Booking 2026

Talks for grand rounds, conferences, retreats — and podcasts.

Three topics currently on offer, each built from work done on service rather than assembled from the literature. Talks run 30 to 60 minutes, in person or virtual, and the Q&A is usually the best part. The same material works as a podcast or panel conversation.

Three talks, ready to book

AI in Surgical Practice

Where the technology actually helps today — documentation, patient education, and program administration — and where it quietly creates work. Practical, demonstrated live, no vendor pitch and nothing you cannot try the following week.

Grand rounds · Conference · Retreat

EGS Verification: Lessons from Inside the Process

What ACS Emergency General Surgery Verification actually asks of a program, what surprises people, and how to build the PI and data infrastructure before the site visit rather than during it. Delivered by a surgeon who has been through it twice as medical director.

Grand rounds · Departmental retreat

Robotics in Acute Care Surgery

Bringing the robot to the emergency general surgery patient: case selection, after-hours logistics, team training, and an honest look at what the platform does and does not solve.

Grand rounds · Conference

Formats and length

  • Grand rounds and conference sessions. 30 to 60 minutes plus Q&A, in person or virtual. Tell us the slot you have and the talk is cut to it.
  • Departmental retreats and workshops. Longer, more interactive, built around what your group is actually trying to decide.
  • Podcasts, panels and webinars. Guest appearances on clinical, health-technology and practice-management shows. Remote is fine, no minimum audience, and there is no fee for a podcast — a good conversation is worth more than an honorarium. Send the show and a couple of dates.

Audience, travel and booking

  • Audience: surgical departments, residency and fellowship programs, conference sessions, hospital leadership retreats, multidisciplinary groups, and podcast listeners who are mostly clinicians. The material is adjusted to who is in the room.
  • Materials: slides are provided afterwards, and references are cited on the slides rather than promised in a follow-up email.
  • CME: we do not provide accreditation, but we will supply objectives, a disclosure statement and an outline in whatever format your CME office needs.
  • Scheduling: the constraint is a live clinical practice, so the more notice the better — but a podcast recording can usually be found a slot quickly.

Booking

Tell us the date, the audience and the format on the intake form — or just the name of the show. We reply within two business days. Paid speaking engagements are scoped and quoted individually from a written proposal, under Schedule F of the services agreement; speaking is not a data processing service and is not subject to Texas sales tax.

Book a talk or a podcast

Date, audience, format — or just the name of the show. That is all we need to start.