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To achieve health justice, advance science, cultivate professional success and promote leadership for Black and underrepresented surgeons in academia.

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Honorary Fellows

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2025 Honorary Fellows

Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Medical Education
Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Surgery
Associate Director for Workforce Development, Mays Cancer Center
Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio

Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, MAMSE
Professor of Surgery
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Anton N. Sidawy, MD, MPH, FACS, DFSVS
Professor and Lewis B. Saltz Chair
Department of Surgery
George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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

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