Reinventing Surgery: Creating a System that Works was a symposium organized by the Surgical Outcomes Research Center and the UW Department of Surgery that aimed to explore and showcase work being done at the University of Washington and in the Seattle community to improve the surgical system.  Speakers included researchers working to study, understand, and decrease variation in safety, quality and inappropriate care in surgery and clinicians actively implementing interventions and initiatives in the clinical arena to affect positive change. From the Series:Grand Rounds