@article{6f33162df4654698a7f2e94b44beffec,
title = "Let That Be Your Battlefield: Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Presidential Address",
author = "Merchant, {Nipun B.}",
note = "Funding Information: Charles Drew, an African American surgeon who was the first African American surgeon selected to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery, said, “Excellence of performance will transcend artificial [discrimination] barriers created by man”. It is toward this goal that SAAS is committed, both personally and financially, to continue to provide educational opportunities for scholarship and research. SAAS initiatives and endowments have provided numerous opportunities for our members including the Academic Surgical Congress Research Award for the highest scoring abstract from an SAAS member; the Junior Faculty Award to attend Surgical Investigator's Course; the Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship which provides a travel grant to the AAS Fall Courses; the SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award for the highest scoring abstract at our meeting and the Society of University Surgeons Midcareer Course Travel Award for a faculty member to attend the course. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.jss.2019.05.027",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "241",
pages = "A1--A5",
journal = "Journal of Surgical Research",
issn = "0022-4804",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}