As a part of the AAS Fall Courses for this year, we are pleased to announce the recipients of two new awards – the AAS Plastic Surgery Young Investigator Award, and the AAS Urology Young Investigator Award. These awards are designed to promote opportunities that may benefit the urology and plastic surgery research communities, and to […]
Congratulations to the 2016 AAS Fall Courses Travel Grant Recipients
The Association for Academic Surgery would like to congratulate our Fall Courses Travel Grant recipients! Grant winners receive complimentary registration and a travel stipend to attend the AAS Fall Courses, taking place in Washington DC on Saturday, October 15, 2016. The 2016 Travel Grant recipients are: Eliza Beal is a PGY-4 general surgery resident at […]
Apply Now for AAS Fellowships and Travel Grants – deadline August 15th
The Association for Academic Surgery has extended the application deadline for the following awards – take advantage of these funding opportunities: For Residents and Fellows: The AAS/AASF Research Fellowship Awards provide residents and fellows with a year-long funded research position. For each of the awards, the funding year begins July 1, 2017. Three awards are […]
Apply Now for the 2017 AWSF/Ethicon Fellowship Grant
Grant Applications are due August 29, 2016 Past AWSF/Ethicon, Inc. Fellowship grants have supported women surgeons by funding original research in a variety of topics, including the following: 2016: Analysis of circulationg exosomal RNA profiles in Melanoma. 2015: Teaching Palliative Care Communication Skills Following Surgical Emergencies. 2014: Clinical Trial on the efficacy of sacral neuromodulation with […]
The Beating Blue Heart
More often than not, traumatic injuries result from preventable events that claim 5.8 million lives worldwide annually. These events can conceivably happen anywhere, but only by analyzing them within the greater context of a society’s economic structure can one begin to disentangle chance from circumstance. It is well established that trauma in low- and middle-income […]
ACS Announces Deadlines for Research Awards
Below please find information on several American College of Surgeons Awards: George H.A. Clowes, Jr., MD, FACS Memorial Research Career Development Award – This research award for a young academic general surgeon provides $45,000 per year for each of five years. Preference will be given to applicants who are working towards an NIH K08 or […]
From Trauma Communication in the City of Four Rivers to International Collaboration
All emergency responses start the same way; with a phone call asking for help. One evening at 7:23pm in Cuenca, Ecuador, victims of a motor vehicle collision called into ECU 911, the new nationwide unified emergency response system. As an M1 observer from VCU School of Medicine, I listened in to this call alongside a […]
Vote For Your AAS Leadership Today!
Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Jacksonville to join us for this amazing meeting! Our organization continues to grow and expand due to the outstanding support and volunteer efforts of AAS members. Our committees have been busy at work throughout this meeting and it is their efforts that have made this year’s conference […]
Seeking self-nominations for JSR Acute Care Surgery Associate Editor
The Journal of Surgical Research (JSR) is accepting self-nominations for an Associate Editor (AE) with expertise in non-trauma acute care surgery, i.e. emergency general surgery and surgical critical care. The AE will perform the primary assessment of manuscripts submitted to the journal and make the determination as to whether manuscripts meet the standard for peer […]
Elsevier Announces the Winner of the Surgical Specialties Innovation Challenge
In the recently completed Surgical Specialties Innovation Challenge, Elsevier invited members of the surgical community to help shape the future of online surgery publishing. With over 130 submissions, the interest in the challenge exceeded all expectations. A three member committee reviewed the submissions and selected ‘Markup Carry-over’, submitted by Dr. Jesse Skoch MD of Cincinnati […]