• 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!

Committees

Program Committee

  • Russell Woo, MD, Chair (2022-2024; 2022 Local Arr. Chair)
  • Jinny Ha, MD, Vice Chair (2019-2024; 2023 Local Arr. Co-Chair)
  • Jessica Zagory (2022-2026, 2024 Local Arr. Co-Chair)
  • David Yu (2022-2026, 2024 Local Arr. Co-Chair)
  • Heather Wachtel (2022-2024)
  • Kevin Koo (2022-2024)
  • Hee Soo Jung (2022-2024)
  • Anai Kothari (2022-2024)
  • Raja Narayan (2022-2024)
  • Zhi Ven Fong (2023-2025)
  • Amir Ghaferi (2023-2025)
  • Emily Keung (2023-2025)
  • Neal Bhutiani (2023-2025)

Scholarships Committee

  • Kamran Idrees, MD, Chair (2022-2024)
  • Calvin Chao (2022-2024)
  • Ching-Wei Tzeng (2022-2024)
  • Mayur Patel (2022-2024)
  • Romeo Ignacio (2022-2024)
  • Hop Tran Cao (2022-2024)
  • Lily Cheng (2022-2024)

Communications Committee

  • Haejin In, MD, Chair (2018-2023)
  • Hari Nathan (2022-2024)
  • Priyanka Chugh (2022-2024)
  • Stephanie Chen (2022-2024)
  • Ahmad Hamad (2022-2024)
  • Christopher Scott (2022-2024)
  • Jessica Liu McMullin (2023-2025)
  • Carlos Chan (2023-2025)
  • Gopika Senthilkumar (2023-2025)

Publications Committee

  • Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD Chair (2019-2023)
  • Annabelle Fonseca (2022-2024)
  • Jeffrey Velotta (2022-2024)
  • Oliver Eng (2022-2024)
  • Reed Ayabe (2022-2024)
  • Sameer Patel (2022-2024)
  • Steven Chao (2023-2025)
  • Romeo Ignacio (2023-2025)
  • Alex Kim (2023-2025)
  • William Lee (2023-2025)