AAS Foundation

The mission of the Association for Academic Surgery Foundation is to foster improved care of surgical patients by supporting and encouraging young surgeon scientists.

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As a 501(C) 3 organization, your contribution to the AAS Foundation is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

The Association for Academic Surgery Foundation (AASF) is committed to supporting the advancement of surgical care by providing resources and education to young surgeon scientists. We focus our efforts on championing surgeons at the outset of their careers, providing opportunity and encouragement in the form of awards and fellowships. We believe that our support of academic surgeons can be a springboard to a career of scientific inquiry, leading to discoveries which move surgical care forward, and make a difference in patients’ lives every day.

To achieve our mission, the Association for Academic Surgery Foundation works to offer as many research awards as possible to young faculty and fellows. By fostering young surgeon scientists through our awards programs, the AASF is working to safeguard surgical research today and in the future.

The number of research grants available to young surgeons is still far below what is needed.

We invite you to help us ensure that life changing surgical research thrives – research that may affect the life of someone you know.

Please consider making a gift to the AASF. Your support will help bring the latest innovations from the lab to the bedside and will expand the horizons of our understanding of human biology.

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS!

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President
Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, PhD, MPH,
MTS, MBA
Columbus, OH
Vice-President
Eric Kimchi, MD
Columbia, MO
Secretary/Treasurer
Clifford Cho, MD
Ann Arbor, MI
Directors at Large
David H. Berger, MD, MHCM
Brooklyn, NY
Callisia Clarke, MD, MS
Milwaukee, WI
Christopher Davis, MD, MPH
Milwaukee, WI
Anahita Dua, MD, MS, MBA
Newton, MA
Vikas Dudeja, MD
Birmingham, AL
Luke Funk, MD, MPH
Madison, WI
T. Clark Gamblin, MD, MS, MBA
Milwaukee, WI
Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH
Chapel Hill, NC
Fabian Johnston, MD, MHS
Baltimore, MD
Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP
Birmingham, AL
Christina Roland, MD
Houston, TX
Rebecca Sippel, MD
Madison, WI
Alison Smith, MD, PhD
New Orleans, LA
Resident Director at Large
Heather Liebe, MD
New Orleans, LA

Awards Funding

The AAS/AASF clinical outcomes research fellowship quite literally launched my academic surgical career. In fact, it was at the ASC awards ceremony that I first learned about the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) as a funding organization as well as the F32 funding mechanism. The combination of the AASF grant and F32 allowed me to enroll in a Masters program and eventually the Doctoral program at UCLA’s School of Public Health. In these formal training programs I learned about techniques and databases that led to publications in JAMA, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, among others. And through all of this, I was able to develop my passion and niche in healthcare finance. It’s not often that one can directly pinpoint the linchpin for a future cascade of events, but for me, the AAS/AASF research fellowship is it. – Christopher Childers, MD, Phd

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