SAGES Surgical Coaching Program

SAGES Surgical Coaching Program for GI and MIS Fellows

The SAGES Surgical Coaching Program will provide Surgical Coaching services for new-to-practice MIS and GI surgeons.

Surgical Coaching For GI and MIS Fellows

This program offers you the opportunity for new-to-practice MIS and GI surgeons, including fellows in the last months of their fellowship, up to 18 months following fellowship, to receive individualized, one-on-one support as you transition to independent practice and feedback to continue improving your performance. You would be matched with a trained Surgical Coach who is also a practicing surgeon and member of SAGES. Surgical Coaches support you to clarify your goals, make a plan to achieve those goals, give you feedback on your progress, and keep you accountable. Through Surgical Coaching, surgeons can improve their performance in the domains of technical, cognitive, and interpersonal skills.

You will meet your Surgical Coach for one-hour virtual coaching sessions, 3 or 4 times throughout a year. You can meet your Surgical Coach and begin coaching sessions any time. If you record your cases, the Surgical Coach can review your videos and provide feedback. You can receive up to 8.0 CME for the program (1 session = 1 CME). There is no fee for participation.

The first step is to request a Surgical Coach. Complete the Request form below to join the program and get introduced to a surgical coach. After your request, the Academy staff will setup introduction calls for you with up to three potential Surgical Coaches. Following the introductions, you choose the Surgical Coach you would like to work with, setup a coaching agreement to outline your partnership, and schedule your first session.

For Surgical Coaches

This program will focus on providing coaching to graduated MIS fellows. One of the many goals of this program is to help ease the transition from fellowship into practice by providing recent graduates with a surgical coach outside of their institution.  As a coach, you will help a MIS fellow transition into practice by focusing on their performance goals, potentially reviewing operative videos, providing feedback, and working with them to improve in all aspects of their professional duties. You could be matched with up to 3 new-to-practice surgeons and start coaching in Summer 2022. The time commitment is around 8 hours per surgical fellow, over a calendar year. You can receive up to 8.0 CME for coaching sessions (1 session = 1 CME). You may be eligible for an honorarium for your Surgical Coaching.

If you have been trained in Surgical Coaching and would like to participate as a Surgical Coach for the fellowship coaching program, please email Addi Faerber, addi@surgicalcoaching.org, and you will get added to the roster.

Participating Surgical Coaches

	Mujjahid Abbas, MD, FACS Bariatric Surgery University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Cleveland, OH
	Azure Adkins, MD General Surgery Journey Clinic Norman, OK
	Shushmita Ahmed, MD General Surgery University of California Davis Davis, CA
	Adnan Alseidi, MD University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA
	Maria Altieri, MD, MS Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery East Carolina University – Brody School of Medicine Greenville, NC
	Stanley Ashley, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
	Gina Andrales, MD, MPH General Surgery Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
	Aaron Bolduc, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgeon Augusta University Augusta, GA
	Robert Catania, MD General Surgery Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Nashua, NH
	Bipan Chand, MD Loyola University Chicago, IL
	Rahila Essani, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Baylor Scott & White Health Dallas, TX
	Sarah Fox, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Wilmington, NC
	Jacob Greenberg, MD, EdM General Surgery Augusta University Augusta, GA
	Naruhiko Ikoma, MD MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
	Daniel Jones, MD, MS General Surgery Harvard University Saratoga Springs, NY
	Rebecca Kowalski, MD General Surgery Northwell Health New York, NY
	Shauna Levy, MD, MSC Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Tulane School of Medicine New Orleans, LA
	Keith Lillemoe, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
	Henry Lin, MD General Surgery
	John Marks, MD Philadelphia, PA
	Marian McDonald, MD MEd (MEHP) General Surgery St Luke’s University Health Network Coopersburg, PA
	John Mellinger, MD, FACS Gastrointestinal Surgeon American Board of Surgery and  Southern Illinois University (Emeritus) Springfield, IL
	Indraneil Mukherjee, MD Gastrointestinal & Colorectal Surgery Northwell Health – Staten Island University Hospital New York, NY
	Kristin Noonan, MD General Surgery Abington Hospital Jefferson Health wyncote, PA
	John Paige, MD General Surgery LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA
	Carl Pesta, DO Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery McLaren Macomb Detroit, MI
	Ruchir Puri, MD University of Florida Ganesville, FL
	Christina Sanders, DO, MBA General Surgery University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York
	Jon Schram, MD Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, MI
	Fadel Shabeeb, MD FACS FASCRS Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
	Jenny Shao, MD General Surgery University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
	Ian Soriano, M.D. General Surgery University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA
	Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS General Surgery Indiana University School of Medicine Carme, IN
	Nova Szoka, MD General Surgery West Virginia University Morgantown, WV
	Michael Ujiki, MD NorthShore University HealthSystem Chicago, IL
	Mark Whiteford, BS, MD Colon and Rectal Surgery The Oregon Clinic Portland, OR

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