Society for Digestive Surgery (ISDS)
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Council (MIS)
• The Pancreas Club
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO)
• Society of University Surgeons

Literature

• SSAT Journal of GI Surgery
• Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
• Gastroenterology (the AGA journal)
• Pub Med

Guidelines

• ASCRS Practice Parameters for the Management of Rectal Cancer (Revised) Endorsed by the SSAT-May 2013
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Guideline Clearing House of HCFA (NGCH)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NIH Consensus Development Conference Statement Gallstones and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
• NIH Consensus Development Conference Statement Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons Clinical Guidelines / Joint Statements / Patient Information and More