SAGES Member Spotlight

“So much excitement, so much energy, so much FUN” is how Dr. Amin Madani describes SAGES, adding that the “secret sauce” making SAGES truly special is the desire for surgical excellence through innovation to improve patient care. Dr. Madani also points to SAGES’ investment in young doctors to provide them with a platform to build …

  When Dr. Marian McDonald joined SAGES as a resident in 1995, she remembers “this new cool society doing avant garde surgeries.” Today she adds that SAGES has evolved into a “community of members always looking out for each other while putting innovation and compassionate patient care first.” Over the years as an active member, …

  Dr. Melissa Chang calls SAGES membership a way of staying connected to her “extended family.” Dr. Chang initially joined SAGES as a Mount Sinai Hospital resident and Candidate member in 2017, later upgrading to Active membership as a way to stay connected to her many professional mentors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, …

SAGES has been a big part of my professional and personal life since I began residency at the University of Illinois Metropolitan Group Hospitals Residency in General Surgery in Chicago in 1987. My professors believed strongly that endoscopy is best performed by surgeons and that skill should be part and parcel of any full scope …