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The Academic Surgeon - Official Blog of the AAS

The Academic Surgeon is the official blog of the AAS. We post anywhere from one to three times a week and our contributors will focus on issues relevant to young academic surgeons, residents, fellows, and even medical students.

If you would like to contribute, please submit your post here: https://www.aasurg.org/the-academic-surgeon-blog-submission/ 

January 6, 2021 by jj Jackman, AAS Executive Director

AAS Member Spotlight for January 2021 – Benjamin Powers, MD MS

Dr. Benjamin Powers is a fellowship-trained assistant member of surgical oncology and a member of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Program at Moffitt Cancer Center. He is also an assistant professor of oncologic science at the University of South Florida.  Dr. Powers attended medical school at Wayne State University and completed his general surgery residency […]

December 30, 2020 by jj Jackman, AAS Executive Director

2020 Tough – AAS Tougher!

  Hello AAS Members, and Welcome to the END OF 2020! Yes, it’s been a very tough year. COVID-19 tossed our relied-upon definitions of “normal” right out the window, and the shift in our day-to-day lives, jobs, relationships and interactions was significant. BUT, even in the face of so many obstacles, the AAS has reason […]

December 10, 2020 by jj Jackman, AAS Executive Director

AAS Elects New Councilors!

Congratulations to the six new Councilors who will be representing the classes of 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. 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 currently underway. […]

December 1, 2020 by jj Jackman, AAS Executive Director

AAS Member Spotlight for December 2020 – Lisa Kodadek, MD

Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Membership Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Article by Kelly Olino, MD, FACS Dr. Lisa Kodakek is a fellowship trained trauma and acute care surgeon at the Yale School of Medicine where she serves as an assistant professor of surgery.  […]

November 30, 2020 by Jeffrey Farma MD, FACS

Giving Thanks for AAS

For this Holiday Season, in this very strange year, The AAS Senior Council would like to share some thoughts on how thankful we are to be members of the AAS and how it has impacted all of our careers in many different ways.  We compiled these thoughts from our council members to share with you […]

November 27, 2020 by Scott Lemaire, MD

Congratulations to the New Journal of Surgical Research Statistics Editors

We are pleased to announce that Molly Jarman, PhD, MPH, and Adan Becerra, PhD, have been selected to serve as Statistics Editor for the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR); they will be joining our current Statistics Editor, Mazen Zenati, MD, MPH, PhD. Dr. Jarman is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and an Investigator in […]

November 25, 2020 by Sean Wrenn, MD

Navigating your Career Through Tumultuous Times: A Young Surgeon’s Perspective

This Halloween season, I saw a pumpkin that had been carved with just the date “2020” on it. Scary, right? The year 2020 is perhaps the first year to become, in and of itself, a self-explanatory meme. And for good reason—the year had a seemingly endless onslaught of negative events that affected many of us […]

November 24, 2020 by Sophie Dream MD

#AASChat Tonight! Nov. 24th – Work-Life Harmony and the Academic Surgeon

Join us tonight, November 24th at 8PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery, #AASChat to discuss! What approach do you think works the best for you, work-life balance, integration, or harmony? Or is it all just semantics? Sometimes we need to set boundaries to protect us from ourselves. What are some ways you set boundaries? What are […]

November 19, 2020 by Sophie Dream MD

#AASChat Twitter Topic for Nov. 24th – Work-Life Harmony and the Academic Surgeon

Join us on Tuesday, November 24th at 8PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery, #AASChat to discuss! What approach do you think works the best for you, work-life balance, integration, or harmony? Or is it all just semantics? Sometimes we need to set boundaries to protect us from ourselves. What are some ways you set boundaries? What […]

November 16, 2020 by Hamza Khan, MD

How Halsted Altered the Course of Surgery as We Know It

Where would American Medicine be today if it were not for Dr. William Halsted? Would residency even exist? Shortly before moving to Johns Hopkins for my research years, my attending gifted me a copy of ‘Genius on the Edge – The bizarre double life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted’. A must-read classic, this masterful biography […]

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