DESCRIPTION:
- Honorary membership is conferred on someone who has made significant contributions to clinical or academic surgery and academic medicine, or to SAGES, or to the field of minimally invasive surgery.
- Past Honorary Membership recipients have included residents of the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.
- Past Honorary Membership recipients include the following: Leslie Blumgart, MD; Adrian Carbajal-Ramos, MD; Michael Cohen; Sir Alfred Cuschieri, MD; Francois Dubois, MD; David Fletcher, MD; Nader Francis, MBChB, PhD; Dietrich Goetze, MD; Nestor Gomez, MD; Heiner Groitl, MD; Angelita Habr-Gama, MD; Jack Jakimowicz, MD; Sister Mary Ann Lou, MD; B. Mannegold, MD; Alberto Montori, MD; Leon Morgenstern, MD; Ronald Passi, MD; Hiram Polk, MD; Jozsef Sandor, MD; Abdel-Kar Shaalan, MD; Zoltan Szabo, PhD; John Terblanche, MD; Hans Troidl, MD
AWARD REQUIREMENTS AND BENEFITS:
- Nominations may be submitted by SAGES Leadership only (Officers, Board, and Committee Members).
- Once conferred, Honorary Membership is considered ‘for life”, or until/unless the member requests cancellation of the membership.
- Honorary members will pay no SAGES annual membership dues in perpetuity.
APPLICATION:
Please complete this nomination form for your proposed recipient