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The Association of Academic Surgery offers several research fellowship awards annually

Student Research Award
Deadline for Applications: September 1, 2008
Awarded annually to student who will graduate from medical school in the following calendar year.

Winners receive:

  • Name published in the AAS Newsletter and in the program of the Annual Meeting
  • Award certificate
  • Complimentary medical student membership for one year
  • Top Five award recipients are invited to attend the Academic Surgical Congress and will receive complimentary registration.
  • Top Two award recipients are also eligable for a $500 travel stipend (only if they attend the meeting).
  • Application is available here.

Congratulations to the AAS 2008 Student Research Award winners:

First place- Ashley K. Cayo, University of Wisconsin
Second place- Serena Tan, National Institutes of Health
Third place- Anne M. Lewis, University of Iowa
Fourth place- Eric D. Morrell, Indiana University
Fifth place- Kyle Zanocco, Northwestern University

AAS Student Travel Grant
Deadline for Applications: November 1, 2008
Awarded every year

This award is open to medical students from under-represented minorities.

APPLICATION
1. Complete application including essay. Application is available here.
2. Submit application with a letter of support from your chair or clerkship director.

AWARD
1. Each awardee will receive a certificate.
2. Names of all winners will be published in the AAS newsletter and in the program of the Annual Meeting.
3. The winner received complimentary registration to the Academic Surgical Congress in Huntington Beach, CA from February 13-15. 2008. In addition, the awardees received a $500 travel stipend and up to 3 nights hotel accommodations at the meeting hotel.

Congratulations to the 2008 award winner: Juliet A. Emamaulle, University of Alberta, Canada

Previous Award Winner:
2007 Babafemi "Wande" Pratt, Harvard School of Public Health

AAS Research Fellowship Award
Deadline: To Be Announed
Awarded every even year

  • Recipient is awarded $15,000 a year for two years
  • Open to residents and fellows with 2 years of post-graduate training
  • Current award: 2008– 2010
  • Next award offered: 2010 - 2012
  • Application not available at this time.

Congratulations to the 2008 award winner: Sung W. Cho, MD University of Pittsburgh

Previous Award Winners
1996 Maureen Chung, MD Roger Williams Medical College*
1998 Maggie C. Lee, MD UCLA*
2000 Kathleen van Leeuwen, MD University of Michigan Hospital*
2002 Scott Hollenbeck, MD Cornell University+
2004 Christopher Jones, MD Vanderbilt University+
2006 Daniel A. Popowich, MD Northwestern University
2008 Sung W. Cho, MD University of Pittsburgh

*Award supported by Astra Zeneca
+Award supported by Ethicon, Inc.

AAS Research Fellowship Award
Deadline for Applications: December 1, 2008
Awarded every odd year

  • Recipient is awarded $15,000 a year for two years
  • Open to residents and fellows with 2 years of post-graduate training
  • Current award: 2007– 2009
  • Next award offered: 2009 - 2011
  • Application is available here.

Previous Award Winners
1988- 1990 Michael Grosso, MD University of Colorado*
1989- 1991 Harold Brem, MD Harvard University*
1990- 1992 Sherry Wren, MD University of Pittsburgh*
1991- 1993 Claude Roland, MD Washington University*
1992- 1994 Richard Battafarano, MD University of Minnesota*
1993- 1995 Bryan M. Clary, MD Duke University*
1994- 1996 Mary Emily Klingensmith, MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital*
1995- 1997 John F. Renz, MD University of California, San Francisco*
1996- 1998 Bradley S. Taylor, MD University of Pittsburgh*
1997- 1999 Heung Bae Kim, MD The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia*
1998- 2000 Daniel Kreisel, MD Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania*
1999- 2001 Shimul A. Shah, MD University of Massachusetts*
2001- 2003 Andrew W. Knott, MD University of Cincinnati*
2003- 2005 Flavio G. Rocha, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital+
2005- 2007 David Greenblatt, MD University of Wisconsin-Madison+
2007- 2009 Scott N. Pinchot, MD University of Wisconsin-Madison

*Award supported by United States Surgical
+Award supported by Karl Storz Endoscopy

 

Roslyn Faculty Research Award
Deadline for Applications: November 1, 2008
Awarded every odd year

  • Intent is to award those within 5 years of their first academic faculty job who have not received a previous career development award
  • Recipient is awarded $35,000 a year for two years
  • Current award: 2007– 2009
  • Next award offered: 2009 - 2011
  • This award is supported by the Journal of Surgical Research's publisher, Elsevier Science.
  • Application is available here.

Previous Award Winners
2000 Anthony Sandler, MD The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
2001 Neri M. Cohen, MD, PhD Medical College of Virginia
2003 Omaida C. Velazquez, MD Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2005 Julie Ann Sosa, MD Yale University School of Medicine
2007 Eric T. Kimchi, MD Penn State College of Medicine