Grand Rounds, August 20, 2026

August 20, 2026

Presentation Title: Individualizing Surgical Care for the Older Adult
Speaker: Victoria Lai-Yen Tang, MD, MAS

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026
Time: 7:00 AM ‐ 8:00 AM
Location: Medical School Building
Learning Format: In‐Person

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Apply a biopsychosocial framework to identify biological, psychological, and social factors that may influence perioperative care and recovery in older adults.
  • Identify patient-centered postoperative outcomes that complement traditional measures of surgical morbidity and mortality and explain their relevance to recovery.
  • Explain how patient goals and priorities can inform perioperative decision-making and the assessment of meaningful surgical outcomes.

Accreditation Statement: McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education or physicians.

Credit Designation: McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABS MOC Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirement (s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.  It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACGME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Disclosure of Financial Relationships:

Speaker:
Victoria Lai-Yen Tang, MD, MAS, have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclosure.

Planners Committee Members: David Wainwright, MD, Sasha D. Adams, MD, Acute Care Surgery Program Director, General Surgery Residency Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, Lillian Kao, MD, Professor, Surgery, Natalie Drucker, MD and Tamara Saunders, MD have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies who primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Mark Hobeika, MD –  TransMedics, Inc – Contracted Research – Relationship Ended

Steven Canfield, MD – AngioDynamics – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended

Erik Wilson, MD :Johnson & Johnson -Teaching -Relationship Has Not Ended; GI Windows -Chief Medical Officer -Relationship Has Not Ended; Johnson and Johnson -Consulting -Relationship Has Not Ended; CMR -Consulting -Relationship Has Not Ended; GORE -Teaching -Relationship Has Not Ended; Medtronic -Teaching -Relationship Has Not Ended; Distalmotion-Consulting -Relationship Has Not Ended; ReShape-Medtimo-Consulting -Relationship Has Not Ended; Boston Scientific -Teaching -Relationship Ended; Hologic -Consulting -Relationship Ended

Laura Moore, MD – Frontline Medical Technologies – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended

Shinil Shah, DO – GI Windows – Contracted Research – Relationship Has Not Ended

Any financial relationship that was found to be relevant has been mitigated.