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 | 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 | CA
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.

MAY 13 2026 MEETING
2026-05-13 18:00 - 21:00 | South Beach Yacht Club, 899 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
