SSO 2025 Pre-Meeting Courses

Make the most of your Tampa experience with a pre-meeting course! These optional courses are designed to benefit participants with an emphasis on practical information. Registration is limited, so sign-up early HERE.

Hands-on Robotics in Gastrectomy, Esophagectomy, Pancreas, Liver

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
7:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Member: $599
Non-Member: $699

This hands-on course will include lectures from leaders in the field on technical approaches, training and learning curve considerations and tips on starting a robotic program. Hands on didactics utilizing cadavers, live animal surgeries, and bio-tissue anastomotic drills will educate participants on necessary operative steps and develop the robotic skillset to complete pancreatic, liver and gastric resections with direct feedback from robotic HPB/UGI experts. The course is designed for faculty who have preliminary robotic case experience but seek to perform more complex hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal procedures.

SSO Women in Cancer Surgery: Leading Beyond the Operating Room

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Member: $150
Non-Member: $175

Join the SSO Women in Cancer Surgery Work Group and guest panelists as they discuss competencies needed to lead outside of the operating room, things to consider when making financial decisions for your department and your personal financial health and alternative leadership pathways. Refreshments will be served.

Surgical Clinical Trials Primer: Designing Your Study

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Member: $550
Non-Member: 650

Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard in evidence-based medicine; however, surgical clinical trials come with their own specific challenges. This one-day precourse provides information and instruction regarding surgical clinical trial hypothesis development, study types, investigator responsibilities, statistical consideration, funding, and the regulatory process. Industry will also present their perspective and experience with surgical clinical trials. The course will conclude with two examples of working through the full surgical clinical trial process, with real life examples of successes and failures, of both investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored trials.

Pre-Meeting Courses