• 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!

George P. Yang SAAS Trailblazer Award

The George P. Yang SAAS Trailblazer Award is presented to individuals in recognition of their contributions to the surgical sciences and for paving the way for the next generation of surgeons.

Previous Recipients

2022

Herb Chen, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

2021

George Yang, MD PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

2019

Steven Stain, MD
Albany Medical Center

2018

Quan-Yang Duh, MD
University of California, San Francisco