Chicago Surgical Society Scientific Meeting 2026

It was held in Chicago, IL.

Surgeons who are Society members attend.

It was most useful for Society member surgeons in the Chicago area, particularly cardiac and valve specialists, since the evening centred on the Bevan Lecture given by Patrick M. McCarthy, who directs the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine and looks back across nearly five decades of valve operations. Surgeons wanting a multi-day program with many tracks, or those outside the Chicago region, would have gotten less from it, because this was a single society meeting with a modest exhibitor list including Medtronic and Cooper Surgical.

Surgeons at society meetings in a private club usually wear business formal, typically a suit and tie or equivalent. Chicago in October is cool and windy, so a coat is practical.