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SAGES & SAGES Foundation Award Recipients

The George Berci Lifetime Achievement Award

Sir Alfred Cuschieri, 2001
Gerald Marks, 2004
Kenneth Forde, 2005
George Berci, 2006
Jeffrey Ponsky, 2009
Jacques Marescaux, 2010

Jacques Perissat, 2011
Tehemton Udwadia, 2014
Lee Swanstrom, 2015
Alberto Montori, 2016
David Rattner, 2017
Bernard Dallemagne, 2019

Walter Pories, 2020
Carlos Pellegrini, 2021
Haru Inoue, 2022
Carol Scott-Conner, 2023
Michel Gagner, 2024

The Distinguished Service Award

Gerry Marks, 1997
William Wolff, 1998
George Berci, 1999
Jeff Ponsky, 2000
Kenneth Forde, 2001
John Coller, 2002
Greg Stiegmann, 2003
Frederick Greene, 2004
Thomas Dent, 2005
Bruce MacFadyen, 2006

Desmond Birkett, 2007
Barry Salky, 2008
Lee Swanstrom, 2009
Nathaniel Soper, 2010
Gerald Fried, 2011
Bruce Schirmer, 2012
David Rattner, 2013
Steven Wexner, 2014
Daniel Deziel, 2015
Steven Schwaitzberg, 2016

Mark Talamini, 2017
Barbara Berci, 2018
John Hunter, 2019
Jo Buyske, 2020
Paresh Shah, 2021
Jeff Marks, 2022
Steven Unger, 2023
Michael Brunt, 2024

The Pioneer in Surgical Endoscopy Award

Karl Storz, 1995
Bob Quint, 1997
Robert Anderson, 1999
William Chang, 2001
Richard Newman, 2001
Kurt Semm, 2002
Basil Hirshowitz, 2003
George Berci, 2004
Jeffrey Ponsky, 2005

Greg Stiegmann, 2006
John Abele, 2007
Gerald Marks, 2008
Robert Croce, 2009
Haruhiro Inoue, 2011
Leon Hirsch, 2012
Turi Josefsen, 2012
Joel Leroy, 2013
David Utley, 2014

Steven Rothenberg, 2015
Sybill Storz, 2016
Michael Gagner, 2017
Phil Schauer, 2018
Chuck Kennedy, 2020
Gerry Fried, 2021
Demetrius Litwin, 2023
Natan Zundel, 2024

SAGES Social Justice and Health Equity

Shaneeta Johnson, 2021
Brian Williams, 2024
Karole Collier, 2022
Joseph Sakran, 2022
Donn Spight, 2023

Kenneth Forde Excellence in Humanistic Clinical Care Award

Paul Hansen, 2010
Theodore Pappas, 2011
Joseph Petelin, 2012
Alfons Pomp, 2013
Brant Oelschlager, 2014

Robert Lim, 2015
Adrian Park, 2016 
Paul Severson, 2017
Frank Lewis, 2018
Raymond Price, 2019

Spencer Amory, 2020
Adnan Alseidi, 2021
Anjali Kumar, 2022
John Linn, 2023
Ervin Denham, 2024

International Ambassador Award

Manabu Yamamoto, 2013
Geoffrey Kohn, 2014
Natan Zundel, 2015
Karl Fuchs, 2016 

Antonio Lacy, 2017
Abe Fingerhut, 2018
Alberto Ferreres, 2019
Surendra Ugale, 2020

Andrea Pietrabissa, 2021
Ho-Seong Han, 2022
Maria Marcella Bailez, 2023
Jorge Daes, 2024

Excellence in Community Surgery Award

Caitlin Halbert, 2022
Seung Gwon, 2024
Marian McDonald, 2023

Researcher in Training Award

Erica Moran, 2010
Rebecca Petersen, 2011
Dana Telem, 2012
Lawrence Lee, 2013
Ezra Teitelbaum, 2014
Edward Jones, 2015
Rebeccah Baucom, 2016
Yalini Vigneswaran, 2017

Maria Altieri, 2018
Joshua Weis, 2020
Daniel Hashimoto, 2020
Ivy Haskins, 2021
Rebecca Dirks, 2021
Richard Garfinkle 2021
Amelia Collings, 2022
Jerry Dang 2022

Harry Wong 2023
Heather Carmichael, 2024
Ryan Howard, 2024
Yung Lee 2024
Philip Pucher, 2019
Amin Madani 2019

Early Career Faculty Researcher Award (formerly Young Researcher Award)

Bill Laycock, 1995
Mike Holzman, 1996
Phil Schauer, 1997   
Steve Eubanks, 1998
Karen Horvath, 1999
Todd Heniford, 2000
Daniel Jones, 2001
Ninh Nguyen, 2002
Brent Matthews, 2003
Daniel Scott, 2004
Blair Jobe, 2005

Leena Khaitan, 2006
Atul Madan, 2007
John Morton, 2008
Michael Rosen, 2009
Vivian Strong, 2010
Esteban Varela, 2011
Melina Vassiliou, 2012
Patricia Sylla, 2013
Michael Awad, 2014
Rajesh Aggarwal, 2015
Dana Telem, 2016

Eric Pauli, 2017
Luke Funk, 2018
Tammy Kindel, 2019
Deborah Keller, 2020
Lawrence Lee, 2021
Boris Zevin, 2021
Melissa Hogg, 2022
Clayton Petro, 2023
Caroline Reinke, 2023
Amin Madani, 2024

Karl Storz/IRCAD Traveling Fellowship Award

Eric Hungness, 2005
Carlos Galvani, 2006
Kevin Reavis, 2007
Patricia Sylla, 2008
Timothy Kennedy, 2009
Basil Yurcisin, 2010
Konstantinos Makris, 2011

Omar Kudsi, 2012
Melanie Hafford, 2013
Eran Shlomovitz, 2014
Yulia Zak, 2015
Paul Colavita, 2016
Iswanto Sucandy, 2017
Tyler Cohn, 2018

Maria Alieri, 2019
Brett Parker, 2020 
Gad Marom, 2021
Eduardo Vega,  2022
Jonathan DeLong, 2023
Trevor Crafts, 2024

Brandeis Award:

Michael Edye, 2010
Vic Velanovich, 2010
Ketan Sheth, 2011
Robert Fanelli, 2011
Jeff Hazey, 2012
Rajesh Aggarwal, 2012
John Roth, 2013
Don Selzer, 2013
Ross Goldberg, 2014
Jon Gould, 2014

Brian Dunkin, 2015
Anne Lidor, 2015
Ann Rogers, 2016
Pascal Fuchshuber, 2016
Dean Mikami, 2017
Eric Weiss, 2017
Shanu Kothari, 2018
Kyle Perry, 2018
Gina Adrales, 2019
Konstantinos Spaniolas, 2019

Racquel Bueno, 2020
David Renton, 2020
Chris DuCoin, 2020
Chris Schlachta, 2021
Jacob Greenberg, 2022
Kinga Powers, 2022
Caitlin Halbert, 2023
Farah Husain, 2023
Jim Korndorffer, 2024

SAGES Flexible Endoscopy Fellowship

Fernando Santos, 2016
Lee Morris, 2017
Matt Ritter, 2018
James Korndorfer, 2018

Excellence in Medical Leadership Scholarship

Brent Matthews, 2011
Daniel Jones, 2012
Paresh Shah, 2013
Dmitry Oleynikov, 2014
Danielle Walsh, 2015

Daniel Scott, 2016
Aurora Pryor, 2017
Dimitrios Stefanidis, 2018
Ross Goldberg, 2019
Tammy Kindel, 2021

Matthew Ritter, 2022
Bethany Slater, 2023
John Romanelli, 2024 

Barbara Berci Memorial Award

Sara Hennessy ,2020
Amy Rosenbluth, 2021
Maria Altieri, 2022
Shaina Eckhouse, 2023

Jeffrey Ponsky Master Educator in Endoscopy Award

Bruce MacFadyen, 2009
Carol Scott-Conner, 2010
Wayne Schwesinger, 2011
Frederick Greene, 2012
Choichi Sugawa, 2013
Gary Vitale, 2014

Kenneth Forde, 2015
Jeffrey Marks, 2016
Peter Marcello 2017
Brian Dunkin, 2018
John Mellinger, 2019
Thadeus L. Trus, 2020

Vic Velanovich, 2021
James Ellsmere, 2022
Michael Ujiki, 2023
Eric Pauli, 2024

Gerald Marks Rectal Cancer Award

Masaaki Ito, 2011
Soo Yeun Park, 2012
Shigeki Yamaguchi, 2013
Elisabeth McLemore, 2014

Shuji Saito, 2015
James Alexander, 2016
Jacqueline van Laarhoven, 2017
Shoichi Fujii, 2018

Hye-Jin Kim, 2019
Jules Eustache, 2021
Richard Garfinkle, 2022
Patricia Sylla, 2023

Margrét Oddsdóttir Traveling Fellowship Award

Jun Yan, 2013
Veronica Gorodner, 2014
Federico Moser, 2014
Daliya AlMohammad Ali, 2015

Kristen Elstner, 2016
Katherine Panganiban, 2017
Paulina Bajonero Canonico, 2018
Dolores Edith Lopez Garnica, 2018

Prachi Mahajan, 2019
Catalina Ortiz Koh, 2021
Jeziel Karina Ordonez Juarez, 2022
Angelica Giibwa, 2023

Career Development Award

Melina C. Vassiliou, 2008
Ronan Cahill, 2009
Timothy Jackson, 2010
Michael Awad, 2011

Silvana Perretta, 2012
Rajesh Aggarwal, 2013
Dana A. Telem, 2014
Georgios Karagkounis, 2015

Oliver Varban, 2016
Abhisek Parmar, 2018
Eleanor Fung, 2020
Rodrigo Edelmuth, 2022

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