Awards
Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship
The SAAS Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship is a travel grant supporting attendance of a surgical trainee at the Association of Academic Surgery’s Fall Courses, held each year just prior to the American College of Surgeons’ Clinical Congress.
Previous Recipients
2018
Emily Keung, MD
The University of Texas – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
2017
Deepa Cherla, MD
Cleveland Clinic
2016
Zhi-Ven Fong, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
2015
Lyen Huang, MD
Stanford University
2014
Vikas Dudejas, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) Research Award
The SAAS ASC Research Award is granted to the highest scoring abstract submitted by a SAAS member as either first or senior author at the Academic Surgical Congress.
Previous Recipients
2019
Apoorve Nayyar, MD (Presenting author)
Kristalyn Gallagher, DO (Senior author)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2018
Daniel (“Brock”) Hewitt, MD, MPH (Presenting author)
Anthony Yang, MD (Senior author)
Northwestern University
2017
Syed Nabeel Zafar, MD (Presenting author)
Nabil Wasif, MD (Senior author)
Howard University
2016
Jason Castellanos, MD (Presenting author)
Nipun Merchant, MD (Senior author)
University of Miami
2015
Chris Goodenough, MD (Presenting author)
Michael Liang, MD (Senior author)
University of Texas – Houston
Jeffrey Yang, MD
Duke University
Junior Faculty Award
The SAAS Junior Faculty Award is a travel grant supporting the attendance of a faculty member within 5 years of their first appointment at the Surgical Investigators’ Course at the Academic Surgical Congress.
Previous Recipients
2019
Aslam Ejaz, MD
The Ohio State University
2018
Eric Sheu, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
2017
Ching-Wei David Tzeng, MD
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
2016
Daniel I. Chu, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2015
Peter Chang, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess
SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award
The SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award is a travel grant, awarded to the first author of the highest scoring abstract submitted by a SAAS member to the annual meeting.
Previous Recipients
2018
Zhi-Ven Fong, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
2017
Michael Fenlon, MD
Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
2016
Julie Goswami, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center