SAGES Member Spotlight

Current co-chair of the Guidelines Committee Dr. Geoff Kohn is quick to make the pitch for Guidelines. “Our committee creates high-quality, evidence-based guidelines to inform our members’ practice. When one encounters a difficult clinical problem in MIS, it’s likely that SAGES has a guideline addressing it! You can find these guidelines on the SAGES website …

Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez joined SAGES as a Candidate Member in 2014 after attending his first annual meeting in Baltimore the year prior. “Being at the meeting made me realize that SAGES valued its new members, and that ‘big shot’ surgeons were happy to mingle and get to know trainees,” said Dr. Rodriguez, who joined SAGES …

  A combined MD-PhD student (she finished her PhD last summer) at the University of Toronto, SAGES member Hillary Lia is studying team dynamics and performance in surgery. She attended her firsts SAGES meeting in Montreal, where she discovered a supportive forum for students and residents to present their work. Hillary, who presented an abstract …

  “Innovative, accepting, forward thinking. A flat organization with approachable leadership.” Dr. Gordon Wisbach has enjoyed all of that since joining SAGES as a Candidate member in 2024 and Active member in 2006 after completing his residency at the Navy Medical Center in San Diego. “My dominant interest in residency was MIS and SAGES was …