RT Journal
A1 Clark OH
T1 INfluence of endocrine surgery on general surgery and surgical science
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2009
FD September 21
VO 144
IS 9
SP 800
OP 805
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2009.159
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.159
AB 
As the 2009 president of the PCSA [Pacific Coast Surgical Association], I am honored to welcome you here today. In 1974, when I was a junior faculty member at UCSF [University of California at San Francisco], I was fortunate enough to attend my first meeting of this society on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Because of the enthusiastic friendship evident among its members and the outstanding quality of the scientific meeting, I knew immediately that this was a group to which I would want to belong. Today, the PCSA continues to represent an exemplary society of community and academic surgeons.