The AAST 2025 Annual Meeting Schedule
View the 2025 Abstracts:
- 2025 Oral Papers here
- 2025 Quickshots here
View the Pre, Lunch, and Add-On Session Descriptions here
Please see the Annual Meeting schedule here
Please see the Military Symposium schedule here
View the Preliminary Program here
View the 2025 Poster Listing here
Before the Meeting:
- The Emergency Surgery Course will be held Monday, September 8th and Tuesday, September 9th - additional registration required
- The 3rd Annual AAST Fallen Surgeons Military Educational Symposium will be held Tuesday, September 9th - additional registration required
- Four (4) Pre-sessions will be held in the afternoon on Tuesday, September 9th - additional registration required
Meeting Highlights (Wednesday):
- The Welcome session will begin at 8:00 AM EST on Wednesday, September 10th
- Dr. Ronald Stewart's Presidential Address: "Harmoniously Spanning the Divide: What the World Could Needs to Learn from Trauma System Development" will begin at 11:50 AM EST
- Seven (7) lunch sessions will begin at 12:50 PM - additional registration required
- The Welcome Reception will begin at 5:30 PM EST
Meeting Highlights (Thursday):
- At 9:50 AM EST, Panel I, "Looking to the Future: Developing a National Trauma & Emergency Preparedness System (NTEPS)"
- Scholarship Presentations will begin at 10:50 AM EST
- The 50th Annual Fitts Orator Lecture, "Forged in the Crucible of Life and Death: Built Upon Legacy and Bound by Mission," presented by Brian Eastridge, MD will begin at 11:15 AM EST
- The poster session will begin at 12:30 PM EST
- AAST-sponsored Grab n' Go Lunch with Exhibitors - available for all attendees
- New this year: "Evolution of Trauma Resuscitation Over the Last Decade" will take place at 1:45 PM EST
- Also new, Nothing to Fear, Surgical Critical Care EPAs are Here will begin at 2:45 PM EST
- Three (3) add-on sessions will begin at 3:00 PM EST - additional registration required
Meeting Highlights (Friday):
- Expert Surgeon Lecture, "Colon Injury: Tracking the Advances in Surgical Management," by Timothy Fabian, MD will begin at 10:50 AM EST
- Panel II will begin at 11:20 AM EST
- Six (6) lunch sessions will begin at 12:30 PM EST - additional registration required
- The AAST Business Meeting will begin at 5:30 PM EST (AAST Members Only)
- The Reception will begin at 7:00 PM EST, followed by the Auction and Banquet from 7:30 PM-11:00 PM EST
Additional Info:
- There will be 60 oral presentations throughout the meeting
- 26 quickshot presentations will take place on Saturday, September 13th, beginning at 8:00 AM EST
- Poster headsets will be used again this year
- Various industry events will happen throughout the meeting - check the schedule for up-to-date information
- Place your bids for AAST's auction!
- CME information will be sent to the email you used to register for the conference
- AAST's virtual platform will contain On-Demand viewing of various meeting sessions - sessions will be available 72 hours after the live session date (example: the Welcome Sessions on Wednesday will be available for viewing by Saturday). No sessions will be live-streamed