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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
Membership

Past Health Policy Scholarship Awardees

$8,000

ACS/Society of Thoracic Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship

James S. Allan, MD, FACS, 2003
John R. Roberts, MD, FACS, 2004
Scott C. Silvestry, MD, FACS, 2005
Richard K. Freeman, MD, FACS, 2006
Max B. Mitchell, MD, FACS, 2007
Dao Nguyen, MD, FACS, FRCSC, 2008
Jennifer L. Ellis, MD, FACS, 2009
Michael K. Banbury, MD, FACS, 2010
Yvonne M. Carter, MD, FACS, 2011
Michael J. Davidson, MD, FACS, 2012
Paul D. Robison, MD, FACS, 2013
Aaron W. Eckhauser, MD, 2014
Jeremy Conklin, DO, 2015
Daniel T. Engelman, MD, FACS, 2016
James R. Headrick, MD, MBA, FACS, 2017
Daniel J. Boffa, MD, FACS, 2018
Keith D. Mortman, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Urogynecologic Society Health Policy Scholarship

Stewart J. Wetchler, MD, JD, FACS, 2005
Tomas L. Griebling, MD, FACS, 2006
Alan D. Garely, MD, FACS, 2007
S. Renee Edwards, MD, FACS, 2008
George Lazarou, MD, FACS, 2009
Ebenezer O. Babalola, MD, FACS, 2010
Adam C. Steinberg, DO, FACS, 2011
Blair B. Washington, MD, MHA, 2012
Steven Minaglia, MD, MBA, FACS, 2013
Samantha J. Pulliam, MD, 2014
Tanaz R. Ferzandi, MD, 2015
Mallika Anand, MD, 2016
Elisabeth D. Erekson, MD, FACS, 2017
Mikio A. Nihira, MD, FACS, 2018
Chris Strohbehn, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship

Frank G. Opelka, MD, FACS, 2005
Clifford Y. Ko, MD, FACS, 2006
James I. Merlino, MD, FACS, 2007
Patricia L. Roberts, MD, FACS, 2008
Stephen M. Sentovich, MD, FACS, 2009
Robert R. Cima, MD, MA, FACS, 2010
David A. Margolin, MD, FACS, 2011
Neil H. Hyman, MD, FACS, 2012
Maher A. Abbas, MD, FACS, 2013
Amit Merchea, MD, 2014
Fabio M. Potenti, MD, FACS, 2015
Jose G. Guillem, MD, FACS, 2016
V. Liana Tsikitis, MD, FACS, 2017
Valentine N. Nfonsam, MD, FACS, 2018
Rohini McKee, MBBS, MPH, FACS

ACS/American Society of Plastic Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship

Kevin C. Chung, MD, FACS, 2005
Randolph Sherman, MD, FACS, 2006
David W. Chang, MD, FACS, 2007
William Dzwierzynski, MD, FACS, 2008
Anthony Tufaro, DDS, MD, FACS, 2009
Debra Johnson, MD, FACS, 2010
Clara N. Lee, MD, FACS, 2011
Robert Havlik, MD, FACS, 2012
C. Bob Basu, MD, FACS, 2013
Lynn Jeffers, MD, FACS, 2014
Bernard T. Lee, MD, FACS, 2015
Malcolm Z. Roth, MD, FACS, 2016
Kant Y.K. Lin, MD, FACS, 2017
Michael S. Wong, MD, FACS, 2018
Michele Manahan, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Academy of Ophthalmology Health Policy Scholarship

No longer offered

Philip A. Edington, MD, FACS, 2005
Natalie C. Kerr, MD, FACS, 2006
James W. Gigantelli, MD, FACS, 2008

ACS/Society for Vascular Surgery Health Policy Scholarship

Mark D. Morasch, MD, FACS, 2005
Boulos Toursarkissian, MD, FACS, 2006
Mark G. Davies, MD, PhD, FACS, 2007
George H. Meier, MD, FACS, 2008
Charles J. Shanley, MD, FACS, 2009
Thomas Forbes, MD, FACS, FRCSC, 2010
Sunita D. Srivastava, MD, FACS, 2011
Margaret C. Tracci, MD, FACS, 2012
Matthew W. Mell, MD, FACS, 2013
Eleftherios Xenos, MD, PhD, FACS, 2014
Evan C. Lipsitz, MD, FACS, 2015
Matthew Jay Sideman, MD, FACS, 2016
Francesco A. Aiello, MD, FACS, 2017
Nicolas J. Mouwad, MD, FACS, 2018
Yazan Duwayri, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Association of Neurological Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship

Gary M. Bloomgarden, MD, FACS, 2005
Frederick A. Boop, MD, FACS, 2006
Gail Rosseau, MD, 2007
Jonathan A. Friedman, MD, FACS, 2008
John K. Ratliff, MD, FACS, 2009
Fred G. Barker, II, MD, FACS, 2010
Joseph S. Cheng, MD, MS, 2011
Anthony L. Asher, MD, FACS, 2012
Paul L. Penar, MD, FACS, 2013
Cormac O. Maher, MD, FACS, 2014
Sandi Lam, MD, FACS, 2015
Kimon Bekelis, MD, 2016
Bharat Guthikonda, MD, 2017
Maya Babu, MD, MBA, 2018
Debraj Mukherjee, MD, MPH, 2019

ACS/American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Health Policy Scholarship

Veling W. Tsai, MD, 2006
Brian B. Burkey, MD, FACS, 2007
Brendan C. Stack, Jr., MD, FACS, 2008
Brian A. Moore, MD, FACS, 2009
Saurin Popat, MD, FRCSC, FACS, 2010
Robert W. Dolan, MD, FACS, 2011
Michael J. Brenner, MD, FACS, 2012
Robert R. Lorenz, MD, FACS, 2013
James C. Denneny, III , MD, FACS, 2014
Sujana S. Chandrasekhar, MD, FACS, 2015
Alex J. McKinlay, MD, FACS, 2016
Gavin Setzen, MBBCh, FACS, 2017
Robert O. Brown, MD, FACS, 2018
Lance Manning, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS Health Policy Scholarship for General Surgeons

Gregory S. Cherr, MD, FACS, 2005
Brett C. Sheppard, MD, FACS, 2006
David A. Axelrod, MD, MBA, 2007
Christoph R. Kaufmann, MD, FACS, 2008
John Maa, MD, FACS, 2009
Amy Wyrzykowski, MD, FACS, 2009
Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS, 2010
Jacob Moalem, MD, FACS, 2010
Shean Satgunam, MB, ChB, BS, 2011
Brian R. Smith, MD, FACS, 2011
Michael D. Adolph, MD, FACS, 2012
Janice Cormier, MD, MPH, FACS, 2012
Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA, FACS, 2013
John Aucar, MD, 2013
Carla C. Braxton, MD, FACS, 2014
Mark T. Savarise, MD, FACS, 2014
Anathea C. Powell, MD, 2015
Quyen Chu, MD, FACS, 2015
SreyRam Kuy, MD, 2016
Subhasis Misra, MBBS, MS, FACS, 2016
Aurora D. Pryor, MD, FACS, 2017
Christopher Steffes, MD, FACS, 2017
Sareh Parangi, MD, FACS, 2018
Dev M. Desai, MD, FACS, 2018
Vance Young Sohn, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Pediatric Surgical Association Health Policy Scholarship

George W. Holcomb, MD, FACS, 2008
Dennis P. Lund, MD, FACS, 2009
Aviva L. Katz, MD, FACS, 2010
Patrick V. Bailey, MD, FACS, 2011
Peter W. Dillon, MD, FACS, 2012
Steven Teich, MD, FACS, 2013
Max R. Langham, Jr., MD, 2014
Mike K. Chen, MD, FACS, 2015
David P. Bliss, Jr., MD, FACS, 2016
Shawn D. St. Peter, MD, FACS, 2017
Marion C.S. Henry, MD, FACS, 2018
Jeffrey R. Lukish, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Health Policy Scholarship

Julie A. Dunn, MD, FACS, 2008
Ernest F J Block, MD, MPH, FACS, 2009
Christopher Senkowski, MD, FACS, 2010
John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS, 2011
Erik S. Barquist, MD, FACS, 2012
Peter Rhee, MD, FACS, 2013
Randall Friese, MD, FACS, 2014
Robert J. Winchell, MD, FACS, 2015
Saman Arbabi, MD, FACS, 2016
Christopher P. Michetti, MD, FACS, 2017
Krista L. Kaups, MD, FACS, 2018
Kristan L. Staudenmayer, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Surgical Association Health Policy Scholarship

Michael Abecassis, MD, FACS, 2008
David A. Spain, MD, FACS, 2009
Steven M. Steinberg, MD, FACS, 2010
David R. Flum, MD, MPH, FACS, 2011
Thomas F. Tracy, Jr., MD, FACS, 2012
Peter W.T. Pisters, MD, FACS, 2013
Prabhakar K. Baliga, MBBS, FACS, 2014
Daniel B. Jones, MD, FACS, 2015
Eileen M. Bulger, MD, FACS, 2016
Lillian S. Kao, MD, MS, FACS, 2017
Dmitry Oleynikov, MD, FACS, 2018
Stacy A. Brethauer, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/American Society of Breast Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship

Anees B. Chagpar, MD, FACS, 2008
Scott H. Kurtzman, MD, FACS, 2009
Sheryl Gabram-Mendola, MD,FACS, 2010
Steven L. Chen, MD, MBA, FACS, 2011
Michael Alvarado, MD, FACS, 2012
David B. Pearlstone, MD, FACS, 2013
Melissa C. Hulvat, MD, FACS, 2014
Veronica Shim, MD, FACS, 2015
Alyssa D. Throckmorton, MD, FACS, 2016
Rachel A. Greenup, MD, 2017
Sharon S. Lum, MD, FACS, 2018
Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, 2019

ACS/American Urological Society Health Policy Scholarship

Christopher Saigal, MD, FACS, 2009
Chris M. Gonzalez, MD, 2010
James C. Ulchaker, MD, FACS, 2011
Mark Edney, MD, FACS, 2012
Eugene Young Rhee, MD, FACS, 2013
Timothy D. Averch, MD, FACS, 2014
Norm D. Smith, MD, 2015
Thomas H. Rechtschaffen, MD, FACS, 2016
James M. Dupree, MD, FACS, 2017
Jason J. James, MD, 2018
Elizabeth T. Brown, MD, 2019

ACS/Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Foundation Health Policy Scholarship

Elliott R. Haut, MD, FACS, 2011
John J. Como, MD, MPH, FACS, 2012
Marie Crandall, MD, MPH, FACS, 2013
Jason W. Smith, MD, PhD, FACS, 2014
Michelle R. Brownstein, MD, FACS, 2015
Alexander L. Eastman, MD, FACS, 2016
Tanya L. Zakrison, MD, FACS, 2017
Catherine G. Velopulos, MD, MHS, FACS, 2018
Bryce Robinson, M, FACS, 2019

ACS/New England Society of Surgery Health Policy Scholarship

Joel Lafleur, MD, FACS, 2012
Michael P. Hirsh, MD, FACS, 2013
David B. McAneny, MD, FACS, 2014
Neal E. Seymour, MD, FACS, 2015
Christopher S. Muratore, MD, 2016
Alik Farber, MD, FACS, 2017
John R. Romanelli, MD, FACS, 2018
Jacqueline Wu, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/Society for the Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Health Policy Scholarship

Christos Galanopoulos, MD, FACS, 2012
Matthew Hutter, MD, FACS, 2013
Jeffrey M. Hardacre, MD, FACS, 2014
Kmarie Reid, MD, FACS, 2015
Guilherme M.R. Campos, MD FACS, 2016
Francis Cannizzo, Jr., MD, FACS, 2017
Peter Muscarella, II, MD, FACS, 2018
Sam S. Yoon, MD, FACS, 2019

ACS/Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Health Policy Scholarship

Charles B. Rosen, MD, FACS, 2017
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD, MBA, FACS, 2018
Daniel A. Anaya Saenz, MD, FACS, 2019