2026 Honorary Fellows
Daniel Jones, MS, MD
Professor (TE) and Benjamin F. Rush, Jr. MD Chair of Surgery
Assistant Dean of Simulation, Innovation & Scholarship
Chief of Service, University Hospital
Rutgers Health, New Jersey Medical School
Rohan Jeyarajah, MD
Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Burnett School of Medicine
Texas Christian University
Mary T. Killackey, MD
Chair and Professor, Department of Surgery
Robert and Viola Lobrano Chair in Surgery
Tulane University School of Medicine
Previous Honorary Fellowship Award Recipients
(Chronologically Ordered)
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD (Hon), FACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS(Ed), FRCSI (Hon), Hon FRCS (Glasg), Hon FRCS (Eng), MAMSE
Judah M. Folkman, MD
R. Scott Jones, MD
Frank R. Lewis, MD
Olga Jonasson, MD
Arthur J. Donovan, MD
Lloyd M. Nyhus, MD
Hiram C. Polk, MD
Walter Poiries, MD
Basil A. Pruitt, MD
George F. Sheldon, MD
William Silen, MD
James C. Thompson, MD
Bernard F. Riberio, MD
Walter Lawrence, MD
John Najarian, MD
James A. O’Neill, Jr. MD
Thomas Starzl, MD
Dean Warren, MD
Kirby I. Bland, MD
Wallace P. Ritchie, MD
Courtney Townsend, MD
Arnold G. Diethelm, MD
Philip Militello, MD
Thomas R. Russell, MD
Richard L. Simmons, MD
Edward M. Copeland, MD
Andrew L. Warshaw, MD
John Tarpley, MD
Jeffrey B. Matthews,MD
Julie A. Freischlag, MD
Carlos Pellegrini, MD
Michael J. Zinner, MD
Jeffrey Ponsky, MD
Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD
Anthony Meyer, MD, PhD
Berne Jaffe, MD
J. Wayne Meredith, MD
Timothy Billiar, MD
Michael Longaker, MD
Christopher Ellison, MD
David B. Hoyt, MD
Thomas M. Scalea, MD
H. Leon Pachter, MD
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
Irving L. Kron, MD
Diana L. Farmer, MD
Mary Hawn, MD, MPH
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Barbara L. Bass, MD
Justin Brigham Dimick , MD FACS
Keith Douglas Lillemoe, MD, FACS
Susan Pories, MD, FACS
Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH
Jo Buyske, MD
Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS
Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, MAMSE
Anton N. Sidawy, MD, MPH, FACS, DFSVS