• 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!

Past Meetings

2022

University of Hawai’i, John Burns School of Medicine  
Honolulu, HI  
   
Host: Kenric Murayama, MD
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair: Jennifer Kuo, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: Russell Woo, MD
Kui and Wai Fong Lectureship David Hu, PhD
Kuo Family Lectureship: Debbie Lum

2021

Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine  
Chicago, IL  
   
Host: Hasan Alam, MD
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair: Jennifer Kuo, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS
Kui and Wai Fong Lectureship James A. Lee, MD, PhD
Kuo Family Lectureship: Hahrie Han, PhD

2020

Virtual Annual Meeting
Program Chair: Jennifer Kuo, MD
Keynote Lecturer: Nancy Wang Yuen

2019

Boston University Medical Center  
Boston, MA  
   
Host: Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair: Jayleen Grams, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: Tejal Brahmbhatt, MD
Kui and Wai Fong Lectureship John Fung, MD, PhD
A Conversation With: Joanne Chang

2018

Medical College of Wisconsin  
Milwaukee, WI  
   
Host: Douglas B. Evans, MD
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair:  Jayleen Grams, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: CJ Lee, MD
A Conversation With: Atul Grover, MD, PhD

2017

University of Alabama at Birmingham  
Birmingham, AL  
   
Host: Herbert Chen, MD
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair: Herbert Chen, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: Jayleen Grams, MD
A Conversation With: Selwyn Vickers, MD
Invited Speaker: James McClintock, PhD

2016

Stanford University  
Palo Alto, CA  
   
Host: Mary Hawn, MD
  Chair, Department of Surgery
Program Chair: Herbert Chen, MD
Local Arrangements Chair: Cindy Kin, MD
A Conversation With: Vivian Lee, MD