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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.

2020-2021 SAAS Visiting Professorship Host Institutions

  • University of Texas Medical Branch (Host: Douglas Tyler, MD)
  • City of Hope (Host: Yuman Fong, MD)
  • University of California San Diego (Host: Bryan Clary, MD)
  • University of Utah  (Host: Sam Finlayson, MD, MPH)
  • Dartmouth University (Host: Sandra Wong, MD)
  • University of California Irvine (Host: Ninh Nguyen, MD)
  • Medical College of Wisconsin (Host: Doug Evans, MD)

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 Lecutreship
    • Roger Kim MD (Southern Illinois 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 2020-2021 SAAS Visiting Professorship are now open and due December 15, 2019.

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 January 6, 2020.

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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