INDUSTRY COMMITTEE

Chair - Mark Friedell, MD, Orlando Regional  mark.friedell@orhs.org

• Bob Sticca, MD, North Dakota
• Ahmed Mahmoud, MD, San Joaquin General Hospital
• Steve Smith, MD, Mayo, Jacksonville
• Michael Goldfarb, MD, St. Barnabas Health Care
• George Fuhrman, MD, Atlanta Medical Center

Charge to the Industry Committee

• Develop ethical ways to increase industry support for resources necessary for general surgical training.  These resources may be composed of unrestricted educational grants or technological equipment such as simulators to advance our mission.
• Increase the number of industry sponsors at our annual meetings.
• Investigate ways to have industry endow certain lectures with unrestricted educational grants.
• Compromise the committee of a mixture of university, hybrid, and community programs.