News & Events: ACS Resident Awards

Courtney Green, MD, a general surgery resident at UCSF, received the 2019 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching at the ACS Clinical Congress Annual Business Meeting of Members on October 30th.   The prestigious award was in recognition for Dr. Green's excellence in teaching and her outstanding committment to surgical education.The award is sponsored by the Division of Education and the winners are selected by an independent review panel of the Committee on Resident Education.  Dr. Green was presented the award by Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, President of the [...]

Caitlin Collins, MD, MPH, a general surgery resident at UCSF, received an Excellence in Research Award from the Scientific Forum Committee of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in the category of Colon and Rectal Surgery. The award was for her abstract, "Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Bundled Payment for Care Improvement- Advanced for Major Bowel Surgery: Do We Have the Tools We Need to Succeed?", which was also selected as an oral presentation at the 2019 Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum program. Dr. Collins received her honor at a formal awards ceremony on October [...]