AWS News & Opportunities
AWS & AWSF News:
- Nominations are now open for 2024 AWS Foundation Awards.
- AWS is thrilled to announce our 2024 AWS Signature Speakers.
- AWS & LSS are pleased to announce their first co-sponsored annual visiting professorship. Must be an AWS member to participate - join now.
- Thank you to our monthly donors for their ongoing support!
Opportunities and Programs for AWS Members - Join Now to Participate
- April 12: Submissions due for the Pride Month sock design contest. Note: must be a member of AWS or AOSA to qualify.
- April 18: Applications due for Breaking the Glass Ceiling.
- April 22 at 7pm ET: AWS Building an Academic Foundation: Family Planning for Early Career Academic Surgeons (info)
- April 25: Call for AJS abstract reviewers closes.
- May 2: Submit an abstract for the AWS Edition of The American Journal of Surgery. Note: at least one author must be an AWS member.
- May 4: AWS & LSS Visiting Professorship application due. Note: membership in AWS and LSS required.
- May 6 at 6pm ET: AWS Reviewer Academy (invitation only)
Additional Programs & Opportunities:
- April 13 at 2pm ET: AWS High School Outreach Event (info)
- April 25: Institutions are invited to apply to host AWSF Visiting Professor Dr. Plichta.
- April 29: AWS Medical Student Data Mani
- May 8 at 7:30pm ET: AWS Publications Webinar - Using Pens, Not Knives (register)
- May 14 at 8pm ET: AWS Resident & Fellow Committee Meeting (register)
- May 23: AWSF Award nominations due.
- October 18 & 19: 2024 AWS Annual Conference in San Francisco, California (mark your calendar)
- October 20: The 2024 AWS Foundation Annual Dinner & Gala (mark your calendar)
Partner Organization Updates:
- AAS: The Association for Academic Surgery seeks to inspire and develop young academic surgeons. Learn more on their website.
- AWMA: Members of AWS can now get a complimentary affiliate membership in the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)! Learn more here.
- AOSA: The Association of Out Surgeons & Allies is partnering with AWS to offer a sock design contest for Pride Month! Enter here.
- ASA: Applications for the 2025-2027 American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship Research Awards are open through June 15.
- LSS: The Latino Surgical Society is hosting a Surgical Symposium on Latino Health on May 17 in Seattle, WA. Register now!
- SAAS: Submit an abstract by April 22 for the 9th Annual SAAS Meeting.
- SBAS: The mission of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons is to improve health, advance science, and foster careers of African American and other underrepresented minority surgeons. Learn more here.
- WIM: The 2024 Women in Medicine Annual Summit will take place September 13-14 in Chicago. Nominate an #IStandWithHer awardee and/or submit a summit abstract by May 31.