Opening Pandora’s Box: The Violence We Choose Not to See
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ...
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Illuminating the Path: Why AAGL Embraces a New SIG in Specialized Ultrasound and Imaging
"The eye cannot see what the mind does not know." This medical adage perfectly captures why advanced imaging education transforms gynecologic practice. The AAGL has long been at the forefront of minimally invasive gynecologic...
A Roadmap to AAGL Leadership-You Are Invited!
The AAGL welcomes and most importantly, invites you to participate in our year-long programming and leadership positions. As a premier gynecologic minimally invasive surgical society that boasts more than 7,000 members from more than...
2nd AAGL Hysteroscopy Summit: Let There Be Light
Globally, millions of people witnessed the awe-inspiring spectacle of the total solar eclipse. The moon moved in front of the sun, and for a few precious moments, day turned into night. We witnessed the...
AAGL Turbocharged Hysteroscopy Summit: Join Us!
It has been six years since the AAGL hosted the last Hysteroscopy Summit. Since then, there have been revolutionary changes in hysteroscopic technology, indications, innovation, and data demonstrating its sensitivity in detecting intracervical and...
Over the Top: Another Successful AAGL Congress
It’s difficult to offer one word to describe the AAGL 2023 Global Congress that took place in Nashville, TN from November 5-8, 2023. What I can offer are a myriad of observations that I...
Unmute the Muted
Recently, my hospital, the Cleveland Clinic required that all health care staff complete an on-line module on the topic of “Becoming a High Reliability Organization, (HRO). I moaned. Mentally, I said, “not another survey...
From Impossible to Possible
What do we believe? How do miraculous things occur? Can we move our novel ideas, personal pet projects, and organizations ahead with ideas that seem to be impossible? Are we change agents? Can we...
Patient and Physician Advocacy: Do You Hear Me? Can We Talk?
Recent statistics demonstrate that many patients are allotted only six seconds to describe their symptoms, clinical history, and voice concerns to their physician. Another study found that physicians interrupted after a median of only...
Patient Advocacy and Education at AAGL22
Our annual AAGL Global Congress is a mere few weeks away. Of course, it will be a great time to reconnect with old friends, make new friends, and learn cutting edge surgery and emerging...
Passing the Baton
During high school, my son participated in numerous sports: ice hockey, cross-country, a little basketball, and he ran track. Of all the competitive varsity sports that he participated in, the most gut wrenching to...
Metamorphisis!
Is it the beginning of the end of the pandemic? Are we evolving to the point that Covid-19 becomes endemic? We’ve learned that perhaps there are 50 new mutations of the virus and for...
We Came Together in 2021!
We have all heard the quote that says, “There is no I in the word TEAM.” Together we are one. Another memorable quote quips, “there is only one letter separating can from can’t—and learning bridges that gap.”...
Forward Together!
This year, the AAGL celebrates 50 years as an organization. We blinked and new horizons have unfolded before us. An explosion in technology has impacted and jettisoned all aspects of surgery. Gynecologists are now...
All Hands On Deck!
Some say that we are experiencing, “D” Day from the impact of the Delta COVID-19 variant on our lives, families, workplace, personal relationships, and national/international meetings. We know about the uncertainties and tolls that...
An Exciting Path Forward
It is spring where I live. It signals rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, and regrowth. Emerging from the bleakness of winter, filled with the coldest, shortest days and the longest nights, a new season emerges. For...
Let’s Reconnect – In Person!
Our AAGL executive board and scientific planning committee are very optimistic that we will see you for our 50th Global Congress in Austin, Texas. We have planned something for everyone. Thought provoking panels, lectures...
Special Interest Groups: Quite A Year
The purpose of the AAGL SIGs is to allow those AAGL members with special areas of interest and talent to collaborate together to help advance the AAGL’s overall mission and vision: to elevate the...
