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Awards at ASC

SUS Resident/Fellow Scholar Awards at the ASC

The SUS offers one award annually for the best presentations by residents/fellows in the plenary sessions of the Academic Surgical Congress(ASC). Eligible abstracts will be those selected for presentation at any of the plenary sessions and presented by a surgical resident/fellow in any specialty, in good standing in their department, where the Senior Author is a SUS Member in good standing. Presentations are graded by members of the SUS Executive Council and the winner receives support to travel to the Surgical Research Society (SRS, formerly SARS) Annual Meetings. For questions regarding SUS membership status, contact the SUS Member Services Department at [email protected]. The presenting author must select the SUS Award option when submitting an abstract to be considered for the award.

2024 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winner

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):
Christopher Stone, MD
Research Resident
Brown University
Presentation titled: SGLT-2 Inhibition Normalizes Metabolic Derangements In The Ischemic Myocardium

SUS Member Senior Author:
Frank Sellke, MD
Former karlson & Karlson Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Brown University

2023 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winner

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):
Michelle Griffin, MD
General Surgery Resident
Stanford University
Presentation titled: Fat to Fibrosis: Overcoming the Adipocyte to Fibroblast transition to prevent skin scarring

SUS Member Senior Author:
Michael Longaker, MD
Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, School of Medicine
Stanford University

2022 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winner

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):
Mallory Perez, MD
General Surgery Residentt
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Presentation titled: Reviewing Two Decades of General Surgery “Teach Assist” Cases: Are We Teaching Enough?

SUS Member Senior Author:
Robert Russell, MD
Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham

2021 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winner

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):
Mary Smithson, MD
General Surgery Resident
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Presentation titled: Inhibition of DNA-PK Improves Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Rectal Cancer

SUS Member Senior Author:
Karin Hardiman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham

2020 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winners

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):

Hallie J. Quiroz, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Resident in General Surgery
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital
Presentation titled: Analysis of Angiogenic Gene Profiling after E-selectin+ Stem Cell Therapy in Mouse Ischemic Limb.
Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):

Frank Davis, MD
Vascular Surgery Resident
University of Michigan Health System
Presentation titled: Epigenetic Modifications Regulate Macrophage Prostaglandin E2 Synthesis and Impair Diabetic Wound Healing
 

SUS Member Senior Author:
Omaida Velazquez, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Miami Health System


SUS Member Senior Author:
Katherine Gallagher, MD
Associate Professor
University of Michigan Health System

 

2019 Academic Surgical Congress Resident/Fellow Award Winners

Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):

Mia Klein, MD
General Surgery PGY-5
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presentation titled: Tissue Factor-Targeted Peptide Amphiphile as an Injectable Therapy for Hemorrhage
Resident Award Winner (Presenting Author):

Quoc-Hung “Key” Nguyen, MD
General Surgery Resident – PGY-3
University of California, San Francisco
Presentation titled: Fetal Enzyme Therapy in Sly Syndrome Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier and Induces Immunologic Tolerance
 

SUS Member Senior Author:
Melina Kibbe, MD
Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


SUS Member Senior Author:
Tippi Mackenzie, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Co-director, UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine