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/
We are pleased to announce that Kevin Koo, MD, MPH, MPhil (@kvnkoo), has been selected to serve as the new Social Media Editor for the Journal of Surgical Research (JSR). Dr. Koo is a urologist at Mayo Clinic and an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. His academic …
Starting residency, I knew that my academic CV was meager and I humbly accepted that I would probably need to do research. But my exposure up until this point included a few chart reviews and killing rats in college. It seemed like everyone else knew how to prepare for their research time and wasn’t just …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
