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  Important Note: The conference schedule is subject to change. Updates to sessions, speakers, and timing may occur prior to the start of the conference. Please refer to this page for the latest schedule information.

Full Schedule

  • Tuesday, September 29, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    ACOS Board of Governors Meeting
  • Wednesday, September 30, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Registration Desk
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Bylaws Committee Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Committee Chairs Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Registration
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Strategic Planning Committee Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Exhibit Hall Installation
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery Mid-Year Review Committee Meeting
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Continuing Education Committee Meeting
  • Thursday, October 1, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Awards Committee Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Registration Desk
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Exhibit Hall Installation
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
    ACOS Annual Members Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Keynote Address: Lift as You Climb: How to Lead by Helping Others Succeed
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Theodore F. Classen Memorial Lecture
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    ACA Scientific Exhibit and Poster Committee Meeting
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Ceremonial Committee Meeting
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Lunch | Visit Exhibits | Quick Shots
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Quick Shot Presentations
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Ceremonial Conclave Rehearsal
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Evolution of Minimally Invasive Techniques
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Robotics
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: What's New in Rural Surgery
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Updates on High Risk and Benign Breast Lesions
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Urological Surgery Annual Business Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Cardiothoracic and Neurological Surgery: Stroke
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Evolution of Minimally Invasive Techniques
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery - Updates in Transplant Surgery
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    CTV - CEA v TCAR
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Closing the Best Hernia Repari Approach
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Indications for Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Coffee Break
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Neurological and CTV Resident Podiums
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    CTV - Neurointerventional
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    ACOS Resident Section Annual Business Meeting
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Cardiovascular and Neurological: Carotid, Stroke - Guest Lecture - Panel
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Expanding Access: Building a Breast Center in the Community Setting
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Robotics Point - Counterpoint
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    AOCPr Board of Trustees Meeting
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM CDT
    Aortic Dissection
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    AOCPr College Meeting
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Program
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    Women's Surgeons Forum and Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Explanting EVAR grafts
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CDT
    PCOM Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    Alumni Receptions
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Surgery Discipline Reception
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    Resident and Student Scientific Research Presentation and Awards Reception
  • Friday, October 2, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery Discipline: Surviving Sepsis Updates
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery: Annual Business Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Robotics
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: The "Osteopathic Advantage" in Global Health
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Membership Committee Business Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Morning Coffee with Exhibitors
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Program
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery : Annual Business Meeting and Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Registration
  • 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Chest Wall Reconstruction Updates
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
    Keynote Address: From Best to Better
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Interest Critial Care Papers
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Medical Student Section - MSS
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Abdominl Wall
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Acute Care and Trauma Robotics
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Tailoring Breast Cancer Care in Extremes of Age
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Program: Brain Tumor
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Lung Cancer Talk
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Urology
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: BREAST (Updates in Breast Conserving Surgery)
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Management of Breast Cancer Recurrence
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Lung Cancer Talk
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Building an Outpatient Surgery Center
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Integrating Robotic Data
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Application of Limited Leukocyte Filtrate in Pulm Resection
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: De-escalation of Auxillary Surgery
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Teaching Robotic Hernia Repairs to Resident Learners
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery Discipline Annual Business Meeting and Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Annual Business Meeting and Lunch
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Update on Vascular Trauma
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Breast Point/Counterpoint
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Neurosurgery: Process Mapping in Neurosurgery
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Evolution of Minimally Invasive Treatments
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Fear, Flesh and Fangs: Brown Recluse Bites Revisited
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Update on Cardiothoracic Trauma
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: A Benefit to Invading Greenland? Opportunity for Malpractice Reform
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Trauma Updates
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline: Minimally Invasive vs Endoscopic Approaches to Spine
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery Program - Breast Cancer Genetics
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Better Call Conklin: Legal Updates on Single-Accreditation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Soft Tissue Reconstruction/Burns
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline: Minimally Invasive / Same Day Brain Surgery
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Breast Reconstruction
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Managing Bariatrics Complications
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Geniculate Artery and Plantar Fascitis Embolization
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline: Endoscopic Keyhole Cranial Surgery
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    ACOS Ceremonial Conclave
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    ACOS President's Reception
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
    AOCPr President's Reception and Annual Banquet
  • Saturday, October 3, 2026
  • 6:00 AM - 7:50 AM CDT
    Board of Governors
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Converting from Academic to Private Practice in the Landscape of Shared Marked Value
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: From Pixels to Practice: Thyroid Ultrasound and the ATA 2025 Update
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Physician Financial Wellness
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Rural/Wound Care
  • 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:15 AM - 8:00 AM CDT
    Cardiothoracic and Vascular Section: Medical Student and Resident Presentation
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: RURAL/WOUND CARE - Hydradenitis Suppurativa
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
    Keynote Address: When the War Comes to You
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Complex Anal Fixtula
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Rural/Wound Care - Nexobrid
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
    Infrapopliteal Bio-scaffolding
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Gun Violence Updates and Surgeon Call to Action
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Neurosurgery
  • 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Medical Student Section - MSS
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Ethical Consideration in Surgery
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery: LGBTQIA Surgical Challenges: Partnering with Association of Out Surgeons and Allies (AOSA)
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Surgery
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Percutaneous Arterial Thrombectomy
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Coffee Break with the Exhibitors
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    General Surgery: Rural/Wound Care: Vein
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Interest Joint Lecture: Negotiation and Quality Improvement
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Program
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Neurological Discipline Program
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Updates in Esophageal Oncology
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Rural/Wound Care
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    AOCPr Banquet Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Trauma Fright Night
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Neurological and Plastics Craniofacial Combined Lecture
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Cardiac Topic Lecture
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Cardiac Topic
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Cardiac Lecture - Resident Scholarship Winner
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Neurosurgery: Neuromodulation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Interactive AI Course
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: MIS - Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Rural/Wound Care
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Sternal Reconstruction and Muscle Flaps
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Scalpels & Still: A Debate on Osteopathic Identity in Modern Day Surgical Education
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Neurosurgery: Pediatrics Vascular
  • 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
    General Surgery: Integrating AI Into a Clinical Surgical Practice
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: How Hospitals and Healthcare Systems Use AI
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: An Update and Call to Research
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    General Surgery: OMT for Surgery: An Update and Call to Research
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: LGBTQIA Surgical Challenges-Partnering with Associations of Out Surgeons and Allies (AOSA)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Neurosurgery: Spine
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Case Panel in Hemodialysis
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    General Surgery: OMT Hands-On Course
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    CTV Reception
  • Sunday, October 4, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
    General Interest
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    General Interest
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    General Interest
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    General Interest