Volume 228 Issue 6 June 2019 journalacs.org NEW ENGLAND SURGICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Mentorship of John Homans by Harvey Cushing NEW ENGLAND SURGICAL SOCIETY ARTICLES Outcomes for Transferred Emergency General Surgery Patients Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Sleeve Gastrectomy Autologous Blood Transfusion and Hepatectomy Partial vs Total Colectomy for Clostridium dif fi cile Infection Selected Papers Presented at the New England Surgical Society 99th Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, September 2018 JACS CME Available online: http://jacscme.facs.org ISSN: 1072-7515