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A Coffee with Dr. Latifa S. Sage Silski – Living Donation in Kidney Transplant
A Coffee with Dr. Kanene V. Ubesie – Trauma/Critical Care in a Limited Resource Environment
A Coffee with Dr. T. Salewa Oseni – Screening Recommendations for Breast Cancer
Webinar – SAVE THE DATE – March 18, 2025 – OCS Director’s Series – Dr. Leah M. Backhus presents Bringing Precision Oncology to Lung Cancer Surveillance
A Coffee with Dr. Vincent Reid – Tackling Melanoma
A Coffee with Dr. Fiemu E. Nwariaku – Adrenal Tumors
SBAS Announces the Winners for the SBAS-AWS Visiting Professor Program
2024 Annual SBAS Awards
Evolving Colon and Rectal Cancer Screening Guidelines
Understanding and Articulating Your Value Webinar
Erika Adams Newman MD and Wade G Douglas MD elected to the American Board of Surgery Council
A Comprehensive Review of Surgical Disparities in the Vulnerable Communities of the USA: The Black Community – Part 2
A Comprehensive Review of Surgical Disparities in the Vulnerable Communities of the USA: The Black Community – Part I
SBAS Welcomes New Executive Director, Dr. Edward M. Barksdale, Jr.
2023 Annual SBAS Awards
SBAS Statement on SCOTUS ruling on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina
Abstract Submissions for the 2023 Meeting is CLOSED
The Society of Black Academic Surgeons Celebrates Historic AAS Elections
2022 Annual SBAS Awards
SBAS Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Join SBAS for a FREE live-streamed virtual event featuring Isabel Wilkerson – author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and the Warmth of Other Suns
2021 Annual SBAS Awards
Society of Black Academic Surgeons Statement in Support of the Asian Community.
SBAS Response to JAMA Twitter Comments and Podcast
Kathie-Ann Joseph Promotion & Inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity & Health Equity (Department of Surgery & Transplant Institute)
Society of Black Academic Surgeons Response to Continued Acts of Brutality and Injustice
Henrietta Lacks Symposium Recording
Society of Black Academic Surgeons Response to Recent Events
SBAS Joins the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons in Condemning Xenophobic Behavior Related to the COVID Crisis
2018 Claude Organ Award Recipients
2017 Claude Organ Award Recipients
2016 Claude Organ Award Recipients
SBAS – Women in Surgery
Video Highlights of the Twenty-sixth Annual Scientific Session of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons
Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) Conversation: Drs. Robert Higgins and Edward Cornwell, III
SBAS Members and Participants in the Philadelphia Tribune Event Video
Meet Dr. Ugwuji Maduekwe, a trailblazer at the forefront of health equity innovation
Local healthcare hero gets a surprise from ‘Good Morning America,’ Patti LaBelle
Black Health Care Workers Shine Spotlight on Issues of Diversity in Medical Field
Dr. Onye E. Akwari, an SBAS Trailblazer, to be Honored at Duke
Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback
Dr. Ala Stanford takes to Philadelphia streets to help black communities get tested for COVID-19
How to Fix the Academic-Surgical Pipeline for All
Video – Dr. L.D. Britt Elected to National Academy of Medicine
President Barack Obama to Deliver Howard University 2016 Commencement Address
New Frontiers in Academic Surgery – Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
Dr. Patricia Turner – SBAS President 2016–17
by Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh
An interview with Dr. Patricia Turner
Dr. Turner is the current President of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, and the first woman to be elected President of the society.
Black Academic Surgeons Dr. Patricia Turner (SBAS President 2016-17) from Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh on Vimeo.
2018 SBAS UAB Meeting Highlights
Dr. L.D. Britt Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Navigating Productivity in the time of COVID19
SBAS – The Next Generation of Leaders
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