Department of Surgery Shines at Academic Surgical Congress 2019 Highlighted by Three Prestigious Individual Awards
The UCSF Department of Surgery was among the strong performers at the 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in Houston, Texas on February 5-7, 2019, placing sixth in quality scores among academic medical centers that submitted at least 10 abstracts and three prestigious awards.
The Association for Academic Surgery is the world’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to the promotion of surgical research. The Association for Academic Surgery and Society of University Surgeons host the yearly Academic Surgical Congress, the premier gathering place for young surgeon-scientists in academic surgery.
Quoc-Hung “Key” Nguyen, MD, a UCSF general surgery resident and a research fellow in the basic science lab of Tippi MacKenzie, M.D., was awarded the AAS Outstanding Resident Research Award in the category, Basic Science, for his abstract, “In Utero Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Sly Syndrome Penetrates Blood-Brain Barrier and Induces Long-Term Immunologic Tolerance”. His abstract earned the highest score among 294 submitted in this category. Dr. Nguyen was also selected as the winner of the AAS Outstanding Resident/Fellow Presentation Award as a result of winning a resident and fellow quickshot competition among plenary presenters who were invited to compete.
Simon N. Chu, M.S., a 4th Year UCSF medical student and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow in the laboratory of Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., was awarded the 2019 Association for Academic Surgery Outstanding Medical Student Award. Chu is co-mentored by transplant surgeon Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. Chu’s talk, entitled “Immunologic Profiling of Rejection Risk in HIV-Positive Solid Organ Transplant Recipients,” was selected by a panel of judges comprising the past-presidents of the AAS as the winner of this prestigious award.
"This conference was a wonderful opportunity to showcase the work of our amazing residents and students." --- Tippi MacKenzie, M.D.
A Strategic Push to Underwrite Resident Research Travel
The Department has recently expanded resident research travel budgets, an initiative intended to enable general surgery and plastic surgery residents to share their research, with a key focus on presenting at three major national and regional surgical conferences: the Academic Surgical Congress, the American College of Surgeons, and the Pacific Coast Surgical Association.
Congratulations @UCSFSurgery authors and scientists at #ASC2019! Rocking quality and quantity! @UCSF @UCSFGSResidency @Michael_Zobel @AnneMStey https://t.co/YODv7TK0F1
— Julie A Sosa (@Jasosamd) February 7, 2019
