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We are pleased to announce the 21st Annual Scientific Session of the Surgical Outcomes Club!
Join us for an exciting day of cutting-edge research, thought-provoking discussions, and networking with leading experts in the field of surgical outcomes.
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Location: Northwestern University
More details, including the full program and registration information, will be coming soon. We look forward to seeing you there!
H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Dr. Welch is a general internist who has worked for the US Indian Health Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Dartmouth. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. For over three decades, he has been asking hard questions about his profession. His arguments are frequently counter-intuitive, even heretical, yet have regularly appeared in the country's most prestigious medical journals — Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute — as well as in op-eds in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. His most recent book is Less Medicine, More Health – 7 Assumptions that Drive Too Much Medical Care.
Dr. Welch questions the assumption that more medical care is always better. His research has focused on the assumption as it relates to diagnosis: that the best strategy to keep people healthy is early diagnosis – and the earlier the better. He has delineated the side effects of this strategy: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively and tell too many people that they are sick. Much of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening: in particular, screening for melanoma, thyroid, lung, breast and prostate cancer.
The abstract submission deadline has passed for 2024! Please check back regularly, as the call for abstracts for 2025 will open in May.
Submission Deadline Friday, July 19.
You will be notified of your selection by August 16.
If accepted to participate, SOC staff will provide additional instructions and guidance for registration and travel logistics. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and event registration expenses.
Final posters will be due October 4, 2024 in PowerPoint format.
2026: Washington, DC; Sunday, September 26
2027: San Diego, CA,; Sunday October 17
2028: Boston, MA; Sunday, October 22
2029: San Francisco, CA; Sunday, October 20