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AAS/AASF Student Diversity Travel Award

Application Opens: June 2022
Application Deadline: TBD

Awarded Annually

Purpose:
As part of the AAS mission to increase diversity in our membership, we are pleased to offer an annual AAS Student Diversity Travel Award. This award will be presented to (3) three female or underrepresented minority medical students.

Application:

  • Department chairs and clerkship directors should encourage eligible medical students to apply for this unique opportunity
  • Candidates must submit an online application (below) consisting, an essay describing their commitment to becoming a leader in academic surgery (300-word limit), and a letter of support from their chair or clerkship director.

Winner Receives:

    • Complimentary registration to the Academic Surgical Congress being held February 7-9, 2023 in Houston, TX.
    • A $500 travel stipend and up to 3 nights hotel accommodation at the meeting hotel
    • Complimentary medical student AAS membership for one year
    • Award certificate presented at the AAS Awards Ceremony during the Academic Surgical Congress
    • Name published in the AAS blog and on the AAS web site

Previous Recipients

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Damilola Fakunle, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Hannah Bougleux Gomes, Harvard Medical School
Nazineen Kandahari, University of California, San Francisco
Kimberly Loo, Temple University/Fox Chase Cancer Center
Boateng Kubi, Johns Hopkins University
Alexandra Hernandez, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Erin Wolf Horrell, University of Kentucky
Larissa Assam, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Nelly-Ange Kontchou, Harvard Medical School
Sarah Vermillion, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Jason Silvestre, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Theiss, University of Alabama – Birmingham
Livia Maria Mangogna, Sapienza University of Rome
Graham Walmsley, Stanford University
Yanqiu Zheng, Baylor College of Medicine
Nallely Saldana-Ruiz, University of Rochester Medical Center
Namita Alolkar, Howard University
Asishana Osho, Duke University
Ulysses Rosas, Stanford University
Ayodele Adesanya, Ohio State University
Alexis Chidi, UPMC Liver Canter Center
Allison Martin, Harvard School of Public Health/Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Dani O. Gonzalez, Howard University College of Medicine
Andrew Ibrahim, Case Western Reserve & Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ashanti L. Franklin, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Kerry-Ann C.A. Stewart, University of Rochester
Juliet A. Emamaulle, University of Alberta, Canada
Babafemi “Wande” Pratt, Harvard School of Public Health

Applications are now closed

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