AboutMission/Governance

Mission/Governance

  • Mission

    The mission of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons is to promote excellence in gynecologic surgery through acquisition of knowledge and improvement of skills, advancement of basic and clinical research, and professional and public education.

  • Strategic Plan

    SGS leadership in 2023 established five main “pillars” or strategic focus areas, with the following goals defined:

    Membership

    Diversify membership

    • Set goals of additional #’s of members in specific categories
    • Campaign to current Active Members about specific goals to diversify membership

    Improve value of membership

    • Describe value added member benefits

    Improve pathway to membership

    • Increase Associate Member engagement
    • Broaden mentorship program
    • Improve communications for proposing new members
    • Continue outreach to prospects and applicants

    Collaboration with related organizations

    • Continue exploring options with ACS
    • Identify potential collaborations with other orgs.

    Visibility

    Establish SGS brand awareness

    • Pictorial of “what is an SGS Member”
    • Publicize vetting process for membership
    • Improve public facing search for members
    • Make SGS deliverables (i.e. SRG, CoRPS publications) and collaboration with other organizations more visible
    • Establish listserv/communities to discuss difficult cases

    Use Social Media as a tool for education and visibility

    • Create a schedule for continuous posts on Social Media
    • Define the content to be provided on Social Media (such as “surgical tips online”)

    Finance

    Professionalization of financial services

    • Identify and contract investment management company for SGS investments, Segregation of tasks

    Increase Donations

    • Continue to develop a culture of giving
    • Investigate Planned/Estate Giving, Patient Giving, Intellectual Property Giving
    • Explore ways to make it easier to donate

    Review Management and Utilization of Donated Funds

    • Create task force to identify possible paradigm shift on usage of money annually, e.g. % or dollar

    Revitalize Fund Development Committee, explore need for creating a foundation

    • Investigate financial impact for creation of a foundation
    • Identify new chair for Fund Development Committee

    Investigate additional grants for education and research projects

    • Identify top three companies/foundations to approach for potential grants

    Education

    Provide education to meet needs of surgeons across career

    • Assess the existing programs and identify gaps (audience/topics)
    • Develop new program(s) to address the gap(s)

    Reexamine Annual Scientific Meeting existing offerings to determine if change is needed

    • Update current categories for abstracts and target call for abstracts to support educational objectives
    • Needs assessment/survey from members, meetings attendees to determine changes

    Research

    Promote excellence in research

    • Investigate final course established by SASGOG to assess needs and gaps
    • Explore components for a new excellence in research course (manual, web based, live, audience – longitudinal, methods)

    Develop SGS research goals

    • Identify goals including areas for focus such as diversity/inclusion, JEDI, implementation science, etc.
    • Target SRG, CoRPS and abstract submissions to meet the research goals
    • Create awards for focus areas

    Development Research Mentorship Program

    • Develop pathway to begin research in FPRN® and continue to CoRPS, if accepted
    • Prepare plan to get Life members more actively involved in mentorship program

  • Bylaws

    Click here to view the most up to date bylaws for SGS, as per April 1, 2025.