by Lotus Scroll Staff | Feb 18, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
The inaugural Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Executive Healthcare Leadership Academy took place from Jan. 26-28, 2023 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The course consisted of sessions with current leaders in surgery, the Society of Asian Academic...
by Lotus Scroll Staff | Feb 18, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
The Society of Asian Academic Surgeons would like to congratulate our members on the following accomplishments: Kenric M. Murayama, MD, was reappointed governor of the American College of Surgeons (2022-2025). Thomas K. Varghese Jr., MD, MS, MBA, was named...
by Lotus Scroll Staff | Feb 12, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
The Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Foundation Visiting Professorships support travel to host institutions for junior faculty to give grand rounds and increase the national visibility of rising stars in academic surgery. Learn more about how to apply for a SAAS...
by Lotus Scroll Staff | Feb 12, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
Gopika SenthilKumar and Nate Verhagen, medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin, attended their first SAAS meeting last September in Hawaii. For Gopika, the experience was a refreshing experience that she had not realized she was missing: “I had a moment...
by Alex Kim, MD, PhD | Feb 12, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
One of the highlights of the 2022 SAAS 7th Annual Meeting in Honolulu was the Presidential Address titled “Have I Truly Made It?” by Allan J. Tsung, MD. In his reflection, he emphasized the continuing necessity of building equity and inclusion to reduce the...
by Lotus Scroll Staff | Feb 12, 2023 | Lotus Scroll News
With the transition to an increasingly virtual world, we realized that many of the conversations that our members had with SAAS leaders were being sacrificed. We decided to produce the “A Moment with SAAS” series that we will be sending out with our newsletters. In...
