• 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!

Development Scholarship

The SAAS Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship is a travel grant supporting attendance of a surgical trainee at the Association for Academic Surgery’s Fall Courses, held each year just prior to the American College of Surgeons’ Clinical Congress. The recipient of this award serves a two-year term as a Resident member of the Scholarships Committee.

Previous Recipients

2022

Calvin Chao, MD 
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

2021

Neal Bhutiani, MD PhD
The University of Texas – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Heather Lyu, MD
The University of Texas – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Rowza Rumma, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Ahmad Hamad, MD
The Ohio State University

Jessie Ho, MD
Northwestern University

2020

Nikhil Panda, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Linda Pak, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Selena Li, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Bhuwan Giri, MD
University of Miami

2019

Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD
Stanford University

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