Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
Inspiring and Developing Young Academic Surgeons
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/
Identifying sources of research funding is a core task for every surgeon-scientist. However, none of us are ever systematically taught about ways to achieve this critical goal. The blog post will provide a general outline of funding sources for surgeons in the early stage of their academic career and a few core pearls learned from …
Academic surgeons are natural innovators. In the last century, significant advancements in medicine have been driven by surgeon innovators such as DeBakey and Fogarty.1 Despite the role of innovation in academic surgery, academic advancement criteria fail to align with measures of meaningful innovation. The traditional methods to evaluate success in academic surgery grossly underappreciate accomplishments …
One thing that I have always been passionate about is resident research. I think this likely originated during my own time as a research resident. Even though I felt that I learned a lot, I did not publish many papers. I worked on projects but did not know how to translate that into the credits …
Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Jonathan Leckenby is assistant professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Rochester and director of the University of Rochester Plastic Surgery Laboratory. Dr. Leckenby was born in Pontefract, …
Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Chad Thorson is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami in the Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery. He currently serves as an Associate Program Director for the general surgery residency. …
Join us TODAY! Monday, May 23rd at 8 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. Our popular #AASChat series will be led by Drs. Jonah Stulberg (@JJStulberg) and Michael Wandling (@m_wandling). The topic of discussion will be Learning Collaboratives, and the chat questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: Do Surgical Quality Collaboratives improve …
Taking the next step. From medical school to intern year. Working your way through residency, choosing your fellowship, and starting your first attending position. Moving from observer to assistant to leading the operation. Our professional lives are marked by achieving the next step. What does that mean when you are a junior attending? Working towards …
Each month, the AAS Membership Committee presents the “Member Spotlight” – an opportunity to introduce you to a member of your association. Dr. Geoffrey Anderson is currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a trauma surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and spent most of his …
Join us on Thursday, April 21st at 9 PM ET on Twitter @AcademicSurgery. Our popular #AASChat series will be led by Drs. Alexis Colley and Tasce Bongiovanni. The topic of discussion will be Breastfeeding as a Surgeon, and the chat questions that will direct the conversation will include: Question 1: What is (or was) your …
Like many Black surgeons – and indeed, many Black professionals both within and outside of healthcare – I typically find myself inundated with invitations every year to speak in the run-up to February, which was first celebrated as Black History Month in 1969 and formally recognized in 1976 by President Gerald Ford as part of …
