The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety (PDF)

Dr. Jones has been an active member of SAGES since 1993, and he currently chairs the FUSE Task Force and Quality, Outcomes and Safety Committee. He has served as Chair of the the Educational Resources Committee, Vice Chair of the Legislative Committee, and member of the Continuing Education, FLS, Bariatric, Development and Program Committees. He was Poster Co-Chair 2002 and he coordinated the SAGES Appropriateness Conference on Treatment of Morbid Obesity 2003, Learning Center 2004 and 2005, Advanced Techniques Postgraduate Course 2006, Operating a Simulation Center Panel 2008, Best Practices for Surgical Treatment of Obesity Panel 2009.   He has been project director of the SAGES Top 14 Videos, Inguinal Hernia Pearls, Web Quizzes, Bariatric Surgery Grand Rounds, Online Video Kiosk, and revised Patient Brochure educational materials. Dr. Jones was the recipient of the SAGES Young Investigators Award in 2001 and appointed to the Board of Governors in 2002.  He has recently been appointed Program Chair for 2012 Annual Meeting.



Dr. Tichansky is a currently the Director of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, the birthplace of SAGES. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, he went on to attend UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in Newark where he obtained his M.D. in 1996 as a member of AOA. He completed his surgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and his Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. After one year of private practice in Princeton, N.J., he accepted a faculty position with The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN to pursue an academic career in Minimally Invasive Surgery in August 2004. While there he served as Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Co-Director of the Weight Management Center at

From the reviews:

“This book summarizes safety practices designed to lead to high quality outcomes in surgery. … Surgeons, administrators, and support personnel working in quality programs are an appropriate audience for this work … . This is an excellent introduction to safety protocols in surgical practice. Quality and safety are reviewed, beginning with appropriate operative preparation through the process of legal considerations. Clinical examples come from common procedures performed using minimally invasive technique. This overview is excellent preparation for a surgical safety officer.” (David Dries, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2012)