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ForwardDesigning Your Office and Surgery Center: Space Requirements and Accreditation, Live WebClinic, March 12, 2025
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Topic: Designing Your Office and Surgery Center: Space Requirements and accreditation
Speakers: Brittany Eidson, DDS, FAACS, FACS, and Mark Mandell-Brown, MD, FAACS
Description
This WebClinic will explore the common challenges of designing and building a new surgical practice as well as discuss the ways you can maximize your space for profitability and reduction of waste. In addition, it will discuss the important steps, benefits and challenges of accreditation for your surgery center.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the activity, the learner should be able to:
- Discuss the challenges of designing and building a new cosmetic surgery practice
- Determine the ways to maximize the space you have to maximize revenue and minimize waste
- Incorporate critical steps in planning and implementing your surgery center
- Explain the importance of accreditation for your center
- Name the steps to obtain accreditation
- Identify common shortcomings in seeking accreditation.
Target Audience
Practitioners in the field of cosmetic surgery including, but not limited to, dermatology, general surgery, and plastic/reconstructive surgery.
On-Demand Access
For those who are unable to attend live, the session will be recorded and available on demand. Access instructions will be emailed to you within two weeks of the live session. On-demand viewing is not eligible for CME credits.
Registration Required
Instructions for accessing the webinar will be provided immediately upon registration.
Registration Fees
- AACS Members: $75 per webinar
- Non-Member Practitioners: $150 per webinar
- Residents, Training Fellows, Medical Students: $0 per webinar
CME Credit
To receive CME credit, physicians must submit the Evaluation Survey & CME Claim Form at the conclusion of the live course.
About the Speakers
Dr. Brittany Eidson completed residency training in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in the Army at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the DC area and then served as a staff surgeon in the Army at Fort Hood in Texas. After her military career, Dr. Eidson completed a 1 year fellowship with the AACS in Facial Cosmetic Surgery in McLean, VA. After fellowship, Dr. Eidson returned to her family and Michigan and opened a surgical practice with her husband in 2022.
With 21 years of accreditation survey experience, Dr. Mark Mandell-Brown has surveyed over 100 cosmetic surgery centers, both office based and ambulatory, for AAAHC He has served as Chairman of the Surveyor Training & Education Committee, Complaint Investigation Committee, as well as a trustee on the AAAHC board until 2023. Dr Mandell -Brown was honored to receive the AACS Webster award in 2017. He served as President of AACS from 2020 to 2022. He practices in Cincinnati Ohio and multiple years has been voted “Best Plastic Surgeon” by Cincinnati Enquirer and CityBeat Magazine. He has been named “Top Doc" in Plastic Surgery in physician polls by Cincinnati Magazine as recently as 2025. He has owned and operated his own free standing surgery center since 2000.
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American College of Surgeons and American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Award of CME credits by ACS is based on compliance of the program with the ACCME accreditation requirements and does not imply endorsement by ACS of the content, the faculty, or the sponsor of the program. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as “ineligible companies”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
Ineligible Company: The ACCME defines an “ineligible company” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition.
Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation
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| Mark Mandell-Brown, MD, FAACS | Speaker | X |
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Available Credit
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Contact Hour(s)
Price
Once paid, registration fees for WebClinics are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend a live airing, the recording will be provided to you for on-demand viewing. CME credit is not available for the recording.
To receive CME Credit, completion of the Evaluation & CME Claim Form is required. This form will be emailed after the conclusion of the live WebClinic.