San Francisco Surgical Society

July Re-opening Dinner
2021-07-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
President Yee invites members to the Re-opening Dinner on July 14, 2021.
RSVP with Annette. All members should have received an e-mail with details as to the location.

March 2022 Dinner - in person.
2022-03-23 11:00 - 14:00 | Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
The next meeting of the SF surgical society will be on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. This meeting will be a meeting with its membership in person! Cocktails around 6:00 pm, dinner to follow.

Please bring all your Covid information with you. All members and their guests attending must have proof of current COVID-19 shots. This meeting will be at The Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco. The guest speaker is listed below.

“TRACK-TBI: A 10-Year Journey to Transform Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury”
Geoffrey Manley, MD PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, UCSF

September 2022 Meeting: William "Bill" Scott Chief of Police, San Francisco
2022-09-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
We will hold our September meeting at the Family Club on September 28, 2022.
Will “Bill” Scott will be our honored guest. He is the Chief of Police for San Francisco.
https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/leadership/william-scott

Please RSVP to Annette Bronstein’s email.

June 2023 Meeting
2023-06-07 11:30 - 14:00 | Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
Helen Struck is an attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, a state agency that represents indigent men and women under sentence of death in California. She will be speaking to the SF Surgical membership about California’s death penalty system, addressing the challenges presented by representing indigent persons in their capital post-conviction proceedings.

October 2023 Meeting
2023-10-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
Our outgoing President Kristan Staudenmayer and President-Elect Harish Mahanty invite all SF Surgical members to attend. In lieu of an invited speaker, they will be moderating a discussion on planning for the upcoming year as well as the future of the organization,

February Meeting-Dr. LYGIA STEWART
2025-02-12 18:00 - 21:00 | South Beach Yacht Club, 899 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
SPEAKER: Lygia Stewart

Dr. Lygia Stewart, Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs, will be giving a talk on:
Cognitive Psychology and Visual Perception as it Relates to Surgical Complications and the
Training of Residents and Fellows.
Our February meeting will also be New Member Recruitment Night. Please invite a leader in surgery that you think would benefit the Society to be your guest. If your guest is interested in joining, you may propose them as a new member by sending an email to sanfranciscosurgicalsociety@gmail.com
Cocktails: 6 pm
Dinner: 7 pm

July 9, 2025: Artificial Intelligence with Eric Karl
2025-07-09 18:00 - 21:00 | South Beach Yacht Club, 899 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Have you ever wondered how a computer can read a chest x-ray and generate a report? Find out! Our talk will be: “Accelerating Health Care with Artificial Intelligence” Our speaker will be Eric Karl, the technical lead for the ARIES AI-accelerated radiology project at Northwestern Medicine. He previously worked at Microsoft and Google,and now is an expert working at Northwestern Medicine’s Research and Development team to implement cutting edge applications of AI in healthcare. Drinks at 6pm. Talk at 7pm. Dinner to follow.

SF Surgical Society Meeting
2025-12-03 18:00 - 21:00 | South Beach Yacht Club, 899 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Our guest is Dr. Smitha Ganeshan, Assistant Clinical Professor at UCS and an expert in artifical intelligence in health care environments. She is Medical Director for Al Programs, Physician Lead for Informatics Strategy at UCSF Health. Her talk will be Transforming Healthcare Through Trustworthy Al.

Details
6pm – 7pm: Happy Hour with open bar and appetizers
7pm – 9pm: Dinner, Speaker, and Discussion
Location: San Francisco South Beach Yacht Club. Turn into the lot from 2nd street near King intersection, drive through the gate into parking lot in front of the building.

Wednesday, February 25 6:00pm-9:30pm
2026-02-25 18:00 - 21:30
NOTE THE DIFFERENT LOCATION

McCormick & Schmick’s in Ghiradelli Square.
900 North Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Our speaker is Dr. Gretchen Jackson, an internationally recognized biomedical informatician and accomplished clinical surgeon with over 30 years of contributions to informatics research, innovations in health information technologies, and surgical science. She is a past president and past chair of the board of directors for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI) and the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). She is also an elected member of the Society for University Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Association, and the American Surgical Association.

Jackson was the chief health and science officer for IBM Watson Health and before that, Watson Health’s chief science officer. She is currently Vice President and Scientific Medical Officer at Intuitive and an Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. This event is supported by Intuitive Surgical.
