• Congratulations to the 2022-2023 SAAS Visiting Professors!
  • Lily Cheng, MD is the recipient of the 2022 SAAS Junior Faculty Award!
  • Vivek Pamulapati, MD is the recipient of the 2022 Esther Tsai Sugg Award for the highest scoring SAAS abstract to the Academic Surgical Congress!
  • Romeo Ignacio MD, Chee-Chee Stucky MD, and Hop Tran Cao MD are the recipients of the 2022 SAAS – SUS Mid Career Award!
  • Calvin Chao, MD, is the recipient of the 2022 SAAS Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship!
  • Jaewon Lee is the winner of the 2022 SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award!
  • Romeo Ignacio, MD is the recipient of the SAAS – SUS Leadership Agility Program Scholarship!

Officers

President

Susan Tsai, MD, MHS
2022 – 2023
Medical College of Wisconsin
Wauwatosa, WI

President-Elect

Eugene Kim, MD
2022 – 2023
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Secretary

Daniel Chu, MD, MSPH
2021 – 2025
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Executive Director

Yumi Hori, BA
2021 – Present

BSC Management

Treasurer

Tejal Brahmbhatt, MD
2019 – 2024
Boston Medical Center
Massachusetts, MD

JSR Society Editor – Recorder

Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD
2019 – 2023
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN

Councilor – Active Member 

Vikas Dudeja, MD
2021 – 2024
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 

Councilor – Associate Member 

Connie Shao, MD
2022 – 2024
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Russell Woo

Program Committee – Chair

Russell Woo, MD
2022 – 2024
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI

Kamran Idrees

Scholarships Committee – Chair

Kamran Idrees, MD
2022 – 2024
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Communications Committee – Chair

Sophie Dream, MD
2021 – 2023
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

SAAS Representative to AAS

Lindsay Kuo, MD
2021 – 2023
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

SAAS Representative to AWS

Emily Keung, MD
2021 – 2023
University of Texas
Houston, TX

SAAS Foundation President

Herb Chen, MD
2017 – Present
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Council – Past President

Kenric Murayama, MD
2015 – 2016
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI

Council – Past President

Paul Kuo, MD
2016 – 2017
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Council – Past President

Nipun Merchant, MD
2017 – 2018
University of Miami
Miami, FL

Council – Past President

Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH
2018 – 2019
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA

Council – Past President

Tracy Wang, MD, MPH
2019 – 2021
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Allan Tsung, MD

Council – Past President

Allan Tsung, MD
2021 – 2022
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA