• Congratulations to the 2023-2024 SAAS Visiting Professors!
  •  Syed Nabeel Zafar, MD is the recipient of the 2023 SAAS Junior Faculty Award!
  • Taylor Lee, BS is the recipient of the 2023 Esther Tsai Sugg Award for the highest scoring SAAS abstract to the Academic Surgical Congress!
  • Jiping Wang, MD, PhD is the recipient of the 2023 SAAS – SUS Mid Career Award!
  • Calvin Chao, MD, is the recipient of the 2022 SAAS Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship!
  • Jeremy Chang, MD is the winner of the 2023 SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award!
  • Russell Woo, MD is the recipient of the 2023 SAAS – SUS Leadership Agility Program Scholarship!

Welcome to SAAS

Videos: Annual Meeting

Watch filmmaker Debbie Lum present the Kuo Family Keynote Lecture at the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Videos: Annual Meeting

Watch Dr. Allan Tsung’s presidential address from the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Videos: Annual Meeting

Watch Dr. Herbert Chen receive the SAAS 2022 George Yang, MD, PhD, Trailblazer Award at the SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Gallery: Annual Meeting

Check out photos from the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!

Gallery: Annual Meeting

Check out photos from the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!

Gallery: Annual Meeting

Check out photos from the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!

In Memory of Dr. George Yang (1963-2022)

Friend, surgeon, mentor, scientist, and family to so many.
In 2010, George was a founding member of our very own Society of Asian Academic Surgeons and was named our first executive director in 2016. George will always be known for championing social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion. He believed in building groups of individuals with shared experiences and fostering a deep sense of community. He believed in creating spaces where everyone felt safe. In 2021, SAAS honored George by creating and bestowing him the George Yang SAAS Trailblazer Award.

LATEST NEWS

SAVE THE DATE for the 9th ANNUAL SAAS MEETING! September 5-6, 2024 in New Orleans, LA hosted by the Tulane University School of Medicine and Department of Surgery!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Dr. Allan Tsung, who assumed the role of Chair of Surgery at the University of Virginia

The Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS) was founded to focus on the personal and professional development of Asian academic surgeons with the belief that the best way to increase Asian representation in the leadership of academic surgery is to prepare future generations to succeed.

Towards this end, we raise money to provide scholarships for both trainees and junior faculty to help them with their career development. We also give out awards for the best research submitted by members to the Academic Surgical Congress and to the SAAS Annual Meeting to showcase the advances being made by Asians in the field.

From the beginning, our society has been fully inclusive. We defined “Asian” in the broadest sense to include not only those from East, Southeast, and South Asia, but also Persians, Arabs, Turks and any other nationality from the Asian continent. Furthermore, membership in SAAS is open to anyone of any ethnicity who has an interest in promoting underrepresented populations in any arena of academic surgery.

Membership in SAAS is open to any individual with an interest in academic surgery and is not limited to those of Asian descent.


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