Esther Tsai Sugg Research Award
The Esther Tsai Sugg Research Award is granted to the highest scoring abstract submitted by a SAAS member as either first or senior author to the annual Academic Surgical Congress.
Previous Recipients
2023
Taylor Lee BS (Presenting author)
Lily Cheng, MD (Senior author)
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
2022
Vivek Pamulapati, MD (Presenting author)
Karen Ho, MD (Senior author)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago
2021
Sourav Bose, MD, MBA (Presenting author)
William Parenteau, MD (Senior author)
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
2020
Aaron Baer, MD (Presenting author)
David Shibata, MD (Senior author)
University of Tennessee, Memphis
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