Early Career Development/Junior Faculty Award
The SAAS Early Career Development/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 (SIC) at the Academic Surgical Congress (ASC). The scholarship will cover two nights lodging at the meeting hotel and domestic coach airfare with total not to exceed $1500. The course is held in February of each year preceding the ASC meeting. The 2026 meeting will be held in Orlando, FL from February 3-5, 2026.
Junior Faculty Award – AAS/SUS Surgical Investigator Course – https://www.
Previous Recipients
2026
Thuy Tran, MD
University of California, Irvine
2025
Raja Narayan, MD, MPH
Loma Linda University
2024
Zhi Fong, MD
Mayo Clinic Arizona
2023
Syed Nabeel Zafar, MD
University of Wisconsin – Madison
2022
Lily Cheng, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Mihir Shah, MD
Emory University
Annabelle Fonseca, MD
University of South Alabama
2021
Priya Dedhia, MD, PhD
The Ohio State University
2020
Emily Keung, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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
Application Deadline: October 10, 2025
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