The Juiy 9, 2025 San Francisco Surgical will host “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. Social hour at 6pm, talk at 7pm, dinner to follow.
FEBRUARY 12, 2025 MEETING-Lygia Stewart
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
Dr. Jonathan Carter is the New SF Surgical President
Dr. Jonathan Carter is a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive, advanced approaches such as laparoscopic and robotic surgery to treat abdominal conditions. He cares for patients with hernias and disorders of the esophagus, gallbladder, stomach and intestines. He is also a bariatric surgeon and a member of the acute care surgery program, which provides surgical care in emergencies.
After earning his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, Carter completed a residency in surgery and a fellowship in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at UCSF.
Carter is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. As a UCSF faculty member, Carter has authored numerous peer-reviewed research papers in the subject areas of esophageal disease, bariatric surgery, hernia and medical information science.
Carter received the 2008 and 2015 UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators’ Excellence in Teaching Awards, as well as UCSF’s annual patient safety award in 2014 and 2016. He received the Julius R. Krevans Award for patient care at UCSF, as well as the prestigious Fred H. and Esther E. Nusz Achievement Award.
December 2023 Meeting – Dr. Joshua Mezrich
Speaker: Joshua Mezrich MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Division of Multiorgan Transplantation
University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
President Mahanty invited Dr. Joshua Mezrich to speak at the December meeting.
Dr. Mezrich is a transplant surgeon and the author of the best-selling novel – When Death Becomes Life – Notes from a Transplant Surgeon. He is a graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed surgical residency at the University of Chicago and his research at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, he runs an immunology lab at the University of Wisconsin and has a podcast (The Sett) where he interviews leaders in Transplantation.
Dr. Mezrich is the author of When Death Becomes Life.
Dr. Harish Mahanty is the New SF Surgical President
Dr. Mahanty, Transplant Surgeon at CPMC, was elected President of the San Francisco Surgical for the 2023-24 year. He completed medical school at UCLA, residency in the UCSF Eastbay Program, and his Abdominal Transplant Fellowship at UCSF.
For his first meeting, he led an active discussion with the membership on how to re-invigorate the Society.
New Membership Applications Available
It is time to solicit applications for membership in the Society. If you wish to sponsor a candidate, please fill out the application found here. Applicants must have graduated from medical school at least 10 years ago.
The complete application should include:
1) The completed application.
2) The candidate’s CV.
3) A passport-sized picture of the applicant.
4) Two letters of support from members.
Forward entire application to Dr. Gosnell, c/o Annette Bronstein at the following address:
SF Surgical Society c/o Annette Bronstein l79 Canterbury Avenue Daly City, CA 94015 PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for receipt of applications is now the end of May 2020 Jessica E. Gosnell, M.D. Secretary-Treasurer
June 7, 2023 Meeting of the San Francisco Surgical
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.
Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer is Elected President of San Francisco Surgical for 2022-23 Year.
Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer is a double-boarded surgeon specializing in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School in 1999 and completed her residency in General Surgery at Parkland Hospital in 2006. During her post-graduate training, she conducted NIH T32-funded research at Harborview Hospital, focusing on the effects of innate immunity on trauma. She furthered her Trauma and Surgical Critical Care training at San Francisco General Hospital and joined Stanford in 2008. Dr. Staudenmayer has a robust research program and clinical practice, and her interests contribute to Stanford’s multi-disciplinary approach to surgical trauma management.
Dr. Staudenmayer has asked Dr. Carolyn Dacey Seib to serve as the program director.
SF Police Chief Scott Spoke at September 2022 Meeting about Mass Shootings and Collaboration with Community Services
And President Andre Campbell’s invitation, Chief William Scott was our honored guest at the September 2022 meeting. He spoke about the proliferation of guns, including ghost guns, on the streets of cities around the US. The number of mass shootings has gone up around the country.
March 2022 meeting will be in person.
The March 23, 2022 meeting will be in person. Hopefully, we will have a good showing. Standard COVID protocols apply. We encourage members to bring guests.