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SAAS Visiting Professors

The Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Foundation Visiting Professorships are open for SAAS Active Members who are faculty members at the Assistant or Associate Professor level and are within the first 10 years of their faculty appointment. It will support their travel to host institutions to give grand rounds and will increase the national visibility of rising stars in academic surgery.

2021-2022 SAAS Visiting Professorships

  • Duke University (Host: Allan Douglas Kirk, MD, PhD and Shelley Hwang, MD)
    • Sudha and Suresh Agarwal – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Jash Datta, MD (University of Miami)
  • City of Hope (Host: Yuman Fong, MD)
    • City of Hope – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Hari Nathan, MD (University of Michigan)
  • University of Chicago (Host: Jeffrey Matthews, MD)
    • James and Linda Wong – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Anahita Dua, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  • University of Hawaii  (Host: Kenric Murayama, MD)
    • Murayama Family – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Lindsay Kuo, MD (Temple University)
  • University of Tennessee, Memphis (Host: David Shibata, MD)
    • Association of Women Surgeons – Helen F. Tsai Visiting Professorship
    • Taryne Imai, MD (Cedars-Sinai)
  • Vanderbilt University (Host: Carmen Solorzano, MD)
    • Lenna Saranti – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Sophie Dream, MD (Medical College of Wisconsin)

2020-2021 SAAS Visiting Professorships

  • University of Texas Medical Branch (Host: Douglas Tyler, MD)
    • Tchou and McGovern Visiting Professorship
    • Neha Goel, MD (University of Miami)
  • City of Hope (Host: Yuman Fong, MD)
    • City of Hope – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Aslam Ejaz, MD (The Ohio State University)
  • University of California San Diego (Host: Bryan Clary, MD)
    • UCSD – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Kamran Idrees, MD, MSCI MMHC (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
  • University of Utah  (Host: Sam Finlayson, MD, MPH)
    • Association of Women Surgeons – SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Jennifer Kuo, MD (Columbia University)
  • Dartmouth University (Host: Sandra Wong, MD)
    • Sui-An and Shu-Nung Fung Visiting Professorship
    • Lyen Huang, MD, MPH (University of Utah)
  • University of California Irvine (Host: Ninh Nguyen, MD)
    • Masato and Miyeko Tanabe Visiting Professorship
    • Tejal Brahmbhatt, MD (Boston University Medical Center)
  • Medical College of Wisconsin (Host: Doug Evans, MD)
    • Ten Chao and Chen Hu Chu Visiting Professorship
    • Eric Sheu, MD, PhD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)

2019-2020 SAAS Visiting Professors

  • Boston University Medical Center (Host: Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH)
    • Mark and Lenore Kao SAAS Lectureship
    • Nancy Cho, MD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
  • City of Hope (Host: Yuman Fong, MD)
    • Insoo Suh, MD (University of California, San Francisco)
  • University of Miami Medical Center (Host: Nipun Merchant, MD)
    • Merchant-Chodha Family SAAS Lectureship
    • Susan Tsai, MD (Medical College of Wisconsin)
  • Johns Hopkins Medical Center  (Host: Robert Higgins, MD)
    • Kuo Family SAAS Visiting Professorship
    • Ravi Radhakrishnan, MD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston)
  • Tulane University (Host: Mary Killackey, MD)
    • Peter and Meilin Wang Chen SAAS Lectureship
    • Clara Ko Un Park MD (The Ohio State University)
  • The Ohio State University (Host: Tim Pawlik, MD)
    • Pei-Nan and Lita Tsung SAAS Lectureship
    • Arghavan Salles, MD (Washington University)

2018-2019 SAAS Visiting Professorships

  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Host: Gerard Doherty, MD)
    • Raymond and Rose Tseng SAAS Lectureship
    • Daniel Chu, MD (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  • City of Hope (Host: Yuman Fong, MD)
    • Anthony Yang, MD (Northwestern University)
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Host: Sandra Wong, MD)
    • Wen-Hain Wang SAAS Lectureship
    • Vikas Dudeja, MD (University of Miami)
  • University of Chicago  (Host: Jeffrey Matthews, MD)
    • Mike and Faye Yang SAAS Lectureship
    • Ankush Gosain, MD (University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center)
  • University of Colorado (Host: Richard Schulick, MD)
    • Teh Ling and Yu Chen Ko Visiting Professorship
    • Haejin In, MD (Montefiore Medical Center)
  • University of South Florida (Host: Paul Kuo, MD)
    • Hong Mo and His Mei Chen SAAS Lectureship
    • Wen Shen, MD (University of California, San Francisco)

Applications for the 2022-2023 SAAS Visiting Professorship will be solicited soon.

The application requirements include:

  1. Letter of interest with summary of past participation and involvement in the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons.
  2. Curriculum vitae
  3. Ranking of institutions, in order of preference

Please send application materials to the SAAS Foundation President, Herb Chen, MD (hchen@uabmc.edu). The SAAS Foundation Board of Directors will review all applications and make final determinations regarding the Visiting Professors and matching of the Visiting Professor to a particular institution. Applicants will be notified of a decision by February 1, 2021.

One of the annual Visiting Professorships is co-sponsored by the Association of Women Surgeons.  AWS members are encouraged to apply – SAAS membership is not a requirement for initial application.  If selected, then receipt of the award will be dependent on becoming an active SAAS member.

 

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