ACS 2025 Health Policy Scholars Are Announced

Eighteen surgeons have been named Health Policy Scholars and will attend the June Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management presented by The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Each scholarship includes participation in the weeklong intensive course, followed by a year’s service in a health policy-related capacity for the ACS and the surgical specialty society that is cosponsoring the awardee.

This year’s scholars are:

Hassan Aziz, MD, FACS, The University of Iowa in Iowa City (The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Health Policy Scholar)
Cherisse Berry, MD, FACS, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark (The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Health Policy Scholar)
Andrew Chen, MD, FACS, University of Connecticut Health in Farmington (American Society of Plastic Surgeons Health Policy Scholar)
Christopher P. Childers, MD, PhD, University of Washington in Seattle (ACS Health Policy Scholar for General Surgery)
Michael S. Davis, MD, MBA, MHA, FACS, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (American Urological Association Health Policy Scholar)
Michael Dingeldein, MD, FACS, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio (American Pediatric Surgical Association Health Policy Scholar)
Victor C. Joe, MD, MBA, FACS, University of California Irvine Health (ACS Health Policy Scholar for General Surgery)
Steve Sung Kwon, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS, Boston University School of Medicine/Roger Williams Medical Center in Massachusetts (Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Health Policy Scholar)
Isidore Dinga Madou, MD, Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Clackamas, Oregon (The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Health Policy Scholar)
Konstantinos Margetis, MD, PhD, FACS, Mount Sinai in New York, New York (American Association of Neurological Surgeons Health Policy Scholar)

Nancy D. Perrier, MD, FACS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (American Surgical Association Health Policy Scholar)
Elizabeth J. Renaud, MD, FACS, Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence (New England Surgical Society Health Policy Scholar)
Tereza Cristina Sardinha, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, New York (American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Health Policy Scholar)
Sarah P. Shubeck, MD, MS, FACS, The University of Chicago in Illinois (The American Society of Breast Surgeons Health Policy Scholar)
Julie Suyama, MD, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond (American Urogynecologic Society Health Policy Scholar)
Tze-Woei Tan, MD, MPH, FACS, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (Society for Vascular Surgery Health Policy Scholar)
Amanda Teichman, MD, FACS, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey (Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Health Policy Scholar)
Travis T. Tollefson, MD, MPH, FACS, University of California, Davis in Sacramento (American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Health Policy Scholar)

ACS 2025 Health Policy Scholars Are Announced

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