San Francisco Surgical Society

February Meeting-Dr. LYGIA STEWART
2025-02-12 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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
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.
