Special Interest Groups

While the primary objective of the AAGL is to advance minimally invasive gynecology, the Board of Trustees, recognizes that some of its members have areas of special interest, and have established Special Interest Groups (SIG) to address the needs of these members.

Purpose: To increase knowledge of physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professional in gynecologic oncology, reproductive surgery, robotics and urogynecology; to improve patient care; provide a forum for networking, exchange of ideas and mentoring your members; and promote the highest standards of ethical and critical investigation.

Each SIG has an executive committee to coordinate the activities of its members.  The following are examples of activities that participants of a SIG may be called upon to do:

• Participate in grading abstracts for the annual meeting
• Help organize the SIG's plenary session at the annual meeting
• Help in planning post-graduate courses
• Author a clinical opinion for NewsScope
• Participate in providing a clinical opinion as requested by the AAGL Board
• Act as an ad hoc reviewer of papers submitted to JMIG
• Provide an invited comment on a paper published by JMIG
• Author a JMIG review article
• Recommend to SIG Executive Committee ways of advancing the group's area of interest
• Be eligible to participate on the SIG's Executive Committee

The information for all SIG Groups for 2010 are listed below: