The 87th Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons will be held in Sydney from Monday 7 May 2018 through Friday 11 May 2018. It provides an excellent excuse to make the journey to Australia. This is a particularly important Annual Scientific Congress as it will be held in conjunction with the […]
VCU Operating Room Family Day – A “How To” Interview
On Sunday, Oct 29, 2017, the new wing of Operating Rooms at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, VA was open to friends and family of OR staff. The event was “VCU OR Family Day” and employees brought their families to see the highly specialized and technical environment they work in every day. […]
National Surgical Obstetric and Anesthesia Plans: a tool for improving surgical care globally
Disparities in surgical care access are among the direst forms of health inequity. Over 70% of the world’s population and 90% of people living in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) lack access to basic lifesaving surgical care[1]. In Sub-Saharan Africa, health policies, which are designed to designed advance surgery care delivery are rare and […]
AAS 2018 Phase 2 Voting Results
Dear AAS Members, Please join me in congratulating the following members (listed in alphabetical order) who were elected to the Ethics, Global Affairs, Committee on Technology and Communications, Leadership and Membership Committees of the AAS: Ethics Committee: Jennifer Kuo Allan Peetz Zain Hashmi – Candidate Member Global Affairs Committee: Tamara Fitzgerald Chukwuemeka Ihemelandu Rachel Dowlen Rodriguez […]
Request for self-nominations for JSR Associate Editor positions
The Journal of Surgical Research (JSR) is accepting self-nominations for three editorial leadership positions. Associate Editor for Vascular Surgery – The journal is seeking applicants with expertise in vascular surgery research, including clinical studies and basic science. Associate Editor for Endocrine Surgery – The journal is seeking applicants with expertise in endocrine surgery, including clinical […]
Congratulations to our AAS Young Investigator Award Winners
The AAS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2nd Annual AAS Young Investigator Award. The award is designed to engage academic Cardiothoracic and ENT surgeons with the AAS. The award includes complimentary registration to both the Fall Courses taking place on October 21, 2017 in San Diego, CA and the Academic Surgical Congress taking […]
How Abraham Flexner is Failing Surgery
From January, 1909, through April, 1910, Abraham Flexner1 traveled throughout the United States and Canada on a trip that revolutionized North American medical education. He visited every one of the existing 155 medical schools and, by the end of 1910, had published his report detailing the resources and practices of all these schools.2 Startlingly, he […]
The Value of Global Humanitarian Medicine across the Academic Surgeon’s Career Path
In my fourth year of general surgery residency, I traveled on a surgical medical mission trip to Guatemala with a recent emeritus surgeon, another surgeon in the midst of his busy surgical practice, and a team of nine others including another surgery resident, nurses, and an engineer. The experience I had was invaluable and exceeded […]
AAS Elects New Councilors!
Congratulations to the six new Councilors who will be representing the classes of 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and resident/fellows. We look forward to their future leadership! Thank you to all the outstanding candidates who self nominated. There are many opportunities to get involved in the AAS, including the committee self nomination process that is […]
Getting Back to Basics
Over the last several years of my training in medical school and residency, I found myself drawn to transplant surgery as a career. I was drawn to transplant for reasons similar to why I was initially drawn to surgery—requires dedication, ambition, a strong work ethic, technically challenging, and an opportunity to fundamentally change patients’ lives […]