About Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter, ACS

DC Chapter Leadership

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View the current Council and Committees on the Leadership page. You can also express your volunteer interest on this page.

All Chapter activities and affairs are managed by its Council, which consists of the officers of the Chapter, councilors elected by members of the Chapter, and governors and regents of the College residing in the area. Chairs of the Chapter's special interest committees (such as the Young Surgeons Committee, the Program Committee, and the Award Committee), as well as the College's Cancer Liaison and the local Trauma Committee Chair serve as ex-officio members of the Council and are asked to attend its meetings.

Officers of the Chapter include a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, immediate past president, and six councilors. Officers serve one-year terms and are elected by the Chapter membership during the annual meeting-All Surgeons Day. Councilors also are elected during the annual meeting, and they serve three-year terms.

Awards

Deadline for nominations is February 15 of each year.

The Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter of the American College of Surgeons established the Harry B. Zehner, Jr., Memorial Traveling Fellowship Award to honor the late Dr. Harry B. Zehner, Jr., a founder and prime advocate of the Chapter. The award is given annually to an outstanding Metropolitan Washington surgical or surgical specialty resident that has been nominated by his or her program training director.

The award of $1,500 is to be used by the award recipient to visit another residency training program or laboratory in order to exchange ideas and/or observe surgical techniques. This visit should advance the resident's future endeavors.

The Chapter's Award Selection Committee will review nominations submitted by local program training directors on the merit of scholarship, surgical acumen, judgment, and plans for the use of the award.

Award Eligibility/Submission Information
Eligible entrants must:

  • Be at least a third-year general surgery or surgical specialty resident in an approved program in the Metropolitan Washington area
  • Be a resident member of the American College of Surgeons
  • Be nominated by their program director
  • Provide a letter of support from the visiting institution
  • Complete a brief application
  • Provide a curriculum vitae

Instructions to the Program Training Director
The program training director is responsible for nominationg eligible residents from their program and must discuss with the resident his or plans for use of the award. A letter of support from the proposed visit site is required.

Application Process
The Zehner Memorial Traveling Fellowship Award Committee will review all applications. The finalists will be invited to meet with the members of the Committee as part of the selection process. Announcement of winners will be made at All Surgeons Day.

Complete the Harry B. Zehner, Jr., Memorial Traveling Fellowship Award Online Application.

Each eligible resident is invited to apply. Each application should be submitted to the committee with a letter of recommendation.

Plans for use of the award to attend seminars or national meetings will not be considered. The recipient of the award will be required to report back to the Chapter after the visit has been completed.

In Memoriam
Born in Washington, Dr. Zehner graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1952 and from Harvard University Medical School in 1956. Both his internship and surgical residency were completed at the University of California Medical Center.

Dr. Zehner served on the staffs of Sibley, Doctors, Columbia, Providence, and Georgetown University hospitals, and he was a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Georgetown University Medical School.

He served as a consultant in surgery to the State Department. He was Chairman of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services and played a role in bringing about the first laws to regulate ambulances and ambulance attendants in Washington.

For several years, Dr. Zehner served on a voluntary basis with the Washington, DC, Fire Department, teaching emergency medical technicians how to treat shock and cardiac arrest.

Dr. Zehner was instrumental in founding the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He served on the boards of Group Hospitalization, Inc., Doctors Hospital, and the Washington Hospital Center.

He also served as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve Medical Corps with the 6th Fleet during 1957-59.

Washington Academy of Surgery Past Presidents

The following surgeons helped shape the Washington Academy of Surgery and, in turn, the Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.

 

1933 - H. H. Kerr 1935 - Charles S. White 1937 - James Cahill
1938 - Daniel L. Borden 1939 - F. R. Hagner 1940 - William B. Marbury
1941 - Edmund Horgan 1942 - Fred Fishback 1943 - Paul Putzki
1944 - J. A. Gannon 1945 - Fred R. Sanderson 1946 - B. F. Dean
1947 - Crenshaw Briggs 1948 - John Lyons 1949 - Alec Horwitz
1950 - Arch Riddick 1951 - William Herbst 1952 - J. Olge Warfield
1953 - George Nutting 1954 - W. Ross Morris 1955 - Harry L. Claud
1956 - Robert M. Moran 1957 - Herbert Schoenfeld 1958 - Edward Cafritz
1959 - Leo Gaffney 1960 - Luther W. Gray, Sr. 1961 - Garnet W. Ault
1962 - Saul Schwartzbach 1963 - Philip Caulfield 1964 - Duane C. Richtmeyer
1965 - Joseph R. Young 1966 - Louis J. Goffredi 1967 - J. Blaine Harrell
1968 - Roy G. Klepser 1969 - John Bayly 1970 - Ernest Gould
1971 - Milton L. Goodman 1972 - William S. McCune 1973 - Brooks G. Brown, Sr.
1974 - George A. Higgins, Jr. 1975 - Edward C. Wilson 1976 - Paul C. Kiernan
1977 - Herbert M. Giffin 1978 - Frederick B. Brandt 1979 - Paul E. Shorb, Jr.
1980 - Jerome L. Sandler 1981 - LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. 1982 - William F. Feller
1983 - Norman H. Isaacson 1984 - Glenn W. Geelhoed 1985 - William J. Fouty
1986 - Robert B. Wallace 1987 - William E. Matory 1988 - Judson G. Randolph
1989 - Stanley M. Knoll 1990 - Linwood L. Rayford, Jr. 1991 - Luther W. Gray, Jr.
1992 - Peter E. Petrucci 1993 - Ralph G. DePalma 1994 - Thomas J. Calhoun
1995 - Hugh H. Trout, III 1996 - Katherine L. Alley 1997 - Edward A. Ranklin
1998 - Anton N. Sidawy

2010 – Linda Cardinal

 

 

 

Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter Past Presidents

The DC Chapter honors all of the leaders who have guided the organization from its founding.

 

1973 - Harry Zehner, Jr., MD, FACS 1974 - Joseph Rodgers Young, MD, FACS 1975 - Louis J. Goffredi, MD, FACS
1976 - Phillip H. Philbin, MD, FACS 1977 - John F. Potter, MD, FACS 1978 - LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD, FACS
1979 - William H. Cooper, MD, FACS 1980 - George A. Higgins, Jr., MD, FACS 1981 - David C. Wherry, MD, FACS
1982 - Judson G. Randolph, MD, FACS 1983 - William E. Matory, MD, FACS 1984 - Jerome W. Carter, MD, FACS
1985 - Paul E. Shorb, Jr., MD, FACS 1986 - Frederick J. Frensilli, MD, FACS 1987 - William J. Fouty, MD, FACS
1988 - Hugh H. Trout, II, MD, FACS 1989 - James C. Cobey, MD, FACS 1990 - Norman A. Odyniec, MD, FACS
1991 - Edward A. Rankin, Jr., MD, FACS 1992 - John W. Little, MD, FACS 1993 - Lee. E. Smith, MD, FACS
1994 - Mary H. McGrath, MD, FACS 1995 - John R. Kirkpatrick, MD, FACS 1996 - Russell J. Nauta, MD, FACS
1997 - COL David P. Jaques, MD, FACS 1998 - Kurt D. Newman, MD, FACS 1999 - Peter Petrucci, MD, FACS
2000 - Anton N. Sidawy, MD, FACS 2001 - Robert H. Dennis, II, MD, FACS 2002 - Stephen R.T. Evans, MD, FACS
2003 - COL Mary Maniscalco-Theberge, MD, FACS 2004 - Debra Holly Ford, MD, FACS 2005 - Jon C. White, MD, FACS
2006 - Don Colvin, MD, FACS 2007 - Richard Neville, MD, FACS 2008 - COL Craig Shriver, MD, FACS
2009 - Jeffrey Lukish, MD, FACS    

 

 

Mission

The District of Columbia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons was founded in 1972. Its goals since then have been:

  1. To promote the aims, interests, ideals, and programs of the College in the metropolitan area of Washington, which includes DC as well as suburban Maryland and Virginia.
  2. To hold itself responsible for and use its best efforts to attain the objectives of the College, which are to "elevate the standards of surgery, establish a standard of competency and of character for practitioners of surgery, to provide a method of granting Fellowship, and to educate the public and the profession to understand that the practice of surgery calls for special training and that the surgeon elected to Fellowship in this College has had such training and is properly qualified to practice surgery."
  3. To welcome new Fellows of the College into the Chapter and develop better acquaintances among local Fellows.
  4. To stimulate interest in the Resident-Associate Society (RAS) among surgical residents and young surgeons.

The Chapter is comprised of more than 400 members. These individuals are drawn from all the surgical specialties — from general surgery to plastic surgery, from urology to vascular. The membership is very diverse with significant representation from all local training centers, including the military.

Bylaws

The DC Chapter, ACS Bylaws outline the governance and leadership methods employed by the organization. The current bylaws can be found here

Contact Us

Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter, ACS
P.O. Box 1925
Columbus, OH 43216-1925
(877) 835-5809
Fax: (877) 835-5798
dc@dcfacs.org

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