The Specialty Societies CEO Coalition meets several times a year to discuss issues affecting the nation’s largest medical specialty societies. In December 2016, this influential group met at the ACEP headquarters near Dallas. Pictured from left are Michael Costelloe, American Society of Plastic Surgeons; Paul Pomerantz, American Society of Anesthesiologists; David Hoyt, MD, American College of Surgeons; Susan Holzer, Society of Interventional Radiology; Thomas Stautzenbach, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Robert Wynbrandt, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Tod Ibrahim, American Society of Nephrology; Martha Liggett, American Society of Hematology; Dean Wilkerson, ACEP; Saul Levin, MD, American Psychiatric Association; Kathleen Craig, American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Michael Sheppard, American Urological Association; William Thorwarth, MD, American College of Radiology; Darilyn Moyer, MD, American College of Physicians; Hal Lawrence, MD, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Karen Remley, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics; David Parke, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology; and Catherine Rydell, American Academy of Neurology.