ACFAS
NEWS from the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF FOOT AND ANKLE SURGEONS
VOLUME 23 ISSUE 2
ACFAS 2016 Topped the Charts as a Recordbreaker Like so many stars who have made their mark in Austin, ACFAS 2016 hit the stage in February and played for record-breaking crowds that shattered last year’s attendance numbers. More than 1,750 foot and ankle surgeons, residents and students, as well as 140 exhibiting companies, packed the Austin Convention Center to make this year’s conference the largest yet with a 17 percent increase in attendance over the record-breaking 2015 Phoenix Annual Scientific Conference. Reed V. Tuckson, MD, author of The Doctor in the Mirror: Living a Longer, Healthier, More Joyful Life Starts with You, opened the show with a candid conversation that stressed the importance of embracing change and patient-centric care in medicine and urged those in the audience to empower patients to act in their best self-interest. (continued on page 10)
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